Top Venice Food & Drink Classes

Learn insider secrets of Italian cuisine with a cooking class in a Venetian home, located in the bustling Polo Quarter of Venice. Choose between a lunch and dinner class and get hands-on experience creating traditional Italian dishes with guidance from a passionate chef. Enjoy the meal you've made, complete with wine.

If you’ve always wanted to learn to make specialty desserts, there’s no better time to learn than now. Take this Withlocals tiramisu virtual cooking class live from Venice, and participate in an interactive option that’s far more fun than reading out of a cookbook. A couple from Venice will show you step by step how to make this traditional coffee-flavored Italian dessert right from your own kitchen.

As a visitor to an unfamiliar city, it can be difficult to get close to local culture. This tour offers the rare opportunity to do exactly that by having a cooking lesson from a professional chef in her Venetian home .

Join Venetian-born host Lorenzo with a glass of cold Prosecco in hand for a 3-hour pasta cooking class and Italian dinner, paired with great music and a fun atmosphere. • Learn how to make fresh pasta, then sit down to enjoy a 3-course meal • White wine and Prosecco are included • Cooking class and communal dinner for up to 50 people • Lorenzo was born in Venice and has lived there his whole life

Learn the secret to making great pasta during a private cooking class in Venice, taught by a “cesarina,” or home cook. Follow three regional recipes and discover tricks of the trade. Each participant is equipped with utensils and ingredients at a personal workstation during the 3-hour lesson. You’ll prepare authentic Italian pastas, then taste each delicious dish, accompanied by a selection of local wine. 

Pasta is Italy’s iconic dish, and with this cooking experience you can learn how to prepare two varieties of pasta like an authentic Italian “Cesarina” (home cook). Roll out a sheet of pasta dough by hand to make both a fresh and filled variety from scratch, and then whip up a tiramisù with the help of your “Cesarina” teacher. Relax after your hands-on class by sampling the dishes you’ve prepared together.

Experience the vibrant food culture of Italy during this 6-hour private tour in Venice. Start out by exploring the local markets in search of some of the best Venetian products. Then get hands-on experience with a private cooking class to create a delicious Italian meal. Enjoy the fruits of your labor as you eat your 3-course meal which is perfectly paired with red and white wines from the region.

The ideal experience to live with family and kids! Let us prepare all together the famous Tiramisu. Take the ingredients and start the lesson. He will follow you in every step of the cooking-class. An unmissable chance to learn the preparation of the most famous Italian cake! See the different techniques of the preparation: the pastry chef will show the phases to reach a yummy cake as the Italian tradition wants! Comfortably at your home, the Italian chef will prepare with you the Italian Tiramisu! Gabriele learnt this recipe from its grandmother, that was an excellent pastry chef. He will teach you the classic preparation of tiramisu with some secret tips!

Enjoy a private market tour and Italian cooking class with Laura is a true-blue Venetian. She was born and raised in Venice and lives in a beautiful apartment in the city center (only a 20-minute walk from the city center). The neighborhood is very local with not many tourists so you will get to experience a real Italian suburb. Laura loves to travel, watch movies, go to the market and of course, cook! She learned to cook traditional dishes from her mother and she likes to serve local dishes from Veneto. She only uses fresh and organic ingredients from the local farmers. Laura is also an expert in vegetarian food, as she was a vegetarian for 10 years (but not anymore!).

Learn to prepare secret tiramisu` in Venice with an amazing virtual class with chef Lorenzo. You will receive the recipe after the class !

Learn the tips and tricks of authentic Venetian cooking with this culinary experience led a chef instructor. Shop for fresh, seasonal produce at the bustling Rialto market, and then head to a private kitchen in a historic ‘palazzo’ for a small-group lesson in regional cooking techniques. Help prepare a gourmet, multicourse menu, and then sit down among a small group of new friends to enjoy the homemade feast with wine.

Gabriele will be your guide during the preparation: he will follow you step by step teaching the traditional style to prepare the yummiest Carbonara ever. Learn the secrets of the local Italian cuisine. Call your friends and reserve the place for a unique online cooking class to enjoy all together! Comfortably at your home you’ll enjoy the cooking lesson by famous Italian chef. If you want to the receive the ingredients at home, please communicate us and we will send a Food Package with Pasta, Pancetta (Italian bacon) and egg sauce. We send ingredients for 4 persons. The delivery price is € 40, and we need to know, at least, 7 days before the online class.

You can’t come to Venice this time?No worries, our host Valerio will bring Venice to you! If you have been in town before or your planning to do so, you must know that you cannot have a genuine experience of Venice without becoming a Spritz expert!What about learning all the secrets about how to make it? You will spend an Aperitivo time together with Valerio, which is the best part of every Venetian’s day.All this will happen while learning more about the Spritz: from where its name comes from and why it is so popular both among grandpas and youngster in town. You will especially learn how to make all the variants which are so popular in all bars here in Venice: the sweeter orange flavoured Aperol, the bitter and stronger one Campari, the intrigous Cynar and delicate and almost unknown Select. Drink by drink you'll learn some tips from Valerio and end with his secret recipe as a Venetian! While drinking you will enjoy the view from his dining room window overlooking the canal!

cooking class with an expert in the history of Venice, in an informal and fun environment where you can cook and have dinner together

Italy has a vast and varied culinary heritage, and our local hosts are proud to share its hidden secrets. Share your passion for Italian gastronomy with other lovely guests, immerse yourself in the vibrant local market and enjoy an authentic hands-on cooking class. You'll visit the local market with your Cesarina host, who will teach you all about how to select the best ingredients with the seasons. Then, you'll return to their home, warm up with an Italian Aperitivo and enjoy the class. You'll learn how to make one iconic Pasta type, typical of the city you are visiting, and the famous Tiramisu. After the class, you will enjoy everything you've prepared with local wines. This experience is the perfect choice if you want to encounter the real Italian regional gastronomy through genuine connections, food, and friendship.

Experience the beloved Italian tradition of “aperitivo,” a time in the early evening to relax with friends while enjoying a selection of small plates and drinks. When your day in Venice is just winding down, learn the art of preparing the perfect aperitivo. A “cesarina,” or home cook, shares five elegant nibbles to pair with a refreshing glass of fizz. It's an authentic experience not to be missed.

Don't lose the opportunity to become a "pizzaiolo" (pizza-maker) and a great tiramisu maker! Enter a local home, connect with an expert home cook and discover how Italian mamma and nonnas used to prepare awesome pizza at home. With this private hands-on cooking class, you will learn how to make pizza and tiramisù from scratch from a real Italian family. To complete your feast, enjoy what you have prepared for lunch or dinner with a selection of local wine included. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family with a pizza party once you come back home! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Immerse yourself in a private pasta and tiramisu-making class in a welcoming home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and tiramisu and taste the fruit of your labour for lunch or dinner accompanied by local wines. During this private lesson, you will learn how to prepare 2 pasta recipes and the tiramisu dessert from scratch. Your Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of these iconic recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family once home with an Italian meal! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Enjoy an incredible cooking show with a famous Italian chef: Ferdinando Santi. He has worked in the best restaurants all over the world and he often goes as guest on National TV for important live cooking shows. In the enchanting location of Venetian Patriarchate Seminary, close to the breathtaking Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, Ferdinando will show you how to prepare the best Venetian dishes. He’ll choose only seasonal fresh ingredients in order to serve you the best dishes ever.

Learn how to make a delectable Venetian delicacy, the traditional cichetti, without fighting for your teacher’s attention in this private cooking class. Make a series of these small plates, served in Venice’s specialist bars and osteries, from a range of seasonal ingredients: vegetables, meats, fish and more. Make enough for your lunch and then eat them all, with a complimentary glass of Prosecco to polish them off.

Follow three authentic Venetian recipes during a private cooking class and learn the tricks of the trade from a 'cesarina,' or home cook, in Venice. Each participant is equipped with utensils and ingredients at a personal workstation during the 3-hour lesson. You’ll prepare 'cicchetti,' or small plates, then taste each delicious dish, accompanied by a selection of local wine.

Meet your host, Massimo, for a fun and informative cooking class. Shop for ingredients at the Mercato di Rialto, then head back to Massimo’s for a lesson in Italian cuisine. Learn to prepare dishes from the Veneto region and make homemade pasta and focaccia bread from scratch. After the lesson, enjoy the meal you’ve prepared together.

During the cooking class our Venetian chef will teach you some main skills and reveal the secrets of how to prepare the dishes of your selected menu. Enjoy your prepared dishes with a glass of wine and celebrate your new skills in the kitchen and the knowledge of Italian cuisine.

An unusual, yet colored and tasteful side of Venice lies close to the celebrated Ponte di Rialto: we are talking about the food market of Rialto, one of the oldest in Venice, located between Campo della Pescaria and Campo San Giacomo. During this exclusive experience, a qualified food and wine guide will take you through the stalls of this market, to help you choose fresh raw ingredients according to seasonality. After a pleasant walk in the centre of Venice and a short, suggestive crossing of Canal Grande by a typical ferry, you will reach a historical mansion of the town , where a private cooking class will be ready to welcome you. After learning some of the secrets of Venetian cuisine, you will enjoy your self-made delicacies in an intimate, mouth-watering lunch.