Food Tours, Cooking Classes and Wine Tastings in Italy
Three cities, 98 experiences, 159,158 reviews. Rome sells walking, Florence sells wine, Naples sells pizza, and the median prices are 82, 110 and 42 euros.
Italy is the largest catalogue on this site and the least interchangeable. Three cities, four hours apart by train, selling three genuinely different products: Rome sells a walk through a neighbourhood, Florence sells a day in the countryside with wine at the end of it, and Naples sells a two hour lesson in dough. Book the wrong one and you will still eat well. You will just not have done the thing that city does best.
The three also price differently by a factor of nearly three, and the reason is not quality. It is what is inside the ticket.
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Florence
Chianti wine days, Tuscan cooking classes and the Florentine street food nobody sells. 33 experiences from 24 EUR, and what the city itself is worth eating.
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Rome
Trastevere, the Jewish Ghetto and Testaccio: 34 Rome food experiences from 29 EUR. Four pasta dishes, the fifth quarter, and which neighbourhood to book.
33 experiences in 2 destinations -
Naples
Pizza classes and street food walks in Naples from 24 EUR. The city that invented the pizza, the fried food of the old town, and the shortest, cheapest tours…
32 experiences in 2 destinations
Food Tours Experiences in Italy
Cooking from the Family Cookbooks in Forio, Ischia
Wednesdays and Saturdays only: island recipes read out of old family cookbooks, cooked with what Ischia grows that season, at your own bench, with house wine.
Drive a Vintage Fiat 500 Through Chianti, with a Wine Stop
You drive the Fiat 500 yourself, in convoy behind a guide, through cypress roads and vineyards, with a wine tasting and light lunch. Manual gears essential.
Every Table Booked Before You Arrive
Ten or more tastings across Trastevere with every table booked in advance: cured meats, supplì, Roman pizza with a cold beer, a sit-down course, then gelato.
Fettuccine and Tiramisù, Ten People, One Square
Two and a half hours in a restaurant on the square, making fettuccine and tiramisù with a view of the fountains, then eating them with appetisers and a drink.
Fill the Ravioli, Cut the Fettuccine, Whip the Tiramisù
Three hours near the Duomo: fill ravioli, cut fettuccine, whip tiramisù, then eat the lot with a drink. Recipes and diploma go home with you. From €36.75.
Five Hours: The Market First, the Kitchen After
Five hours and eight people: shop the markets and food shops of the centre with a chef, learn what to look for, then cook and eat what you bought, with wine.
Florence in Five Bites: Cucina Povera, Chianti and Vin Santo
Ribollita, panzanella and lampredotto across five stops in a mile of the historic centre, with four Tuscan wines, gelato, and cantucci with Vin Santo to close.
Florence Pasta and Tiramisu Class in a Local Restaurant
Fresh pasta and tiramisu made in a working Florence restaurant, then eaten with wine, limoncello and coffee. Three hours, and the venue follows your time slot.
Florence's First Cooking School: Lasagna and Market, or Pasta
Two classes at one school: the Central Market then Nonna's lasagna and tiramisu, or fresh pasta by hand with artisan gelato. Small groups, Tuscan wine.
Free-Flowing Wine, One Pizza, Three Hours in Chiaia
Three hours in a restaurant kitchen on Piazza Amedeo in Chiaia: build your own pizza from the dough up, then eat it as a full meal with wine that keeps coming.
Fresh Pasta by Hand in a Dante-Era Florence Tower
The cheapest way to learn fresh pasta in Florence: two and a half hours in a tower by the Duomo, a chef beside you throughout, and the wine unlimited.
Fried Pizza on the Decumano, Mozzarella from 1958
Taralli by the Greek walls, mozzarella from a shop open since 1958, fried pizza on Via dei Tribunali, then sfogliatella and baba. Two and a half hours.
Frittatina at a Five-Generation Friggitoria, Then the Quartieri
Six tastings and three drinks across Galleria Umberto, a five-generation friggitoria and the Spanish Quarter. Twelve people maximum, three hours. From €80.10.
From Giordano Bruno's Statue to a World-Champion Gelato
An 1890 norcineria, Rome's oldest bakery, artichokes by the Portico d'Ottavia, cacio e pepe in Trastevere and a 2020 gold-medal gelato. Twelve guests.
From the Greek Walls of Piazza Bellini to Via Toledo, Eating
Two and a half hours from Piazza Bellini's Greek walls through Tribunali and San Gregorio Armeno: buffalo mozzarella, pizza fritta, limoncello. From €42.
From the Turtle Fountain to Cacio e Pepe by the Pantheon
Antipasti and wine at the Turtle Fountain, a Ghetto tavern, pizza by the slice with beer at Largo Argentina, cacio e pepe by the Pantheon, then gelato. €179.
Margherita, Marinara and Pizza Fritta for Thirty Euros
Margherita at San Domenico Maggiore, Marinara alongside it, pizza fritta on Piazzetta Nilo, plus tarallo, frittatina and dessert by Santa Chiara. Twelve people.
Margherita or Marinara, Plus One Dish They Won't Name
Two hours, twelve people, and a venue the operator won't name until you get there. Knead, top and fire your own Margherita or Marinara, then eat it. €58.99.
Meet the Ricotta, Then Fill the Ravioli
The class starts at the ingredients table: fresh ricotta, aged Parmigiano, San Marzano. Then fettuccine, filled ravioli and tiramisù, eaten on the spot. €49.
Mozzatura, a Six-Hundred-Year-Old Way to Cut Dough
Make the dough, cut it the old way, top a Margherita and bake it in the oldest wood-fired oven in Prati. Tiramisù or gelato after, with wine that keeps coming.
Ninety Minutes After Dark, Bread and Cherry Tomatoes First
The shortest class in the Naples set: a glass of local wine, wood-fired bread with cherry tomatoes, then your own dough into the oven. Luggage stored free. €42.
Oltrarno Sunset Food and Wine Walk: Wine Windows and Gnudi
Seven stops across the Oltrarno at dusk: two wine windows, a Negroni lesson, gnudi tossed at the table, wild boar stew and the gelato Florentines vote for.
One Dough, Three Sauces, Opposite the Opera House
A restaurant kitchen on Via San Carlo, two and a half hours, and a plate that ends up holding the same pasta under three different sauces. Tiramisù too. €60.
One Pasta Shape, Three Sauces to Pick From, Two Hours
Two hours near Piazza Navona: make fettuccine and tiramisù from scratch, then choose amatriciana, cacio e pepe or tomato and basil. Wine and limoncello. €42.
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