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Learn or perfect your culinary skills with two award winning internationally acclaimed master chefs in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere. Stay in a beautifully renovated stone barn with lovely gardens and a swimming pool.
2026 Dates:
9th - 15th May **Special Offer 50% off** based on two people sharing a room. Was £1,974 per person. Now £987 per person.
12th - 18th September
If this date doesn't suit, our host can accommodate other date requests (minimum 6 people)
Read MoreLearn or perfect your culinary skills with two award winning internationally acclaimed master chefs in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere. Stay in a beautifully renovated stone barn with lovely gardens and a swimming pool.
2026 Dates:
9th - 15th May **Special Offer 50% off** based on two people sharing a room. Was £1,974 per person. Now £987 per person.
12th - 18th September
If this date doesn't suit, our host can accommodate other date requests (minimum 6 people)
On this residential cookery course your time in the kitchen will be divided between our two chefs. As young men, both trained in glitzy Michelin* restaurants in Paris and 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 – where in 2006 he was officially lauded as a young chef destined for culinary stardom. Jean-Marc now has his own Michelin-star restaurant near Carcassonne, and each year he takes time off to tutor our residential courses – he has also been called to Paris, on occasion, to cook for President Macron.
Remi’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. An explosion of different flavours in the mouth, one after the other, together with a joyful melee of textures!”
If you enjoy cooking you will have an amazing time learning from our two superb chefs, we will also take you on outings to wonderful local restaurants, the French market, vineyard wine tastings and visiting local artisan food producers.
We don’t like to boast, but it is quite true that from the sumptuous breakfast spread with freshly-baked croissants, to the quiches and pastries at lunchtime and the lavish four – and sometimes five – courses at dinner, with each course accompanied by our choices of local wines, our gourmet spreads are always voted outstanding by guests.
Not only do our superb chefs provide gourmet meals but a dinner and a lunch with wine at superior restaurants are included, along with a private wine-tasting at an excellent nearby vineyard.
*From price based on two people sharing a room.
