The Cooking Lab - Authentic Food Experience
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Florence, Italy
- 3 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Connect with a Florentine chef in his home and learn the secrets to preparing pasta and other classic Italian dishes from scratch with this hands-on cooking class. Roll up your sleeves and get busy making two types of pasta or gnocchi and sauces, a variety of appetizers, and even tiramisù under the guidance of your host and instructor. Top off your lesson by sampling the specialties you’ve prepared, served with wine.
- Break up your sightseeing with an informal cooking class in Florence
- Meet an Italian chef and be welcomed into his home kitchen
- Prepare fettuccine and gnocchi or ravioli, antipasti, and tiramisù
- End with lunch or dinner featuring the dishes that you’ve prepared
Sample Menu
Starter
Coccoli Prosciutto e stracchino
the typical Florentine appetizer. Fried pizza dough served with Tuscan ham and stracchino cheese
Main
fettuccine, potato gnocchi/stuffed pasta
2 different types of pasta accompanied with ragu bolognaise sauce, fresh cherry tomatoes, mushrooms or other seasonal sauces
Dessert
Tiramisu
the most typical and famous Italian sweet dessert
What's Included
- all the cooking equipment
- SnacksWelcome breakfast or aperitif
- Alcoholic BeveragesAperol spritz, chianti classico wine and more...
- Coffee and/or Tea
- LunchLunch or dinner depending on the time of the day
- DinnerLunch or dinner depending on the time of the day
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Via Pasquale Villari, 19, 50136 Firenze FI, Italy
Please ring the front doorbell labeled Polverini Cascella
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Arranged start time
Confirm time with the local provider in advance of your experience.
- 10/08/2019 - 04/15/2027
Monday - Sunday : 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
What To Expect
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
- Infant seats available
- !!! please specify if you prefer 10am or 5pm!!!
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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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
Jason_P
Luca is a gracious host and an excellent teacher! He showed us practical techniques to make pasta and he showed us how to make a delicious tiramisu. Before this experience, I never really enjoyed tiramisu. Lucas was perfect and delicious! When we finished cooking we sat down for dinner and it was as if we were around the family table with wine and conversation flowing. A great experience!
Reviews
5.0
based on 113 reviews
Jason_P, Oct 2025
Luca is a gracious host and an excellent teacher! He showed us practical techniques to make pasta and he showed us how to make a delicious tiramisu. Before this experience, I never really enjoyed tiramisu. Lucas was perfect and delicious! When we finished cooking we sat down for dinner and it was as if we were around the family table with wine and conversation flowing. A great experience!
Response from Host, Oct 2025
Grazie mille!
Patricia_J, Sep 2025
My husband, Friend and I took this class with a young family. Luca invited us to his home. Prepared snacks for us, wine, prosecco and then we prepared An amazing meal!
Response from Host, Sep 2025
Grazie! ❤️
Susan_G, Sep 2025
Exceeded all expectations, fantastic time, highly recommend! Luca welcomes you into his home. We will now be making pasta at home as a family!
Response from Host, Sep 2025
Grazie mille! ❤️
Angela_M, Aug 2025
My daughter and I had a great time learning and cooking with Luca. He was very knowledgeable and made us feel confident to make it at home. The pasta and tiramisu that we made was delicious.
Response from Host, Sep 2025
Thank you ❤️
Gregcrampton, Apr 2025
Great chef. Very knowledgeable, great teacher and we made some great food! We are not good cooks, but we are now very confident in our pasta abilities
Response from Host, Apr 2025
Thank you! ❤️
Nicole_H, Apr 2025
Luca was a great host. The other two guests and myself had a wonderful time learning about Italy, food and having lots of laughs!
Response from Host, Apr 2025
Thank you! ❤️
Lee_F, Dec 2024
What an amazing and intimate experience. Luca generously invited the five of us into his home and gave us a fantastic lesson in the art of making fresh pasta. We then joined him at his table and shared the meals we made. Highly recommend this to one and all.
Michele_D, Dec 2024
Luca is an amazing chef and instructor. He made us feel welcome in his home and kept the cooking experience simple yet delicious. The Cacio e Pepe was the BEST we experienced during our stay in Italy. Our boys can’t stop talking about it!! We learned a great deal and can’t wait to try making pasta and tiramisu at home! Thank you Luca for the most amazing and personal experience for our family - one we will never forget! Grazie! Caio - The Dingwall’s
Response from Host, Dec 2024
Grazie! ❤️
Suzanne_J, Sep 2024
Luca was a wonderful host and teacher. A lovely evening!! Absolutely no regrets.
The dishes were delicious and this was a hands on experience
Keith_R, Sep 2024
This cooking lab experience was absolutely fantastic. Luca is a patient and professional chef that invites you into his home to prepare two different pastas and a dessert. The quoted three hour experience turned into almost four and every minute was enjoyable. Learned a lot from Luca and met two amazing couples in the process.
Risa_B, Sep 2024
This was a great “hands-on” experience for us!
Luca was very welcoming and made us feel at ease in his kitchen. My husband and I enjoy cooking together. Now we can include homemade fettuccine noodles, spinach & ricotta stuffed ravioli, and tiramisu to our list of specialties!
If you want to do something fun and different while you’re in Florence, don’t hesitate to sign up for this Cooking Lab! This is probably the most enjoyable three hours we’ve ever spent in the kitchen and the food was DELICIOUS! We would recommend this experience without hesitation.
Debora_R, Jul 2024
Great experience. Learned lots, great meal and our host was phenomenal. It was just the four people in my group. Best time ever!
Response from Host, Jul 2024
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Neil_H, Jul 2024
Ciao Luca, thank you so much for the wonderful cooking class yesterday. We loved it all and appreciate the warm welcome into your home. Super special! We will be making the best Pasta and Tiramisu. Bellissimo!
Response from Host, Jul 2024
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Daniel_B, May 2024
First I want to thank Luca and his wife, Marina for welcoming us into their home. It was a very nice experience to be invited to cook and eat in your home.
When it comes to cooking lessons, we have had quite a few, this one I have to say will leave a forever lasting impression.
Luca showed us how to properly make ravioli and fettuccine and for dessert a tiramisu all while keeping his kitchen impeccably clean. It gives to show you how important a clean kitchen is and to maintain cleanliness.
This was some of the best pasta I have ever had and definitely the best tiramisu. But the cooking and eating our food that we made wasn’t even the best part about this. The best part was being able to enjoy this meal with Luca, Mariana, and his adorable daughter Erena.
We can’t recommended this experience enough. You won’t regret booking with Luca.
Response from Host, May 2024
Grazie!
❤️
Bailee_C, May 2024
This cooking experience was everything we could have asked for and more! Luca was very informative on what makes good pasta, sauce, and tiramisu. We loved eating dinner with his wife and daughter to top off the night! He also gave us amazing dinner recommendations for the rest of our stay!
Cheryl_H, Apr 2024
Luca was the best host, our group had a great time making pesto fettuccine and ravioli! It was a nice experience to sit and have dinner with his family!!!
pam_r, Apr 2024
Luca was an outstanding instructor. He is very approachable, knowledgeable, fun, and talented. The food was delicious, and it was a wonderful treat to enjoy the feast with Luca and his wonderful family. The class was a small group, enabling Luca to provide one-on-one guidance and instruction. We highly recommend this incredible experience.
Ben_M, Apr 2024
We had an absolutely incredible evening with Luca, making two different types of past and tiramisu. He was a very kind and knowledgeable instructor, and we got to enjoy our dinner with his wonderful family. Would highly recommend this experience to anyone visiting Florence!
Amber_S, Dec 2023
We spent our last night of our trip cooking pasta in Luca’s home and it was the best way to end our trip! Him and his family were so welcoming! We learned how to make pasta and tiramisu and then gathered together to enjoy the meal to end the evening. Very authentic experience and definitely recommend!
Nick_C, Dec 2023
Luca was a phenomenal host and the food was delicious. He gave us several tips that will help us make pasta and tiramasu so much better in the future.
The session is perfect for 4 people and we had the privilege of eating with his family, which really makes the whole home cooking element come together.
Dave_R, Dec 2023
This was a wonderful experience. Luca’s home is a short walk (20-30 mins) from the center of Florence in a quiet residential neighborhood. We were 3 people and there were only 2 other guests, so a very intimate and manageable size for a cooking class. Luca was warm and welcoming and the recipes were easy and delicious. If you’ve never used a motorized pasta machine before, you’re in for a treat. The tiramisu was the show-stopper. So creamy and delicious…. Loved eating the meal with Luca’s charming wife and young daughter. Great conversation, great food. What more can you ask for?
Mark_C, Nov 2023
An amazing cooking experience with Luca! We learned about making fresh pasta and tiramisu! We created handmade ravioli and spaghetti; it was delicious! This is a great opportunity to learn and have fun! Highly recommend to take this class and learn about pasta!
Carole_M, Nov 2023
Luca was knowledgeable, friendly and fun. We had a great hands-on experience and the food was delicious. Can't wait to try out our recipes at home.
Calista_D, Oct 2023
Luca is totally familiar with the nuances of the ingredients………how they look, how they feel and how they respond when touched. AND he can communicate these nuances clearly. I loved my time in this class, and the food was delicious!!!!!!!
Melody_F, Oct 2023
We wanted to find a family friendly class as we have young children that love to cook, and we definitely found that with Luca in his home kitchen. It was an easy location to get to, and we felt welcome immediately. The girls enjoyed making tiramisu, spaghetti and stuffed pasta as well. We left with full bellies and new skills to try out at home. Highly recommend!!
John_M, Oct 2023
An educational experience that was made personable and fun. Luca is a very skilled chef and an excellent host. The food was delicious and we came away with a lot of new ideas for things to make at home!
Christine_F, Oct 2023
We had a great experience with Luca making 2 types of pasta, turning them into delicious dishes, and making tiramisu. We cat down to a lovely dinner with wine all made by us under Luca’s educational guidance.
Karen_S, Sep 2023
Cooking with Luca at his home was certainly one of the highlights of our trip to Italy. He is a wonderful host and instructor! The homemade pasta and dessert were so easy. It was wonderful to sit in his kitchen and then around his dining room table enjoying the preparation and eating the results ! We have all ready recommended this trip to a couple we met At a winery !
Joan_W, Sep 2023
Enjoyed learning how to properly make pasta and tiramisu with Luca in his home kitchen and sharing the meal prepared, with wine.
Steve_T, Sep 2023
This was one of the most enjoyable evenings we spent in Florence. Meeting Luca, his wife and beautiful daughter at their home, made it even more special. We learned how to make pasta from scratch how to cook it properly and of course, how to enjoy eating it. There were six of us in the group 4 from the USA and two from Germany. When we sat for dinner in Luca’s dining room, we had an incredible meal with wine and great conversation. Would highly highly recommend this experience to anyone. Thank you again Luca opening your home and kitchen to us.
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