Best Cooking Classes in Italy and Food and Wine Tasting Experiences

I had an awesome time with tour guide Beatrice, she took me through the history around town while trying out different local food in different places. My goodness, the different types of food I tried were amazing. I'm satisfied that I chose private over group option, Beatrice was beyond my expectation and found her service to be highly professional and very knowledgeable. As I got to know Beatrice during our short time, I felt her passion and love for Italy. Thank you for your time Beatrice!

The trip exceeded our hopes for the evening. The trip to the vineyard was informative and fun. The host at the vineyard was proud of his heritage and knee all about the wine and the dinner matching. I would recommend this trip to anyone.

Like going to a real cooking school. Easy bus-metro access just off square with San Giovanni in Laterano so the class can be combined with a visit to complete the day. Different experience. This is a new business in a purpose constructed new, ground floor space. There are sixteen bright new individual stations-every person has their own 4 burner modern induction cooking surface complete with sink, pots , pans and utensils. Everyone prepares and cooks everything themselves with gentle, knowledgeable, helpful guidance from Matteo- an engaging young Roman. Myself, who knows how to cook and my sister from Germany who is lost in the kitchen, were both made comfortable and Matteo was very patient with her. After class both a full set of pictures taken by an assistant and recipes are sent by email. We were the only two people there on a Sat but they gave us the full experience. This is the only class where you get to really prepare the entire 3 course meal by yourself. No pasta since I had asked for egg plant Parmesan-which Matteo helped us make exactly the way my Sicilian grandmother used to do. It was delicious. There was also a rolled veal dish with Parma ham and we made two each. Best main course I had in Rome with all the meat I wanted. There was enough ingredients so we each made two 4'x4" baking dishes of the eggplant .I was full after the meat dish and tasting the eggplant so they boxed them up with our desert to take home. On arrival we had espresso and a sweet and shared a split of Pro Secco-all we wanted to drink at 10AM A bottle of decent white was served with lunch which you eat at your station. This is a class not a party. Cost is 100E's but you are greeted with a chef's hat, hand towel and apron which you get to take home. Good quality souvenirs. Modern clean on site restroom. Plenty of room. No skimping on quantity or quality of ingredients. A bit more expensive than the others but for me a worth while experience.

This company was amazing! Our tourguide was the best! Super friendly, outgoing, and very knowledgeable of all the wine and wineries that we visited. It turned out to be a little bit more challenging than I thought, but overall such a great experience and I would do it again. The wine and the buffet at the winery was fabulous! We ended up buying some wine, olive oil and truffle salt because it was so good! I would definitely recommend this company if you are in Florence! Again, we couldn't say enough great things about our tour guide he was amazing!

The cooking class was one of the highlights of my stay in Tuscany. Andrea led us through the New Market, teaching us about Florentine cuisine all along the way. Then we headed to the kitchen/classroom where we donned our aprons and made individual tiramisu cups. Next was creation of our own ball of pasta dough. While it rested Andrea showed us how to prepare a Bolognese sauce, teaching knife skills and proper searing of meat. The sauce went to the chef's kitchen to simmer while we were treated to wine, bruschetta, crostini, and aged parmesan. Then came the fun of rolling out our dough and creating both ravioli and tagliatelli. Everyone's pastas went back to the kitchen to boil while the whole class worked together to clean the work surfaces so we could do what we'd all been waiting for - eat our creations! They served each of the 3 work tables a platter of ravioli with butter-sage sauce, a platter of tagliatelli with Bolognese sauce, and another bottle of Chianti. A vegetarian option was also served. We finished our meal with our personal tiramisu. Everything was absolutely delicious! It was really some of my best food on my trip. All 3 of our instructors were knowledgeable, personable, fun, and great communicators. We received a recipe book which I've used to make all the dishes we made in class - just as good as I remember. What a great way to commemorate my Italian adventure!

The VIP Cooking Class was really fantastic !! Giuseppe was our chef and teacher and first took us to the Market where we learned a great deal about the local ingredients, and then took a trip of about an hour out to a Villa in the countryside. During the class we learned to make Tiramisu and Pappardelle Pasta - and a meat sauce to go with it. Each person got to contribute to the making of each of the dishes in some way or another. At the end we all sat down and ate our handy-works - which were simply delicious. Giuseppe was a wonderful host - very witty and he definitely knows what he is doing, so he is also a superb teacher. I can highly recommend the VIP cooking tour.