My husband and I recently participated in a Morning Market Class and I can't say enough great things about the time we had! Our chef, Alex, was awesome! He started the 6 hour experience with us by shopping together in the markets for ingredients for our meal (for which we specified what we'd like to eat.) There were seven students in the class in all. The preparing of the food / cooking was such a great time. We all learned a lot and had a lot of fun. Plus, everything was, of course, delicious. This was certainly one of our favorite experiences in Paris. I would definitely recommend this class. It's not cheap but, in my opinion, it's definitely worth it. read more

Cook'n with Class has been one of our favorite parts of our trip to Paris! We took the croissant making class and we made four different types: original, chocolate, raisin, and apple. The recipes and directions were emailed to us directly in the beginning of class so we could make them again at home. They all were so delicious as we enjoyed them with wine at the end of the class- and even got to take home a huge bag of leftovers afterwards! Chef Alex was friendly and funny; he explained and answered every and any question we had about Paris culture and cuisine. He even gave us great recommendations of local restaurants and bars to try. If we had more time in Paris, we definitely would take another cooking class. Thanks so much, Alex! read more

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After 5 days walking around Paris, I was completely exhausted. There's only so much my little feet could take of walking around the (amazing!) city. I signed up for this class so that I could relax while having a unique experience. I'm so glad I did! Chef Alex was friendly, funny and talented in the kitchen and was a pleasure to be around. The company was great, the food was delicious, and I got to try lots of new food. Highly recommended! read more

This was a great experience and I would definitely recommend it to friends, as it was recommended to me by friends. Chef Alex's knowledge of French food and technique, and his relationship with our amazing food vendors, made the market tour so enjoyable. I learned a ton. We designed and cooked an amazing meal. It was also great to enjoy it over wine with classmates from all over the world. Delicious. One great option at Cook'n with Class is that you can invite a guest for the meal. So for a much lesser price, your friend/husband/etc can enjoy the meal and wine without the full commitment of doing the class. read more

Fantastic macaron class and market class! Loved every moment of it! Ariana taught the macaron class and we were so happy to make four different types! All turned out perfectly and we were able to taste and still have enough to take home! Patrick took us around the market showing us how to choose the freshest fish and ingredients, teaching about different cheeses and asking us what we would like for dinner! Went back to prepare and cook our meal! Enjoyed our best meal in Paris with country pate and wine to start, a sea bass appetiser then veal with mushrooms in creamy delectable sauce, an assortment of 6 different cheeses with more wine, and finishing with chocolate soufflé with berries! Lasted over 9 hours for both classes! Do not miss this place when in Paris! I look forward to being able to return!! read more

Twenty seven stars! Chef Alex came to our Parisian home this evening and cooked the most amazing and delicious meal for our large family. Some of us said it was "the most wonderful meal it have had in Paris". Coordinating between Paris and Los Angeles in advance, and managing some significant dietary and preferential meal requirements was a breeze with this gracious gentleman. We truly are not worthy, non the less we are eternally grateful! read more

I had a great time with the morning market class. Chef Brian showed the group and I (limited to 6) a few gourmet market stalls and cheese shops, which I wouldn't have otherwise approached, while learning nuances of what to look for and how to pair flavours (ex, best serving order and a few presentations for a cheese tasting). WE pieced together a menu of what we'd like to experience of all the seasonal food and headed off to make it. The cooking was all hands on, spaced out with a few nicely timed appetizers, and all the courses came out extremely well. I highly recommend it, and recommend getting reservations early as it books fast. read more

Chef Pino Ficara is awesome! I attended the French desserts class at www.cooknwithclass.com with Chef Pino and I learned so much. I thought my creme brulee was the best since I lived in New Orleans and had a French grandmother. He took time to explain some important steps and show techniques to improve our skills. I love it and can not wait to take more classes when I return to Paris. read more

I took the bread baking class with my Mother, and we had such a great experience! We created baguettes, fougasse, and brioche, all hands on. Questions were encouraged, and led to some great discoveries in bread baking. We can't wait to get home and try some of the techniques in our own kitchens. read more

The morning market class with Chef Alex was absolutely fantastic. The group picked the menu by consensus "on the fly" and Alex was able to create an amazing menu. Alex is a wealth of knowledge on food and as a result, I learned so much at the market on how to select food. Alex is also a great teacher. If you enjoy cooking, this class is a must do while in Paris! read more

We just completed the morning market class and honestly this was one of the highlights in our stay in Paris. The market was excellent , amazing seafood, meats, cheeses , fruits,and vegetables, but the chef makes all the difference. After deciding the menu we returned and made the most amazing 4 course meal. I love to cook and this really took it to a whole new level. Very fun and instructional without being cold or impersonal. Seriously fun ! Add lots of wine and cheese and it's an amazing day In Paris. And the location it's bad at all ,very cute and authentic. You will love it!!!!! read more

Time well spent. Chef Patrick is an experienced and excellent instructor. He knows the ingredients and preparation methods. He is also very patient with klutzes like myself who have a lot to learn about kitchen procedures. I highly recommend Cook'n With Class! read more

This is an Awesome all Day Cooking Class with Master Chef Brian Defehr. This is our second time doing this, when visiting Paris, France. We started the day by shopping at local market to purchase meats, vegetables, fruits and cheeses. Then we went back to the modern cooking class, where we learned how to cook a delicious 4 course meal. We highly recommend doing this as a family! read more

I did this class with my two teenage daughters and it was well worth it. You will learn a tremendous amount about baking and have a great deal of fun. Our instructor, Sara, was patient and extremely competent, a true professionally trained chef. We made baguettes, cinnamon rolls and a host of other baked goods, you will come away with a true appreciation for art of baking and a nice bag of fresh made goodies. read more

Had a fantastic time at the Evening Market Class with Chef Patrick. It was so much better than what I was expecting. First we went to the market and it was so great learning about the way of choosing the best produce. Later we went back to start cooking and it was a lot of fun, Chef Patrick was entertaining and was a true expert. I never took a cooking class before, so I cannot compare it to any other but going to this one with Patrick is definitely a great way of spending your time in Paris and learning about French cooking. read more

COOK'N WITH CLASS was a wonderful Parisian experience! The first class we took, Market Class, was fabulous. The chef instructor, Alex, is a very talented chef, people skilled and patient. We shopped at local markets, learned about the many fresh food rules in France, and discussed our options for the meal the 6 members in our class prepared. We prepared a complete meal with several courses including dessert! It was a delicious experience. The Dessert and Baking classes were two separate classes each taught by Pino Facara, another talented and knowledgeable chef. He demonstrated and taught us how to prepare about 12 different desserts between the two classes. One class consisted of five members, the other only four members. These were hands-on classes. We did all the preparation ourselves, with Chef Pino guiding us. He highlighted fundamentals used in baking and dessert preparations. For me, learning how to prepare and assemble croissants was the best! I learned so much from both these chefs. My sister and I were in these classes just before Thanksgiving. We got a tip from Chef Pino about preparing apple pie filling. I prepared my apple filling as suggested. On Thanksgiving Day, my 40-year-old son said it was the best apple pie I had ever made! That comment made my day. If you want hands on cooking, gaining a wealth of knowledge, mastering cooking skills and lots of fun, you will experience all of that when you participate in COOK'N WITH CLASS. Submitted by: Corky K., Manchester, New Hampshire read more

I recently took the Morning Market Cooking Class with Chef Constance and it was such a fantastic experience. We all had a lot of fun and we learned a lot. Chef Constance shared with us some really great tips and advice on how to recognize the top vendors in the market, and then how to select the best and freshest ingredients. I did a lot of research before booking this class and I even took a market cooking class a few days later with one of Cook'n With Class's competitors, and I had a much better experience with Cook'n With Class. No doubt. The class size was perfect (not too big, not too small) and Chef Constance did a great job keeping everyone engaged and even entertained. The facility was very well designed. Top-notch and very clean. It was easy to work, easy to see, easy to hear, and the design helped facilitate conversation and camaraderie. We had easy access to drinking water and wine, and a nice coffee station. Chef Constance had a great rapport with the class and she had an excellent way of sharing her very impressive experiences and expertise. We all had plenty of food and it was absolutely delicious, as was the wine. A special shout-out to the class. One of our group had some challenges with motor skills, and everyone in the class was super understanding, supportive, encouraging, and truly compassionate. This class attracts some incredibly friendly, great people. And that's exactly what I was hoping for. I will definitely book again. Definitely. Solid 5-stars, plus! read more

My girlfriend and I took the French Desserts Class with Emanuelle Gombert while on vacation in Paris. We thoroughly enjoyed learning how to make Creme Brulee, Frozen Grand Marnier Soufle, Tarte Tatin, Financier, and Chocolate Lava Cake! The class size was great (just 6 of us), and Emanuelle was quite friendly and knowledgeable about all things pastry! She even sent us all the recipes via email directly after the class ended. Next time we're in Paris we'll most likely take another class at Cook'n With Class! read more

Finest cooking experience, excellent value. From shopping in the market to menu selection and 5 courses! Extraordinary and refined experience. Brilliant organization. Class size small,most delicious meal we had in Paris. read more

My wife and I took the market class today with Chef Alex and had a great time! Alex is patient, knowledgeable, funny, and a great teacher, and really took the time to teach us about all the parts of the meal. Our meal was delicious and everything was included (a little pricey, but much less so when you consider how high quality the ingredients are, all of which are included in the course fee). Highly recommended! read more

This place provided the most interesting time I spent in Paris. Learning to make macaroons and pain au chocolate is something I will use often. It is a little more expensive than most cooking classes you find in the states but the experience is well worth it! Plus being "hands on" is far superior to sitting in a demonstration class watching someone else perform the work. read more

Great experience. Signed up for the macaron class and enjoyed it so much that I ended up coming back and taking the Bread class as well. Had a great time. Teachers were very knowledgable. All of the staff was just lovely and very helpful. They recommended places to eat, shop and purchase kitchenware. Will definitely take another class the next time that I am in Paris. read more

Alex, our chef teacher, was fabulous and taught us a lot. He sent us the recipes so hopefully we can re-create them at home. He made the class fun and there are lots of hands-on-opportunity. It is pricey, but well worth it. This is the second class we've taken (the other being the pastry class) and they have both been great. read more

We took the morning market class in April 2012. Chef Constance met up with us and the rest of the group. She is adorable! Funny, sweet, and a really awesome chef. She took us around to the little shops to gather ingredients for our meal. We had a great time talking to her and getting to know the other group members. We tasted the elements of our meals and learned some good tips and tricks. It started around 9 am and we left around 2pm I think. We had such a blast. I would definitely take another class at the school. It was a wonderful experience and I encourage others to give it a shot. If I'm ever in Paris again, I will definitely be signing up for a different class. Maybe the macaroon class :) The food we made tasted fabulous and it was very fulfilling. Take the class, you won't regret it. read more

The Morning Market Class with Chef Alex was a completely wonderful experience. The shops we visited for fresh ingredients were beyond any here in the US. Cheese, meat, fish, fresh produce shops were filled with exquisite goods. Alex knew all the shop-keepers and got the choicest ingredients. The students chose all the types of ingredients and Alex turned our selections into a fabulous meal. It was amazing and fun. Even a very inexperienced cook would be at ease with what Cook"n With Class has to offer. read more

Just returned from Paris where I spent a week. While there my daughter, alex and I took the market class with Chef Patrick and had one of our best nights in Paris! We shopped in all the little shops or the food we would cook for the evening. Patrick explained in every shop we went to what we were looking for from the huge selections of cheeses to the butchers. The class itself was fun, meh allowed us to observe as much as we wanted o be as involved as we wanted to. Our food was the best I had the whole week in Paris! My husband joined us for the meal and was amazed what we accomplished. I highly recommend this class. Lots of fun yet I learned so much. read more

Second time coming and being taught to cook the French way. This time it was desserts. Great teaching and friendliness by Florien, who went through 5 classic desserts. Overall very well done and enjoyable. read more

If you go to Paris, your trip is not complete unless you experience a market/cooking class at Cook'n With Class. Chef Constance Deledalle met us at the Metro station and we experienced shopping in the various shops for the ingredients that we would need to cook our dinner. Back at the cooking school, she guided us through all the preparations, chopping, weighing and the mixing needed to prepare our dinner. Constance was a wonderful teacher who you can tell right away loves her job and loves to cook. She gave us plenty of tips to use when we got back home. The meal we prepared was fabulous and we had such a great time sharing the meal with our chef and other class members. I'm absolutely planning on taking another class on my next trip to Paris!!!! read more

My 14 year old daughter and I started our month-long European adventure with the "Week in Paris Package". Our first two classes, bread making and baking classes with Pino, set us on a course with great experiences and delicious food. Pino was a wonderful teacher and we were active participants every minute of each 3 hour class. Every morning of our week long stay in Paris we enjoyed our own brioche, pain au chocloat, and croissants as well as snacked on our fresh baguettes and fougasse with cheese we purchased at a local market. We loved it and can't say enough good things to convince others to sign up too! read more

I did three classes last weekend - the evening market class, the baking class and the desserts class. Pino and Constance were excellent chefs and instructors and definitely knew what they were talking about - I learned so much in one weekend! The small class sizes were great, allowing for everyone to have a go at each stage of the cooking/baking process. We got to enjoy what we had produced at the end of each class and took home what was left over! Constance and Pino were both very friendly and created a fun atmosphere. They also emailed the recipes so I can have a go at recreating what we made at home! Taking these classes was worth every penny I paid, and definitely a highlight of my trip to France! read more

This is a must when you go to Paris. What a wonderful way to spend a day with family and friends. It started at the fresh markets where Constance explained all the foods to us, then we headed back to the kitchen where we learned to cook a delicious healthy meal. The evening was topped off with dinner, wine, great cheeses and conversation with our sensational chef and her assistant. I can not say enough about our experience with this company. read more

One of the most exciting and fun things I've ever done in Paris was to take a French Desserts cooking class with Chef Constance Deledalle, at Cookin' With Class. I don't like to cook but love to eat, especially French desserts, so I took a chance that I could learn to make a few French classics. Constance is the consummate professional chef, as well as a great teacher! She is charming, friendly, speaks perfect English, and makes the two hour class both informative and convivial. Sadly, the time seemed to fly by! She explains many of the tricks of French cooking (ex. why sweet butter, not salted for most recipes) and gives the background on each dessert (how "financiers" came into being!), as well as providing the students with excellent technical cooking advice. She gave us the names of resources for purchasing some of the equipment we used, such as silicone pans. She knows everyone's name right away, and engages with each student on a warm individual level. She demonstrates the proper presentation of each dessert, and encourages everyone to eat the results of their efforts at the end of class. I highly recommend this unique experience for anyone who wants to learn to cook the French way from an amazing chef, and have a memorable time doing it! read more

On Wednesday, June 27th our family had the most incredible experience that I would highly recommend. For many of us, it was the highlight of our trip! At 5:00 we met our amazing chef/instructor at the metro station in Montmarte. Constance took us shopping -- we went to a cheese shop and learned all about the different types of cheese, a meat store, a fish store, a produce and fruit store and a bakery. Learning about how the french shop and think about food was quite an experience. Constance was really informative and fun. Then we went to the well equipped Cooking with Class site -- there was another class going on in a neighboring room - we had our own knives and aprons and area -- we all prepared the food and received amazing instruction. The dinner was so good. Several courses and a cheese course with wine. The food was fabulous -- not only did we prepare the food, we learned about plating and got to plate our own. It was such an experience -- I cannot recommend it enough -- Constance was amazing! She also sent us copies of all the recipes via email so we can make it again! read more

The bread baking class with Chef Patrick at Cooking with Class was the highlight of my Paris trip. The baguettes we made were the best I ate during my entire two-week Paris visit. I have previously made brioche, but making "puff brioche" using the same laminating technique as puff pastry was a delicious revelation. Chef Patrick is an outstanding instructor. Clearly he is a knowledgeable professional sharing expert tips and insights on technique. I consider myself an experienced baker while another student was a beginning baker, and Chef Patrick did an excellent job of working with us at the appropriate level. Beyond his expertise, Chef Patrick also has a delightful and charming demeanor; I genuinely had fun working alongside him. If I'm fortunate enough to make a return visit to Paris, I'll also be taking another Cooking with Class course. Armed with the provided recipes and my copious notes, I look forward to trying the breads at home. read more

A group of girlfriends and I recently visited Paris for 10 days. Our group ranged in age from 50's down to our daughters at 20 and we all had different cooking skill levels. I carefully researched and planned activities for each day. Each one of us overwhelmingly rated Chef Alex's Cooking class our favorite! Plan your day with a trip to Sacre Couer and surrounding area then head up to the market area to begin your shopping with the Chef. We visited each market..cheese, meats, fish, produce, bread.....as the French would do and learned so much at each stop! Alex is a native American so if you are English speaking, he will be very easy to understand! Alex knew all of the neighborhood vendors and we were welcomed at each shop. What we gleaned was invaluable! We chose our menus, collected the ingredients and then walked to the Cook n with Class facility which was perfect. Yes wear comfortable shoes and clothes for cooking. This was very hands on..we each were assigned tasks thoughout the preparation of the meal. The wine flowed and the fun even moreso. We created one of the most delicious meals we had in all of Paris and returned home with such great memories of the night! Chef Alex made it fun fun fun and yet we learned so much. He was patient with all our questions and helped us with adaptations for our home cooking. Still dreaming of the delcious french strawberries! You could easily do the class with your own group or you could join in alone as the goups are small..we had 6. Dont miss this on yur trip to Paris..we will do it again! read more

I attended the Advanced Baking class taught by Chef Pino Ficara. The menu consisted of making mille-feuille napoleon with French pastry cream, pear almond Christmas log with pear pastry cream from pear puree, baba au rum (yeast based cake filled with cream and soaked in rum), gateau noisette (chocolate cake) with a pate de praline and chocolate mousse layer. Don't let the fancy names and your beginner's French deter you from this class--Pino's approachable style heralds from his international culinary experiences from Italy, New York and France. A visual chart with recipe names and ingredients is rehearsed in stages at the start of class before culinary production. Pino focused on techniques--exactly what I needed, and an excellent refresher course for any experienced baker--and explained practical tips which will change the way you look at recipes at home. Authentic ingredients were tasted, and appropriate substitutions were discussed. My only regret is that I only took one class! Pino is a gem who skillfully incorporates proper technique with a down-to-earth teaching style. read more

I have just finished the "week in Paris" cooking course and I cannot recommend it enough! It includes a market tour and cooking class, 2 baking classes, a macaron class and a dessert class. I think I'm still full from all the delicious treats we made! The chefs were not only very professional but also friendly and I felt like we learnt so much from them. They offered us information that cannot be gathered from guidebooks such as what to look out for when choosing a boulangerie to buy bread. The chefs were keen for us to get as much out of the classes as possible and made sure that everything was prepared beforehand so that no class time was wasted with prep. We were given tips on how to do things at home and shortcuts to help our cooking and baking techniques. From the welcome at the front desk to those who helped clear up after us, everyone there made you feel welcome. Whatever we couldn't eat was neatly packaged and taken home. I am definitely going to try some of their other classes! read more

My mother and I spent out last week in Paris at Cook'n with Class 13-16 Apr 2015! We registered for the one week course and cannot express enough what a fabulous experience we had. The classes are structured in such a way to be fun, but at the same time gain experience, tips from the expert chefs, and to give each participant an appreciation and lessons in French cooking. There are many cooking classes out there from very expensive to you get what you pay for. Cook'N with Class was moderately priced and worth every euro. Cook'n with Class offered intimate and small settings (no more than 5-6 per class) with expert chefs facilitating each class. The classes were filled with information, hands on cooking, and great tips and techniques; not to mention you get plenty to eat or take home with you. If you have a full week of mornings or afternoons available; I highly recommend a week course to truly obtain the full experience from cooking delicious 4 course meals, bistro desserts, bread making, and marcarons. Don't eat out at pricey French restaurant; take a cooking class with Cook'n with Class! Well worth every minute and what a great experience to bring back! read more