Lyon Food Tour: Market Visit and Cooking Class

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Join a chef-led market tour and cooking class in Lyon to discover, cook, and savor authentic Lyon specialties. Learn French cooking techniques, explore the local market, and enjoy an authentic Lyon lunch experience.

Duration: 4 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

16 Quai Romain Rolland - Thierry invites you to experience Lyon’s culinary culture and gastronomy the real, local way! Join him on an immersive food tour of the traditional Saint Antoine Market, where you’ll select fresh and local produce for your gourmet cooking class. Mingle with local vendors and get to know your host and fellow guests, before…

What's Included

Explore Saint Antoine Market with a local
Cook your meal with fresh market-bought ingredients
Thierry is a classically-trained French chef
Dine in Thierry’s private workshop
Guests are welcome to BYOB (Bring Your Own Booze)
Lunch

What's Not Included

Alcoholic beverages

Meal Options

Cervelle de caneau - Lyon specialty: cheese spread/dip
Quiche
Chicken Dish - May be chicken bourgignon, mustard chicken, or chicken with a mushroom sauce. Varies by season.
Cheese board
Tarte à la praline

Additional Information

Immerse yourself in Lyon’s vibrant food scene with an exceptional culinary journey led by the charming Chef Thierry. Begin your adventure at the renowned Saint Antoine Market, where you’ll explore stalls filled with seasonal produce and engage with welcoming local vendors. Thierry will assist you in selecting the finest ingredients for an interactive…

Location

16 Quai Romain Rolland

Quai Romain Rolland

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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Bettysk3793gn

Mar 27, 2026

Excellent experience - Excellent experience! The visit to the market was really interesting, with lots of discoveries and good advice. The chef was very friendly and brought a touch of humor that made the moment even more enjoyable. I recommend without hesitation!

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Joseph_b

Nov 23, 2025

Do it if you want to learn French way of cooking. - It is an excellent class with fantastic chef Terrie. We went to a small market on the river bank to pick up freshest veggies. Then, we started with disassembling chicken for three different dishes, fortifying ourselves with good wine. We did soup, chicken breast sou-vide, and chicken with veggies and mushrooms. In parallel we did a praline cookies and a praline tart. Finally, we have a lovely lunch. Through all these steps, Terrie was exceptionally, friendly, funny, and personable. This was our may be tenth cooking class in various trips around the world and in our experience the best and the most instructive.

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Jennie_l

Sep 16, 2025

If you like to cook or... - If you like to cook or eat, this is a not-to-be-missed experience! From the market shopping to the prep to the cooking to the eating, it was a wonderfully organized event by the chef. Well worth the cost for this unique experience. We'd do it again, for sure!

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Eugene_d

Jul 19, 2025

The Lyon Cooking Class with Chef Thierry - Chef Thierry was outstanding! Took us shopping first to get produce for the meal - prepped vegetables when we got back to studio. Then he taught us how to debone a chicken - each pairing got one chicken - we then prepped two chicken dishes - mustard chicken and tarragon, mushroom chicken - then we made pastry dough and 2 apricot almond peach tortes. While everything was cooking and baking we made cookies with the excess pastry dough and then a cold pea soup with a trace of cream

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Karen_b

Jul 2, 2025

Will absolutely recommend - Chef and his class was a major highlight of our trip to Lyon. We learned a lot and he was patient with my poor knife skills. Will absolutely recommend this class.

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Milesv143

Jul 1, 2025

Great intro to French cooking - Thierry designed a very approachable menu for the beginner chef. No technique goes unexplained, and he is always there to swoop in if things look a little off. We made quenelles after touring the market and picking up fresh produce, but things grew to a full 5 course meal over the course of the market tour. Thierry has a ton of experience in a wide variety of cooking environments, I highly encourage you to ask him targeted questions to get the full history and reason why you do certain things in french cooking (he is a dictionary of French cooking, but will focus on the practical matters in class unless you ask). Highly recommend, also took his pastry class.

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Rachel_s

Jul 1, 2025

Must Do Cooking Class Experience!!!!! - This is the ultimate foodie dream experience! Going to the market and step by step instructions by the AMAZING Chef Theirry!! Wow then you get to eat your creation! My husband and I had the best time and have been talking about it ever since! We thought we knew how to break down a chicken… nope! Now we do thanks to Chef! Learning about Lyon and why it’s so special was a bonus! We highly recommend taking time to dip in the authentic Lyon experience with a wonderful human and master Chef! Thank you!

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Swendy5000

Jun 18, 2025

The Chef Gives His All! - We were enthralled by our wonderful experience with the Chef and his studio. First we visited the open air market and selected vegetables for the cooking session. As a part of the market experience, Chef provided us with details of each of the merchants and their specialties. In the studio, we sectioned and boned a chicken, prepared a ratatouille, started a chicken stock, cooked the chicken in ratatouille, prepared a dessert, and then shared the lunch with the Chef. During the preparation, we learned about many techniques and traditions of the city, as well as the difficulties of finding trained restaurant workers in Lyon. If you have the time and opportunity, this is a mini-boot camp for cooks.

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V7150ltjaimev

Jun 5, 2025

Memorable birthday gift with Chef Thierry - My husband surprised me with a cooking experience with Chef Thierry for my birthday. It was supposed to be a couple's session, but the others cancelled so we had his full attention, and what a treat this was!! Chef was punctual, detailed, funny and instructive as we made chicken stock (with hay and shallot skins!!), chicken with mushroom sauce, gougeres and pink praline tarte. Farmer's market visit was entertaining as he provided insightful Lyon tidbits that added context to our visit. We both practiced chicken cutting techniques that would eventually yield delectable and elegant finished product presentations. If you like to cook this is for you.

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John_h

Dec 6, 2025

Feel taken advantage of - Taken advantage of. Nice people but… the chef was busy that day preparing food for a birthday party. He had a substitute lady fill in that told us she had only taught once before. She was not a chef. Nice lady but it was disorganized and unclear what we were doing. We had to ask a couple times what we were actually making. The chef was there in the facility and gave intermittent input to the “fill in”. It would have been better if we knew from the start what items we would be cooking that day. Going to the market was just us following them around while they bought the items. Since we didn’t know what we were making it obviously was less than ideal. Very little interaction in the market or education. The amount we paid for the three of us to take the class was over a thousand euros. Almost 1300 dollars our cost. I feel that the chef just took our money and popped in a substitute to be able to take the money. It was obvious that he just should not have booked a class if he was otherwise occupied. We were not informed of any of the changes prior and we would not have booked if we had been. That was a lot of money for the experience that we were given. Not worth it.

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