cooking classes

Classes Start at $70 per Guest

Gratuity Not Included

Introducing in 2024: Special Guest Chefs and Hands-on Classes.

Cancellation Policy: Our chefs stock the kitchen in advance to Prepare for class and seating space is limited, so an accurate headcount is very important. For these reasons, we do require a 48-hour cancellation notice to receive a full refund or class credit.

Chef Lesa LeBeau graduated top of her class from Los Angeles Culinary Institute in 1995. While attending culinary school, Chef Lesa had the great honor of catering for the Academy Awards with Wolfgang Puck and Cecilia DeCastro (instructor). Following graduation, she worked in the kitchen and served as a pastry Chef for a very high-end restaurant in Los Angeles.

She was later hired on with a celebrity catering company in 1999 near Malibu, California, where she worked with many celebrity clients…including the Playboy Mansion. In 2014, Chef Lesa relocated with her husband to their home in Coeur d’Alene. She began leading cooking classes at The Culinary Stone later that year and continues to this day, teaching her popular international fair menus and hosting private dinners. Chef Lesa has her own catering business, has been featured on many KREM morning cooking segments, and regularly works with charities close to her heart. Cooking is her true passion and always says “food is love”.

Chef Colomba grew up in Southern California in a household where her mother always provided fresh, nutritious and delicious meals born from her Mexican roots. Colomba has always been drawn to the flavors of Latin America and - as she grew - was able to venture off to experience the beauty and fun of cooking with many locals in their homes, learning about their ingredients and their sazon (flare).

She had the opportunity to refine her cooking skills when she attended the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, where she was Cordon Bleu certified. After her training, Colomba found herself in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula - where she worked, explored and tasted all that she could! She and her family brought this experience and flavorful knowledge to Coeur d'Alene in 2005 when they opened Cafe Carambola (located on Northwest Blvd.). Here, they have since been serving a nutritious mix of recipes collected throughout Latin America.

From private country clubs to delicatessens, Chef Jonathan Siegler has cooked his way from non-profit to fine dining. This local chef has cooked in many of Coeur d’Alene’s culinary establishments. He attended school at North Idaho College in the Culinary Arts Program, through which he earned a praised internship at the Black Rock Country Club. He was also the Chef at the Coeur d’Alene Kroc Center for 5 years. When it comes to fine dining, Jonathan worked at the Coeur d’Alene Resort at Beverly’s and Coeur d’Alene Resort Convention Center.

His cooking background is diverse, but his teaching ability he utilizes during cooking classes is based on coaching swimmers. Chef Jonathan was a local swim coach for Lake City High School and Coeur d’Alene Area Swim Team. Today, his coaching experience serves to help raise his two daughters to learn to love the water as much as he does, when he’s not teaching them to love good food, that is.  Art On The Green and Cinco de Mayo are Jonathan’s favorite holidays that he enjoys on his days off from work at Chomper Cafe and Belle’s Brunch House.