The origins of the Escuela de Hostelería de Leioa go back more than 20 years, specifically to 1981, when the outlook for the future demand for cooks made it propitious to undertake this ambitious project.
Its first location was a guesthouse next to the Plentzia River where training in cooking was given to a single group of students.
However, the philosophy inherent to Vocational Training advises that hands-on practical training is the only way to teach an activity like cooking, so the Campus of the Universidad de Leioa was decided on as the definitive location of the school in 1983.
Since then, the school, already known as the Escuela de Hostelería de Leioa, has offered thousands of meals a day, a professional product of its students’ work, in its three dining halls.