Anybody can eat pasta in Italy. Learn to make it instead.
Which Rome kitchen rolls fettuccine and which one hands you a tiramisu glass. What an afternoon in Florence costs. Whether the unlimited wine is really unlimited. Reviews of the pasta classes you can book across Italy.
Four Italian kitchens worth building a day around.
The classes travellers fill first in Rome, Florence and Naples. What a seat costs, and what you walk out able to cook.
01Florence, cheapestPasta Cooking Class with Unlimited WineThree hours of rolling and as much Chianti as the table can drink, for less than dinner.
02Rome, the full spreadPasta Making Class with Wine, Limoncello, and DessertFettuccine first, then limoncello, then dessert, a short walk from the Vatican walls.
03Three courses in one3 in 1 Cooking Class near Navona: Fettuccine, Ravioli & TiramisuFettuccine, ravioli and tiramisu in one kitchen off Piazza Navona.
04Naples, hands onPasta Making Class with Starter and DrinkDough stretched the Neapolitan way, with a starter and a drink to finish.
Rome rolls fettuccine. Bologna folds tortellini. Pick a city.
Every Italian city has its own shape, its own sauce and its own argument about which is correct. Six kitchens to choose between, and the class travellers rate highest in each.
Rome, Florence or Bologna: three cities, three doughs.
The three cities running the most classes. What one seat costs in each, and what comes out of the pan.
The Italian pasta classes travellers book most.
See every pasta class →Rome and Florence take most of the traffic, and the surprises are the home kitchens. Prices, ratings and what each session actually teaches.
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Pasta Cooking Class with Unlimited Wine
Make three fresh pastas in a 1200s Florence tower, then eat them with Tuscan wine in this lively three-hour class.
From · $21
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2
3 in 1 Cooking Class near Navona: Fettuccine, Ravioli & Tiramisu
from $83
3
Florence Pizza or Pasta Class with Gelato Making at a Tuscan Farm
from $145
4
Pasta & Tiramisu Cooking Class with Unlimited Wine
from $56
5
Pasta Cooking Class with Unlimited Wine
6
Pasta & Tiramisu Class with Fine Wine by the Vatican
from $41
7
Pasta Making Class with Wine, Limoncello, and Dessert
from $48
8
Pastamania – Florence Pasta Making Class
from $49
Tiramisu, fresh sheets, ravioli by the dozen.
Nearly every class ends at the table, but they start in different places. The three things travellers sign up to make, and the kitchens that teach each one best.
Three things a pasta class teaches that a cookbook cannot.
Egg pasta rolled thin enough to read through, gnocchi that stay light, and a tiramisu whipped in front of you. Each one has a city that says it owns the recipe.
Fresh pasta from a well of flour
It begins as a crater of flour on a wooden board with eggs cracked into the middle, and it ends as a sheet you can see your fingers through. The rolling pin is the whole lesson. A machine does the job faster and a long wooden mattarello does it better, which is why the good classes still hand you the stick and let your arms find out why.
- 1Pasta Making Class with Wine, Limoncello, and Dessert★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 3,177 reviews
- 2Pastamania – Florence Pasta Making Class★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 3,050 reviews
- 3Enjoy Spritz and Pasta Making in Piazza Navona★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,681 reviews
Ravioli and gnocchi, by hand
Filled pasta is where a class stops being fun and starts being skill. Too much filling and the parcel splits in the water, too little and you have served a sheet of dough. Gnocchi are the opposite problem, a question of how little flour you can get away with. Bologna and Rome both teach the fold, with different pinches and firm opinions.
- 13 in 1 Cooking Class near Navona: Fettuccine, Ravioli & Tiramisu★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 7,376 reviews
- 23-in-1 Fettuccine, Ravioli, and Tiramisu Cooking Class★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 2,704 reviews
- 3Fettuccine Pasta Cooking Class in Rome’s City Center★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 2,414 reviews
Tiramisu, whipped and layered
Mascarpone, eggs, sugar, coffee, cocoa, and a great deal of argument about whether cream belongs anywhere near it. Treviso claims the invention and the 1960s claim the date, and almost every Roman kitchen now finishes its class with a glass of it. You learn it in the last twenty minutes, while the pasta water comes back to the boil.
- 13 in 1 Cooking Class near Navona: Fettuccine, Ravioli & Tiramisu★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 7,376 reviews
- 2Pasta & Tiramisu Cooking Class with Unlimited Wine★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 6,708 reviews
- 3Pasta & Tiramisu Class with Fine Wine by the Vatican★★★★★★★★★★ 4.9 · 4,852 reviews
What three hours in an Italian kitchen actually costs.
Every class on the site, grouped by the price of one seat. The cheapest are not the worst; they are usually the biggest.
Group classes in Florence and Rome, often with the wine poured all evening.
The standard shape: a small kitchen, two or three pasta shapes, and dessert.
Private chefs, home kitchens, and the farm days that include the drive out.
What to check before you pay for a pasta class in Italy.
Kitchens are small and the details decide the evening. How many people share your board. Whether you cook or watch a chef cook. Whether dinner is included or you eat what you made standing up. Whether the vegetarian at your table gets the same class or a plate of vegetables.
Four Italian classes that fill weeks out.
A home kitchen seats eight or ten people and the popular addresses run one sitting at a time. These are the ones travellers keep finding already full.
- 013 in 1 Cooking Class near Navona: Fettuccine, Ravioli & TiramisuOne table in a flat off Piazza Navona, one group at a time. When an evening is taken it is taken.
- 02Pasta & Tiramisu Class with Fine Wine by the VaticanIt sits beside the museums, so it collects everybody whose morning ticket has just run out.
- 03Florence Pizza or Pasta Class with Gelato Making at a Tuscan FarmThe farm is outside the city, so the class runs to a transfer time rather than to yours.
By what comes out of the pan
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