Kitchen on Fire® is a place to laugh, learn, eat fantastic food and meet wonderful new friends. Our vision is to help you bring together friends and family with food and spirits. Through fun and educational hands-on cooking classes, culinary demonstrations and lectures taught by top chefs and food professionals, we demystify home cooking and entertaining. We work principally with organic food and support organic local small growers and winemakers. Our focus is on high quality seasonal ingredients, minimal preparation, maximum flavor, and zero stress. Cooking for the family or throwing a party with friends can be excitingly easy and delicious. Armed with the tips, tricks and techniques learned in our kitchen, you'll be on fire in your own kitchen making the most fabulous meals of your life History Founded in 2005, Kitchen on Fire® is located in Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto in the Epicurious Garden which is an expansion and continuation of the gourmet cuisine legacy started by Alice Waters at Chez Panisse more than 30 years ago. Meet the Business Owner Olivier S. The former co-owner and bar manager of Berkeley's acclaimed Cesar Tapas Bar, Said is one of the Bay Area's respected culinary personalities. Born and raised in France, he is the descendant of at least five generations of restaurateurs dating back to the early 1750s in France. Said began his career at the age of 15 in his mother's Paris restaurant. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s and worked at Ken Frank's La Toque, one of the first restaurants in the country to feature California nouvelle cuisine. In 1987, Said returned to Paris and opened his own restaurant, the very popular Texas Coyote, which included three sprawling bars and a night club. It had frequent reviews in the press such as Gault Millau, Vogue, Le Point, Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Monde, Paris Capital magazine, Liberation and Marie Claire. Olivier Said was a regular guest host on the number two national radio station in France, Skyrock, live from his restaurant.