Pizza & Gelato Making Cooking Class in Florence

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3 hours (approx.)
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Offered in: English

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Overview

Mix up your Florence vacation itinerary with this hands-on pizza and gelato cooking class. Join an instructor to learn tips and techniques for creating pizza dough and authentic regional flavors, along with creamy, authentic gelato. Choose a morning, afternoon, or evening class to fit your schedule and sample your creations over a celebratory meal, served with wine and soft drinks.

Get hands-on as you knead the pizza dough and top your pie
Small-group tour ensures a personalized experience
Learn tips and tricks to recreate your favorite recipes back home
Enjoy a full dinner with wine or soft drinks after cooking your pizza and gelato creations

Sample Menu

Main

Pizza

Create the perfect Italian pizza dough — soft, stretchy, and easy to shape. Choose from a variety of fresh Italian toppings.

Dessert

Gelato

Make creamy Italian gelato in classic flavors like Vanilla or Chocolate, using real ingredients and traditional techniques.

What's Included

Dinner with unlimited Wine (soft drinks for children)
Gelato making demonstration
All ingredients for pizza and gelato making
Professional local Chefs
Graduation Certificate & Digital Booklet with recipes
Suitable for vegetarians! (please inform us in advance)

Hotel pick-up and drop-off
Gratuities

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Via Panicale, 43r, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy
The chef will be waiting inside the cooking school - Via Panicale, 43/r, 50123 Firenze, (close to Florence Central Market)

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps
Infant seats available

The pizza and gelato class operates with small groups
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Please let us know in advance any special needs or impaired mobility of the clients and we will do our best to accommodate them.
This activity is not recommended for people with gluten intolerance
WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS TOUR IS NOT SUITABLE FOR CELIACS
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Featured review

Lisa_S

Wonderful and fun class. Small enough so everyone got attention, but with enough people to make it fun. Pizza dough making was easier than I expected, and the final product was delicious. Great gelato too. Highly recommend.

Reviews

4.3

based on 78 reviews

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Wonderful and fun class....

Lisa_S, Dec 2025

Response from Host, Dec 2025

Dear Customer, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! We’re delighted to hear that you enjoyed the class and appreciated the small group setting. It’s great to know that you had fun making the pizza dough and that you loved the final result and, of course, the gelato too! Your recommendation truly means a lot to us. We hope to welcome you again for another enjoyable experience. Best regards, my Tour in Italy

Wonderful experience

Nicole_J, Jul 2025

This was a wonderful experience for me and my family. John and Lisa were excellent and fun and helpful and knowledgeable and engaging, loved every minute.

Response from Host, Jul 2025

Dear Customer, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! We're thrilled to hear that you and your family had such a great time. John and Lisa will be so happy to know you appreciated their energy and knowledge. We’re glad you loved every minute and hope to see you again soon! Best regards, My Tour In Italy.

So much fun!

Abbigail_T, Apr 2025

Absolutely loved the class with Niccolo! Would absolutely booked another class with him and the Gelato we made was so good!!

Response from Host, May 2025

Dear Customer, Thank you for sharing you feedback with us! We’re so glad you loved the class with Niccolo. He’ll be thrilled to know you had such a great time, and it’s fantastic to hear the gelato turned out so delicious! We’d love to have you back for another class soon! Best regards, My Tour In Italy.

Best Cooking Class

Chris_H, Apr 2025

Fun, educational and delicious. Alice was the most informative cooking instructors I have ever experienced.

Response from Host, May 2025

Dear Customer, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us! We’re so happy to hear you had a fun, educational, and delicious time. Alice will be thrilled to know you enjoyed her class so much! Looking forward to welcoming you back for more amazing experiences! Best regards, My Tour In Italy.

Great Experience

Karen_P, Oct 2024

What a fun tour! Chef Jon was fantastic. Pizza was authentic and gelato was divine! 100% recommend. I would definitely do this tour again if I return to Florence.

Response from Host, Oct 2024

Dear Customer, Thank you for your fantastic review. We're thrilled to hear that you had such a fun tour and enjoyed Chef Jon's expertise. It's wonderful that you found the pizza authentic and the gelato divine! Your 100% recommendation means a lot to us, and we would love to welcome you back for another memorable experience if you return to Florence. Best regards, My Tour in italy team.

Don’t waste your time

Perrin_M, Aug 2023

Way over-priced. All the experience included was making a pizza base. The description made you think there would be more aspects to the cooking class including the process to make gelato and pizza, not just a pizza base and adding some toppings.

Response from Host, Aug 2023

Dear Customer, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us and letting us know about the tour. Sorry to hear that you did not have the experience you expected. The description on our site explains very well the process of the tour. Our customers will be included on the process of making pizza and gelato, but with the help of the chef. So as beginners our clients first try only the simple first steps of this process. Mostly the process of making pizza and gelato will be held by the chef, in order our customers can learn better every step of the recipe. Thank you for your understanding. Best regards, My Tour in Italy team.

Great experience fantastic chef

Lisa_R, Jun 2023

I had not a very good experience with the booking agent and confusion around my class . It was disappointing but rectified ultimately we very much enjoyed ourselves. It was an excellent experience. However, I realized I paid twice as much as everybody else in the class so I recommend shopping around.!

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Dear customer, Thank you for your feedback. Sorry for the misunderstanding and confusion around the class. Happy to hear that you enjoyed yourselves during the time in the cooking class. Hope to have you again in our other tours in the future, in order to give you more enjoyable experiences like this one. Best regards, My Tour in Italy team.

Bad Experience in Florence

Dennis_B, Jun 2023

We were unable to attend the class as our tour bus arrived too late in Florence. I had notified the operator of the tour earlier in the day and did not hear anything back. I contacted Viator customer service and was told that Viator will not reimburse my account since we were "no shows". Not a very pleasant experience and am out a lot of money. Was expecting more from Viator as I have booked many excursions with them.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Dear Dennis, We're sorry to hear that you couldn't join our cooking class due to the delay of the bus. We kindly ask for your understanding, as we always many participants in every cooking class, we cannot wait too much time to start each lesson. Unfortunately, though you tried to notify us about your delay, we could not postpone the starting time of the activity, due to the reason mentioned above. We hope to be able to see you back again also in the future and to make up for this bad experience due to a reason beyond our control. Best regards, myTour in Italy

Joyful cooking

Erika_W, May 2023

I had a wonderful experience. Alice and Stefano were professional and fun. I was one of the helpers stirring the ingredients for gelato and the smell was heavenly. This experience will remain a favorite memory.

Response from Host, May 2023

Dear Erika, We're very glad to hear that you could enjoy our cooking class. Our chefs will be really pleased to know that you had fun with them and recognize their professionalism! We really hope to be able to see you again also in the future. Best regards, myTour in Italy

Pizza was so much better...

Elizabeth_M, May 2023

Pizza was so much better than a normal pizza, cheese and ingredients all tasted wonderfully together. Plus taking the class with my daughter made it extra special!

Fabulous and FUN

Bea_R, Dec 2022

What a great idea for our trip Pizza and Gelato Cooking Class. What a BLAST. We had several other families in our Class. Our Chef was a great Instructor. We made the pizza from scratch, we were able to put on our own toppings, bake it, and eat it. Then topped off with Gelato and a glass of wine or soda. Entertaining as well.

Just laughing and...

Jeanine_V, Oct 2022

Just laughing and spending time with our family. Our son is studying abroad in Prato Italy for the semester.. we had to visit .. so when in Tuscany why not learn how to make pizza and gelato … we laughed a lot and ate well during this event .. I believe a bit expensive . … but …not for him to worry

Amazing

Carmella_B, Aug 2022

Our two chefs John and David made our whole experience entertaining ! I never thought cooking pizza could be so enjoyable! Both my grandson’s and my pizza were delicious 😋😚

Money payed for nothing.

Christina_J, Jul 2022

I have booked this tour and when we arrived, there were no place for us. We contacted the bureau, who planned the tour, and they write, that we have to contact Viator, but I can’t find a number, which is Working, and now we have payed dkk 2410kr. We have payed for nothing and used a lot of time on this.

Absolutely Horrible. Worst. Activity. Ever.

ChrisMinNJ, Jul 2019

Met the Tour company by the train station, and were led on a 20 minute walk to location. Pizza chef was an absolutely arrogant jerk. Never mentioned his own name. Asked no questions about anyone in the group (4 of us and about 15 people altogether). Yelled at us all while explaining how complicated and precise pizza dough is (all 3 ingredients). Yelled "You fail" whenever anyone's dough, including children, looked less than perfect. The dough then needed to rest for 40 minutes - and he left us completely alone for the entire time. No kidding. He gave us the wifi password and just left. In retrospect that was the best part of the activity. The "gelatto' he made (no involvement from anyone else) was truly revolting. It was not even close to gelatto. It was a puddle ugly, nearly tasteless liquid with icy chunks in it. We finished our pizza and left as fast as we could. You should avoid this activity like the black plague.

Disorganized and Boring

christina_d, Jul 2019

This tour was very disappointing from the start. It was very difficult to locate the meeting point. The tour company knows Google maps doesnt get people there so they just asked for people to go early and we wait in the heat until everyone is located we walked several blocks away in the heat with no information about where we were going. We did arrive at a cooking lab for the class but it is really only setup for 8 people but they sold spots for 14. Dough is made, gelato is prepped then there is a lot of waiting which they provide wifi password to pass the time. At this point were more than 2 hours in and no water or beverage is provided. Then the groups are split to make pizza, so you wait a bunch more if you are in the second group. The pizza was undercooked and the gelato was runny. They did not ask for contact info to provide the recipes do no way to try this at home.

Chef Thomas was the only good thing about this tour

Lesly_G, Jul 2018

We booked this tour as a family of 5 - one 12 year old and 7 year old twins. We were told to meet at the tour office at 6:45. We then walked 15 minutes to the train station, only to get on a bus and be driven 30 minutes to the cooking facility (none of which was previously disclosed) The chef was patient, knowledge and kind, but the pizza was served until 10:00 PM. We were then dropped off at the train station and had to walk back to our apartment. There were also 14 people in this class which was way too many for one chef with no assistant to handle. I would suggest that this tour either be moved to an earlier time, or made adults only due to the late timeframe. The class should also be a 6:1 ratio.

Great tour, but the description is...

Kyle N, May 2018

Great tour, but the description is rather inaccurate. Our tour started at 6:30pm and we didn't get back to the meeting point until almost 11:30pm due to our driver being 10 minutes late, then 20 minutes late, then finally an hour later he showed up claiming there was an accident - yet we saw none on our way back. He also drove exceptionally fast back to the original meeting point, possibly trying to make up time for being an hour late in picking us up. The restaurant that we had our class in wasn't even in Florence. At the meeting point we were met by our driver, who took us to the restaurant which was at Torciano, which was a 50 minute drive outside of Florence. No where in the description does it say you need to get into a van and have an hour long drive each way, turning this 3 hour tour into a 5 hour tour. When we arrived, we were asked to wash our hands, don an apron, then head to the kitchen to start cooking. We started first with the gelato, as this needed more time to 'cook' than the pizza. We were not given any flavor choices, we were told we were simply making vanilla. The chef measured out all of the ingredients then put it into the ice cream maker, and we just watched. Next we moved onto the pizza. The chef had already prepared 2 stations with the flour mixture, which was odd because I thought we were doing this ourselves? We weighed out all of the ingredients one at a time thankfully there was only 5 in our group or this would have taken forever, then started making our dough. The winemaker had given each of us a glass of proseco, then a glass of sparkling rose, and kept topping off our glasses as we cooked. The wine drinking aspect of this tour is highly understated. We all walked out of there bumbling drunks by the end of the night. This was actually more of a wine tasting/drinking tour than pizza/gelato making - not that that's a bad thing, but it should be mentioned. After we finished playing with the dough, the chef took ours away from us and gave us already prepared dough to use for our actual pizza's. So again, a bit confused here... were we just going through the motions of making and playing with dough and not going to ever use what we made ourselves? Next came the rolling of the dough. Chef failed to inform us that we should spread the roller with flour first, so half of us had sticky dough globs stuck on our roller and were struggling quite a bit. After stretching the dough, came the sauce. Create the perfect tomato sauce means popping the top off of a jar of canned sauce and spreading it on your dough. We didn't create anything with the sauce, it was from a jar. We were offered shredded cheese, sliced red onion, and sliced prosciutto as our topping choices, that's it. Chef put all of our pizzas into the oven and we sat down for a formal wine tasting with the winemaker while it cooked. There were 6 different wines in total to try, with generous pours in each one. As I said, we all walked away quite drunk when it was all said and done. The pizzas came out great, surprisingly, and the vanilla gelato was a fine touch afterwards. The wine stole the show though. As I said before, this was a wine tasting with a pretend cooking lesson in pizza preparation. It sounds like I'm complaining I guess I somewhat am, but we did enjoy the wine and bought 3 bottles to ship home - well 2 wines, and 1 bottle of olive oil. After all was said and done, the 5 of us sat there drinking and talking for over an hour while we waited for the driver to return and pick us up again. I was just very confused the whole night as the description of the tour did not match what our experience was at all. Did they bring us to the wrong tour? If someone didn't like wine, they would have been very disappointed in our group. Thankfully, we all did.

We didn't do this tour so we can't...

Dana_W, Oct 2017

We didn't do this tour so we can't review it. Something happened where we chose pizza and gelato at a farmhouse in Tuscany with a different tour company, but somehow ended up at a pizza restaurant in Florence. We wanted to go to see other parts of Tuscany, not spend the afternoon in a hot pizzeria. We spoke to the tour company who understood our disappointment and instead put us on a trip to a vineyard with dinner that night in Tuscany which was great.

This cooking class was a...

Sharon L, Oct 2017

This cooking class was a disapointment due to the fact it was held at a reaturant and our chef/teacher kept running off to help customers the entire time. We were given plastic aprons and told to go stand in the kitchen where we waited for at least 25 minutes for the Chef to show up. We were told to pair up as we would be sharing a pizza between us. Then all the ingredents were given to us premixed. At one point when the Chef showed us how to roll out our dough, he used mine and my husbands shared dough to show the other students how to roll out there dough. We paid for 2 people, yet we had to share 1 pizza dough, then didnt even get to roll out our shared pizza dough. It was done for us. Then the preperation of the Gelato was the class watched as the chef prepared. We were put in a private room after the pizza was cooked so the class could eat and drink together. We were left in there for almost an hour. One of the other students had to go search out the chef to serve us our Gelato and give us our recipe book.

I was the only one in this class and...

Petra_B, Sep 2017

I was the only one in this class and enjoyed it very much. Chef Emanuel was very good.

Our family had a wonderful time...

William M, Aug 2017

Our family had a wonderful time! Our 9-year-old son said this was one of the highlights of his trip to Europe. Julio, the restaurant's owner, was very attentive to my son and wife, and we enjoyed eating our pizza and gelato after we made it. The restaurant is very convenient to the attractions in Florence its about halfway between the Duomo and the Gallerie Accademia, making it a great way to cap off a day of sightseeing. Highly recommended.

This was a great way to have a meal...

partialnomad, Jul 2017

This was a great way to have a meal and learn a little cooking. There were only six of us total, so it felt like an intimate evening among friends, even if you had just met minutes before. Nothing creates bonding like aprons and sticky dough. Our excellent Chef explained the process with great humor and allowed us to try and do what he had shown. He took the time to perfect our dough before sacrificing it to our amateur alterations of toppings. We learned a lot, laughed a lot, and had a great, hand made meal by the end. The pizza was almost too big to finish, and the gelato at the end just added extra sweetness to the evening. If you want to get your hands floury, and learn how to make pizza and gelato in just a few hours, this is the experience for you. We did it with a family of four, so it a thing for singles, couples and families.

We were met promptly and taken a few...

hmrussell, Jun 2017

We were met promptly and taken a few metres to the restaurant. The chef was extremely knowledgeable and passionate about pizza making. The preparation area was very clean and there was a lot of attention to hygiene. We loved our pizza and gelato and had drinks to accompany them . It was a great experience but did involve a long time standing still which was a bit tiring. Unfortunately we have still not received the recipes that were promised would be sent by email. Very good value and good fun.

I am excited to make my own homemade...

Cynthia P, Apr 2017

I am excited to make my own homemade pizza and gelato! Pizza was very good and the gelato incredible--was a great way to start our trip to Florence.

This was a fun experience about 2.5...

Meghan O, Oct 2016

This was a fun experience about 2.5 hrs so not too long and a good way to learn about cooking pizza and gelato and do it yourself for your dinner!! Small group size was perfect (8 people). Wine or beer was also included with the meal

The cooking class was disappointing...

MaryJane_M, Sep 2016

The cooking class was disappointing because we were in a hot restaurant without air conditioning and not in a actual cooking school kitchen. It was not a safe environment and my traveling companion was robbed during this class.

Loved this tour! Learnt so much from...

Michael_w, Aug 2016

Loved this tour! Learnt so much from our guides.. Highly recommend you do this tour!

Our chef was very personable and...

Tricia_G, Jul 2016

Our chef was very personable and fun. We went as a family, with our youngest being 10, and everyone enjoyed it. I would have given it 5 stars, but the pizza was a bit dry.