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
The Biggest Market in Rome, Tasted Stall by Stall
Four hours and six venues in Prati: coffee, Bonci's pizza, truffles and 30-year balsamic, several stalls in Rome's largest market, then pasta and tiramisù.
The Cart Is Yours, and So Is the Route
Three hours in your own electric cart with a guide who drives: Colosseum, Circus Maximus, Ghetto, Navona, the Spanish Steps from above and Castel Sant'Angelo.
The Guide Is Included, the Food Is Your Choice
The one Naples walk where nothing is pre-ordered: your guide shows you the counters, you choose and pay, roughly €14 a head. Spaccanapoli to Plebiscito. €44.
The Limonata a Cosce Aperte, Spaccanapoli and San Gregorio Armeno
Two hours from the Neptune fountain to Piazza del Gesù: folded pizza, tarallo with beer, sfogliatella, coffee and the lemon soda named after how you drink it.
The Mozzatura, the Acrobatics, and Your Own Margherita
Knead the dough, watch the mozzatura and the pizza acrobatics, bake your own Margherita, then make tiramisu. In the historic centre, with a diploma at the end.
The Oldest Wood Oven in Trastevere, and the Wine Never Stops
Four hours and more than twenty tastings in four Trastevere rooms: handmade pasta, pizza from the neighbourhood's oldest wood oven, truffles, hams, gelato.
The Pignasecca, the Maradona Mural, and a Toast to the Sky
Three hours out of the tourist grid: market stalls, fried fish in a paper cone, fried pizza, the Quartieri, a glass at the Maradona shrine. Ten people.
Thirty-Year Balsamic, and the Barolo Keeps Coming
Five venues in Prati: Bonci's pizza, a shop with 400 cheeses, 30-year balsamic on 36-month Parmigiano, handmade pasta with free-flowing Barolo, then gelato.
Three Pasta Shapes and Gelato, or Lasagna with the Market
Three fresh pasta shapes with seasonal sauces and gelato in three hours, or five hours with the Central Market, ragu, bechamel and tiramisu. Pick one.
Three Recipes, One Workstation Each, in a Cesarina's Home
A private class in a Neapolitan home cook's own kitchen, with a workstation each and three regional recipes, eaten with local red and white. €79 per person.
Three Spritzes, Alcohol-Free If You Want Them
Three hours with a chef and a mixologist: fresh pasta and sauces by hand, an Aperol, a Hugo and a limoncello spritz mixed yourself, recipes as an ebook.
Three Spritzes While the Dough Rests
A chef and a mixologist in the same room near Monti: make fresh pasta and its sauce, mix an Aperol, a Hugo and a limoncello spritz, then eat and drink the lot.
Truffle Hunting at San Miniato with Francesca and Her Dog
Out with a working hunter and her Lagotto Romagnolo in the woods above San Miniato, then tagliolini al tartufo and a Chianti wine tasting. Eight people.
Tuscan Farmhouse Pasta and Tiramisu Class with a Market Visit
The San Lorenzo market first, then twenty minutes out to a farmhouse for pasta, bruschetta, Tuscan roast pork and tiramisu. Four courses, four glasses of wine.
Two Chianti Wineries from Florence: Eight Wines and Olive Oil
Four wines and an olive oil at each of two family estates, with cheese, salami and bruschetta at the second. Half a day, back in Florence by 1.45 or 7pm.
Two Hours in Pompeii, Then Pasta in a House in Scafati
Six hours: two guided hours inside the excavated city with entry included, then pasta by hand in a real family house at Scafati, eaten together with wine. €115.
Two Hours in the Pignasecca, Ending at Scaturchio
Two hours around Naples' oldest market: spritz, taralli, frittatina, meatball in ragù, cuoppo of fried seafood, then Scaturchio for dessert. From €38.25.
Two Pasta Shapes, One Sauce You Get to Choose
Three hours in a working restaurant off Piazza Navona: cut fettuccine, fill ricotta ravioli, build a tiramisù, then choose which Roman sauce goes on top. €52.
Two Pastas, Then Gelato, With an Appetiser in Between
Three hours near Stazione Duomo: roll and cut two pasta shapes, fill the ravioli, break for a local appetiser, then learn what makes gelato not ice cream. €65.
Two Proseccos, Two Wines and a Limoncello, Counted
Three hours in a Roman kitchen making handmade pasta, a carbonara or cacio e pepe sauce, and tiramisù, with two proseccos, two wines and a limoncello. €65.
Two Wineries, San Gimignano and Dondoli Gelato in One Day
An organic Chianti estate, a guided walk in San Gimignano with world-champion gelato, lunch at a second winery, and Piazzale Michelangelo on the way home.
Under the Brazilian Flag on Navona, Out at Largo Argentina
Two homemade pizzas, two Roman pastas, supplì, cold cuts and cheeses, a cannoli, artisanal gelato and one unnamed dish, walked from Piazza Navona. €97.
Vernaccia and Chianti: Two Wineries and San Gimignano
Eight wines across two family estates near San Gimignano, Vernaccia and Chianti among them, with three olive oils and free time under the towers. Back by five.
Vespa Ride in Chianti with a Medieval Village and Wine Lunch
Eight people at most: a minivan out to Chianti, training, then Vespas through the back roads, a walled village with champion gelato, and lunch at a winery.
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