🇫🇷 Dublin & Kildare, at your place
A French chef arrives at your door with the shopping already done. You cook a proper French meal in your own kitchen, then you sit down and eat it together.
From €95 per person
One menu, three courses, two and a half hours. The easiest way to find out what a cooking class in your own kitchen actually feels like. You pick a date, I bring everything else.
From €55 per hour
Conversation at your own table with a French teacher who also happens to cook. Beginners welcome, children too. No textbook, no grammar drills, just the French people actually speak.
The two things together: a cooking class that doubles as a French lesson. You learn the recipe and the language it came in. Available on request, and honestly, it is the most fun I have.
Choose a class, or tell me what you want to cook and I will build one around it.
Send a date through the form. You get a confirmation and a payment link. Nothing is charged before the date is agreed.
I buy everything, prep what needs prepping, and turn up with knives, pans and aprons.
Two to three hours at your own counter, hands on the whole way. Then we sit down. I clean up before I leave.
Who is doing the cooking
[À remplacer par la vraie bio de Julien.] Two short paragraphs, first person, plain spoken. Where he learned to cook, why he moved to Ireland, and what he thinks people get wrong about French food. No CV, no list of restaurants. He should sound like someone you would happily have in your kitchen for three hours.
Second paragraph: the move to Maynooth, the local markets and producers he has found, and one honest opinion about Irish butter.
Julien
[Vrai avis client à venir. 2-3 phrases, ton naturel, prénom et quartier.]
[Vrai avis client à venir. Idéalement sur le fait que ça se passe chez soi.]
[Vrai avis client à venir. Idéalement sur les cours de français.]
Choose what you feel like cooking, see the evenings I have free, and hold the date with a deposit. The balance is paid after the class. Weeknights and weekends both work.
or just write to me:
1 Which class
2 Your date
The deposit is taken securely by card and comes off the final price. Free to move or cancel up to 72 hours before the class. Your details are used only to arrange the class — see the privacy notice.
Yes, that is the whole idea. The class happens in your kitchen, with your oven and your hob, which is exactly why what you learn is repeatable. You do not need a big kitchen. If two people can stand at the counter, it works.
A hob, an oven, a sink and a bit of counter space. I bring the ingredients, the knives, the pans and the aprons. If your kitchen is missing something I need, I will have it in the car.
Two to four people for most classes, and up to eight for the group menus. Below two it starts to feel like a lesson rather than an evening, and above eight nobody gets their hands in the bowl.
Yes. Tell me on the booking form and I will build the menu around it. Vegetarian, gluten free and dairy free menus are all straightforward, and French cooking is far more flexible than its reputation suggests.
Maynooth and the rest of Kildare, Dublin city and the surrounding suburbs, and anywhere within about 45 minutes of Maynooth at no extra cost. Further afield is possible, just ask.
Yes, and it is one of the more popular reasons people get in touch. Vouchers are valid for a year, and the person receiving it picks the menu and the date.
