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.

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 .

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Discover the secrets of homestyle Italian cooking during this half-day culinary experience in Venice. Meet at Rialto Market to shop like a local for fresh, seasonal ingredients with the help of a professional chef. Then, learn how to prepare authentic regional dishes with a cooking lesson inside a historic Venetian palazzo. Get tips on food and wine pairing from a sommelier, and savor your homemade feast along with excellent Italian wines.

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!

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

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.

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!).

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.

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.

Don't just sit in a restaurant but be a true Venetian! Let's pick the best fresh fish at the Rialto market, cross the Canal Grande on a gondola and hurry up heading home. Be your own chef at my place in a state of the art kitchen overlooking the canal. Become a venetian! Fish tastes better when it is fresh, seasonal and local, especially if you personally buy it and cook it at home with the tips of a local guy!

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

Delve into the art of making chocolate during a workshop at a premiere chocolatier in Venice. Sample a variety of chocolates and get ideas for what to make with the ingredients that are supplied for your class. At the end of the chocolate-making session, take home your chocolate creations to share with friends.

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.

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.

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.

Directly at your home you will do a Sparkling wine tasting that will focuses on the “Prosecco” the famous northern Italian wine. Gabriele (wine expert) will help you to recognize all the special characteristics of a wine. You will learn how to attend properly an Italian wine tasting discovering the history and curiosities about the Italian wine and its famous wineries spread all around the country. Take your best glass, reserve a place with your friends and start an amazing wine tasting to enjoy all together! The wine expert will come directly at home! A unique experience to discover the world of Italian wines with the focus on the sparkling ones.

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.

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.

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!