Top Rhône-Alpes Cooking Classes

Cooking classes can be a great way to learn about a country’s culture, but not many let you navigate the markets where the food is bought too. Learn about Lyon cuisine on this half-day small-group experience, by exploring Lyon’s Croix Rousse Market and taking part in a cooking class before enjoying an authentic 4-course French lunch paired with cheese and wine. Hotel pick-up and drop-off are not included.

Go one step further than tasting Lyon’s famous cuisine and learn the city’s culinary secrets from a French chef. Get hands-on in the kitchen—and at the local market—during this small-group cooking class, as you take part in every step, from selecting the fresh ingredients to plating up your 4-course homemade lunch. Create a variety of dishes, including regional specialties and an indulgent dessert.

From light and tangy macarons to rich éclairs, France is known around the world for its pastries and desserts. Learn the secret of making authentic French pastries on this half-day small-group cooking class in Lyon presented by a professional chef. You’ll get to take home everything you make, so you can share with your friends and family.

For this private full-day gourmet experience, we will pick you up to drive to Lyon countryside. You’ll visit farms and meet the people who keep the region’s culinary traditions alive. We will shop for fresh, seasonal ingredients from farmers for the menu confirmed with the chef. For lunch, you will head to a family owned local restaurant before heading back to Lyon ! In the afternoon, you'll meet your chef in the heart of Lyon's historic quarter for your private cooking class. With his guidance, you’ll cook a menu inspired by the day’s harvest and local traditions. At the end of the day, sit down together to enjoy your creations — paired, of course, with local wines.

Immerse yourself in the wines of Burgundy, Beaujolais, and the Rhone Valley during this workshop held in a restored 19th-century silk factory in the Croix-Rousse neighborhood. You'll learn about the winemaking process from grape to glass, led by a wine educator who will be happy to answer any of your questions. Snacks and tastings of all the different varietals are included.

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Choosing where to eat and drink in Lyon can be overwhelming, especially for first-timers. Skip the tourist traps with this small-group food-and-wine tasting session led by a sommelier. Sip different varietals that you may not have tried before, paired with complementary cheeses. Learn about different flavor profiles and regional winemaking processes as you practise detecting specific notes.

Unlike the classic guided tours of Lyon, this experience is animated by a real sommelier and remains on the authentic plateau of the Croix-Rousse, far from the tourist circuits. Here, there is no Guide who recites dates: you choose your own products from real artisans in the district, you taste the Lyon specialties explained one by one, and you finish with a real wine workshop where you learn to taste the wines of the Rhone Valley as a connoisseur.

Savor the delicious cheeses and fine wines of the French Alps with this private tasting tour in the alpine city of Annecy. Learn about regional specialties from an expert sommelier and "Meilleur Ouvrier de France" cheese specialist, sip a selection of local wines, and tuck into tasty cheeses, including Chevrotin, Beaufort d’Alpages, and the Tome des Bauges.

A Savoyard experience with a cocktail in summer or Grolle in winter. Discover the points of interest, local sights and the most beautiful spots for great Instagram photos... and don’t forget to capture your best pose! Then enjoy an interactive and exciting wine tasting, where you will discover the aromas, flavors and textures of prestigious regional cuvées, perfectly paired with local cheeses and cold cuts. This guided tasting will help you identify the notes and differences between the different wines, while learning and enjoying local cheeses and their traditional methods of making. It’s a true French aperitif — where flavors, exchanges and conviviality meet over local wines, cheeses and cold cuts. An experience not to be missed.

Guided by a Lyon sommelier, you don’t just taste: you learn actively. First the basics to analyze a wine correctly then the heart of the workshop, the food and wine pairings. You test both good and bad chords to understand for yourself, concretely, why some combinations sublimate and others destroy. The workshop progresses in phases: goat versus cow, unripened cheese versus long ripening, then blue, where you are completely autonomous to reflect and slice alone. Along the way, you explore the French terroirs with grape varieties, soils and microclimates explained without jargon. Standing, friendly, outdoors as soon as the weather allows, all in an authentic cellar of the Croix-Rousse. An immersion in gastronomic Lyon without setting foot outside.

This private experience lets you enjoy a real time of sharing and exchange with the expert who accompanies you on this tasting of Savoy wines and cheeses. He prepares in advance the pairings he wishes you to discover over the course of nearly two hours, as well as the order in which you will taste them. As the tasting progresses, he introduces you to the products, where they come from, how they're made, and makes you guess at the different aromas you might perceive. He also explains why the two go so well together. It's a real immersion experience in the terroir.

On the way to the wine-tasting room, discover one of the city's famous traboules, the hidden passageways that connect parallel streets through historic buildings. Step into a beautiful apartment in the heart of Vieux Lyon and enjoy a unique wine tasting experience. As you settle in, your sommelier will introduce the wine regions surrounding Lyon and guide you through an authentic tasting journey featuring regional wines paired with some of the city's most iconic specialties. Over the next 2 hours, discover six wines from the renowned wine regions surrounding Lyon, including the Côtes du Rhône, Beaujolais, Mâconnais and Burgundy. As you taste each wine, your sommelier will introduce the grape varieties, terroirs and traditions that make these regions so distinctive. Each wine is paired with a selection of Lyon's iconic specialties, including St-Marcellin cheese, Lyon-style charcuterie, artisanal chocolates and the city's famous praline treats. The experience concludes at 1:00 p.m.

Here, no frozen tasting or formatted speech. Sommelier Lyonnais by birth, your host gives you a real method to look, smell and analyze a wine, understand the pairings and choose a bottle with confidence, whether in the restaurant or at home. To make the moment even more lively, make room for pétanque, while one team plays, the other continues the tasting, and each alternates between balls and glass in hand. This mix of learning and play, in an authentic neighborhood cellar of the Plateau de la Croix-Rousse, creates a relaxed and warm atmosphere not found in standardized tourist tastings. A real Lyon break, thought like a good afternoon with friends.

1. Walk from Bellecour Square to the wine-tasting room located in Vieux Lyon., Enjoy a leisurely walk to our private wine tasting venue in the heart of Old Lyon. Along the way, discover one traboule, the famous hidden passageways. 2. Wine tasting of 4 wines paired with 4 local cheeses. to the world of cheese and wine, discovering the main families of cheeses (goat, cow, sheep), traditional production methods, and the key cheese-making regions near Lyon. 3. Enjoy a convivial break with Lyon-style charcuterie, paired with a fruity Beaujolais red wine, perfect for preparing your palate for the chocolate and wine tasting pairing. 4. Taste 4 exquisite chocolates, carefully selected from renowned chocolatiers, each paired with a red wine from the Lyon region or southern France, for unique chocolate and wine pairings.