Florence Pasta-Making Class: Hands-On Italian Culinary Experience with a Professional Chef
4.8
37 Ratings
Firenze
Immerse yourself in the art of pasta-making with a hands-on culinary experience in Florence. Explore the local market, learn from a professional chef, and enjoy a delicious family-style meal.
Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Piazza Santo Spirito - Join us for the ultimate Florence pasta making class with a twist! We’ll start by meeting at a designated spot and heading to the local market to buy fresh ingredients.
    Then we’ll head to a secret location - a local chef’s beautiful home with a rooftop and herbal garden.
    Once we’re there, we’ll enjoy some delicious starters and unlimited local wine before learning how to make the best fettuccine and ravioli of our lives.

We’ll also have the chance to prepare and taste Tiramisù or other local desserts. Don’t miss out on this unforgettable pasta making class experience in Florence!

What's Included
  • Lunch
  • Snacks
  • Pasta Making Class
  • English speaking instruction
  • Unlimited Wine
What's Not Included
  • Private transportation
  • Gratuities
  • Email to advise of any dietary requirements such as vegetarian and gluten-free diets
Meal Options
  • Home made Ravioli
  • Home made Fettuccine
  • MIxed Antipasti
  • Tiramisù or other local deserts
Additional Information

Join us for a practical culinary adventure in the gourmet kitchen of a seasoned local cook’s stunning Tuscan residence – and acquire Italian pasta cooking techniques that will impress your buddies back home!

The day commences with your intimate group exploring the distinctive and authentic Oltrarno neighborhood in Florence. Along with your experienced chef, you’ll browse through local family-owned shops and market vendors, purchasing the ingredients for your dishes.
Following this, after collecting fresh herbs from the rooftop garden, you’ll don your aprons, ready your hands, and set about creating your culinary masterpiece.

The adventure winds down with a communal lunch/dinner with your newfound friends, accompanied by indulgent helpings of wine, promising a lively afternoon/evening. Be a part of an authentic Italian home-cooking session that you’ll cherish forever!

And for the attendees in the afternoon, we’ll swap the market trip with a quintessential Italian experience: Aperitivo! Relish cured meats and pecorino cheese with a spritz of your preference (Campari or Aperol)

  • This activity requires a minimum number of 2 guests. Should this not be met, we will contact you directly to help you get rescheduled or reimbursed!
  • The experience might vary on holidays
Location
Piazza Santo Spirito
Meeting Point at Piazza Santo Spirito near the fountain
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
4.8
(37 Ratings)
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Julie
Nov 23, 2023
Extraordinary!!!! - We did this activity with our 15 year old daughter and it was the highlight of our stay in Florence. We had an aperitif with Aperol Spritz to start as well as an appetizer. We then learned to make pasta and tiramisu. Each participant made their own dough and afterwards we learned to make ravioli and tagliatelle. We were a group of 7 in total and all helped make dinner in a very well equipped kitchen for a group. Very entertaining and interesting. At the end, we were able to taste the meal we had prepared (salad, ravioli, tagliatelle and tiramisu). I give a 10 for this superb experience!!! A little expensive, 275 euros for 3 but definitely worth it!!! I highly recommend if you have teenagers.
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Mdhuskergirl
Nov 11, 2023
Delicious shared cooking experience - The food was delicious! Learning how to make pasta, sampling pecorino, the company - made for a lovely evening. The two chefs were engaging and made the learning process easy. A small group (5 of us) made for an intimate experience, sharing food we made. I enjoy cooking and look forward to trying (and sharing) my new recipes.
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Rjens
Oct 17, 2023
Well done! - Great experience! Enjoyed the class and the company. I’m sure will take the recipes and try to repeat at home!
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Helen_s
Oct 12, 2023
Wonderful experience - The cooking class was excellent! We loved learning how to make pasta and tiramisu and learning from the chef. Everything was delicious and the small group setting was perfect.
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Geraldine
Sep 1, 2023
Best cooking class I’ve experienced - It’s difficult to teach an interactive cooking class with 14 people of all levels but they did an amazing job. The instructor and staff were welcoming, attentive and efficient. I went with my daughter and we had a great time cooking, learning new kitchen tips, eating and meeting wonderful from many parts of the world.
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Monica_u
Aug 6, 2023
Awesome experience! - The class was awesome and I totally enjoyed it. The chef was awesome too. He explained the importance of fresh ingredients at farmer's market along with cheese and prosciutto. Showing us how both are preserved. I loved actually making pasta and dessert. Then eating it. The food was awesome!
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Sidhantr2023
Jul 11, 2023
Super fun and informative Italian cooking experience - Super fun experience, learned a ton about Italian cooking and culture. The staff were amazing and very friendly. They constructed an experience that had the perfect balance of individual work and guidance in order to make delicious food!
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Ronald_r
Jul 4, 2023
Great time - Was an excellent experience. Had a great time. Staff was great. People are great chef was great. I would do it again enough for now on I’ll take a cooking class. Every major city I go to.
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H7941uqdaven
Oct 19, 2023
Pasta prep class - The class was interesting and the instructor was very knowledgeable. But I would say that it was a pasta preparation course and not a pasta cooking course because the students never cooked anything. We made the pasta and cut tomatoes for the sauce but it was the instructor who actually cooked and plated the pasta dishes.
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Suavjules
Apr 18, 2024
Expected more from reviews & description - We loved our chef (Guinevere -sp?) she was extremely knowledgeable, patient, and had a great sense of humor that made the class fun. However we were a bit disappointed on several fronts. First, there was confusion over the meeting point, it appeared for the tour operator as everyone in our class was in the same place & the guide was not… luckily another tour guide from the same company was there so she could call her colleague to collect us delaying our start to the class by about 15mins. And although we did the night class and knew it didn’t include the market several in the group received a confusing email that day reminding them to wear comfortable shoes for the market walk… and when the tour operator showed up she apologized to all of to say the markets are closed on Saturday night so we couldn’t do that part of the tour…. In short, the tour operator seemed confused themselves about the what our night tour did or didn’t entail, it wasn’t a great start. Next, the tour description states the class would be held in a “secret house with a rooftop garden”… this was not true. We were in a cooking school with industrial kitchen. That was fine & suited the purpose but was misleading in the description. Last, the description talks about “unlimited wine” flowing during the class… this was also not true. We had a welcome Prosecco drink with meats at the beginning but it was a bit rushed, likely because of the start time snafu. And then we went into the instruction. This was fun and informative but we didn’t actually cook it. The chef prepared it for us after the instruction & while we sat in another room. The class had a 6pm start time and I’d say wine and food / eating didn’t begin until closer to 9pm. Again not a big deal given that’s the later dinner times we’d become accustomed to in our trip, but a cooking class we expected to be doing a lot more eating, tasting, wine merrymaking. If you sign up for this class don’t do what we did and eat a light lunch ! With all the 5 star reviews we can only think there was an off night for the tour company or confusion in general… and maybe the location of where it takes place needs to be updated in the description so it is not misleading.
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