Texas Culinary Academy

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Le Cordon Bleu of Culinary Arts in Austin

Type	Private, President	Steve Smith
Academic staff	49
Students	894
Address	11400 Burnett Road, Suite 2100 , Austin , Texas , United States 30°24′04″N 97°43′18″W / 30.401242°N 97.721685°W / 30.401242; -97.721685
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.chefs.edu/Austin

Le Cordon Bleu of Culinary Arts in Austin (LCB-Austin) was a private school located in The Domain, a 235-acre (0.95 km²), multi-use park in Austin, Texas. The cooking school was affiliated with Le Cordon Bleu Schools North America.

Originally named Le Chef College of Hospitality Careers, Ronald F. Boston started the school as a chef-apprenticeship program in 1981. In 1999, the school was renamed Texas Culinary Academy. TCA was acquired by

in August 2001.

LCB-Austin operated within a 52,000-square-foot (4,831.0 m²) facility that contained six 2,000-square-foot (185.8 m²) labs, classrooms, a student library, a computer lab, a restaurant, a cafe and a retail store. Also located within the facility was a 100-seat demonstration kitchen.

The school operated two on-campus restaurants. Ventana, a 100-seat restaurant which served classical French cuisine, opened in late 2002, and The Bleu River Grille, a casual coffee and sandwich shop.^[1]

LCB-Austin offered an

Degree in Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts and certificates in Le Cordon Bleu Pâtisserie & Baking and Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Arts.

References

External links

• Texas Culinary Academy^{[permanent dead link]}