Got Appetite?

After operating out of Weston for 15 years, AMG Catering has a new home next door.

Alison Milwe-Grace, who lives in Weston, says her catering company’s new location — 196 Danbury Road, Wilton — will provide a great space for something she sees is lacking in the area.

“I really feel there is such a need for a cooking school in this area,” Milwe-Grace told Patch.

So Milwe-Grace and her friend, event planner Olivia Savarese, decided to help curb that need.

“We opened a new state-of-the-art kitchen in Wilton, where all of our catering will be done out of. We’re also going to be running adult and kids cooking classes,” she said.

Milwe-Grace, who teaches culinary arts at Staples High School, said the classes for adults — which kick off tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. with “Thirty Minute Yummy and Healthy Dinners" — will cost $75 per session.

“You eat whatever you make — come hungry,” she said. “Everybody loves to cook and everybody loves to eat. But nobody loves to clean, and we’ll do the cleaning for you.”

Milwe-Grace said AMG Catering is full-service, “from soup to nuts.”

“Small intimate dinner parties to fundraisers for 400 people, weddings, baby showers — I do everything,” she said.

After getting interested in cooking at age 12, Milwe-Grace said she “never had any job in anything other than a restaurant or a food establishment.”

Then after running an upscale seafood restaurant for five years, Milwe-Grace learned she loved “catering for the masses.”

“I would rather cook for 50 than for five,” she said. “I love using local, seasonal ingredients and I love to personalize all my menus according to the season and what’s available.”

In addition to the structured cooking classes, Milwe-Grace said people can also choose to design their own classes.

“Just get a group of people together, design your own class, and figure it out on your own time,” she said. “It’s really good for a girls’ night out — it’s different. Also, it’s BYOB.”

Milwe-Grace said the facility is good for corporate team building as well.

“We’ll get groups of 20 in there, break them into groups of four and have them do cooking competitions,” she said.

For more information, including a full class schedule, visit the company’s website.