Top Lombardy Cooking Classes

Join a shared cooking class at a local's home and discover the secrets of Italy's most famous dishes while savoring your creations paired with local wines. Your host will guide you through preparing three authentic recipes, providing all the necessary ingredients and utensils. After cooking, enjoy the meal you've made, complemented by red and white wines. This experience offers the chance to enjoy traditional Italian food, learn regional recipes, and connect with a welcoming family. Cesarine, Italy's oldest network of over 1000 home cooks across 500+ cities, offers immersive culinary experiences rooted in family traditions and local specialties.

Step into a Milanese home and learn all the Italian secrets during this private 3-hour cooking class. Learn how to make three traditional foods from start to finish such as traditional Milanese risotto, Lombardy polenta, and Milanese meat dishes. After helping your host cook the delicious meal, sit down and enjoy the fruits of your labor with a glass of local red and white wines.

Discover the flavors of Italy in this immersive pizza and tiramisu-making workshop in Como. Guided by a host with roots in both northern and southern Italy, learn the secrets behind making perfect dough, authentic pizza, and classic regional desserts. This hands-on class blends local tradition, heritage, and Mediterranean flair, offering not just recipes but lasting cooking skills. It’s a warm, intimate culinary experience that celebrates Italy’s rich food culture.

Get off the tourist track on this private, half-day cooking workshop. Enjoy a fully bespoke experience in the home of a Lake Como local as you master recipes for three different pasta dishes. Then, sit down to enjoy your freshly-cooked meal, paired with red and white wines from regional cellars.

Learn to make an authentic Italian pizza with the benefit of a hands-on cooking class in Milan. Discover the art of perfecting your pizza dough and how to choose combinations of toppings for your pizza. Afterward, enjoy a meal of the pizza made during the class accompanied by wine, beer, or soft drinks. You can also receive online support from the chef and access the updated video course later when preparing pizza at home.

Learn to make creamy, fragrant risotto in a hands-on class. Cook seasonal recipes, discover home-cooking tips, and enjoy your dishes with wine in a friendly, relaxed setting

Go beyond restaurant meals and connect with a local host in a home kitchen with this exclusive private cooking class in Milan. Enjoy hands-on instruction and learn about the region's traditional cuisine as you prepare your choice of fresh pasta, classic risotto, or gnocchi, plus other savory and sweet Milanese specialties. Cap off the lesson with a sit-down meal featuring the dishes you've prepared, served with a glass of local wine.

Pasta is one of Italy’s most beloved culinary exports, and with this pasta-making class you can learn the secrets to preparing fresh pasta. Enjoy a hands-on lesson in central Milan with a chef to pick up professional tricks and techniques for making ribbon and filled pastas along with homemade sauces. Sample what you’ve created after the lesson and take advantage of online support once home to recreate your handiwork.

Visitors to Lake Como who wish to experiment with Italian home cooking will find the opportunity during this private cooking lesson and farm tour. Learn about regional products like cheese and honey fom your local “cesarina.” Then head inside a traditional house and learn to prepare your very own recipes. It’s a unique experience in a private home, conducted under the expertise of your host. Taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of local red and white wines.

Experience Livigno’s alpine heritage through craft beers brewed at high altitude, guided by expert sommeliers, with cellar visits and curated pairings for a truly unique tasting journey.

The activity takes place in a large and modern Milanese loft at the home of a local. This course teaches the tricks coming from the Romagna tradition, handed down from previous generations.

Become immersed in Italian culture as you learn to make traditional dishes during this cooking class in Varenna. This private class takes you to a local home where you can learn all about Italian cooking while making a number of dishes. Learn tricks and tips so you can recreate the dishes at home and sit down to the fruits of your labor paired with local wine.

Discover the secrets of authentic Italian cuisine with this home cooking experience. Visit a traditional villa on the banks of Lake Como; get hands-on as you cook up an array of appetizers, pastas, and meat dishes; then tuck into your delicious homemade creations, accompanied local wine and dessert.

Utilizing fresh ingredients, this pizza-making class teaches you how to prepare this beloved dish the Italian way at V.le Innocenzo XI, 53 in Como. Meet a passionate home baker and small group of up to four participants during a private lesson to learn how to knead and top your pizza before baking. End this informal hands-on class with a glass of wine and a pizza feast.

You can't visit Italy without trying at least one pasta dish... So, we'll teach you two! Learn how to roll 'sfoglia' (fresh pasta) by hand and how to prepare 2 simple different kinds of pasta from scratch with your local host. As the icing on the cake, you will learn to prepare also the iconic Tiramisu. Share your passion for the Italian cuisine as you make new friends in this hands-on cooking class. It's a great way to truly experience Italian culture. This experience is held by Cesarine, the oldest Italy’s network of home cooks available in more than 500 cities all over the country. Cesarine stands for "home cook", they are passionate and welcoming local hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences. The Cesarine serve only local specialties from their family cookbooks to tell the great story of their traditional regional cuisine.

Discover Italian cuisine in an immersive way during this private cooking class in the heart of Milan. Join your host in creating pasta from scratch as well as the iconic Italian dessert, tiramisu. Get your hands dirty and learn techniques from your host, so you can recreate the delicious dishes at home. Then, enjoy the fruits of your labor paired with local wines.

I will follow every step that will lead you and your children in the making of the typical fresh Italian pasta and in the making of Tiramisu. I will teach you all the steps and my secrets to make these top Italian dishes! You will just have to put your hands in dough and participate in the preparations. Good wine and a tasty aperitif will accompany your experience.

Food lovers won’t want to miss this hands-on, private cooking lesson at a local home in Bergamo. Sip Prosecco as you chat with your host, then learn to prepare pasta or pizza dishes, before tucking into the fruits of your labor as part of a three-course menu plus liqueur and coffee for an intimate and informative experience few travelers get to enjoy.

Discover how to prepare two famous Italian delicacies–and learn far more than you would by visiting a restaurant–on this small-group cooking class in Milan. Get hands-on with fresh ingredients, prepare pasta dough from scratch, and follow your guide’s treasured family recipe to create tiramisu. Afterward, sit down to enjoy the creations with a glass or two of wine–all included.

Discover the culinary side of Milan—and learn far more than you would simply eating in a restaurant—on this small-group cooking class, including all ingredients and drinks along the way. Step inside a historic family-owned eatery, discover traditional Italian cooking techniques, and sample flavors and ingredients you might otherwise have overlooked. Make two pasta dishes and a tiramisu dessert before enjoying them with perfectly-paired glasses of wine.

Together with our professional sommelier you will discover the secrets of Italian sparkling wines famous all over the world. How does a Prosecco differ from a Trentodoc or a Franciacorta? What makes a sparkling wine even more precious? What kind of pairing with food can enhance its pleasure? We taste and discuss together and the sommelier tells us a little about the Italian wine culture and the different production regions. The two hours fly by and in the end we have acquired a bit of (Italian) wine culture...

Italy is the coffee capital of Europe, so there are few better places to learn to brew a moka than Milan. This private coffee-crafting workshop will equip you with tips and techniques to help you brew the perfect cup, while enjoying a selection of curated blends throughout. Plus, you’ll enjoy undivided attention throughout.

This small-group cooking class in Bellagio teaches you to prepare Italian specialities in a hilltop restaurant overlooking Lake Como. Meet your guide outside Banca Intesa Sanpaolo and enjoy a short transfer in a distinctive van to the cooking location. With a local chef's guidance, learn to make ravioli, tagliatelle, and a dessert such as tiramisu. The class includes tickets to visit the botanical gardens of nearby Villa Melzi.

Unlock the secrets of Italian cuisine with a hands-on cooking class in Lake Como. Connect with an Italian host in their own kitchen for a personalized culinary adventure as you learn the art of pizza-making, and create Italy’s most famous dessert—tiramisu. Then, indulge in a delicious meal paired with local wines.