In Cuisine Lyon runs adult cooking workshops from its Place Bellecour space above the cookbook bookshop, capped at twelve, with seasonal menus and ingredients to take home.
Tip: Workshops require a minimum of four cooks to run; the ground-floor cookbook shop is worth thirty minutes before or after class.
Address: 1 Place Bellecour, 69002 Lyon
Plum Lyon runs Lucy Vanel's five-day immersive French culinary week from a Croix-Rousse silk-worker studio. Six places per session, daily market visits and lunch.
Tip: Spring sessions in April, May and June fill six months ahead; the week includes daily lunch but no dinners or lodging.
Plum Lyon Teaching Kitchen runs the same Lucy Vanel five-day immersive week in summer dates from June through September. Six cooks, Lyonnais bouchon and Mere repertoire.
Tip: Summer dates run late June into early September; the August week sells out first because most Lyon kitchens are closed.
Ecole de Cuisine Gourmets, the Institut Lyfe school on Place Bellecour, runs a full-day Cuisine du Marche class with morning market shop and tasting lunch. Eight cooks.
Tip: Day starts at 8:30 with the chef at the school; lunch with wine pairings is included and a recipe booklet goes home with you.
Ecole de Cuisine Gourmets runs a full-day Cuisine de Grands Chefs class around Paul Bocuse's repertoire: red mullet, sea bass in crust, Bresse chicken with morels, tarte Tatin.
Tip: The afternoon dish goes home in an insulated bag; book the wine-pairing add-on if you want the full Institut Lyfe experience.
L'Atelier Gourmand runs two-hour adult cooking classes in its 3e studio with monthly menus from Asian baos to Lyonnais classics and patisserie, twelve cooks per session.
Tip: Programme drops at the start of each month; classes run daily except 15 August and 25 December and are taught in French, English and Spanish.
