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Award-Winning Diploma Programs at ICE's New Los Angeles Campus

With a global curriculum, dedicated chef-instructors, a strong job placement record and a clear entrepreneurial focus, ICE is recognized by top chefs and hospitality professionals as a leading pathway to beginning or continuing a wide range of culinary careers.

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The opportunities to expand your palate in L.A. while studying at ICE are endless.

The culinary world agrees: Los Angeles is one of the most exciting food cities in America right now. With the opening of ICE's Los Angeles culinary school in the historic Playhouse District of Pasadena, California, we’re excited to hang our toque in the City of Angels. Between the delicious cuisine and the vibrant culture, not to mention year-round sunny weather, Los Angeles is the ideal second location for “America’s Best Culinary School.”

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ICE's culinary school Los Angeles features 38,000 square feet of educational and administrative space, with seven fully equipped teaching kitchens filled with modern kitchen equipment. These spacious kitchen classrooms range between 1,500 and 1,800 square feet, with 80 linear feet of Ansul protected hood-space for stoves and ovens. The campus also features a dedicated academic classroom and an impressive 2,000-square-foot Learning Resource Center, plus additional tutoring rooms, providing students with community spaces to gather and study or to socialize between classes.

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