The French Kitchen Culinary Center – 4771 N Academy Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO 80918

The French Kitchen

Culinary Center

Cooking Classes

Bakery Menu

National Croissant Day! Order by January 28th and get 20% off your order!

Connecting people through food

Our Passion

What began in Blandine’s own kitchen would become the 4-in-1 culinary center known as the French Kitchen — a place where people come to master the art of French cooking. A place where French food fans can taste, browse, and buy quality French cuisine. A place where neighbors gather, friends reconnect, and families come together.

As a cooking school, boutique, café, and bakery in one, The French Kitchen has become a place of togetherness. We make it possible for you to eat, shop, learn, and party all in one place.

Fresh ingredients, French food, and friendly staff make the perfect recipe for a truly French culinary experience — an experience we can’t wait to share with you!

Cooking Classes

We offer a variety of HANDS-ON recreational cooking classes for all levels and all ages.

Café/Bakery

Sweet and savory options, Italian coffee, and French drinks. All in an authentic European café!

Our Shop

From Belgian chocolate, to soups, to scales… You’ll find everything you need at our boutique!

Event Center

Birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers, work events or just because! We’ll help you make your next part a memorable one!

Take a Class

See Our Menu

View Our Shop

Book Your Event

Cooking Classes

We offer a variety of HANDS-ON recreational cooking classes for all levels and all ages.

Take a Class

Café/Bakery

Sweet and savory options, Italian coffee, and French drinks. All in an authentic European café!

See Our Menu

Our Shop

From syrups, to yeast, to silicone molds… You’ll find everything you need at our boutique!

View Our Shop

Event Center

Birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers, work events or just because! We’ll help you make your next part a memorable one!

Book Your Event

Give the gift of togetherness

Nothing connects people more than food!

Gift Cards Available

Contact us.

Location.

The French Kitchen
4771 N Academy Blvd.
Colorado Springs
CO 80918

(corner of Flintridge & Academy)

Hours & Closures

Tuesday-Friday: 7am to 6pm
Saturday: 7am to 3pm
Sunday & Monday: closed (except for private events)
Private events can be scheduled outside of opening hours!
Holidays observed: New Year’s Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day
Annual closure: July 7-21 2019

Phone.

(719) 528-6295

E-mail.

info@tfkcc.com

Google Rating

4.6

The French Kitchen

4.6

Michael Brendzel

11:41 13 Sep 18

I've tried about half of their regular baked-goods menu, and everything has been outstanding. It's certainly the best french bakery that I can remember visiting. My children and I have taken cooking classes there, and it's magic. Most of the crew are very pleasant to deal with.

Jennifer Schmitt

16:00 18 Aug 18

Awesome place. Took the strawberry cake class. Instructor was very helpful. Clean organized shop with great tasting food. Highly recommend stopping in.

Stéphanie McGuirt

18:12 26 Aug 18

Truly authentic French pastries. Reminds me of home 😊 The hatch Chile quiche was lovely. Also, had a vanilla eclair and pain au raisin to go. Takes me straight back to France! So glad to have this gem here in town.

Terryll Fleming

15:51 19 Sep 18

I love this place! The classes are wonderful and the cafe has the best real cappuccino in town. Plus the pastries are delicious!

Annie C

17:05 30 Mar 18

Quaint small cafe. Coffee was to die for. The savory pastries were 3.5/5 stars. Pricey treats due to speciality ingredients but overall a great experience. They offer cooking classes!

Judy Powers

16:15 15 Apr 18

The food is is amazing. Everything is fresh and delicious. Have been here twice already and will keep returning. We always get the tuna croissant and 2 or 3 chocolate pastries and it has been great everytime

Stephanie Schieffer

14:47 08 Dec 18

The croissants and baguettes are to die for! Makes me feel like in I’m France!

Alice Blattler

00:28 23 Dec 18

Wonderful pastries and decent espresso. The classes are also quite fun. The owner is thorough and friendly. I'll return for more pastries and classes.

Kelly Miller

16:27 28 Dec 18

My son and I have taken the 4 hands cooking classes and he is just finishing a week long camp. The kids camp is AMAZING!!! My son comes home every day just chattering about the delicious food he gets to make. Plus he brings home samples for us to try and the food is delicious! My 9 yr old is learning to cook and the mess isn’t in my kitchen which is also wonderful. If you have a kiddo interested in learning to cook this is a great option- highly recommended!

Susie A

21:17 13 Jan 19

Everything I have had was delicious. Wish they were open on Sunday but otherwise nothing bad to say.

Amanda Boone

20:43 24 Jan 19

LOVED The French Kitchen! My father and i took a bread class yesterday and it was so fun! I learned a lot a felt confident when I got home to bake the rest of the dough that I made in class. The teacher, Blandine was great, you can tell that cooking is her passion and that she really likes sharing her knowledge. She is French and that made it even more genuine. Sometimes hard to understand, but honestly her hands on instructions made it easy to follow along. I want to take more classes here for sure! Sign up, you will not regret it! We were also treated with some samples from their kitchen that they sell in the cafe. Wonderful surprise and soooo delicious. The only negative, and they are working on it, is the website. It is hard to navigate. I didn't think it was that big of a deal since we were given a printout of the class schedule. You can also pick them up in the store. I had a really good latte before I left at the cafe. I would definitely come back for coffee and croissants. TIP: Their classes fill up super fast! Do not wait to book. We had to book this one out for a few months.

Nathalia Tappan

16:21 27 Jan 19

We went to the French Kitchen for the first time last Friday (1/25/19) for a Sauces cooking class. We had an absolute blast and would totally recommend them. Here are a couple remarks, however: the food is delicious (we had a few pastries before class - students get 10% off on the day of class), fresh and made with high quality ingredients. On that note, the only thing that for a split second made us think about a 4 star review instead was the interaction with the employee behind the counter; she could have been a little friendlier. As a complete opposite, Christie (one of our cooking instructors) was super welcoming and all smiles, back to 5 stars! Chef Blandine was at first a bit upset for we signed up for an advanced class without taking their recommended other 3 prior classes (we won't hold that against her. Without knowing our skills she could only imagine we would make the experience harder for everyone else). She was, however, pleasantly surprised that we could hold our ground in the kitchen and after that initial impression she was very helpful and welcoming, with a ton of knowledge to share (and here the 5 stars were reaffirmed). As far as the class, we left knowing that we would have not enjoyed a class any little bit less challenging. The Sauces class did not leave us a single minute to spare not even for a picture to take as a keepsake from the night. It is indeed challenging and we understand why they ask for previous experiences with them. We are, however, in our kitchen all the time and would rate ourselves as reasonably advanced cooks: that made for a night where we learned a lot and left with a taste for more.Well deserved 5 stars. We will come back for more.

Prajakta Mehta

07:21 03 Mar 19

I have been at this place for more than 5 times and I must say I absolutely love it. I love the environment. It's so beautiful and calm only if it is not crowded. Right from the croissants, brioche, palmier and even pasteries like Opera, Napoleon everything is so dam amazinggggg and made to the perfection ! I can't wait to go back.

Sara Ely

21:19 11 Mar 19

This place is phenomenal! Authentic French bread, croissant, and crepes! Check out the fabulous cooking classes! I have taken 4 classes and they were fantastic.

Manjula Panakkal

18:02 23 Mar 19

Crowded but really authentic. Loved everything about it. I wish they had more seating.

Jenni Dameron

21:14 25 May 19

If I could give this place more stars, I would. My husband gifted me a cooking class for my birthday, and it did not disappoint. We had SO much fun here learning how to cook a new meal, and by the way, this is the best steak I have ever eaten...and I’ve been all over CO to have a steak. While I wish they didn’t put a limit on wine consumption, it probably is for the best...gotta keep your wits about you when you’re cooking in a fancy kitchen with open flames and hot pans. Their equipment is superb, but not nearly as amazing as the staff. We had Kristie as our chef and she was fun, charismatic, helpful and of course, patient and kind. Thank you for a wonderful, unforgettable evening. We will be back!

Alicia Deschaine

13:15 26 May 19

I was there yesterday morning right after they opened to get a selection of cake slices. Unfortunately, their website menu and in store menu vary greatly. All they had was carrot cake and a small gluten-free chocolate cake. If you want pastries check them out, if you want cakes stick with Marigolds or Kneaders, both are much more consistent.

Corinne Perron

23:05 17 Jun 19

I don’t jump on croissants and pains au chocolat any longer when I go back to France. I now have those right here in Colorado Springs. It’s about time!

Audrey Ross

02:40 29 Jun 19

Got there about three, it wasn't crowded. This place has a nice feel to it.

Kevin Readel

18:44 18 Oct 19

Great food and unbelievably good cooking classes. Highly recommend!

Jordan Woodward

17:17 19 Oct 19

The food is on a whole other level. It's so good that part of me doesn't want to leave this review to selfishly keep this place to myself. But it the restaurant deserves 5 stars in the truest sense of the rating.

Christina L

22:11 06 Nov 19

Amazing classes! If you have any desire to learn to cook something new this is a great place to do it. I made bread in class one day then came home and made another batch on my own. Its great when what you learned can be applied and WORKS when you are in your home kitchen. Very hands on class. And a note to anyone with Gluten intolerance or even celiac, I was diagnosed 3 months ago but have found that because of the type of flour used at TFK I can enjoy 95% of their food without ANY issues. The flour is NOT gluten free, however the processes used to make it are much different. I am one of several people that I have come across who have had great luck controling celiac while using this European flour.

Daleth McCoy

04:44 20 Dec 19

Absolutely Delicious! Clean, friendly employees. Cant wait to try out a baking class!

Raz & Imbri P

08:23 25 Jan 20

We stopped in this morning on our way home from the Denver area. Raz was getting a mite peckish, but I wasn't really hungry yet, so we opted to stop into the first place on a local search with "bakery" in the description. We are definitely glad we did, since we found a pretty decent selection of pret-a-manger foods that could be packaged fairly quickly for the road. We each had a warmed up Mushroom Friand before hopping back out on the road. Raz declared after that he should have had it cold, but I disagree, that warm, savory, mushroomy filling with just the most subtle hints remaining of the wine used in the cooking was just what I needed to break my fast this morning. We did take a Green Chile Quiche, and a Quiche Lorraine for the road, and we polished off a Chocolatine between the shop door and the car. All-in-all, a very worthwhile morning bakery stop.I'm fairly certain that if we were local to the area, I would be chomping at the bit to take part in the cooking classes they offer, as the kitchen classroom looked very inviting and the everyone working in the store was both patient and warm. I'm pretty sure I would give my eye-teeth to be able to make that delicate, buttery, flaky pastry that was part of my morning friand today...

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