Top Shelf Bartending Academy

Leading BARTENDING SCHOOL in Los Angeles

Top-Shelf Bartending Academy is the most prestigious industry-leading bartending school in the greater Los Angeles area. We help our students get started on their journey in bartending. Our job is to offer our students bartending experience and education like no other. 


About Top Shelf Bartending Academy

Bartending Academy

With over 25 years’ of experience teaching and training top-notch bartending skills, we transform students into skilled professional Bartenders. Our Los Angeles Bartending School helps learners get ahead of the competition. With training courses, a flexible come-at-your-own-pace schedule, lifetime membership, and guaranteed jobs, anyone can become a professional bartender in any aspect of tending bar. 

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25+

Years of Experience

Learn Everything You'll Need To Master Bartending

Bartending is confined to mixing drinks. It is an art that requires practice, patience, and proper guidance. Our bartending school facilitates the students to anticipate and satisfy the customers' needs.


We help students improve their communication skills to interact with all types of people. Our bartending classes train students to become professionals in the bartending field. Our graduates are well-versed in drink recipes, methods, profit pouring, high-volume bartending, etiquette, customer service, and all forms of mixology.

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Classes We Offer

Our Bartending & Mixology Classes


We offer bartending and mixology classes with a wide range of drinks. Bartenders must have the ability to keep up with the fast pace of their job and mix drinks to perfection. Our hiring process is highly vigilant where we recruit instructors that have tended bar for years.

Reason To Choose Us

Why Choose Top Shelf Bartending Academy

Top-Shelf Bartending Academy is LA’s premier Bartending School. We consider each individual’s potential to achieve perfection. Students learn how to mingle with customers, make delicious drinks, pour perfectly, and earn money with ease. We offer in-class courses, and our highly-qualified instructors teach you the right skills to get more tips per hour. 

Professionally Designed Bar

When you enter Top-Shelf Bartending Academy in Los Angeles, CA, You’ll feel like you are entering a high-end Los Angeles bar. We’ve kept the classic concept of The World Famous Wiltern Building by interjecting a Great Gatsby styled bar. Not only is the bar plush but it is state of the ark. Real Speed guns, top of the line bar tools like smokers and bubble guns, Big Screen tvs, custom bottle wall, and so much more. We spared no expenses in bringing you an Elite experience

Guaranteed Jobs

Our Job Placement Guarantee is unsurpassed in the industry. Top-Shelf Bartending Academy has partnered with three of California’s leading bar staffing companies. These 3 companies combine over 100 years of bar staffing experience nationwide with their home bases in California. We staff Clubs, bars, restaurants, hotels, theaters, events, music festivals, and the list goes on. We Guarantee you work or your money back, and you can take that to the bank!

One on One Training

We train you at your own pace and on your own time. Come in any time during our hours of operation and our professional instructors will give you one on one training to help you pick up where you left off. Want to sign up with a friend? No problem. We do two-on-one and three-on-one classes as well. We are here to cater to you and give you the best experience possible. 

Make Your Own Class Schedule

Each student learns at their own pace. We resume our course based on the student's learning ability until they become a professional bartender. We understand that you have a life of your own. That’s why we offer the most flexible schedules in the industry.

Start Bartending in as Little As 10 Days

The best bartending skills are defined with proper instruction rather than the length of teaching days. We have mastered the skill of producing the best bartender graduates. Our school can help you reach job-placement in as little as ten days if you dedicate yourself to the process. (Our average student takes a month to a month and a half to complete our course.)

Get Trained By The Leading Bartending School in California

Top Shelf Bartending Academy offers bartending programs that accommodate all types of schedules and locations. Our training includes working on POS touch screen systems while making drinks. We teach our students how to ring up drinks and make them quickly so students can acquire jobs in a short time. We believe in skill development, a sense of passion, and curating classes to polish our students as one the best bartenders in Los Angeles, CA.

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Complete Your Training At Your Own Pace

Bartending is not as easy as it looks. That is why we let our students take classes at their own pace. We train our students to the highest standards so they can become part-time/full-time bartenders in Los Angeles, New York, or San Diego, we offer them bartending programs that suit their schedules. Our in-person courses are designed to train all types of individuals so they can get a job as soon as they leave our bartending school.

Guaranteed job placement!

Our graduates start getting calls as soon as they finish their bartending program. Our bartending school equips our graduates with the knowledge to achieve success at all types of bars. Whether it be a high-end custom craft cocktail bar, a dive bar, a strip club, or a music festival. Our grads excel in all environments. Being the most exclusive bartending schools in Los Angeles, CA, we ensure that all our students get started with the right job placement. We GUARANTEE it!

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Our Partners

Our partners rely on our expertise to provide professional bartenders that graduate with real-world experience and work bars as experienced bartenders.

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