Learn or perfect your culinary skills with a Michelin-star cookery course

During this all-inclusive 7-day break, your accommodation is a beautifully renovated stone barn with stunning views of sunflower fields and the distant Pyrenees. Our elegant ensuite bedrooms all have AC units. Abundant breakfasts, lunches and dinners with wine are de rigeur. There is a tennis court and swimming pool.

Your creative time in the kitchen will be divided between our two chefs, who both trained in glitzy Michelin-star restaurants in Paris and then gained impressive professional global reputations.
Jean-Marc Boyer has guested at numerous prestigious restaurants internationally, including that of the world-renowned Alain Ducasse in New York – who, in 2006, officially lauded Jean-Marc as a young chef destined for culinary stardom. In less than a year his restaurant near Carcassonne was first awarded its Michelin star.

For the past 15 years Jean-Marc has taken time off from his restaurant to tutor our residential courses – and occasionally he also gets called to Paris to cook for President Macron!

Remi Touja’s excellence as a young patisserie chef was perfected at numerous Michelin-star restaurants throughout France. His passion and creativity led to his being named national French Dessert Champion in 2013, when he won the much-sought-after Sucre D’Or patisserie prize – France’s top award for pastry-chefs.

 In 2016 he realised his entrepreneurial dream by opening what has become a most renowned patisserie shop in the centre of the city of Carcassonne. Says Remi: “When I imagine patisserie, I do everything I can to create emotion, pleasure and new sensations, and for that we must continually innovate.”

As well as spending time with our chefs, guests are also taken out to a restaurant for dinner or lunch, to a local market, a vineyard for wine tastings and a visit to a local artisan food producer. We usually also arrange a two-hour hands-on session with a chocolatier.

Course dates, 2025: Saturday 3 May – Friday 9 May, and Saturday 20 Sept – Friday 26 Sept

What Clients Say:

“You always get value for money at The French House Party. This amount of time with such an experienced chef is not easy to find anywhere without massive expense … there were two brilliant chefs and an amazing chocolatier. If you ever fancy doing something a bit different then give it a go, I went once and keep returning – it’s so much fun.’” Jules Rolfe, UK

“Oh my word, this experience is fantastic! ‘Wow!’ is all I can say. The instruction, the camaraderie, the food – all so incredible! If you have any doubts, cast them aside and do this, you will not regret it! Cool moment as well when Macron’s personal chef called Jean-Marc and asked if he could come and cook for Macron … while we were all standing there. Pretty cool!”  Ronald G, Switzerland.

Contact:

Phone: 0044 (0)7900 322791

Email: frenchhouseparty@gmail.com