Lyon: French Pastry Class with Chef Thierry & Take-Home Treats

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1/11

Duration3h

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN · FR

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You'll Walk in Hungry, Leave with a Box of Pastries You Made Yourself

You'll spend an afternoon learning to make French pastries from a professional chef in his private Lyon workshop, including macarons, éclairs, and the city's signature pink praline tart. Thierry teaches you his insider techniques while you work, provides drinks, and you take home everything you bake. The full address arrives on your confirmation voucher before you go.

Step-by-step itinerary

French pastry making with Chef Thierry

Meet Chef Thierry in Lyon
Learn about pastry ingredients
Receive insider baking tips
Make classic French pastries
Prepare tart with pink pralines
Make macarons and éclairs
Enjoy juice, tea, or coffee
Take home your pastries

The Experience

Most cooking classes end with you eating what someone else prepared. This one flips that around — you spend an afternoon in Thierry's private workshop in central Lyon, hands in the dough, learning to shape macarons, pipe cream into éclairs, and build the Paris-Brest with caramelized almonds. Thierry's been teaching in this 15th-century building for years, and he moves between stations with the kind of ease that comes from doing this every day, stopping to show you where people usually slip up and how to fix it before it matters.

The pastries you'll make depend on what Thierry decides that day, but you're looking at classics: the traditional Lyon tart with pink pralines (the ones that make the city famous), chocolate éclairs, macarons if the humidity cooperates, or the Paris-Brest — that ring of choux pastry with praline cream and toasted almonds that looks harder than it is once someone shows you the trick. He'll hand you a cold glass of juice, tea or coffee while you work, and if you want to bring your own wine or beer, that's fine too. The whole thing runs as long as it needs to — no clock watching, no rushing through the last batch.

What makes this different from a group class in a commercial kitchen is the scale and the space. It's Thierry's atelier, not a teaching studio, so there's room to move and he can actually watch what your hands are doing. He's funny about it too — the description says he's easygoing, and that matters when you're trying to get the consistency right on your third attempt and you need someone who won't make you feel rushed. By the end, everything you've made goes into a box to take home, which is the part people don't forget — showing up with pastries you actually made yourself.

What’s included

Your afternoon includes entry to Thierry's private atelier in central Lyon, all ingredients for the pastries you'll make, juice, tea and coffee throughout the class, insider baking tips and techniques from a professional chef, and everything you bake packaged to take home.

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Is this one for you?This suits anyone who wants to learn pastry-making from someone who actually does it for a living, without the formality of a commercial cooking school or the awkwardness of a group full of strangers — Thierry's space and teaching style make it feel like you're learning in his kitchen, not attending a class.