Over the Top Experience - Going to the central market and learning about all the different food and oils and then learning so much in the class about preparing the food. Francesco was so knowledgeable and so fun to tour with and learn from. We loved this experience and will be recommending it to others.

Excellent experience.... - Excellent experience. Only critique is that I would have loved to make a more “classic Florentine” meal. Walking through the market was amazing and I never would’ve discovered it if not for this tour. Learning to make pasta in Italy… a dream!

Outstanding - This outing was one of the highlights of my trip. I enjoyed the old market, the Balsamic Vinegar exposition, truffle exploration, and espresso. Francisco is so knowledgeable. Then to cook with some of our purchases was also interesting, informative, useful, and delicious. sharing the meal with the others was the perfect end. Wine pairing good as well. Highly recommended!

Chefs kiss!! - We started with an informative trip to the Mercado Central, where we had chance to try some amazing truffle, cheese, produce and salamis. After this, we went to the cooking school and made an amazing lunch with Tuscan kale and bean bruschetta, fresh pasta with an olive caper sauce, chicken with balsamic vinegar, and a lemon ricotta cake. Katelina took her time to explain everything and we did ALL the work. Afterwards, we enjoyed the lunch with wine and got the recipes as well. Absolutely recommend this tour. There are others that are twice or even 3x the price, I’m not sure if they are worth it.

Wonderful experience, great cooking class! - Wonderful experience going through the market with the chef and the cooking lessons. Small group, great instructors, very hands on, fun experience.

Must do! - The experience was outstanding! So much fun and informative. Francisco was so much fun. Would definitely do this again and have recommended to friends that asked!

Cooking in Florence - Visiting the Mercato Centale was a highlight of the cooking class. Also making the food we purchased from scratch. Making new friends and sharing a meal we prepared together was priceless.

Great experience - Enjoyed much the walk in the market. Cooking was fun and well demonstrated by Stefano, specially making the pasta. Lunch was delightful! Would recommend this event to every wanna-be cook out there.

Don’t waste your money! - Sadly this was a terrible cooking class. There were too many people in the class! We booked ours class in June and our name wasn’t on the class participants. Instead of apologizing they just placed us in the class and made it too big! The chef, no idea who it was as he never introduced himself, there was no rapport with the group, he marched through without a backwards glance. You dont actually play any part in the market shopping and you would be better to go to market on your own, all the vendors are keen to give samples of truffles, olis, cheeses etc. We finished at the market at 11am, its a dusty long 15 min walk then to the school, our chef did not stop once to tell us anything about anything or even check we were following. We then sat and did nothing until close to 12.30 The 'cooking class' felt very rushed, again the chef had no personality in what ever he told us to do, maybe he just had a really bad start to the day but at the end of the day, paying for a 5 hour event one expects to have someone who likes to communicate with people. We were a group of 4 and when leaving some of us were handed recipes we didn’t even cook!

There are better ones out there - Sadly this was the worst cooking class experience out of many including in Florence that I have done. The chef, no idea who it was as he never introduced himself, there was no rapport with the group, he marched through without a backwards glance. You dont actually play any part in the market shopping and you would be better to go to market on your own, all the vendors are keen to give samples of truffles, olis, cheeses etc. We finished at the market at 11am, its a dusty long 15 min walk then to the school, our chef did not stop once to tell us anything about anything or even check we were following. We then sat and did nothing until close to 12.30 The 'cooking class' felt very rushed, again the chef had no personality in what ever he told us to do, maybe he just had a really bad start to the day but at the end of the day, paying for a 5 hour event one expects to have someone who likes to communicate with people. We were a group of 7 friend so we did have fun as we made it so. The food was nice and of course we enjoyed the dinner afterward. This class could have been so much better with a different character of a chef, someone more passionate about food and cooking. Overall I would no recommend this class