Meeting the French · Oberkampf, 11th
Two hours behind the counter of Le Petit Mitron, a family bakery on rue Oberkampf, where the baker shows you a classic baguette, the shop's own "La Parisse" and how croissants are made and shaped. Pick it to see bread and pastry made where they are sold, with an interpreter if English isn't your first language.
Le Petit Mitron is a family bakery at 8 rue Oberkampf, at the Marais end of the street in the 11th, a short walk from Filles du Calvaire and Oberkampf metro stations. The class, sold by Meeting the French, puts up to eight guests behind its counter for two hours. You bake a classic baguette and "La Parisse", the bakery's signature baguette, and learn how croissants are made and shaped.
It is the only class here offered in English, French, Japanese and Spanish, and guests mention an interpreter, Luce, working alongside the baker. Ingredients, utensils and an apron are included, and the recipes follow by email. The real draw is the setting: ovens, flour sacks and the rhythm of a shop with customers at the door.
Be clear on the balance before you book. Two baguettes and croissants in two hours is a full programme, and bread takes a good share of it, so expect the croissant part to centre on shaping. At $246 it is also the most expensive class on this site, more than twice the price of the working bakery class, which covers bread and croissant dough too. What the extra buys is a tiny group in a named family shop, and the interpreter.
8 rue Oberkampf, 75011, a short walk from Filles du Calvaire and Oberkampf metro stations.
Apron on, then a first look at the ovens and the work of a family bakery, with the baker and interpreter.
Shape and bake a classic baguette and La Parisse, the shop's own recipe.
How croissant dough is made, then cutting and rolling crescents with the baker.
Bread and croissants come out of the oven; the recipes arrive later by email.
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Yes. You learn how croissants are made and shape them with the baker, alongside two baguettes. Bread takes a good part of the two hours, so think of it as a bread and croissant class, not croissants alone.
Le Petit Mitron's signature baguette. You bake it next to a classic baguette, which lets you taste the difference between a house recipe and the standard.
Yes, and also in French, Japanese or Spanish, chosen at booking. Guests mention an interpreter working with the baker.
You get eight guests at most behind the counter of a family bakery, the baker's time, an interpreter and the recipes. If price matters more, the working bakery class covers bread and croissant dough for $102.
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Shape croissants and bake two baguettes behind the counter of a family bakery on rue Oberkampf, with an interpreter if you need one.
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