Spend half a day at the work surface in the Ritz Paris kitchens: apron tied, knife in hand. Accompanied by a Chef, you’ll prepare a starter and a main course using seasonal produce, exploring techniques for cutting, cooking and garnishing. At 12:30pm, your guest is the privileged witness to your final touches, before sharing your handiwork. The meal ends with a sweet creation by the school's pastry Chefs.

Treat someone to a memorable shared experience at the Ecole Ritz Escoffier: a hands-on workshop with a Chef, followed by a behind-the-scenes lunch at the Ritz Paris.

Cooking for a special guest - Cooking class in Paris | Ecole Ritz Escoffier

Spend a day at the work surface in the Ritz Paris kitchens: apron tied, knife in hand. Accompanied by a Chef, you’ll prepare a starter and a main course using seasonal produce, exploring techniques for cutting, cooking and garnishing. At 12:30pm, your guest is the privileged witness to your final touches, before sharing your handiwork during an intimate tête-à-tête.

This is no average cookery class. Cooking is a passion that must be shared, and what better way than to welcome a loved one into the kitchens of the Ritz Paris? Tasting the results of your hard work alongside our Chef is the perfect way to create delicious, unforgettable memories, unique to the two of you.

A format made for two

Above all, cooking comes down to the moment of sharing. With this course, the Ecole Ritz Escoffier unites two profoundly French traditions: the care devoted to kitchen crafts and the pleasures of the table. We learn the techniques of the great Chefs’ brigades, in a privileged setting and in small groups, while preparing a meal for two. Held behind the scenes at the hotel, it's a way of passing on the expertise handed down for over thirty-five years: that of French gastronomy as an essential art of living.

The art of entertaining, French-style

Apron

Certificate of participation

Languages

Included in the session

Up to 10 participants

Cuisine Coquelin

Cuisine Réjane

The kitchens

Special terms for rescheduling

Practical information

Cooking for a special guest

To create a great dish, it's not enough just to master the techniques: you also need to know how to choose the right ingredients. This culinary experience begins in the heart of Marché Président-Wilson, one of the chicest markets in Paris - renowned for its quality produce, gourmet atmosphere and authentic feel. Accompanied by a Chef from the Ecole Ritz Escoffier, you'll go and meet the producers, discuss their professional insights and select the ingredients that will make up your menu, before heading back to the hotel kitchens to begin preparing your dishes. After a convivial breakfast, tie up your apron and take your place around the work surface. Carving, cooking, dressing... you'll learn the methods and techniques that have made great French cuisine world-famous.

Develop a feel for market produce, prepare a full menu and experience an immersive day alongside a Chef at the Ecole Ritz Escoffier.

Market to table experience - Cooking class in Paris | Ecole Ritz Escoffier

To create a great dish, it's not enough just to master the techniques: you also need to know how to choose the right ingredients. This culinary experience begins in the heart of Marché Président-Wilson, one of the chicest markets in Paris - renowned for its quality produce, gourmet atmosphere and authentic feel.

Once back from the market stalls, it's time to get creative. The session is built around produce selected with the Chef at the market that same morning. Depending on what's available as inspiration, you'll prepare a complete menu: seasonal starter, fish course, meat course and dessert. Each dish is an opportunity to become familiar with the produce involved, learn precise techniques and cooking methods, and master the art of presentation on the plate.

A day in the kitchen

This approach to cooking considers the environment alongside our own senses, letting the ingredients takes the lead role. Fish, vegetable, herb; it’s this, rather than a recipe, that inspires what makes it to the plate. In this course, we'll have access to the reflexes of a great Chef as we learn how to create a dish around a raw product. The market becomes a source of inspiration, drawing attention to the terroir and respecting the rhythm of the seasons. This experience promotes a conscious cuisine centered on local provenance - guided by nature’s cycles, our instincts, and the depth of our exchanges with producers.

Combining culinary excellence and sustainability

Market to table experience

Throughout the year, the Ecole Ritz Escoffier opens its kitchens to guest chefs for exclusive masterclasses. These one-off events are an opportunity to discover a new world, a culinary specialty or a signature style alongside a great name in cuisine or patisserie. Watching our Chef spark off the expert guest really elevates the experience. These small-group classes are aimed at passionate amateurs in search of inspiration, looking to let loose their creativity.

Take part in a masterclass at the Ritz Paris, guided by guest Chefs and instructors from the Ecole Ritz Escoffier.

Masterclass | Ecole Ritz Escoffier

Throughout the year, the Ecole Ritz Escoffier opens its kitchens to guest chefs for exclusive masterclasses. These one-off events are an opportunity to discover a new world, a culinary specialty or a signature style alongside a great name in cuisine or patisserie.

Join the team of Michelin-starred Cheffe Eugénie Béziat for 4 hours for her masterclass at the Ecole Ritz Escoffier. At the Espadon restaurant, she creates instinctive French gastronomic cuisine, finding inspiration in flavors from elsewhere, while drawing on unique culinary instincts, shaped by memories and sensibilities of her youth in Africa and family summers in Provence. This masterclass gives you a privileged behind-the-scenes view as she creates one of her signature dishes. From exploring the subtle balance of flavors to developing your olfactory sense through aromas, you’ll play an active part in bringing the dish to life alongside her. Then comes the tasting, as you share a special moment of conversation with the Cheffe and appreciate the fruits of your labors.

Cooking with Eugénie Béziat, one Michelin star chef

These classes represent a rare opportunity to cook with pros from a wide variety of backgrounds, from Michelin-starred names to renowned pastry chefs and emerging talents. Each shares their own vision, career path and techniques in a spirit of communal openness, as in a kitchen brigade. A dialogue develops between the Chef and the participants, enriched by demonstrations and hands-on practice. We learn what no book can teach: the professional instinct, the rhythm of service and the elegance of correct method.

The savoir-faire of the greats

Melba pastry laboratory

Masterclass with Eugénie Béziat

In cooking as in jewelry-making, it takes precise craft and technical mastery to bring out the best in the raw materials. This exclusive experience explores the profound links between these two meticulous arts, revealing the ethos shared by both Chefs and jewelry artisans. Between gastronomic cuisine and jewelry-making tradition, this unique experience honors the upkeep of two living professions, the passion for tradition and the sheer excellence of the craft.

Experience an immersive day between cuisine and jewelry, alongside a Chef from the Ecole Ritz Escoffier and artisans from L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts

From the Chef to the Master Jeweler - Cooking class in Paris | Ecole Ritz Escoffier

In cooking as in jewelry-making, it takes precise craft and technical mastery to bring out the best in the raw materials. This exclusive experience explores the profound links between these two meticulous arts, revealing the ethos shared by both Chefs and jewelry artisans.

In the morning, push open the doors of the Ecole Ritz Escoffier and tie your Chef's apron for a cooking class with a Ritz Paris Chef. You'll prepare two recipes before sitting down to a tasting: a lunch accompanied by a wine and food pairing, and a dessert by the hotel's Pastry Chef. In the afternoon, head to L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts for an immersion into the world of high-end jewelry making. In the intimacy of the workshops, you'll discover traditional skills such as wax carving, metal cutting and setting. At each stage, passionate jewelers share the traditional expertise that keeps this age-old craft alive. As at the Ritz Paris, the best materials are handled with precision and respect.

Two creative worlds in one day

For Chefs and jewelers alike, everything begins with the skills passed down and meticulously respected. Whether carving, seasoning, and dressing or sawing, filing, and setting - every movement is precise, every raw ingredient subject to fastidious examination. Like the jewelry creations of Van Cleef & Arpels - light, inspired by nature and imbued with movement - the kitchen, too, explores the poetry found in the material world. Edible flowers, delicate knife-cuts, see-though effects: you'll learn how to compose an expressive, balanced and refined plate, inspired by nature and the quality of the raw produce.

A taste for detail

From the Chef to the Master Jeweler

Discover our cooking classes in Paris and choose the workshop that's right for you: patisserie, festive cooking, intensive course or gift card, led by the Chefs of the Ecole Ritz Escoffier.