Maison Lejay Lagoute opens the production site where its Crème de Cassis de Dijon is made. The guided visit explains how the blackcurrant liqueur is produced and traces the history of the house’s recipe, which has remained unchanged since its creation. The story centres on a product that became closely identified with Dijon and its makers.
Region: Burgundy-Franche-Comté
Brunch des Halles in Dijon: Culinary Sundays
Le Brunch des Halles de Dijon brings partner chefs and restaurants to the city’s central food market. Their changing menus form the culinary programme, with musical performances accompanying the meal. Children and adults are explicitly welcome, and wooden games and table football are available alongside the brunch.
Comté Cheese Experience in Amancey: Guided Tours
The Fruitière du Pays de Courbet opens its cheesemaking workshop for a guided introduction to Comté. Visitors watch the cheesemakers at work and follow the milk’s journey from delivery through its transformation into cheese. The visit ends with a tasting of three Comtés, ranging from a mild cheese to an older, more mature one.
Voiteur Farmers’ Market: Local Delicacies
Voiteur’s farmers’ market includes organic sourdough bread, vegetables, pork and mushrooms among its food stalls. Charolais meat and goat’s cheese are also part of the selection, alongside honey. Roast chicken and farmed fish complete a produce list that spans bread, fresh ingredients and ready-cooked food.
Saône Producers Market: Weekly Fresh Finds
Saône’s producers’ market brings independent traders together around good products, hospitality and responsible consumption. Tables and benches are provided for visitors who want to stay for a coffee or a family meal. A live music group accompanies the market, adding a performance to the shopping and shared tables.
Matinale Gourmande in Beaune: Breakfast Delights
Matinale Gourmande brings Audrey Chalmers, known as The Food Witch, together with a mediator from the Hôtel-Dieu. Small dishes are served at a shared table as the meal unfolds through stories from the hospital’s past. The collaboration gives the Beaune gathering two distinct voices: one preparing the food and the other interpreting the hospital’s history.
Hôtel-Dieu Culinary Workshop in Beaune: A Tasty Journey
This Hôtel-Dieu workshop examines culinary heritage through the kitchen, apothecary and herb garden. Visitors follow the history of hospital meals through tastings, olfactory exercises and commentary. Marie-France Bravard, creator of Ateliers Vins & Parfums, leads the sensory exploration with a mediator from the Hôtel-Dieu.
Experience Ticket in Beaune: Burgundy Wines
The Experience Ticket at the Cité des Climats et Vins de Bourgogne follows Burgundy’s vineyards from vine to glass through an immersive visitor route. Themed guided tours explore subjects from that route in greater depth. A tasting workshop introduces observation, smell and taste through three wines, and the ticket also includes temporary exhibitions on wine’s artistic, cultural and historical dimensions.
Salins Fire of 1825: A Historical Exhibition
Grande Saline revisits the fire that transformed Salins-les-Bains through archives, engravings, melted objects and firefighting equipment. The exhibition follows the blaze, relief effort and rebuilding rules that changed the town’s streets and houses. A hand pump from the Jura firefighters’ museum and reproductions of works by Ingres and Cicéri illustrate the response to the disaster and efforts to fund reconstruction.
Festival Musicancy in Ancy-le-Franc: Musical Journey
Festival Musicancy presents Alkymia, directed by Mariana Delgadillo Espinoza, in a vocal and instrumental programme at Ancy-le-Franc. Sacred Baroque music and villancicos de remedo meet traditional Bolivian songs and dances. African rhythms and Andean melodies run through the repertoire, and an introduction before the concert offers listening guidance.