The Golden Pig Restaurant and Cooking School

My wife booked one of The Golden Pig’s cooking classes for my birthday, and it turned out to be a five star experience. The class was run by Katrina, a knowledgeable chef and excellent host, with Tom assisting, a skilled butcher from Merthyr Village (if I am remembering correctly). The session focused on butchering a whole pig, using every part to create numerous dishes with a South East Asian influence which we then get to sit down and enjoy. As someone who enjoys cooking at home, I picked up plenty of useful tips I’ll be using in my own kitchen. It was also great to get hands-on experience in a commercial kitchen and see how everything is organised, along with the chance to use professional-grade equipment. The wine list was extensive, and I tried five different wines I’d never had before….all interesting and just nice to pair different wines with the multiple dishes we had. The restaurant staff were excellent throughout the day, especially Trinity, who was attentive, knowledgeable and added to the good mood of the whole experience. Beyond all the skills and knowledge gained, the day was simply great fun. My wife and I were part of a group of twelve, and by the end it felt like friends getting together for a party. Couldn’t recommend this experience enough, a perfect gift for anyone with even a slight interest in cooking.

A great experience with the French cooking class today. Highly experienced chef delivered easy to follow instructions. More hands on cooking would have been nice to try the different techniques but it didn’t detract from the overall experience. You get to meet fellow cooking enthusiasts which was also a great part of the event. The menu items were sensational.

My friends and I went there for $99 banquet dinner. Entrée dishes was interesting and very tasty! I love them all! Fries chicken was ok, for me it’s normal. Main dishes was good. The best experience part was dessert!!! So delicious!!! Must try!!!

​We recently held our company Christmas team event at The Golden Pig, and it was a smash hit! Al and Katrina hosted a the cooking class for our group of 13, splitting us into smaller teams to prepare a truly fantastic meal under their excellent guidance. ​The class was not only incredibly fun and engaging but also resulted in some seriously delicious food. The standout favorite by far was the cold-smoked salmon and beetroot salad. ​The feedback from our entire team was unanimous, this was the best team event we have ever done. Huge thanks to The Golden Pig for making our Christmas celebration so memorable and enjoyable. Highly, highly recommend for team building or a special gathering!

This place has been recommended to me a few times over the years, so I finally made it there with a girlfriend for lunch. Service is a bit weird, not on the warm side. We had two entry=2 very small bite, betal leaf is good, if you’ve been to Thailand, it’s then a standard one in most of the good Thai restaurants. Scallops is simple, and that’s $20 for 2. We then had stir fry mushroom and veggie curry, one bottle of sparkling water, 2 rice. Total of $140 for 2 I would still give 5 star for the food, even though there’s nothing exciting. The missing star is for the venue. With the kitchen in the mid of the restaurant, I left with my entire silk outfit and hair smells like a Chinese kitchen. The chair and table is quite basic too. So the experience is a mixture of up market price, fusion not so creative dishes, street food smelly setup, and indifferent service.

Edit: Thank you for your response, I have updated the wheelchair access Q&A after your response, unfortunately the response was removed after me updating the comments. Appreciate you taking time to respond the review. The food itself is not too bad, they all taste amazing individually, however the way they were served it just doesn’t flow, some size are best served together, not wait until one dish is finished then serve the other. We were sited in front of the open kitchen, at the beginning it was exciting as we all love to look our food is cooked, until we realised it’s just the back kitchen so it was really loud when they putting pots and bowls away, it’s rather echoing so was bit hard to talk, we practically shouted all night. The front desk lady was lovely greeting us, our table service was bit lack of passion, there is no head of the table when you dinning out so you shouldn’t only talk to the one person to take order and rest of us had to wave to order before you rushing out of our table. A great restaurant should not only have amazing food, it should Lao have, not top the notch but at least decent service so your guest feels at least welcome. Try the take away food because the food it is truly amazing, but I won’t recommend dine in.

We met up with friends and spent the time preparing a gloriously delicious Lebanese lunch under the guidance of chef Katrina. Our ingredients and utensils were all set out and instructions were clear and achievable. Highly recommend attending one of the cooking classes.

All dishes were tasty and beautiful and their service is awesome too! Already looking forward to comeback soon 👌✨