Cooking Class - Gourmet French Technique

Learn a variety of French cooking techniques and create a gorgeous, four-course menu.

Chef Elham brings her elegant cooking style and expertise to this class for passionate food lovers who want to perfect their cooking skills. Guests will learn how to roll tart dough, caramelize onions, make a pan sauce, and prepare a chocolate mousse.

Cooking becomes educational and fun as Chef Elham guides you through creating delicious, French café recipes. You’ll learn how to make a caramelized onion and goat cheese tart from start to finish, compose a fresh country herb salad, and make chicken breasts with morel mushrooms without drying out the chicken. The dessert course will school you on making an excellent chocolate mousse — an invaluable skill for any chocolate lover.

Guests are welcome to bring wine and beer to enjoy during the class.

  • Minimum Guests 4
  • Maximum Guests 12
  • Meal Courses 4
  • Event Duration 3 hours
  • Labels Date Night, French, Gourmet, Italian

Reviews guests left for other experiences with Chef Elham

Reejima

Reejima

08 Sep 2024

I was not very happy with the experience for several reasons. The class mentioned that we would get to make a 4 course meal; however, we only made 3 as the dessert crepes were never made. Not only that we could only cook 1 item each.  We were not able choose what we wanted to work on.  It was first come first serve. The chef said there can only be 3 people assigned to make crepes and if you didn't speak fast enough then you had to make something else. The crepes were already made ahead of time. The folks were working on just making the filling. One of my group members just worked on chopping shallots, adding thyme, and rolling the crepes. One of the people in my group was not interested at all in making a souffle, so she was told to make a sauce for the dessert souffles. The chef took the sauce from her at some point and she was relegated to rolling crepes. Also when I would ask any questions to the teacher, most of the time she just told me to refer to my instructions. If I wanted to look at a piece of paper I would have stayed home. She mentioned also that cooking souffles is not that hard; however, the savory souffles that were made by the group were undercooked and under spiced.  I have taken multiple cooking classes and in all of them I have been able to cook all the recipes that they agreed to teach us and recreate it at home. I cannot say after paying $95 that I would be able to do that. This class was a major disappointment and I will never book a class with this chef again. She either needs a better space so everyone can cook everything or she needs to only have a handful of students. 

Kalee

Kalee

22 Jun 2024

Chef Elham was wonderful! She was super-helpful and personal, and she really listened to all of us and make our experience a treat! Thank you!!

Lilian

Lilian

22 May 2024

Good chef

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Chef Elham has been teaching her unique style of elegant cuisine for the past 16 years. She nurtured her gift as a teacher with Sur La Table as the manager of the culinary program. Her specialties include classic French dishes as well as beloved Asian favorites that entice the palate. Chef Elham is thorough, patient and loves to see her students making great food and having fun while doing it.

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Flexible booking: Cancel or reschedule this event's reservation for free up to 48 hours before the event.

Chef Elham will travel to guests within the Bay Area for this experience.

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