École Ducasse Wins World’s Best and Europe’s Best Culinary Training Institution 2025 for the Third Consecutive Year

Paris, 24 October 2025: École Ducasse is once again setting the global benchmark for culinary education, having been named both World’s Best Culinary Training Institution 2025 and Europe’s Best Culinary Training Institution 2025 by the prestigious World Culinary Awards, marking the third consecutive year the institution has received these coveted honors.

These accolades reaffirm École Ducasse’s standing as a global leader in culinary education, recognized for its consistent excellence, innovation, and influence in shaping the future of gastronomy.

Now in its sixth edition, the World Culinary Awards celebrate outstanding achievements across the international culinary landscape. Voted on by industry professionals, media, and consumers worldwide, the awards highlight École Ducasse’s enduring commitment to nurturing the next generation of visionary chefs and culinary entrepreneurs.

A hallmark of École Ducasse’s continued success is its world-class faculty—comprising World Champions, Meilleurs Ouvriers de France (Best Craftsmen of France), and acclaimed industry experts—whose mastery and mentorship inspire students to excel at the highest level. By blending traditional craftsmanship with modern approaches and technological innovation, including the integration of AI in culinary training, École Ducasse continues to pioneer a forward-thinking model of education that honors heritage while embracing the future.

A Growing Global Footprint

École Ducasse’s influence extends across an expanding international network of campuses and partners. Its flagship Paris Campus remains a symbol of French culinary excellence, while the institution continues to strengthen its presence worldwide.

Following the successful launch of the École Ducasse Abu Dhabi Studio, its first campus in the Middle East, the brand continues to expand its global reach, providing aspiring chefs and passionate food enthusiasts around the world with access to its world-renowned expertise. In France, École Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie (ENSP) in Yssingeaux, also part of École Ducasse, is the world’s largest campus dedicated to sweet arts. Recognized as a global benchmark in pastry education, it trains the next generation of pastry chefs through rigorous programs that blend tradition, innovation, and precision.

Beyond its campuses in France, Thailand, India, the Philippines, and the United Arab Emirates, École Ducasse maintains strategic partnerships with leading culinary institutions such as Indian School of Hospitality in India, ALMA in Italy, Gato Dumas in Latin America and USIL in Peru, ensuring its philosophy of excellence resonates across continents.

With this third consecutive double win, École Ducasse not only cements its legacy as a benchmark in culinary education but also reinforces its mission to elevate the standards of gastronomy worldwide.

About École Ducasse

École Ducasse is a network of schools founded in 1999 by multi-starred chef Alain Ducasse, dedicated to the transmission of outstanding French expertise and excellence in culinary and pastry arts.

École Ducasse runs three schools in France – Paris Studio, Paris Campus and École Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie as well as international schools and studios in the Philippines, India, Thailand and UAE.

All are united by a desire to share a passion for gastronomy, the broad portfolio of programs aims to meet all training needs: from short programs for experts or food enthusiasts to intensive two-to-nine-month programs for career changers, to three-year undergraduate programs and bachelor’s degree in culinary and pastry arts.

École Ducasse is part of Sommet Education, the world’s leading network in hospitality, luxury, and culinary arts education and training. École Ducasse was named the World’s Best Culinary Training Institution in 2023, 2024 and 2025.

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