Avignon Cooking Workshop: Create Gourmet Dishes with an Exceptional Chef
4.5
64 Ratings
Avignon
Join our Avignon Cooking Workshop and learn to create gourmet dishes with an exceptional chef. Explore local products, craft a menu, and cook a delicious lunch. Book now!
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Les Halles d’Avignon - We will discover the covered market (the halls) of Avignon where we will taste some specialties and then go shopping for our preparation with the help of our master chef! Wine and coffee included .. good appetite;)
What's Included
  • Lunch
Meal Options
  • Duck breast
  • Fillet of sea bream
  • Green Tapenade/Black
  • Goat cheese
  • Chocolate fondant
Additional Information

Our culinary journey commences at 9 a.m. with a rendezvous at Cuisine Centr’Halles situated inside Les Halles d’Avignon market. We inaugurate with a market tour to discuss regional produce, sample, and importantly, compile our menu collectively. Following the selection of our ingredients and menu design, we retreat to the kitchen for our tutorial and proceed to cook our lunch. The lunch, including the dishes we’ve prepared, along with water, wine, and coffee is covered. We wrap up the complete experience by 1:30 p.m.

As an enjoyable and lighter option to cooking classes, we also offer cooking demonstrations. These kick off at 9 a.m. with a gathering inside the market at Cuisine Centr’Halles. We start with touring the market and savouring some delicacies from my preferred vendors. We then circle back to the kitchen to whip up my tapenade recipes along with some other regular recipes.

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  • Please inform us if you have any dangerous allergies or a particular alimentary regime?
Location
Les Halles d'Avignon
Place Pie
Cuisine Centr'Halles is located inside the Market. Go down from the parking lot above the market by the stairs or the elevators and you will find us inside the door next to the stairs. Arrive on foot from Place Pie, cross the market and we are behind Painissain.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Matthew_w
Dec 14, 2023
A Great, Fun Time in a Special Location - A very pleasant experience inside the Halles Market, which has an awe-inspiring array of food vendors and is located just steps from the heart of the city. We learned cooking techniques and a lot about the food while we helped the chef prepare our own lunch, and we had the pleasure to have lunch served to us by helpful and courteous staff. Chef John lived in California and his English first-language good. I would recommend doing this early in your stay in Avignon so you gain some comfort in shopping the market and know what to look for.
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D3968jymichaelm
Oct 20, 2023
Enjoyable Workshop Resulting in a Gourmet Meal. - This is an exceptional workshop. People of any skill level can enjoy and participate. Chef Jon is a wealth of knowledge and entertaining. Highly recommended. It was actually one of the highlights of our trip.
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Mary_b
Sep 8, 2023
High quality - The instruction is very high quality and engaging. Ideal location in the market itself. Delicious food.
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Caroline_b
Jul 13, 2023
We loved attending the... - We loved attending the cooking class, the whole family tried everything offered including the kids. Getting to work with the group to make an amazing meal was a blast. Can’t wait to try the recipes at home. Made sure to pick up some of chef’s recommendations to take home.
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Nmcduff
Feb 9, 2024
Fun way to learn some Provençal food preparation with a talented chef - This was a second class with Chef Jonathan and once again the food and experience were fun, entertaining, delicious and educational. There were four in our party and, unfortunately 10 more in the class, too many for the small space. But we all could participate and we learned more from the talented chef. Although it took some prompting to receive the recipes, they have now arrived they will be easy to follow to try our hand at the meal. Recommend giving this class a try and enjoy being in the wonderful food hall.
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Lynnem8900zq
Oct 6, 2023
New ideas - The cooking class was great, I learnt a lot of new tips to get the most success when cooking the dishes. The chef made it fun.
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Phoenixf782
Sep 21, 2023
A well organized chef, but too many people in that size space. - The chef did a very good job at managing the cooking experience. He was a great multi-tasked and gave us quite a lot of interesting information. There were probably too many people in the group and also the space being limited made things somewhat awkward. Perhaps 8 would be a more manageable number. The price seemed on the high side for the number of people involved and quality of ingredients. (we booked two sessions of 7 per session) . There is nowhere to put in 3 1/2 stars but that is where we would rate it. We were grateful to receive the wonderful recipes and they were all things that we would very likely make at home.
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Kim_b
Jun 22, 2023
Fun Food Expérience with Friends - Aside from the difficult parking garage, the workshop presenter (chef) was quite friendly and entertaining. He was familiar with American food culture and did a great job of comparing and contrasting with the culture and food traditions of Provence. The location in the marketplace was also beneficial. The workshop was well organized, the assistant was helpful and friendly. Most of all, the food was scrumptious and we look forward to replicating these recipes at home.
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Michael_m
Jun 11, 2023
Great cooking class - Learning to cook duck, tour of market and tasting of cheeses. Jonathan was very entertaining. We were staying just around the corner from the market.
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Lisaj2u
Oct 22, 2023
Disappointed, after the fact - We absolutely enjoyed our class with Chef Jonathan. He was entertaining, personable and shared techniques. Ours was a class of 8 and any more than that would have been unreasonable. The reason for the 3 star rating is we were promised the recipes, and nearly a month later, we have not received them and have not even received responses to emails. This was a disappointment, as we had hoped to make two of the items while we were here with the fresh ingredients from the market. We leave Avignon tomorrow, sadly, without that opportunity.
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