Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
View all private culinary travel programs in France
Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557
Experience Provence through its food, wine, culture, and traditions. Join a private culinary journey led by French chef Eric Arrouzé. The journey begins in historic Avignon and continues through Aix-en-Provence, lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and the Mediterranean coast of Marseille. This immersive experience reveals the authentic Provence that most visitors never see.
Provence is not a single story. It is a convergence of history, agriculture, trade, and sun. Over centuries, popes, farmers, fishermen, monks, and merchants shaped a food culture rooted in simplicity, generosity, and place.
From inland hills to the sea, this journey traces how land, climate, and people created one of the world’s most recognizable and deeply loved gastronomies.
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Led by a French chef · One private group · Designed around your pace
Who This Journey Is For
This private Provence culinary journey welcomes food lovers, wine enthusiasts, cultural travelers, and curious explorers seeking authentic experiences. Whether you enjoy local markets, artisan producers, historic villages, Mediterranean cuisine, or French wine regions, Provence offers remarkable opportunities for discovery.
It is for those who value authenticity over spectacle, who understand that great cuisine is born from land and rhythm, and who want to experience Provence when it is fully alive.
Why Travel with Chef Eric Arrouzé?
A successful culinary journey depends on more than an itinerary. It requires local knowledge, cultural understanding, professional connections, and the ability to create meaningful experiences that go beyond traditional tourism.
Born and raised in France, Chef Eric Arrouzé brings more than three decades of culinary and hospitality experience to every journey. His career includes leadership positions in professional kitchens, culinary education, restaurant consulting, international training programs, and food and wine experiences throughout France and North America.
For more than a decade, Chef Eric led culinary travel and educational programs for the University of British Columbia while also organizing and hosting private culinary journeys throughout France. His background as a chef, educator, and consultant allows guests to experience each region through a deeper cultural and gastronomic lens.
Long-standing relationships with winemakers, farmers, market vendors, artisans, restaurateurs, and hospitality professionals often provide access to experiences that independent travelers rarely discover on their own.
Rather than simply visiting destinations, guests gain context, stories, and personal connections that transform a trip into a richer understanding of French food, wine, culture, and regional identity.
Unlike traditional tour companies, every journey is personally designed and hosted by Chef Eric Arrouzé. Guests benefit from direct access to a French chef, educator, and culinary consultant whose professional network provides opportunities and introductions that many independent travelers never experience.
Why the Provence Journey Matters
People around the world recognize Provence for its gastronomy, celebrated for its clarity, generosity, and deep connection to the land. Built on olive oil, herbs, vegetables, seafood, and sun, Provençal cuisine expresses the Mediterranean more directly than any other French region.
Lavender perfumes the hills in summer. Goats graze on wild herbs, shaping distinctive cheeses. Markets overflow with tomatoes, apricots, melons, and zucchini, all grown under the same sun that ripens the vines.
What Makes Provence Unique?
Few regions combine food, wine, history, climate, and lifestyle as naturally as Provence. The Mediterranean influences everything here, from olive oil and seafood to architecture, outdoor markets, and daily life.
Guests discover lavender fields, hilltop villages, Roman monuments, vineyards, olive groves, artisan producers, and coastal fishing communities while exploring one of France’s most celebrated culinary regions.
From Avignon to Marseille
The journey begins in Avignon, where the Papacy ruled Christendom for nearly a century. From the Palais des Papes, religious power controlled land, taxation, and trade, shaping agriculture and food production across the region.
Leaving Avignon, the route moves through the Provençal heartland, where perched villages overlook lavender fields, vineyards, olive groves, and weekly markets.
Aix-en-Provence anchors the interior, blending refinement, markets, and wine culture, before the journey reaches the coast.
In Marseille, Provence finds its natural conclusion. Here, land-based traditions meet the Mediterranean, fishermen land their catch at dawn, and bouillabaisse remains a cultural expression, not a recipe.
How This Provence Experience Unfolds
Most journeys unfold over approximately ten days, allowing guests to slow down and experience Provence without rushing from destination to destination.
Rather than checking off attractions, travelers spend meaningful time exploring villages, wineries, markets, cultural landmarks, and coastal communities while enjoying the rhythm of daily life in southern France.
Depending on individual interests, the itinerary may include cooking classes, private chef experiences, market tours, winery visits, olive oil tastings, villa stays, and cultural excursions throughout the region.
Food, wine, culture, and history form the foundation of every journey. However, each program remains flexible and can be adapted to reflect personal interests, travel goals, and preferred pace.
Optional Experiences in Provence
Every Provence journey is designed around your interests. Some guests focus on food and wine, while others seek cooking experiences, cultural exploration, luxury accommodations, local markets, or private access to producers and artisans.
Private Chef Experiences
Enjoy private lunches and dinners prepared by local chefs in villas, countryside estates, vineyards, or historic properties. These intimate experiences create opportunities to discover regional cuisine in a relaxed and authentic setting while learning about local ingredients and traditions.
Hands-On Cooking Classes
Guests may participate in cooking classes focused on Provençal cuisine, seasonal ingredients, Mediterranean seafood, traditional desserts, or regional specialties. Classes can be organized for beginners, passionate home cooks, or culinary professionals seeking deeper knowledge.
Market Tours
Weekly markets remain at the heart of Provençal life. Guided visits introduce guests to local farmers, cheesemakers, bakers, olive oil producers, spice merchants, and artisan food makers. Depending on the season, market visits may be combined with cooking experiences later in the day.
Villa and Countryside Stays
Many travelers choose to spend several nights in a private villa, château, or countryside property rather than changing hotels frequently. This slower pace creates more opportunities to enjoy cooking classes, private dining experiences, local excursions, and meaningful time within the region.
Investment & What’s Included
Most private Provence journeys range from approximately €600 to €900 per person, per day, depending on season, accommodations, transportation requirements, group size, and selected experiences.
Programs are customized and may include:
- Carefully selected accommodations throughout Provence
- Transportation within France during the journey
- Private itinerary planning and trip design
- Guided market visits and food experiences
- Winery visits and wine tastings
- Cultural and historical excursions
- Breakfast daily and selected lunches or dinners
- Private chef experiences and cooking classes (when selected)
- Villa, château, countryside estate, or boutique hotel stays
- Personal hosting and guidance by Chef Eric Arrouzé
International airfare to and from France, travel insurance, personal expenses, and certain premium experiences may be excluded depending on the final itinerary.
Every journey begins with a conversation to determine your interests, travel style, preferred pace, accommodation preferences, and culinary goals before a customized proposal is prepared.
Questions Specific to the Provence Journey
These are the most common questions we receive before designing a private journey.
Do I need wine knowledge to join?
No prior wine knowledge is required. Curiosity and interest matter more than expertise.
What if I don’t want to drink alcohol?
Wine is part of the cultural context, not an obligation. Non-drinkers are fully accommodated.
What about food allergies or dietary restrictions?
Dietary needs are discussed in advance and respected throughout the journey.
Is this journey seasonal?
Yes. Summer, particularly July during lavender season, offers Provence at its most expressive.
Can you help with logistics to reach Avignon?
Yes. Arrival planning and timing recommendations are provided.
What is the typical price range?
Private culinary journeys typically range from €600 to €900 per person, per day.
Private Culinary Travel in France
Let’s Design Your Provence Experience
Whether you dream of exploring lavender fields, visiting local markets, discovering Provençal wines, enjoying private chef experiences, participating in cooking classes, or relaxing in a countryside villa, Chef Eric can create a journey tailored to your interests.
Schedule an initial conversation to discuss travel dates, accommodations, culinary interests, preferred experiences, and customization options.
Email: info@911cheferic.com
Phone: 604-781-9557