What exceptional gift should you offer for Father's Day?
It is 9am on the iconic Place des Lices. The market is only just coming to life. Your father walks alongside a Michelin-starred chef, selecting sun-ripened vegetables that will become his lunch just a few hours later. At Hotel Sezz Saint-Tropez, Chef Philippe Colinet opens the doors to his kitchen. No material gift, but a rare privilege: a confidential immersion into the daily life of a Maître Restaurateur.
If you are looking for a gastronomic gift in Saint-Tropez that truly stands out, you are in the right place.
The Sezz Chef Experiences at a glance:
- Concept: private masterclasses with a Michelin-starred Chef
- Location: Colette Restaurant, Hotel Sezz Saint-Tropez — 1 Michelin Star, 2 Gault & Millau Toques
- Chef: Philippe Colinet, Maître Restaurateur
- Availability: every Tuesday throughout the 2026 season
- Capacity: maximum 2 to 4 participants
- Rates: from €150 to €250 per person, including lunch
- Access: open to hotel guests and external visitors alike
A gastronomic experience to share in Saint-Tropez
Today, luxury is no longer something you own; it is something you experience. For the duration of a morning, enjoy a privileged moment with Chef Philippe Colinet in the intimate setting of Colette Restaurant. Here, you do not simply watch from the dining room: you taste, ask questions, chop, plate and, ultimately, sit down to enjoy the results.
These culinary experiences are offered every Tuesday throughout the 2026 season and are deliberately limited to 2 to 4 participants. Not simply for exclusivity's sake, but to ensure genuine interaction with the Chef, allowing each guest to leave with something that cannot be learned from a cookbook.
The Place des Lices market with the Chef
For fathers who appreciate exceptional produce and authentic encounters.
Everything begins on Place des Lices at 9am. Alongside Chef Colinet, you stroll through the market stalls and meet the Provençal producers who have been shaping the local terroir for generations: mature cheeses, seasonal vegetables, fresh herbs and locally caught fish. Every product has a name, an origin and a story. The Chef knows them all.
Back at Sezz, he creates a menu inspired by the morning's discoveries and prepares it before your eyes, explaining every gesture and every decision. Lunch is then served on the secluded terrace of Colette Restaurant, overlooking the pool and olive trees.
What you discover that day is simple: great cuisine always begins with great ingredients.
Practical information:
- Every Tuesday, approximately 9am to 1pm
- €160 per person
- Lunch included
- 2 to 4 participants
From garden to plate: the farm-to-table experience at Jardin de la Piboule
For lovers of nature and locally sourced cuisine.
Head to Jardin de la Piboule. Alongside market gardener Yann Ménard and Chef Colinet, you harvest seasonal vegetables, fruit and aromatic herbs. A tomato still warm from the sun, a freshly picked strawberry, edible flowers gathered by hand — here, fine dining begins with your hands in the soil.
Back at the hotel, the morning's harvest becomes the focus of a culinary workshop around the barbecue. The lunch that follows is plant-based, wholesome and generous, served beside the pool. It is quite possibly the most authentic terroir-driven gastronomic experience you will find in Saint-Tropez.
A Provençal culinary experience in its purest form, taking ingredients directly from the earth to the plate in a single morning.
Practical information:
- Every Tuesday
- €250 per person
- Lunch included
- 2 to 4 participants
Cooking classes at Colette: the other side of a Michelin-starred restaurant’s decor
Not everyone dreams of spending the morning at a market or harvesting vegetables from a garden. Some simply want to step behind the scenes of a Michelin-starred kitchen.
For them, Chef Philippe Colinet has created three culinary workshops, each offering a different level of immersion.
The Discovery Workshop — 150 € / person, lunch included
An introduction to a simple and tasty cuisine around local products of the Riviera. The ideal entry point to discover the philosophy of Chef Colinet.
The Sea-Effect Workshop — 190 € / person, lunch included
An immersion in the world of Mediterranean products and techniques that sublimate them. Fish, shellfish, precise cooking, all the secrets of preparation that only professionals master.
Starred Experience — 240 € / person, lunch included
The most immersive masterclass: you join the Colette brigade on duty, pick aromatic herbs in the hotel garden, set your own plates with claws and have lunch at the Chef’s Table. The rarest dining experience available in Saint-Tropez. It’s the only way to enter a Michelin-starred brigade in Saint-Tropez as a cook, not as a spectator. Few addresses on the Riviera offer that.
Why it’s the ideal gift for Father’s Day
A cooking class with a Michelin-starred chef, in a gourmet restaurant in Saint-Tropez, as a couple or with the family, it’s the kind of moment we tell for a long time. Not because it’s expensive. Because it’s precise, because it’s rare, and because we leave with something concrete: a technical gesture, a recipe that we’ll redo, a way of looking at a product that will never be quite the same again.
It is also one of the rarest immersive experiences in Saint-Tropez, and one of the only ones to combine a Michelin-starred chef, Var terroir and truly private format.
And a few weeks later, when your father reproduces at home the Chef’s sauce or chooses his vegetables differently at the Sunday market, this is where the gift continues to exist.
Practical Information — the Chef Experiences at Sezz Saint-Tropez
- Location: Gastronomic restaurant Colette, Hotel Sezz Saint-Tropez
- Access: 10 minutes from the beaches of Pampelonne, 5 minutes from the center of Saint-Tropez, 45 minutes from Cannes, 1 hour from Nice
- Availability: every Tuesday of the 2026 season
- Capacity: 2 to 4 participants per workshop, very limited places
- Rates: from 150 € to 250 € per person, lunch included in all experiences
- Open to: hotel residents and external visitors
- Parking: free with valet service
- Reservation: Required
Our advice: if you hesitate between the workshops, choose according to the father’s profile. Passionate about the market and its products: "A morning at the market." Nature and garden lovers: "From the garden to the plate." Curious about technical cooking and behind the scenes: "the Starred-Experience". Sunday, June 21 is approaching, so book early: groups are limited to 4 people and Tuesdays go quickly in season.
And if you’re looking for a more accessible idea for Father’s Day, the Sezz also offers a gourmet Sunday brunch at Colette at €95 per person, next edition on Sunday 28 June.
Book a Chef’s Experience for Father’s Day at the Sezz.
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