The flagship store of The Cook’s Warehouse will move to a new location in Ansley Mall this fall, it was announced on Monday.

“I opened my first cookware store on Amsterdam Avenue in March, 1995. We’ve grown from two employees to 48 associates in three locations.

“My original store and cooking school has outgrown its space so I took the opportunity to relocate it to in-town Atlanta’s most successful mall,” said Mary S. Moore, owner and founder.

The Cook’s Warehouse, in addition to retailing quality gourmet cookware, operates the largest avocational cooking school in the Southeast. It also sells professional-grade appliances such as built-in refrigerators, ranges, dishwashers, ice makers and more from brands such as Miele, Sub-Zero and Wolf.

Moore said the 6,500-square-foot space at Piedmont Avenue and Monroe Drive, formerly occupied by Piccadilly Cafeteria, is already being converted to “my dream store” including:

• A bright new cookware area in the front
• A cooking school facility, able to accommodate more than double the participants than the previous space
• Four kitchen/large appliance areas: the cooking school, beverage and refrigeration, a lifestyle kitchen and an outdoor kitchen

“In this new store, we’ll be able to display more cookware and accessories than ever before including our featured brands of All-Clad, Le Creuset, Swiss Diamond, Chantel Copper Fusion, Capresso, Cuisinart, Krups, WMF, Wüsthof, Shun and others.

“And in our showcase kitchen, we’ll be able to counsel customers on the correct appliance for their indoor or outdoor cooking and allow them to have real-life ‘test runs’ before purchase,” Moore said. The professional brands available include Miele, Sub-Zero, Wolf, Bosch, Viking, Five-Star, Vent-A-Hood, AGA and others.

As much as possible, the space is being converted using LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards by Matthew Rao of Rao Design Studio and Jeff Wren of Earthstation Architects.

Moore’s strategic partners on this project include Cornerstone Bank in Decatur, Miele USA, RAO Design Studio, Earthstation Architecture, and Dakota Construction.

The Cook’s Warehouse ( www.cookswarehouse.com ) is greater Atlanta’s premier gourmet cookware store and cooking school with three stores in the Midtown, Decatur and Brookhaven areas. It offers more than 15,000 products for the kitchen and operates the largest avocational cooking school in the Southeast, conducting more than 600 classes yearly, often taught by local chefs, and has a large web-based delivery-by-post site.

Owned and operated by founder Mary S. Moore, The Cook’s Warehouse also retails high-end appliances; conducts private cooking classes for unique celebrations and corporate events, and is a pro bono partner with virtually every major cooking event and gourmet association in Atlanta. She is currently Vice Chair of Atlanta’s Table (the ACFB Advisory Board), the Treasurer of the Int’l Board of Les Dames d’Escoffier and a past president of the Atlanta Chapter, on the Woodward Academy Alumni board and she belongs to numerous other gourmet industry associations.