Les Mercredis - L’atelier de Fermentation @ BDQ

Spring 2026: A Kitchen Workshop

We’re opening the doors to the BDQ kitchen for three afternoons this spring. If you want to get into fermentation, there’s no better place to start - yeast and fermentation are central to everything we do. Combine that with a love of wood fire and local produce and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what we’re all about.

These aren't formal "classes"—they’re hands-on workshops, working around the huge marble kitchen table, using the wood fires. I’ll share what I’ve learnt over the last decades and why we do things here, from running the wood-fire to the fermentation shelf.

Whether you’re a total beginner or a cook looking to troubleshoot a flat dough or a festering jar, come join us.

These are three sessions designed to give you a detailed overview of fermentation in a practical way that tells a story, but equally, you won’t…