Top Manarola Cooking Classes

the course is interactive, you will use the marble mortar. You will receive information on the history and origins of pesto and the best ingredients we will use. You will learn to make pesto like you have never tasted before, and you will be able to make it again at home, which is why it is a unique and unforgettable experience. If you've been good, there will be a little surprise for you at the end.

Learn the secrets of Ligurian cuisine with a private half-day cooking class in a local home in Cinque Terre. Join a Cesarina—an ambassador of Italian culinary tradition—to prepare three authentic regional dishes. Choose a morning or afternoon session, enjoy hands-on instruction, and savor your creations paired with local wines, ensuring an authentic and delicious experience.

Manarola wine tasting experience is a nice walk through the Manarola vineyards among panoramic points to take beautiful photos, good local wine and flavors, snacks and an exclusive moment in an amazing old cellar from the 1800s, relax and sharing at the convivial table, nice music.

The focaccia you cook will be so good that you will want to give it back at home, and you will succeed because we will teach you how to make it at home. For pesto I'll teach you all the secrets to give it the best, trust me

You won't have many other opportunities to make both pesto and trofie, without knowing the secret they are difficult to realize, but I will reveal it to you! We will make pesto made with a marble mortar, just like my grandmother used to make it, and she taught me how to roll trofie, with a little secret that only in Ligurian kitchens is used. You will feel involved in Ligurian cuisine, when you taste the trofie with pesto, you will not believe that you made them, how good they are.

Get off the tourist track and get an insider’s immersion into a local wine producer and vineyard. Discover hidden wonders of Manarola on foot, enjoying views of the sea and surrounding hills. Then, head to a centuries-old wine cellar for a sommelier-led tasting of two local varieties of white wine, paired with traditional Ligurian delicacies like focaccia and pesto.

Get a taste of Cinque Terre on this 4-hour tour from Manarola, Cinque Terre, that combines a pesto demonstration, a boat cruise along the coast, and lunch. Travel to Cinque Terre via train with your group, then end the tour in Vernazza with a Cinque Terre trail pass to explore further if you wish.