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Cooking Class in an Italian Family Home : Pasta & Wine near Lecce

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Cooking Class in an Italian Family Home : Pasta & Wine near Lecce

Cook fresh pasta by hand in Enza's countryside home near Lecce, learning traditional Salentine recipes passed down through her family. This 3.5-hour evening starts with prosecco and homemade antipasti, moves into the kitchen for hands-on pasta-making, then settles around the dining table for a proper meal with local wine, live music, and genuine conversation. Finish with homemade dessert and limoncello.

Rome: Hands-on Fettuccine, Ravioli & Tiramisu Cooking Class

Roll up your sleeves in a Rome kitchen to build three pillars of Italian cooking: hand-rolled fettuccine and ravioli, plus tiramisu layered with mascarpone and espresso. Over three hours, a chef walks you through dough work, filling techniques, and assembly, explaining the reasoning behind each step rather than just the motions. You'll cook together, ask questions, taste your own food at a shared table, and leave with usable skills and a clearer sense of why these dishes matter in Italian culture.

The Florence Pottery Experience: Factory Tour & Masterclass

This two-hour pottery experience transports you from [Florence](/places/florence)'s crowded centre to Montelupo Fiorentino, a village that has been shaping ceramics for over seven centuries. You'll tour a working factory where Salvatore and his team handcraft every piece, then take a seat at the wheel yourself to create something tangible to take home. Your finished work gets fired, glazed, and shipped worldwide—a genuine souvenir born from your own hands rather than a shop shelf.

Cooking class in a villa with Palermo view

A three-hour cooking class set in a Palermo villa where you'll prepare dishes using vegetables picked fresh from the instructor's garden. Work in the kitchen with views across the city, then sit down to eat what you've made while taking in the surrounding landscape. Most ingredients come directly from the property, connecting you to the food from soil to plate.

Private Homemade Meal with a Private Chef in Rome

Cook a two-and-a-half-hour meal with a Rome-based chef whose traditional Italian recipes have earned global recognition. Work through several dishes side by side in a home kitchen, learning techniques rooted in family tradition and regional history. You'll prep, cook, and sit down to eat what you've made, with the option to take away the recipes or purchase the chef's published collection of family narratives and dishes.

Cooking class Amalfi Coast by Marco and Tano

Learn to cook [Amalfi Coast](/places/amalfi-coast) classics with Marco and Tano, two local chefs working from their kitchen in Scala. Over four hours, you'll forage for lemons and eggs from their garden, then prepare fresh pasta, pizza, and regional desserts from scratch. Finish by eating what you've made on a terrace overlooking the coastline, with local wine and homemade limoncello included.

Ravioli & Tagliatelle Cooking Class at a Local's Home in Positano

Step into a Positano home to learn pasta-making from a local cook steeped in family tradition. Over three hours, you'll pick vegetables from the garden, roll out ravioli and tagliatelle by hand, and discover the regional techniques that make each shape matter. Cook two pasta dishes from scratch, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside wine and homemade liqueurs, picking up recipes and stories you'll actually use at home.

Milan: Pasta Tiramisu Cooking Class in a Chef’s Home(Small Group)

Learn to make fresh tagliatelle and tiramisu in a Milan chef's home kitchen over three and a half hours. This is cooking as it happens in Italian homes—no stations, no theatre, just you and a professionally trained chef working through technique and ingredients together. You'll taste estate oils and aged vinegars with artisan bread, then cook two pasta sauces from scratch and assemble proper tiramisu. Wine pairs throughout, with non-alcoholic options available.

Pasta and Tiramisu Making Class with Fine Italian Wine in Rome

Learn to hand-roll ravioli and layer tiramisu from Roman chefs in a three-hour class near the [Colosseum](/places/colosseum). You'll shape pasta dough, stuff it with care, and craft the classic dessert from scratch, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside carefully matched Italian wines. Groups stay small—just ten of you—so there's real attention from your instructors.

Pizza and Gelato Making Experience with Fine Italian Wine in Rome

Learn to shape Neapolitan pizza, churn gelato, and fry Roman supplì across three hours in Rome, guided by practised cooks. You'll work with your hands through each stage—mixing dough, building toppings, mastering the gelato balance—before tasting everything alongside poured Italian wines. It's a proper apprenticeship in three iconic Roman and Southern Italian dishes, not a passive watch.

From market to Table Cooking lesson with a local in Sicily

Cook alongside Letizia, Giuseppe and their mother Rosa in their Sicilian kitchen, moving from local market ingredients to finished dishes. Over four hours, this family-led session strips away restaurant polish to reveal how Sicilian cooks actually work—the techniques passed down, the ingredient choices, the rhythms of prep and heat. You'll cook shoulder-to-shoulder, then sit down to eat what you've made together, no stage performance, just genuine food and conversation.

The Cooking Lab - Authentic Food Experience

Spend three hours in an Italian kitchen learning to cook traditional dishes alongside someone who's cooked this way since childhood. You'll prep, cook, and eat together, working through the fundamentals of genuine Italian food. The session includes all equipment, a welcome drink, a full meal you've made yourself, and local wines to match.

Sorrento Food & Wine Tour - 'Taste of Sorrento'

A three-hour culinary ramble through residential Sorrento that bypasses the tourist circuit. Your guide shepherds you between neighbourhood establishments where you'll taste several regional dishes—think aubergine parmigiana alongside local wines—each with stories about the traditions that built them. Everything comes from seasonal, local stock. Homemade puddings and limoncello round things out. Walking distances between venues are short; food is the real focus here.

Farm To table Experience on an organic hilltop estate in Tuscany

Escape the [Florence](/places/florence) crowds for a 7.5-hour working day at a family-run organic estate near San Miniato. After a 40-minute train ride from central Florence, you'll tour the vineyard and olive groves, then pick seasonal produce—asparagus, herbs, truffles depending on the time of year—to cook lunch together. Learn how Tuscan cooking strips away pretence and lets quality ingredients speak. Three wines, limoncello and house spirits round out the meal, all enjoyed on the hilltop with views stretching across the countryside.

Make pasta, drink wine. Cooking class with transported included!

Roll up your sleeves and learn to shape pasta the way locals have for generations in Salento, Italy. This four-hour class puts you hands-on with dough, teaching techniques you'll actually use at home. You'll craft two pasta styles from scratch, then sit down to eat what you've made alongside regional wines and Salento antipasti. Transport is included, and the small-group setup means genuine conversation with your hosts—not rushed instruction.

Mozzarella Experience with Tasting in Vico Equense

Work alongside Maestro Casaro Antonio at a century-old mozzarella dairy nestled in the Sorrento Peninsula's green hills. Over two hours, you'll pull fresh curd, learn traditional cheesemaking techniques hands-on, and taste the warm, delicate results straight from the vat. This Vico Equense operation has been crafting fior di latte since the early 1900s, and you'll leave understanding exactly why.

Pizza, Gelato & Suppli Cooking Class by Colosseum

Master three pillars of Italian street food in this three-hour cooking class near the [Colosseum](/places/colosseum). Work alongside a local chef to roll and shape Neapolitan pizza dough, churn silky gelato from scratch, and fry golden supplì—those crispy Roman risotto balls filled with melted cheese. You'll taste everything you make, paired with Italian wines throughout.

Positano or Amalfi and Ravello Tour with Lots of Wine

A nine-hour private tour along the [Amalfi Coast](/places/amalfi-coast) taking in Positano, Amalfi and Ravello with a dedicated driver. You'll navigate the dramatic coastline at your own pace, stopping at quieter viewpoints and village corners away from the main throngs. The centrepiece is lunch at a family winery—a working 500-year-old vineyard where the owners prepare regional dishes (house-made cheese, cured meats, seasonal produce, desserts) and pour their own wines as you eat.

Professional Lab Pasta Experience

Learn to roll and shape fresh pasta using techniques passed down through generations at a working Roman pastificio. This three-hour class teaches you to make ravioli, tagliatelle, and fettuccine from scratch, finishing with a meal of your creations paired with wine. Run by two siblings who inherited their grandmother's methods, the workshop sits in their actual pasta shop where they've earned recognition in Italy's most respected food guides since opening.

Knowledge and Flavors

Spend six to eight hours exploring Cilento's edible and archaeological treasures with a local guide. You'll trek through working farms and producers—olive groves, buffalo mozzarella dairies, fig orchards, wineries—tasting as you go. Then visit Paestum's Greek-Roman ruins and the National Museum to understand 2,500 years of the region's layered history. Lunch and snacks showcase what the land yields, built on the Mediterranean diet's principles.

6 hours – 8 hoursfrom AUD $360

Olive Oil Tasting and Experience (The Original in Sicily)

★ 5.0 (95)

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Italy

Olive Oil Tasting and Experience (The Original in Sicily)

Spend three hours on a Sicilian olive estate learning how quality extra virgin oil moves from grove to glass. Walk through working groves, watch the extraction process, and develop your palate through structured tastings that break down positive flavours and common faults. Finish with a traditional Sicilian lunch where regional dishes are paired with the estate's oils, plus local wine and coffee.

Brunello Wine Tour and Val D'Orcia Landscape

A four-hour private wine exploration through Tuscany's Brunello country and Val d'Orcia landscape, led by a local guide with deep roots in the region. Visit handpicked small producers where quality trumps volume and you'll be greeted as a guest, not a transaction. Your guide speaks fluent English and tailors the itinerary to your interests, combining winery access with tuition on production methods and landscape history. Transport included throughout.

Positano Spaghetti experience

Learn to cook and eat traditional Positano pasta during a three-hour session at a local villa. You'll prepare several dishes from scratch alongside your host, then sit down to taste everything you've made, paired with local wine and aperitivo snacks. It's a straightforward introduction to the [Amalfi Coast](/places/amalfi-coast)'s everyday cooking—the kind locals eat at home, not restaurant versions.

Montalcino: Renowned Tuscan Olive Oil Mill Tour & Tasting

Walk through a working Tuscan mill that's earned international gold medals for its extra virgin olive oil. This 90-minute tour at Frantoio di Montalcino covers the production process from fruit to bottle, then moves to a tasting room where you'll sample several oils alongside warm bread and local produce. You'll learn practical tips on choosing, using, and storing quality oil, then have the chance to buy directly from the producer.

Half Day Private Parmigiano Reggiano and Parma Ham Experience

Spend five-and-a-half hours tracing two cornerstones of Emilia-Romagna's food culture through the rolling Parma Hills. Visit a working Parmigiano Reggiano dairy to watch cheese makers shape and salt wheels, then taste four ages of the finished product alongside fresh ricotta. Cross into prime ham country to see how Prosciutto di Parma is crafted, learning the exacting standards that define its signature sweetness. A local guide steers the entire operation, with regional wine and cured meat tastings woven throughout.

Rome Pizza & Tiramisù Cooking Class with Unlimited Wine

Roll up your sleeves in central Rome for a 2.5-hour hands-on cooking class where you'll learn to make pizza dough and tiramisu from a local chef. Work alongside up to 14 other participants, then sit down to eat what you've made, washing it down with unlimited wine or beer. You'll start with a prosecco or spritz, and the chef handles all ingredient prep—you focus on technique and flavour.

Rome Pasta and Tiramisu Making Experience with Premium Wine

Master three pillars of Roman cooking in a three-hour hands-on class steps from Piazza Mattei. Work alongside a chef to roll pasta sheets, shape ravioli, and layer tiramisu from raw ingredients. You'll finish with a spread of what you've made, wine pairings included, and the muscle memory to recreate each dish at home. Small groups of up to twelve keep things intimate and manageable.

Amalfi Coast Wine Tour

Spend 6 to 9 hours exploring the [Amalfi Coast](/places/amalfi-coast)'s wine country by private minivan, starting from your hotel or port. You'll visit the hilltop village of Tramonti where a wine specialist guides you through working vineyards, explaining the local grape varieties and production methods before leading a tasting of four wines in the cellar. Perfect for those wanting to understand what makes Amalfi's wines distinctive beyond the postcard views.

6 hours – 9 hoursfrom AUD $833

Sorrento Ape Tour, Lemon Garden, Mozzarella Show & Pizza Class

★ 5.0 (83)

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Italy

Sorrento Ape Tour, Lemon Garden, Mozzarella Show & Pizza Class

Discover Massa Lubrense's food heritage in four hours aboard a three-wheeled Ape, starting in centuries-old lemon groves where you'll taste sun-squeezed citrus, then move to a mozzarella dairy to witness cheese-making and sample local oils and cured meats. The tour wraps with a hands-on pizza class where you'll stretch and top your own dough, then eat what you've made alongside wine and limoncello.

Matera Cooking Class

Learn to make pasta from scratch at a working farm in Basilicata's countryside, where olive groves and vegetable plots supply the kitchen. You'll spend four hours preparing and eating traditional dishes alongside your hosts, working with produce picked that morning. The farmhouse itself uses local stone and timber, fitting seamlessly into the rolling landscape where over two thousand olive trees and citrus orchards define the property.

Campo dè Fiori Market and Trevi Fountain Food and Wine Tour in Rome

Spend four hours navigating Rome's neighbourhood markets and monuments with a local guide, sampling over ten regional dishes paired with wine and beer. You'll start at Campo de' Fiori, the city's working produce market, then walk to iconic sites including Trevi Fountain whilst eating your way through neighbourhood trattorias and wine bars. The tour balances eating and walking in equal measure, steering clear of tour-bus crowds by sticking to spots locals actually frequent.

Wine & Cooking Experience with Local Family at Cortecorbo Winery

Spend eight hours at Cortecorbo, a family-owned vineyard in Irpinia's celebrated wine region, learning winemaking from the proprietor before heading to the kitchen. You'll shape and bake pizza over a wood fire, then settle in for a leisurely lunch where each course pairs thoughtfully with six estate wines, anchored by the structured, age-worthy Taurasi DOCG. Transport, tastings, and coffee included. Best suited to those wanting genuine hospitality rather than polished tourism.

Pasta Cooking class in the countryside

Learn to roll, shape and cook pasta the way Italian nonnas taught their grandchildren, in a countryside kitchen near [Florence](/places/florence). This 6.5-hour class keeps groups small—just 12 people maximum—so you'll get proper attention from hosts who've grown up making pasta at home. You'll work with fresh eggs from their land, taste their olive oil and local wines, then sit down to eat what you've made. Transport from Florence is included, as are all ingredients and a full lunch.

Brunetti's Venice: A Culinary Journey Through Leon's Mysteries

Follow Commissario Brunetti's trail through Venice's backstreets and canal-side squares, stopping at neighbourhood trattorias and market stalls to taste cicchetti, seafood, and local wines. Over two and a half hours, your guide—steeped in both Donna Leon's novels and Venetian culinary tradition—connects real locations that inspired the crime series to the dishes and characters that inhabit them. You'll sample coffee, three small plates with vegetarian options, and three drinks as you navigate the city's working quarters beyond the tourist zones.

Rome: Pizza and Tiramisu Cooking Class near the Colosseum

Learn to make pizza and tiramisu from scratch in a compact kitchen just steps from the [Colosseum](/places/colosseum). This 2.5-hour class pairs hands-on technique with genuine Roman hospitality—you'll knead and stretch dough, build your dessert layer by layer, then sit down together to eat what you've made. A local chef guides you through both dishes while wine, prosecco, and limoncello flow for the adults at your table. Works brilliantly for families with children old enough to handle kitchen tools.

Sea Villa Cefalù: Hands-on 4-Course Pasta Cooking Class & Wine

Learn to make four Sicilian courses from scratch at Sea Villa Cefalù, where you'll work through pasta, sauce, vegetable dishes and dessert alongside a chef in a relaxed kitchen setting. Over five hours, you'll knead dough, shape pasta and plate dishes yourself, breaking midway for sparkling wine and appetisers. Afterwards, sit together to eat what you've cooked, paired with regional wines, and take home a PDF guide to repeat the recipes in your own kitchen.

Sorrento Pizza Making Class with Local Pizzaiolo Hands on 100%

Learn to stretch, top and bake authentic Neapolitan pizza alongside a practising pizzaiolo in Sorrento's historic centre. This hands-on two-hour class covers traditional technique from dough preparation through to the wood-fired oven, ending with you eating what you've made. The terraced setting overlooks the Gulf with Mount Vesuvius on the horizon. Small groups mean real instruction and plenty of questions answered.

Traditional Cooking Class in Florence Countryside with Fabio

Learn to cook three courses from scratch in Fabio's countryside kitchen near [Florence](/places/florence), then eat what you've made alongside your host and his partner. Over three hours you'll master fresh pasta, a seasonal main and dessert, starting with a tour of the olive groves that surround his hilltop home. Transport from central Florence is included, as are drinks and the meal itself.

Semi-Private Venice Market and Cicchetti Food Experience

A 2.5-hour guided tasting tour through Venice's culinary heart, capped at six guests. Start at the Rialto fish market where vendors haggle over the daily catch, then hop between three neighbourhood bars sampling cicchetti—Venetian small plates—paired with prosecco. A gondolino glides you through the canals between stops, and you'll finish with gelato or dessert. It's less museum, more locals' lunch.

Rome with Golf Cart at Night with Pizza & Ice Cream

Glide through Rome's nocturnal streets in a golf cart for four hours, stopping to eat your way through the city's best neighbourhoods. Start with cured meats and fresh mozzarella, move on to a proper Roman pasta or pizza dinner, then finish with gelato from an artisan gelateria. You'll see the city lit up and feel like a local rather than a tourist queuing at monuments.

4 hoursfrom AUD $282

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