Cooking Classes

Our cooking classes are designed for anyone who wants to cook, from the beginner to the more experienced home chef. Students will expand skills and knowledge, learn new techniques, and gain confidence in the kitchen. Our focus is on encouraging enthusiasm for food and love of cooking within the menu structure of a complete meal, which everyone enjoys together at the end of class.

Cancellation policy: Classes are not refundable, but you can reschedule if we are notified at least 3 business days prior to the class you have signed up for. If you find you can not make it to a class at the last minute, please consider finding someone to take your place. In signing up for class, you acknowledge that you have read this policy.

Please Note: Alcoholic beverages may not be brought to regularly scheduled classes.

If you see a class that you like but it’s not offered on a date when you are available, private classes for 2 or more people can be organized at a date that works for you.  Check out our Private Events page here. In addition, custom menus can be created in consultation with the chef. Email us for more information at: info@mietteculinarystudio.com

August 2026

Sunday, August 9th

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

Saturday, August 15th

    Classique! French Country Cooking

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

Bring a bit of France to your kitchen with four fantastique French recipes taught by Chef Paul. 

You’ll start off by making a mesclun salad with a blend of arugula, leafy lettuces and endive topped with Chef Paul’s No-Fail vinaigrette (you will use this recipe forever, je vous assure). For the main course you’ll prepare a classic Cornish hen – a great substitue for a whole roasted chicken, and with a shorter cooking time – with a versatile paprika rub. To accompany this, you’ll prepare Chef Paul’s favorite French scalloped potatoes. For dessert, whip up a dreamy raspberry soufflé (oui, mon ami, you can do this) completely from scratch.

Mesclun salad with Chef Paul’s no-fail French vinaigrette dressing
Roasted Cornish hen with garlic paprika rub
Scalloped potatoes made with milk, cream, and fresh nutmeg
Raspberry soufflé

Saturday, August 22nd

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

Sunday, August 30th

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

September 2026

Saturday, September 12th

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

Sunday, September 13th

    Classique! French Country Cooking

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

Bring a bit of France to your kitchen with four fantastique French recipes taught by Chef Paul. 

You’ll start off by making a mesclun salad with a blend of arugula, leafy lettuces and endive topped with Chef Paul’s No-Fail vinaigrette (you will use this recipe forever, je vous assure). For the main course you’ll prepare a classic Cornish hen – a great substitue for a whole roasted chicken, and with a shorter cooking time – with a versatile paprika rub. To accompany this, you’ll prepare Chef Paul’s favorite French scalloped potatoes. For dessert, whip up a dreamy raspberry soufflé (oui, mon ami, you can do this) completely from scratch.

Mesclun salad with Chef Paul’s no-fail French vinaigrette dressing
Roasted Cornish hen with garlic paprika rub
Scalloped potatoes made with milk, cream, and fresh nutmeg
Raspberry soufflé

Sunday, September 20th 

    Traditional Italian: A Little Italy Menu

12:00pm – 3:00pm
$135.00

Welcome to Little Italy! In this class you’ll go all-Italian with a delicious menu of Caesar salad, gnocchi, and sorbetto. Come enjoy the great vibe of this neighborhood, and make a great Italian meal to remember it by.

The joy of the Caesar salad is all in this divine dressing, which is both creamy and piquant. Working in groups, Chef Paul will show you how to create perfectly pillowy gnocchi completely from scratch.  You’ll learn how to mix, roll, slice and boil restaurant-style gnocchi, which you’ll prepare alongside a tasty tomato vodka sauce that pairs with it beautifully. As a final touch, you’ll make a refreshing fruit (sometimes raspberry, sometimes strawberry basil) sorbet for dessert.

Caesar salad and dressing
Potato gnocchi
Tomato vodka sauce
Seasonal fruit sorbet

October 2026

Saturday, October 3rd 

   Best of Bistro: an International Tasting Menu

12:00pm – 3:00pm
$135.00

Join us for our first bistro class of the season! This class is offered once a month from October to March.

International Bistro-style: a little bit French, a little bit Austrian, a little bit Italian. Learn these classic bistro dishes with recipes created by Chef Paul, and make a hearty 4-course meal that brings the bistro to you from around the world.

First, you’ll construct a tasty panzanella salad with bread, tomatoes and Chef Paul’s signature no-fail vinaigrette (you will use this recipe forever). Then you’ll work on the main course; a stroganoff of crispy chicken thighs served over a medley of vegetables cooked in red wine sauce. Love dumplings? In this class you’ll learn to make spaetzle, a specialty of Alsace and Switzerland. Using a classic spaetzle maker, Chef Paul will teach you this authentic dumpling recipe, which pairs beautifully with the vino-infused stroganoff.  A fruity, palate-pleasing sorbet rounds off this delicious meal.

Panzanella salad with no-fail vinaigrette
Stroganoff of baked chicken thighs with red wine, bacon, and mushrooms
Traditional spaetzle (dumplings)
Raspberry sorbet 

Saturday, October 10th

    Italian Classics for the Modern Vegan

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

On this Columbus Day weekend, join us in creating a no-meat, no dairy Italian meal. This menu of Italian classics has been transformed into a vegan feast. In this class you will learn how to make vegan counterparts to these well-loved dishes, without losing the flavors and textures that make them so popular.

You will start out by building a new kind of Caesar salad, one that uses tahini and garlic, cider vinegar and a touch of nutritional yeast to make a creamy and delicious dressing. Then you will make the risotto, and Chef Paul will share his tips for creating a fabulous vegetable stock, a staple of many vegan dishes. This menu includes a tasty carrot miso spread, served over toasted and sliced baguette, and fresh and cool raspberry sorbet.

Caesar salad with a tahini-based Caesar dressing
Butternut Squash Risotto
Carrot Cashew Miso Spread
Basil Raspberry Sorbet

Friday, October 16th

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

6:00pm -9:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

Sunday, October 18th

    Classique! French Country Cooking

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

Bring a bit of France to your kitchen with four fantastique French recipes taught by Chef Paul. 

You’ll start off by making a mesclun salad with a blend of arugula, leafy lettuces and endive topped with Chef Paul’s No-Fail vinaigrette (you will use this recipe forever, je vous assure). For the main course you’ll prepare a classic Cornish hen – a great substitue for a whole roasted chicken, and with a shorter cooking time – with a versatile paprika rub. To accompany this, you’ll prepare Chef Paul’s favorite French scalloped potatoes. For dessert, whip up a dreamy raspberry soufflé (oui, mon ami, you can do this) completely from scratch.

Mesclun salad with Chef Paul’s no-fail French vinaigrette dressing
Roasted Cornish hen with garlic paprika rub
Scalloped potatoes made with milk, cream, and fresh nutmeg
Raspberry soufflé

Saturday, October 24th

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

Sunday, October 25th 

    Traditional Italian: A Little Italy Menu

12:00pm – 3:00pm
$135.00

Welcome to Little Italy! In this class you’ll go all-Italian with a delicious menu of Caesar salad, gnocchi, and sorbetto. Come enjoy the great vibe of this neighborhood, and make a great Italian meal to remember it by.

The joy of the Caesar salad is all in this divine dressing, which is both creamy and piquant. Working in groups, Chef Paul will show you how to create perfectly pillowy gnocchi completely from scratch.  You’ll learn how to mix, roll, slice and boil restaurant-style gnocchi, which you’ll prepare alongside a tasty tomato vodka sauce that pairs with it beautifully. As a final touch, you’ll make a refreshing fruit (sometimes raspberry, sometimes strawberry basil) sorbet for dessert.

Caesar salad and dressing
Potato gnocchi
Tomato vodka sauce
Seasonal fruit sorbet

November 2026

Sunday, November 1st

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

Saturday, November 7th

The Classic Coq au Vin

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

Join us for our first Coq au Vin class of the season! We will offer this class once a month through February.

We’ll start off this wonderful, aromatic French menu with a classic Caesar salad (the dressing will knock your chausettes off). Then you’ll gather round to learn the classic method of preparing coq au vin, a flavorful chicken dish cooked in wine sauce. The secret, as with many French recipes, is in the sauce (hint: there will be bacon). We serve it the traditional way, with a baguette (who knew?).  To round out this meal, you’ll prepare a did-I-do-that? perfectly yummy French soufflé with chocolate sauce. Vive la France!

Caesar salad with Chef Paul’s no-fail Caesar dressing
Classic coq au vin with homemade garlic croutons
Raspberry soufflé with chocolate sauce

Sunday, November 8th

    Italian Classics for the Modern Vegan

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

This menu of Italian classics has been transformed into a vegan feast. In this class you will learn how to make vegan counterparts to these well-loved dishes, without losing the flavors and textures that make them so popular.

You will start out by building a new kind of Caesar salad, one that uses tahini and garlic, cider vinegar and a touch of nutritional yeast to make a creamy and delicious dressing. Then you will make the risotto, and Chef Paul will share his tips for creating a fabulous vegetable stock, a staple of many vegan dishes. This menu includes a tasty carrot miso spread, served over toasted and sliced baguette, and fresh and cool raspberry sorbet.

Caesar salad with a tahini-based Caesar dressing
Butternut Squash Risotto
Carrot Cashew Miso Spread
Basil Raspberry Sorbet

Saturday, November 14

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

Sunday, November 15th 

   Best of Bistro: an International Tasting Menu

12:00pm – 3:00pm
$135.00

International Bistro-style: a little bit French, a little bit Austrian, a little bit Italian. Learn these classic bistro dishes with recipes created by Chef Paul, and make a hearty 4-course meal that brings the bistro to you from around the world.

First, you’ll construct a tasty panzanella salad with bread, tomatoes and Chef Paul’s signature no-fail vinaigrette (you will use this recipe forever). Then you’ll work on the main course; a stroganoff of crispy chicken thighs served over a medley of vegetables cooked in red wine sauce. Love dumplings? In this class you’ll learn to make spaetzle, a specialty of Alsace and Switzerland. Using a classic spaetzle maker, Chef Paul will teach you this authentic dumpling recipe, which pairs beautifully with the vino-infused stroganoff.  A fruity, palate-pleasing sorbet rounds off this delicious meal.

Panzanella salad with no-fail vinaigrette
Stroganoff of baked chicken thighs with red wine, bacon, and mushrooms
Traditional spaetzle (dumplings)
Raspberry sorbet 

Friday, November 20th

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

6:00pm -9:00pm
$135.00

In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare dishes like fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine together, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a great meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

Saturday, November 28th

    Classique! French Country Cooking

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

Can’t look at a turkey leftover but can’t bring yourself to go grocery shopping, either? Come to Miette and bring a bit of France to your kitchen with four fantastique French recipes taught by Chef Paul. 

You’ll start off by making a mesclun salad with a blend of arugula, leafy lettuces and endive topped with Chef Paul’s No-Fail vinaigrette (you will use this recipe forever, je vous assure). For the main course you’ll prepare a classic Cornish hen – a great substitue for a whole roasted chicken, and with a shorter cooking time – with a versatile paprika rub. To accompany this, you’ll prepare Chef Paul’s favorite French scalloped potatoes. For dessert, whip up a dreamy raspberry soufflé (oui, mon ami, you can do this) completely from scratch.

Mesclun salad with Chef Paul’s no-fail French vinaigrette dressing
Roasted Cornish hen with garlic paprika rub
Scalloped potatoes made with milk, cream, and fresh nutmeg
Raspberry soufflé

Sunday, November 29th

    Knife Skills: The Fundamentals

12:00pm -3:00pm
$135.00

Time to start thinking of Christmas! Will you be gifting your foodie friend or partner a new knife this season? In this class, Chef Paul will explain how to choose the best knives and how to take care of the ones you already have, along with teaching you slicing, dicing and chopping techniques you’ll utilize from appetizer to dessert.

As you prepare a fresh tomato bruschetta, roasted chicken with vegetables and apple tarte fine, Chef Paul will teach you the proper techniques for chopping and slicing vegetables, mincing herbs and supreming citrus. You’ll get firsthand experience using what you’ve learned to prepare a fabulous meal!

Tomato Bruschetta
Roasted chicken with carrots and parsnips
Roasted potatoes with caramelized onions and charred peppers
Apple Tarte Fine

December 2026: Coming Soon!