Top Paris Cooking Classes

Paris Croissant Small-Group Baking Class with a Chef

2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Paris French Bakery Experience Le Marais

Paris Macarons Small-Group Baking Class with a Chef

Learning French cooking techniques can feel intimidating without hands-on guidance from an expert. Build your skills in a small-group class led by a chef-tutor from renowned culinary school Ferrandi Paris at Galeries Lafayette. Prepare classic French dishes like curry roasted cauliflower or chicken cordon bleu while learning professional techniques you can use at home, with personalized instruction suitable for all skill levels.

Paris Cooking Class with Ferrandi chef at Galeries Lafayette

Macaron Bakery Class at Galeries Lafayette Paris

Get the authentic French culinary experience with a small-group cooking class in a private Parisian apartment. Head to the centrally-located home and get ready to learn — and eat! Meet your local chef instructor, gather ingredients on an optional market tour, and discover the fundamentals of preparing classic French dishes such as soufflé, cod mouclade, and chocolate fondant. Then prepare and savor delicious dishes with fellow food lovers.

Paris French Cuisine Small Group Cooking Class with Lunch

4 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

In a charming Parisian bakery near Notre Dame, a French baking expert guides you through creating delicious desserts that you’ll be proud of. This small-group, hands-on class reveals the secrets of either flaky croissants, perfect baguettes, and pastries, or French macarons (depending on the option chosen). Enjoy tastings that highlight France's flavors while learning the stories behind its famous baked goods.

Paris French Baking Experience - Bread/Croissant or Macaron Class

Learn how to prepare the perfect flakey croissant during a small-group baking class in Paris. While you’ll be using professional techniques, no previous baking experience is required, only a love of pastries. With a small class size, you get the personalized attention of your instructor, so you don’t miss a single step. Once the baking process is complete, enjoy your creation with the rest of the class.

Croissant Baking Class, Mastering the Art with a Pastry Chef

Discover how to prepare famous French delicacies–and learn far more than by simply eating them in a restaurant–on this small-group cooking class in the Montmartre district of Paris. Step inside a working kitchen, sample a variety of savory and sweet treats, and learn the history of baguettes and croissants from a local baker before rolling up your sleeves and getting hands-on as you prepare your own.

French Baking Class in a Local Montmartre Bakery

Held in one of Paris’s trendiest neighborhoods, Les Batignolles, this is not just a hands-on cooking class but a fully immersive culinary experience led by a former Cordon Bleu instructor. Unlike many Parisian workshops that emphasize demonstrations, this hands-on class ensures every guest actively participates in preparing each dish from start to finish. With a maximum of six participants, the intimate setting allows for personalized guidance, making it ideal for mastering authentic techniques. While the focus is on classic French cuisine, guests can also explore Colombian or Asian flavors upon request. After cooking, guests sit together to enjoy the gourmet meal they have created. Each participant leaves with a deeper culinary understanding, a certificate of accomplishment, and a cookbook featuring all the class recipes. This class is for person aged 15 and older. No children please.

Paris Small Group Hands-On Cooking Class with Cordon Bleu Chef

3 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Don't just savor croissants during your Parisian getaway—learn insider tips and tricks for mastering them yourself during this hands-on, small-group cooking class. Perfect for visiting cooks and food lovers looking to learn, this class is hosted by an experienced pastry chef. Explore the different techniques of croissant-making, and even have the chance to prepare special versions. Afterwards, enjoy your treats—and your enviable new skills.

Paris Croissant and Breakfast Pastry Class with a French Chef

Paris Evening Cooking Class French Dinner and Market Visit Option

6 hoursFree Cancellation

Indulge in a true gourmet French experience: preparing, cooking, and enjoying your own 3-course meal. Choose between a 4.5- or 6-hour Paris culinary course (a 1.5-hour market visit is optional) then set out to learn the tricks and techniques of French cooking. An instructor will help you through the steps of creating an appetizer, main dish, and dessert. French wine is also included with your gourmet lunch.

Paris Cooking Class and Lunch with Wine plus Market Visit Option

6 hoursFree Cancellation

Enjoy the fun and delight of making macarons in an engaging Parisian pastry class, perfect for families and kids! Led by expert pastry chefs, this hands-on experience lets you and your loved ones discover the art of crafting these delectable French treats. Designed for all ages, this class offers a memorable, interactive adventure where you can bond while learning the secrets of French baking. Plus, you’ll get to take home your delicious creations as a sweet keepsake to remember your time together.

Fun Macaron Class for Families in Paris

Discover the art of macaron baking from a Le Cordon Bleu Paris-trained chef during a small-group pastry class in Paris. No prior patisserie experience is required for this hands-on workshop, with all bakers welcome. This intimate experience is ideal for solo travelers, couples, and groups alike. Throughout the class, you’ll enjoy personalized one-on-one attention from your chef, ensuring you learn the necessary steps to prepare professional-level macarons back home.

Paris Macaron baking class with a Chef Patissier

2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Paris Food Tour: 10+ Tastings, French Wine, Cheeses & Secret Dish

2 hours to 3 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Paris Baking Experience at a Local French Bakery

Paris Macaron Baking Activity in a Real Pâtisserie

Macarons are one of France's most popular confections, but they can be tricky to prepare. Learn insider tips and tricks for perfecting them during this hands-on, small-group baking class in Paris. Benefit from your expert instructor, who provides detailed instructions throughout the class. Choose the colors you prefer, fill them with buttercream, and taste the freshly baked results. As a bonus, take home a box of macarons as a souvenir.

Paris Cooking Class: Learn How to Make Macarons

Your decadent tour of the Marais—one of Paris’ most atmospheric and food-loving neighborhoods—begins at a time that works best for you. Pick from start times that range from morning to mid-afternoon, meet your guide right in the neighborhood, and set off with a maximum of only nine other people for company. On this tour, you’ll learn all about what makes the Marais special, with stories about its Jewish history, culinary traditions, and local landmarks (like the Picasso Museum) which you’d be unlikely to encounter on your own. Over the course of a few hours, you’ll also follow your guide to eight different food destinations. Come hungry; you’ll enjoy 10 food tastings and two half-glasses of wine, enough to add up to a generous meal. This tour also accommodates various dietary needs and preferences, offering you comfort and flexibility.

Devour Paris Ultimate Food Tour

Price varies by group size

This is a truly unique experience hosted in a studio entirely dedicated to children. Designed with young participants in mind, the space is welcoming, safe, and adapted to their height, rhythm, and creativity. During the workshop, children don’t just bake, they decorate, personalize, and transform their macarons throughout the class. Colors, textures, flavors, glazes, and toppings become tools for self-expression. Creativity is at the heart of every step. This atelier is imagined “children first.” The pace, explanations, and activities are tailored to keep them engaged, confident, and proud of what they create. Parents can feel reassured knowing the experience is thoughtfully structured, safely supervised, and designed to celebrate imagination above all else. ✨

2 hours 30 minutesFree Cancellation

Mini Chefs Macaron Club

Don't just savor delicious pastries during your Paris trip—learn how to make them yourself, and walk away with new skills and culinary inspiration, thanks to this small-group cooking class. Led by your expert culinary instructor, learn every step of preparing the perfect cream puffs and chocolate éclairs, from mastering the choux pastry to the Chantilly cream. The best part of this cooking class is saved for the end, when you get to try the results.

Paris Cooking Class: Chocolate Éclairs and Cream Puffs

France is world-renowned for its delicious cheese and butter, and this hands-on workshop lets you dive into the country’s cheesemaking and butter-making heritage. Visit a traditional local ‘fromagerie’ (cheese shop), “Paroles de Fromagers”, meet the cheesemakers, and learn the secrets of cheese and butter making during a fun and interactive workshop. Finally, sample some of the delicious cheeses paired with French wine.

Butter and cheesemaking Workshop with Wine and Cheese Tasting

Paris Behind the Scenes Macaron Baking Class

Paris French Bakery Experience Le Marais

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Lisa_W, Oct 2026

We made baguettes in a French Bakery!

It was fantastic! We learned history, importance if bread in France, and where to get hood food. We made financiers, croissants and baguettes, we left with an entire bag of different breads. coffee and breakfast breads served before the baking adventure!

Croissant Baking Class, Mastering the Art with a Pastry Chef

Cosette_C, Oct 2026

A Croissant named Charlotte!

Our chef, Leticia was amazing! Her welcoming smile, her love for baking, stories, and guidance made the class fun while educational. She made sure that we understood why we did certain steps in a particular order by explaining the outcome if we didn't follow the sequence. I will remember this class and the techniques I learned for a very long time!

Paris Croissant Small-Group Baking Class with a Chef

Julie_D, Oct 2026

Yummy afternoon

Excellent experience with Julie. Class was fun. Who knew so much work went into making a croissant we can eat in 2 minutes, lol?? It was fun to taste all our hard work. Thorough explanation of entire process. We left with the recipes emailed to us via a QR code. Thankfully, they offer some coffee, water and toilet at the location. Look for the red door to the right of the blue door (#7).

Paris French Cuisine Small Group Cooking Class with Lunch

Robert_M, Oct 2026

A must do Parisian culinary experience.

This was a wonderful culinary experience. Chef Dominique demonstrated various techniques and then let us loose in his kitchen. There were two other couples in our group and we all enjoyed the afternoon. The end result was a meal to enjoy - from appetizer through to dessert.

Paris Cooking Class and Lunch with Wine plus Market Visit Option

Martin_A, Sep 2026

The Foodist exceeded expectations!

Our class with Paolo was one of the highlights of our trip to Paris. We learned a lot about cheese, cooking techniques, and French food regulations and protections. Paolo made every element of our experience interesting and useful. The market tour was especially enjoyable. Would definitely do this again.

Paris Macarons Small-Group Baking Class with a Chef

Emma_S, Sep 2026

We took the macaron class...

We took the macaron class with Julie, 10/10 experience. Very intimate group as it was 4 of us, plus the instructor. Loved the 1-on-1 and the detailed attention we all received. A very good recipe for macarons and was one of my mom’s and I’s favorite experiences on our trip!

Paris Evening Cooking Class French Dinner and Market Visit Option

Sena_D, Sep 2026

Wonderful experience- not to be missed

We had the best time with Fred, he was knowledgeable and encouraging. We got to shop for, then cook an excellent meal having so much fun with the group we were with, this event has been well thought out and truly gives a wonderful tour of the Latin quarter as well as a glimpse of French cooking. The recipes were also sent to us. I would highly recommend this experience.

Paris Cooking Class with Ferrandi chef at Galeries Lafayette

Pam_S, Sep 2026

Ferrandi Chef's Secrets French Cooking Class - AMAZING

A must do for any foodie visiting Paris! We saved this experience for our last full day, so we can end our trip on this highest note and it did not disappointment. Our teenagers loved the ability to cook their own meal and our chef was amazing. He have us tips. guided us through French cooking skills and gave us some great tips for visiting Paris. We made this our lunch and every one cleaned their plates, our teenagers even ate all the veggies! Possibly one of the best meals we had, and we got to take the recipe home to try to recreate it! I think this will become a family favorite.

Fun Macaron Class for Families in Paris

Andrew_T, Aug 2026

Fun Family Baking Class in Paris

Our 3- and 8-year-old children love macarons and we saw this class as an opportunity for them to have an interactive and tactile experience while traveling so far away from home. We did not know we would be sharing the class with another family, but it worked out well as they too were visiting from USA and their children were very close in age to ours. Our instructor, Marie, was absolutely terrific. Her English was perfect, she was exceptionally patient with the children knowing exactly how to engage them and keep them focused, while guiding us to make delicious macarons. Allowing the kids to help measure & blend the dry ingredients, choose their own colors and flavors and teaching us all how to pipe our own shells, Marie really got the everyone to buy in to the whole experience. The kitchen is clean, modern and just the right size. Overall, we would return to learn other recipes from Marie and this business. Highly recommend!

Paris French Baking Experience - Bread/Croissant or Macaron Class

Lisa_B, Aug 2026

Highly recommend! Highlight of our trip.... and we did a lot. David is the best!!

Amazing experience in a beautiful (small) bakery. There were seven of us ages 3-60+ and everyone cited the experience as a highlight of our multi-country trip. David brought comedy and education throughout our visit. He took time to get to know each of the kids and upon learning one was interested in baking as a future profession, he spent extra time showing him aspects of the bakery and answering questions. We rolled baguettes, made financiers start to finish and practiced rolling croissants. We are still talking about the financiers and will do our best to make him proud with our US replication. We left with BAGS of bread and pastries that we were able to enjoy throughout our trip. HIGHLY recommend this experience. Note: any young children should be comfortable standing for a few hours and do well with listening and following directions.

French Baking Class in a Local Montmartre Bakery

Tara_A, Aug 2026

This was such a cool...

This was such a cool experience! David, our instructor, was incredibly friendly, outgoing, and fun! We learned so much while working with him and an award winning local baker in the bakery. This was a highlight of our time in Paris and I would highly recommend this experience even for people like me, who don’t enjoy cooking.

Paris Wine Tasting plus Cheese Lunch with an Expert Sommelier

Christie_H, Feb 2026

Enjoyed this experience...

Enjoyed this experience with my daughter on her 24th birthday. The sommelier was extremely knowledgeable and approachable with questions. He paired each wine course with a cheese from the same region and explained how the flavor of the wines were enhanced with the different cheeses. A super fun and informative experience!