Ten Saturdays in the 11th arrondissement with Inés Lourenço. Twelve cooks around one table. Stocks, markets, dinners that hold while the conversation runs late. The salon ends with a four-course dinner you cook for ten guests of your choosing.
09:30 at the corner of rue d'Aligre. Inés walks the market with you, reading the stalls in the order she has read them since 2014.
Lessons
4
Duration
2h 40m
Live
Sat 14:00 CET
Salon 10 · finished100%
7 minutes free
Salon 11
12
cooks · 4 places restantes
Begins
May 23
Saturdays · 10 weeks
Cooks have come from kitchens at
10 of 64 maisons
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Le menu · IV de X
Four services from ten weeks.
The Salon is built around four services. Each one closes with a dish that goes home with you, and a habit that does too.
Service ISemaine 02
The Stock You Make On Sunday
Three stocks, in batch — chicken, vegetable, fish — that will quietly carry the next eight weeks. Inés walks you through reduction, skimming, and the small Parisian trick of finishing with a lemon peel.
We meet at Marché d'Aligre at 09:30. By 11:00 you will know what is in season, what is being passed off as in season, and which stallholder will let you taste the cheese before you buy.
4 lessons · 2h 40m + market visit
Service IIISemaine 06
Cooking for People Who Talk Too Much
A dinner for eight that you can finish at the table while the conversation keeps going. Three courses that all hold for forty minutes longer than you needed.
6 lessons · 4h 18m
Service IVSemaine 09
Le Repas — your final dinner, hosted by you
On the ninth Saturday, you cook a four-course dinner for ten guests of your choosing in our salon. Inés sits at the end of the table and says little. You do the rest.
Guests
10
Courses
4
Wine
à volonté
What cooks went on to host
Three suppers, three salons.
I
Soraya Mehta — Salon 06 — fortnightly supper club, London
Twelve seats around a long table in Bethnal Green, every other Friday. Soraya credits the stocks week with the unspectacular thing that made her hosting confident — there is always something good in the freezer.
II
Maja Nilsen — Salon 04 — Field Notes College quarterly
Maja's column on Tuesdays at Aligre ran for three issues. The third was reprinted in a small French food magazine that pays in dinners.
III
Rafael Romero — Salon 08 — Adega Quieta, Lisbon
A nine-seat wine bar in Alfama opened by Rafael in November. The opening menu was the same four-course dinner he cooked at his final Salon evening, plus one fish dish he learned at Aligre.
The salon vs cooking alone
You can host a dinner alone. Most home cooks do not, often enough.
Capability
This salon
Going it alone
Cooking from a real Parisian kitchen, weekly
Included
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Marché d'Aligre walk with Inés in week 4
Included
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A printed recipe book from the salon
Included
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Hosting your final dinner for ten
Included
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Hosting six dinner parties in the next year
84%of cooks
12%of solo cooks
From three salons
I had been a confident cook in private and a frightened cook in front of guests for fifteen years. After Salon 06 I host a dinner every other Friday. I do not panic any more, and I do not apologise for the food.
Soraya Mehta
Salon 06 — hosts a fortnightly supper club, London