New Culinary Institute

New Home to Award-Winning Culinary Studies Institute 

Our brand-new 78,000 square-foot facility is now home to our award winning Culinary Studies Institute. This $74 million, three-story expansion on our Royal Oak campus features three classrooms, two demonstration kitchens and five teaching kitchens, giving students access to the most up-to-date culinary learning facility in Southeast Michigan.

The facility also includes a 2,372-square-foot restaurant on the third floor with a sloping ceiling, large glass windows, and 360-degree views of downtown Royal Oak, known for its hospitality, cuisine and vibrant culture. The restaurant offers the community a new dining destination where culinary students prepare and serve fine-dining recipes as part of their training.

Additional Building Features

• State-of-the-Art Culinary Facilities: Explore a stunning third-floor space complete with a restaurant, bar, banquet hall and wine room. The banquet facility is open to the public for corporate event rental.
• Daily Dining: Opening late fall 2025, enjoy fresh, daily food at our first-floor Sweet Oaks café and retail shop.
• Advanced Culinary Facilities: Utilize our cutting-edge meat fabrication kitchen with a Fierio Forni pizza oven and dry-age cooler.
• Innovative Learning Spaces: Learn from our chefs with instructional video technology that will be live-streamed in our state-of-the-art demonstration and teaching kitchens.
• Global Culinary Connection: Our flexible teaching and learning spaces have remote access to diverse kitchens around the world and space for academic conferences and national culinary competitions. 
• Sustainable Future: Our facility is designed to be environmentally friendly and adaptable to future trends, including a food waste recycling program.

Building Facts-at-a-Glance

• Location | Royal Oak Campus, 739 S. Washington Ave. Royal Oak, MI 48067
• Building Square Feet | 78,400
• Estimated Project Cost | $74 million
• Opening | September 2025
• Number of Floors | 3
• Classrooms | 3
• Kitchens |
  • 2 - Demonstration Kitchens
  • 4 - Teaching kitchens
  • 1- Teaching Restaurant and Banquet kitchen
• Restaurant |
  • 2,372  square feet with an additional 3452 square feet of flex space for special events
  • Full bar 
  • Custom glass wine storage room
• General Contractor | Barton Mallow
• Architect  |  Harley Ellis Devereaux