The Semaine du Goût (Week of Taste) was born in Paris: on 15 October 1990, a first Journée du Goût brought together 350 chefs at the Trocadéro to give Leçons de Goût to primary school pupils. Extended to all of France in 1994, run since 2022 by the Association pour la Transmission du Goût and sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, the Semaine du Goût returns from Monday 12 to Sunday 18 October 2026 for its 37th edition.

In Paris, the most tangible part happens in the markets: the City organises free events in twenty markets, concentrated over four days, from Wednesday 14 to Sunday 18 October. On Monday 12, Tuesday 13 and Thursday 15, no events are listed. Here is the programme day by day, some help choosing to suit your tastes, and gourmet addresses in the 9th arrondissement to extend the week around the Hôtel R de Paris.

The market programme, day by day

This programme follows the City of Paris page as we consulted it on 23 September 2026, in its update of 21 September. The chefs taking part are not named there, and the page may still change before the event.

Wednesday 14 October

  • Marché Auteuil (16th), 9h-13h: discovering French edible flowers, their flavours and their culinary uses.

Friday 16 October

  • Marché Paris Rive Gauche (13th), 14h-18h: blindfolded sensory workshop around the scents of the market.
  • Marché Saint-Charles (15th), 9h-13h: batch cooking workshop, budget-friendly recipes based on fresh seasonal produce.
  • Marché Porte Molitor (16th), 9h-13h: varieties of mushrooms and cooking tips.
  • Marché Gros-la-Fontaine (16th), 9h-13h: demonstration and tasting of a recipe by a chef.

Saturday 17 October

  • Marché Maubert (5th), 9h-13h: edible flowers.
  • Marché Saxe-Breteuil (7th), 9h-13h: mushrooms, their varieties, their seasonality and their uses.
  • Marché Edgar Quinet (14th), 9h-13h: forgotten or little-known seasonal fruit, vegetables and produce, with cooking tips.
  • Marché Lecourbe (15th), 9h-13h: forgotten or little-known seasonal produce.
  • Marché Président-Wilson (16th), 9h-13h: demonstration and tasting by a chef.

Sunday 18 October

  • Marché Monge (5th), 9h-13h: blindfolded sensory workshop (scents, spices, aromatic herbs).
  • Marché Raspail Bio (6th), 9h-13h: blindfolded sensory workshop.
  • Marché Auguste Blanqui (13th), 9h-13h: discovery and tasting of forgotten or little-known seasonal produce.
  • Marché Jeanne d'Arc (13th), 9h-13h: blind tasting.
  • Marché Convention (15th), 9h-13h: blind tasting.
  • Marché Grenelle (15th), 9h-13h: mushrooms.
  • Marché Point-du-Jour (16th), 9h-13h: batch cooking workshop.
  • Marché couvert Saint-Germain (6th), event time not specified: demonstration and tasting by a chef.
  • Marché couvert Saint-Martin (10th), event time not specified: demonstration and tasting around the stallholders' produce.
  • Marché couvert Saint-Quentin (10th), event time not specified: cooking workshop for children, led by a chef and his assistant.

Which event to choose, depending on your mood

For families. Among the market events, the only one designed for children is the cooking workshop at the marché couvert Saint-Quentin, on Sunday 18.

For the curious. Blindfolded workshops and tastings appear most often on the market programme: Paris Rive Gauche on Friday afternoon, then Monge, Raspail Bio, Jeanne d'Arc and Convention on Sunday morning. Those who love seasonal cooking and fresh produce will rather follow the mushrooms (Porte Molitor, Saxe-Breteuil, Grenelle) or the forgotten and little-known produce (Edgar Quinet, Lecourbe, Auguste Blanqui). Batch cooking has two dates, Saint-Charles on Friday and Point-du-Jour on Sunday; at Saint-Charles, the workshop promises budget-friendly recipes.

To see a chef at work. Three chef demonstrations followed by a tasting come one after another at the end of the week: Gros-la-Fontaine on Friday, Président-Wilson on Saturday, the marché couvert Saint-Germain on Sunday.

Closest to the hotel: Sunday 18 in the 10th

No market in the 9th appears on the City's list. The two closest to the hotel are the covered markets of the 10th, both with events on Sunday 18: a chance to combine them in the same morning.

The marché couvert Saint-Quentin, 85 bis boulevard Magenta, hosts the children's cooking workshop. It opens on Sunday from 8h to 13h30 (Tuesday to Saturday from 8h to 20h, closed on Monday), is accessible to people with reduced mobility and is close to the Gare du Nord, the Gare de l'Est and Magenta station.

The marché couvert Saint-Martin, 31-33 rue du Château d'Eau, offers the demonstration and tasting around its stallholders' produce. It opens on Sunday from 9h to 14h (Tuesday to Saturday from 9h to 20h, closed on Monday), is also accessible to people with reduced mobility, with the Château d'Eau and Jacques Bonsergent metro stations.

The City does not specify the time of these two events. As Saint-Quentin closes at 13h30 and Saint-Martin at 14h on Sunday, the morning is the slot to aim for, and a glance at the City's page the day before avoids a wasted trip.

Beyond the markets, the official programme

The rest of the week can be found in the catalogue of Activités du Goût, which lists cooking workshops, tastings, visits to farms and producers, introductions to trades and school or family events. You can search by département, by type (events or tables du goût), by audience, by accessibility (open to the public or private) and by dates. To give a sense of the scale of the operation, the 2025 edition counted around 600 Activités du Goût for the general public in France.

Two limits are worth knowing. Part of the week is for schools: the Leçons de Goût are given in primary school classes, with no public access, and most of the Paris activities we read in the catalogue were private events, in schools or hospitals. Above all, the catalogue is still filling up: according to our reading of the catalogue, it listed only a dozen Paris activities on 23 September 2026. The “open to the public” filter and a new visit at the start of October are the two useful reflexes.

Continuing the week in the 9th

The addresses that follow are not presented as taking part in the Semaine du Goût: they are neighbourhood places to discover Parisian gastronomy in daily life, from market to table.

The rue des Martyrs. A street of food shops in the neighbourhood. At no. 5, La Souris Gourmande, a cheese shop open since 1999, brings together more than 150 cheeses. It opens on Monday from 16h to 20h, Tuesday to Thursday from 9h to 13h30 and from 16h to 20h, Friday and Saturday from 9h to 20h, and Sunday from 8h30 to 14h (telephone 01 42 85 43 56).

Bakery, other cheese shops, honey: the other stops along the street are detailed in our gourmet stroll along the rue des Martyrs.

The marché d'Anvers. Place d'Anvers, it is the only open-air market in the 9th listed by the City of Paris, and it is held on Friday only. Anvers metro, on the same line 2 as Place de Clichy station. Its hours differ from one official source to another: check them with the 9th arrondissement town hall before you go. No Semaine du Goût event is announced there.

The Bouillon Chartier Grands Boulevards. At the Bouillon Chartier, 7 rue du Faubourg Montmartre, the house advertises starters from 1 euro and a full meal possible for under 20 euros. Open 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with continuous service from 11h30 to midnight, no reservations. Grands Boulevards metro (lines 8 and 9), telephone 01 47 70 86 29.

For dinner in Paris in a different register, our selection of tables in the 9th to try on foot reviews the addresses chosen by Le Fooding 2026 around the 9th.

And to choose according to your mood that evening, our guide to the restaurants and bars of the neighbourhood gathers more gourmet addresses in Paris.

A starting point on rue de Clichy

The Hôtel R de Paris, a 4-star boutique hotel at 41 rue de Clichy, stands between the stations Place de Clichy (lines 2 and 13), Liège (13) and Trinité-d'Estienne d'Orves (12), a 7-minute walk from Gare Saint-Lazare. The buffet breakfast is served from 7h30 to 10h, before you set off for a morning market.

From 12 to 18 October, the safest approach is to cross-check two sources, the City's page for the markets and the national catalogue for the rest. Then let the week spill over into the neighbourhood: a market in the morning, a cheese shop on the rue des Martyrs (before 14h on Sunday, late in the day on other days), a bouillon in the evening.