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Your Recipe For Success

Foster your career in the world of culinary arts with KICA

Explore Our Programs

We offer a range of certificate and diploma courses in culinary arts and hospitality management.

Achieve Sweetened Perfection

Is life short, eat dessert first… discover our specialities in pastry and confectionary education.

Food Is Life

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food (Hippocrates)
Smart Chef… Smart Life…

For the first time in history, the Karachi Chefs Association Pakistan team will be competing at the IKA/Culinary Olympics! A big congratulations to this team, we wish you the best of luck in the competition.

Teams from around the world will meet in Stuttgart, Germany from February 2 – 7 and compete in a true test of culinary excellence. You won’t want to miss this incredible event!

To learn more about the competition and to see what other teams are competing, visit the official IKA/Culinary Olympics website https://bit.ly/3RsFKXJ

While you’re in Stuttgart, you won’t want to miss Worldchefs Village! We will be hosting live culinary demonstrations, tastings, and social events each day. See you there!

Who are we

Provide systematic training in culinary art from the elementary to master chef levels to beginners and professional chefs.

Located in Karachi City, the Karachi Institute of Culinary Arts (KICA) was founded with community and creativity in mind. KICA is a premier chef development institute accredited by national and international vocational and technical training regulators, and in direct partnership with City and Guilds, UK. The institute intends to produce well qualified, effective and dedicated professionals, who can benefit from huge career potential offered by the thriving hospitality industry.

The institute also seeks to provide means for the professionals Chefs to access internationally recognized qualifications in hospitality management, food preparation and food services, thereby enabling them to achieve an international and national career path.

Welcome to

Karachi Institute of Culinary Arts

We provide professional training in Culinary Arts, Patisseries and Food Service with integrity and innovation to those who love creating great experiences for customers. We nurture your understanding of culinary and pastry theories, skills and traditions while equip you with modern industry trends. Our courses, connections and unique focus on the student experience make us one of the country’s best places to start a career in culinary arts or the hospitality industry.

Connection between World Association of Chefs Societies and KICA

KICA aims to disseminate world-class culinary and hospitality education, setting highest standards of quality learning and training in Pakistan. In recognition of its efforts to employ best practices for culinary schooling and apprenticeship, World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS) has officially approved KICA as the first best institute for state of the art culinary education and training facility in Pakistan. With this honor, KICA’s prime objective is to maintain its reputation as the hallmark of culinary education in the region.

Our Work

KICA provides training in multiple culinary skills and hospitality management to industry practitioners and those who wish to pursue a career in the industry, enabling them to obtain or upgrade their qualifications.

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What we facilitate our students

The facilities at KICA give trainees the opportunity to acquire skills, which are necessary for a successful career growth within the hospitality and catering industry. For this purpose, a combination of lectures, training videos and live demonstrations are used to teach the theoretical and culinary skills. At the end of each term, students are assessed through case studies, discussions, presentations, group and individual assessments, practical and theory tests.

KICA features small, hands-on classes with attentive, distinguished chef instructors. The Institute has its own state-of-the-art food production unit, including a training kitchen, bakery; learning resource centre and latest IT facilities.

With a view to provide real life hands on training to the students, KICA has agreements with renowned and leading hospitality establishments in Karachi.

What’s more? We keep strong emphasis on quality ingredients means that you’ll cook the dishes with ingredients sourced from the same local purveyors who cater to the city’s finest restaurants.

KICA Success Stories

Thomas Gugler

KICA’s services are very well tailored to the needs of culinary education and industry. I highly appreciate its efforts.

President World Association Chef Societies

Karachi Institute of Culinary Arts
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President World Association Chef Societies

KICA’s services are very well tailored to the needs of culinary education and industry. I highly appreciate its efforts.

Dr Rick Stephen

From basic culinary to confectionery education, KICA is determined to produce highly skilled chefs for the food industry with effective curriculum and training.

Continental Director - Asia Singapore, World Association of Chefs Societies

Karachi Institute of Culinary Arts
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2017-05-10T09:01:55+00:00

Continental Director - Asia Singapore, World Association of Chefs Societies

From basic culinary to confectionery education, KICA is determined to produce highly skilled chefs for the food industry with effective curriculum and training.

Muhammad Chef Afzal

KICA has emerged as one of the best organizations serving in the domain of culinary and hospitality education dissemination. The institution remarkably meets the global standards.

President of Karachi Chefs Association

Karachi Institute of Culinary Arts
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2017-05-10T09:08:39+00:00

President of Karachi Chefs Association

KICA has emerged as one of the best organizations serving in the domain of culinary and hospitality education dissemination. The institution remarkably meets the global standards.
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