French Cooking Tours in Paris in English
Class Duration: 5.5 days (you’ll kick off the week with a guided tour of Paris on Sunday afternoon)
Price per person: 4295€
Highlights
- Hands-on French private cooking lessons with English-speaking instructors at renowned French cooking school
- Private guided historical walking tour of Paris’s city center
- French market & local producer visits
- All lunches on program days
- Gastronomic dining experience in the company of your chef/guide
- Champagne region tour with expert wine instructor
- Private cheese tasting
- Small group sizes (maximum of 8 students)
- French patîsserie lessons with professional chefs in English
- All cooking levels welcome
- Full recipe E-book sent to you post the tour for you to recreate your recipes at home
- Memories & skills to last a lifetime
2024 dates:
- 6-11 October 2024 (Sunday through Friday) Booking Closed!
2025 dates:
- 13-18 April 2025 (Sunday through Friday)
- 11-17 October 2025 (Sunday through Friday)
Privatize one of our weeks
If you wish to privatize a session, email us about private lessons, or should you have any questions or special requests.
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French Cooking Tours in Paris – Let’s Eat Paris
Let’s Eat the World, in collaboration with Chef Eric Fraudeau and the chefs of Cook’n with Class Paris, brings you a 5.5-day French cooking tour in Paris filled with French markets, French pastries, French wine, champagne, and more. This package will include 4 hands-on cooking lessons with an experienced professional chef taught in English and a full-day tour in Reims (Champagne) with an expert wine guide. You’ll enjoy the best of Paris by tasting and touring Paris, Champagne, and the fine-dining restaurants that have food and wine lovers returning to Paris time and again.
About the creators of Let’s Eat Paris, your culinary week in Paris:
Culinary holiday creator, Yetunde Oshodi-Fraudeau and chef-owner of Cook’n with Class, chef Eric Fraudeau invite you to come to where it all started – PARIS. Back in 2007, when Chef Eric opened his French cooking school, his dream was to share his passion and love for French cuisine with visiting tourists. He was the first French chef to jump into offering French cooking classes in Paris taught in English.
Following the success of the culinary vacation in southern France – Let’s Eat Uzès, where we invite small groups of participants to take part in a week-long culinary experience in Provence, we’ve created this amazing culinary program in the French gastronomic capital with that made-in-Paris feel.
We wanted to pay tribute to the brasserie and bistro cuisine that has made France famous but not forgetting to include the modern twists that these timeless classics have enjoyed. Let’s Eat Paris is a week for true foodies, wine lovers, & anyone in love with Paris.
Cooking Tours in Paris to remember
As with all our culinary tours offered through Let’s Eat The World this week will be fun, informative, and delicious. We’ll work with the best seasonal produce and enjoy guided tours with expert guides. You will work with recipes that you can easily recreate at home.
Exclusive & hands-on
You’ll be part of a small group of participants enjoying the best of Paris at our Montmartre-based French cooking school. Accommodations are not included, however, we would be more than happy to make recommendations. You’ll receive a Paris restaurant guide from chef Eric to enhance your Paris dining experience outside of our included delectable lunches. Interact with experienced chefs and bring your burning culinary questions.
Need more convincing? See our sample program.
Sunday Afternoon
On Sunday before your week of cooking adventures begins, you will enjoy a guided walking tour of Paris. This tour runs about 4-4.5 hours taking you past historical sites along the Seine. We try to start the tour by 2:30/3 pm. This tour offered by our friends at Sight Seeker’s Delight is listed as being of medium difficulty and will include a pause/bathroom break.
Day 1 of Cooking – Monday
Fresh pastries, coffee, tea, & juice will be waiting for you at the school.
On our first day of class, we will kick off the week with the preparation of a 4-course Parisian-style brasserie menu.
Afternoon visit to the Local cheese makers for some made-in-Paris cheese experience. A tasting is included.
Free evening
Day 2 – Tuesday
We’ll meet directly at the market where we’ll sample some delicious breakfast pastries at one of Paris’ most beloved boulangeries/pâtisseries.
Let’s head to the market for a bit of French food market 101. We’re food shopping at the Marché Aligre – one of chef Eric’s favorite Parisian markets, to sample & to source the fresh produce we will use to prepare our light lunch menu.
After lunch, we will start preparing bread for the following day.
We’ll have you preparing the breakfast pastries we’ll be enjoying tomorrow morning for our breakfast before you head off to enjoy Paris by night
Free evening.
Day 3 – Wednesday
Meet at the school bright and early to bake your croissants! Today we’ll be heading to Reims for our full-day champagne tour. We will visit two domains where the women behind it have had plenty to say.
Between domain visits for a delightful brasserie luncheon & a visit to the spectacular Reims Cathedral.
Evening free! You’ll need it!
Day 4 – Thursday
Back in the kitchen for another bistro menu day. We’ll recreate together the bistro classics that put Paris on the map.
Sweet tour to indulge in the delectable delights of your Paris dream vacation.
Free evening!
Day 5 – Friday
Last day of class – Our final market visit to select our ingredients for a market-to-table menu à la française.
A short break back in Paris before your afternoon Macaron class with our pastry chef.
We’ll end our week with a Michelin-starred dining experience you won’t soon forget.
Our cooking tour in Paris is shaped by the seasons, but here are some ideas of what you will experience with us to tempt your tastebuds and get you dreaming of this culinary adventure:
- Oysters gratiné au champagne
- Soupe à l’oignon (Classic French onion soup)
- Coq au vin
- Country Pâté
- Crêpes flambées au Grand Marnier
- Baguettes
- Dutch-oven baked country bread
- Croissants
- Pain au Chocolat
- Pain aux Raisins
- Exclusive private tour of made-in-Paris cheeses
- Cooking with wild mushrooms
- French omelet
- Perfect soufflés
- Chocolate Macarons
- Lapin à la Moutard
- Monkfish en Papillotte
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