Appétit!
Chez Boucher was opened in February 2003 by Chef Ron Boucher, CEC, AAC, CHE, CCE,
Chez Boucher offers a true hands-on cooking experience in a series of classes designed for the novice or gourmet enthusiast.
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We work to build your cooking confidence by teaching you proper French cooking procedures as well as proper plating and presentation techniques.
You will gain the confidence needed to create your own masterpieces in your own kitchen armed with recipes and ideas from the classes you attend.
​We offer a wide range of classes including:
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A six-week cooking course titled Cooking Essentials and Food Fundamentals
One-day Cooking Workshops
Couples Night Out Cooking Classes
Corporate Team Building Events
Food and Wine Pairings Events
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So join us to acquire new skills, cook with friends or learn about food and wine from
around the world!
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Welcome!
Our Team
Chef Ron Boucher has 50 years of experience as a highly successful restaurant owner on the seacoast of NH - but his true passion is being a teacher of the Culinary Arts.
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A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Ron began his career and a chef and restaurateur on the Seacoast of NH.
Over the last 21 years Ron has owned and operated Chez Boucher Cooking school - our mission it is to train both the novice and more experienced cook in the fundamentals of cooking offering a large variety recreational cooking classes.
Ron offers events and celebrations where people can be hands on in the kitchen turning a fun evening of socializing into a special culinary arts learning experience.
Over the last twenty years Ron has also organized and facilitated culinary tours across Europe. These tours have invigorated his passion of cooking, and brings inspiration to his teachings.
He has appeared on many local TV shows and in major regional publications. Oh, and did we forget to mention that we were voted BEST COOKING SCHOOL by NH Magazine three years in a row?
Currently Ron resides as a senior faculty lecturer in the Hospitality Management Department at the Peter T. Paul School of Business and Economics at the University of NH.
Chef Ron Boucher
Richelle Munroe, “Chef Chelle,” grew up on the North Shore of Boston and now resides in the Seacoast area.
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Chef Chelle has over 30 years in the hospitality industry. After getting a taste of the hustle and bustle of the banquet and restaurant kitchen at the Danversport Yacht Club; Richelle decided that this was her passion.
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To give herself the best education in the field she attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park NY.
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She later continued at the CIA Greystone in California studying pastry arts and wines. She also holds a degree in Nutrition and Diet Technology and has studied herbal pharmacology.
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Her professional experience includes running upscale restaurant kitchens, retail grocery and prepared food markets with specialty wines and chocolate and corporate dining at properties such as Fidelity Investments in Boston. When she is not in the kitchen Richelle enjoys soap making, nutritive and homeopathic gardening and raising chickens.