Venice Cooking Class: Learn Traditional Dishes with Award-Winning Chef
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78 Ratings
Venezia
Join award-winning chef Carolyn in her beautiful home kitchen in Venice for a hands-on cooking class. Learn to make traditional Venetian dishes and enjoy a delicious lunch with Venetian wine.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Campo Santa Margherita - You will start with Italian fresh pasta filled with meat or fish and a delicious sauce made with seasonal vegetables from the northern lagoon. Carolyn uses fresh products sourced from Venice and its islands.

You will make the pasta by hand and then learn how to fill and close the “agnolotti.” Afterward, you will become a pastry chef, creating a delicious crème patisserie to top the sweet local cakes!

What's Included
  • Drinks including water and wine
  • Specially prepared meal
  • Guidance from an expert chef
  • High-quality ingredients provided
  • All necessary cooking items included
What's Not Included
  • Pick-up hotel
  • extra alchool or food
Meal Options
  • Fresh italian past with season sauces - The ingredients will change in according to the season.
  • Local Cakes
Additional Information

In this magnificent city, Carolyn, a professional chef, imparts her love for Venetian cuisine to fellow food enthusiasts! Her beautiful home kitchen-adorned square of Campo Santa Margherita, one of Venice’s most charming squares, serves as her classroom.

Being an American married to a Venetian and having lived in Italy for over two decades, Carolyn has myriad accolades to her name for her Venetian cooking skills, and she will be your dedicated chef for the cooking course!

Carolyn will greet you with a glass of Venetian wine in her elegantly designed house before setting to prepare the delightful lunch (a main course and dessert, accompanied by Venetian wine and coffee).

This enriching experience will be instructive in teaching you the successful approaches to crafting traditional Venetian dishes, particularly the preparation of home-made fresh pasta, staying true to the classic Italian style.

  • In case of dietary restrictions due to allergies, food intolerances or religious preferences, please communicate them in advance, so that the chef can adapt the menu accordingly.
  • From april to october the meal will be served outside on the terrace that overlooks the square (only if the weather is good)
  • On certain dates, most travelers staying outside of Venice who are planning to visit for the day will be required to pay a €5 access fee. For further details (including exemptions) and to learn what days this fee is applicable, please visit: https://cda.ve.it
Location
Rio Terà Canal, 3022
Rio Terà Canal
When you arrive in Campo Santa Margherita, you will see a big brown House in the middle of the square, go ahead and wait for Carolyn at the monument with the red pole behind. She will arrive there with the sign “cooking class”.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Amy_m
Jun 5, 2024
The perfect way to get to know Venice! - Carolyn was simply wonderful! The recipes she showed us how to make were absolutely delicious, and we can’t wait to make them for family and friends back home. She took so much time and care to show us how to make the dishes to ensure that we’d have no trouble recreating them. Additionally, we appreciated all of her stories and tips about the city of Venice as well.
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Darrell_g
Apr 27, 2024
Great class, wonderful experience! - It was fun, educational and after returning home I was successful in practicing what we were taught. Everything was well planned out and well executed. The lunch we made and enjoyed together was delightful. We would highly recommend this experience to our friends.
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Michael_b
Mar 19, 2024
We actually can cook! - We had a wonderful cooking experience with Carolyn. We made ravioli, tortellini, and tagliatelle. We also made cicchetti (small plates) and dessert. It was a fun and informative experience that we would highly recommend!
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Rachel_j
Mar 5, 2024
An amazing experience!!!... - An amazing experience!!! We loved every part of it! Carolyn was a great host and had some interesting insight, even for someone who is familiar in the kitchen. We will be sure to make these recipes again!
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Emily_b
Jan 25, 2024
Amazing and wonderful! - This was an absolutely amazing experience and we are so glad we did it. If I could go back I would do it toward the beginning of our trip because Carolyn had so many wonderful recommendations for places to eat, places to see, and things to do. A must if you are in Venice. We highly recommend and if we ever come back we will definitely do it again.
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Janine_d
Jan 21, 2024
In a Venetian kitchen! - We had a great time with Carolyn who shares so much knowledge of cooking and of Venice! She’s excellent at making everyone feel very at home in her kitchen!
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Mikela_w
Jan 18, 2024
Amazing cooking class in Venice!!! - We came to Venice for our honeymoon. We both knew we wanted to do a cooking class in Italy and when we found this class thought it would be a fun activity for us. Carolyn brings you in and treats you like family. I have allergies and that wasn’t communicated to her prior to our class but she was able to quickly think on her feet and figure something out for me to eat which was so appreciated. She explained everything we were doing in such a simple and amazing way, she made sure to have printouts of everything that we made and talked about for us to take home with us. Next time we come back to Venice we will certainly be doing another class with her!
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Thompson2788
Oct 10, 2023
Family cooking class in n Venice!!! - This was a wonderful class!! So interactive with the host!! Caroline was an excellent host!!! 5 stars!!
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Heidi_s
Oct 5, 2023
Venice highlight - Carolina was wonderful. She made sure to use ingredients readily available so we could re-create our dishes at home. It’s much more than a pasta cooking class. We made appetizers and dessert, and got tips on places to go and things to see. I would recommend taking this class early on your Venice trip so as to be able to use all of the information she shared.
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Tourist08096944360
Oct 8, 2023
Not an enjoyable experience overall - The host is a good home cook. She provided a number of good tips, the food was enjoyable and her kitchen is beautiful. However there were a number of disappointing aspects of the time spent. It is more of a demo than the advertised “Class” experience, Compared to other cooking classes we attended while on vacation in Spain the host did not invite questions from the four of us and it was a one way conversation. We were unable to truly engage with the other two guests which is normally a fun aspect. The host was rude and aggressive with us. She did not even know the correct name of her assistant. Her business skills were terribly lacking since 1) she did not advise us that recording her tips was against policy (we did not intend to post any), 2) she exceeded the posted length of the class by thirty minutes which did not respect our timetables for other events and then 3) requested photos of our tickets as we were headed out the door. Worst of all were her personal sanitary habits. We gladly washed our hands at the start and left our germy phones off the preparation surface. However, she wiped her nose with her hand numerous times and the proceeded to kneed the pasta dough we all ate except her. She also had a couching fit without covering her mouth. All of these factors and her pompous manner left a rather sour taste in our mouths.
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