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

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

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.

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.

A fabulous cooking show with a celebrated Italian chef: Ferdinando Santi. He worked all over the world in the world-wide famous restaurants and he usually participate to the National TV for acclaimed cooking shows (just look for his name on YouTube!). Your cooking show will taken place in the marvelous Venetian Seminary close to the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute.

Skip the search for an authentic restaurant, and learn how to cook delicious Venetian cuisine with the guidance of a local chef. Shop for fresh fish, meat, and produce at the historic Rialto Market, then take the ingredients back to a professional kitchen to whip up a homemade lunch. Learn secrets of the Italian kitchen that you can take back home, complete with a certificate of class completion to impress your friends.

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. 

Make the famous Italian Tiramisu at your home with an Italian pastry chef. The ideal culinary course for families and kids! In a step-by step instructional course, Gabriele will teach you the secrets to prepare a yummy Tiramisu! An engaging online cooking class, where you can interact directly with the chef as if you were in his kitchen!

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.

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!).

Get a detailed introduction to Venetian cooking and culinary culture with this private cooking class and market tour. Explore the city’s historic Rialto Market with your teacher, picking out the ingredients that will form your meal. Then take to your private kitchen and make your own lunch! Get step-by-step guidance from your teacher as you create a range of Venetian dishes from scratch.

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.

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.

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.

Welcoming you with a glass of Prosecco in a beautiful location (Agriturismo) right in the heart of the prosecco wine district (DOCG) you will learn how to make the homemade Italian pizza. We will prepare dough with various ingredients and try different types of this recipe filled with cold cuts and cheese or topped with cherry tomatoes and oregano. One thing is sure, the main ingredient of focaccia is always extra virgin olive oil. After that you will learn how to make the “pappardelle”, a type of Italian pasta characterized by the large size of its broad or homemade “gnocchi di patate” (potato dumplings). They will be paired with homemade tomato sauce. Enjoy a meal with traditional venetian recipes as fegato alla veneziana (Venetian liver and onions) or sarde in saor (sardines and onions) and sweet peppers, eggplant. To finish off on a sweet note, we will prepare a delicious Tiramisù the typical cake from Veneto. Your lunch will be paired with quality Italian prosecco.

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!

This tour was born from the idea of ​​involving our guests in one of the topical moments of Venetian culture. In Venice the spritz is famous, the aperitif based on Aperol or Bitter or Select combined with water and prosecco, but what distinguishes our aperitif is the food proposal. In the bars and taverns everyone indulges in the creation of "cicchetti" from the most traditional to the most innovative ones where new ingredients are combined with the Venetian culinary tradition. There are "cicchetti" for all tastes and all budgets and we want to offer you this experience of creating cicchetti to bring home a little of Venetian culture. The experience consists of a school of cicchetti with chef at his home and at the end of the class a real Venetian aperitif with what we have prepared. At the end of this tour you will have discovered how some Venetian cicchetti are prepared and you will be able to prepare them to your friends and family when you return home

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.

The famous "Spaghetti alla Carbonara" done directly at your home by Gabriele, a famous Italian chef. Enjoy the engaging on-line cooking class where you interact directly with him as if you were in his kitchen. 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.

Would you like to have a truly immersive food experience in Venice? Enjoy a shared cooking class, discover delicious dishes of the regional tradition and take our official Cesarine recipe book home with you. Together with Slow Food, we have travelled all over Italy to discover the most secret recipes transmitted by Nonne and Mamme through generations. And we have collected them all in this Official Cesarine recipe book, our first book of family recipes. Enjoy a 3-recipes class, showcasing the authentic regional dishes stored in the cookbooks of your host and share this unique moment with other lovers of the “cucina italiana”. But your trip to Italy hasn’t finished yet! By recreating the Italian recipes back home and sharing them with your friends, you will feel like you’re back in Italy. This book collects 50 original recipes that will guide you through the Italian traditional gastronomy, through the eyes of the people who know it best. Are you ready for this foodie adventure?

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.