The Culinary Center features a fully functional, designer kitchen, and is outfitted with professional style appliances. Offering hands on, small group cooking classes and private cooking parties with local professional chefs, students in the Culinary Center will have the opportunity to learn new recipes and techniques.

The new center features a 48-inch, six-burner gas cooktop; two wall ovens with computerized time and temperature settings and convection and conventional capacity; an under-the-counter microwave drawer for easy access; LED lighting; a floating island with two-tone granite and soapstone countertops; and European-style frameless cabinets with slow-closing doors.

The Culinary Center at Vella has partnered with Dacor Appliances, Mouser Custom Cabinetry and the Culinary Institute of America.

The family-owned Vella Bath & Kitchen provides a full range of kitchen and bath remodeling products and services for homeowners, do-it-yourselfers and contractors. The new culinary center is opened as part of its 45th anniversary celebration in 2010. The center is housed in the new ‘Living Showroom’, a fully functional, large scale, designer kitchen.