About Us

Birmingham Sushi Classes (the crew)


Bonnie is our co-founder, reservation wrangler, walking FAQ, website builder, travel coordinator and all around BSC guru.
Kelly Jo is our founder and lead sushi instructor.  She is in her 15th year of working as a sushi chef, with an additional 10 years of professional cooking.
Ashley is our part-timer whose specialty is sushi parties and catering in and around the Birmingham area. She always brings fun and her creativity to our guests.
Justin is our sushi chef/instructor in South Carolina.  He teaches in and around the Charleston/Beaufort area & we found him absolutely killing it on TikTok & added him to the crew.  From beginner classes to house parties, he has SC covered.
Brooke is our lead sushi chef on the beach.  She'll come to you on your vacation, feed you a sushi spread and keep you from having to wait 2 hours for mediocre food at a tourist trap restaurant.  Bonus: No designated driver needed.  Check out @bamasushi on Instagram to book us in 2025.
Alexx is our newest addition to the Gulf Coast team & his specialty is beach parties (especially bachelorette parties!) Alexx is amazing and our clients absolutely love him.  He can also be booked by sending a DM to @bamasushi on Instagram


Birmingham Sushi Classes (how it happened)

We started dabbling in teaching people how to make sushi at home in 2011 because customers at the sushi bar kept asking if Kelly could "come to their house and show them how to make sushi?"

 By 2013, we had a pretty good little side hustle going.  In 2016, Kelly was able to quit her job behind the sushi bar and focus on the business full-time.

Our main goal at that time was teaching classes in local breweries all over the southeast. Pretty soon we added private, in-home parties and teaching college students at universities (including Alabama, Ole Miss, Troy, South Alabama, Auburn and more) as well as in sorority houses at Bama, UGA, Auburn & Tennessee.


Since we began this little project, we've had over 15,000 people take the class in 18 different states.