Parma Cooking Class with Homemade Pasta, Lambrusco & Local Flavor

Parma, Italy

3 hours (approx.)
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Dive into Genoa’s culinary tradition with a hands-on cooking class making fresh pasta, gnocchi, and Genoese pesto alongside a local host. Enjoy focaccia, wine, and coffee in a cozy, authentic home-style setting. Make pesto the traditional way—using a mortar and pestle—and learn other cooking techniques, then sit down and enjoy your meal with a glass of wine.

Learn how to make fresh gnocchi and pesto from scratch
Ask your teacher for hands-on guidance throughout the class
Savor the fruits of your labor over a leisurely lunch
A small-group class means more attention from your teacher

Sample Menu

Starter

Antipasto

Seasonal bruschette, Parmigiano, and Cured meats

Main

Fresh Pasta

Handmade Tortelli d’Erbetta Traditional Potato Tortelli Fresh Tagliatelle with Strolghino Ragù Served with local Lambrusco wine

Dessert

Homemade Tiramisù or artisanal gelato

What's Included

Hands on cooking class
Lunch: 3 courses Antipasto and 2 main fresh pasta dishes
Wine Lanbrusco, Malvasia
Dessert
Coffee and/or Digestif Nocino or Bargnolino traditional liqueur

All that has not been mentioned in the inclusions

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Via Biagio Pelacani, 20, 43123 Parma PR, Italy

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Operating hours
.5:00 pm

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation

Communicate in advance any dietary restriction
Customers who have not reached the legal drinking age in Italy, i.e. 18, will not be served alcoholic beverages.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 4 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

Adam_C

Silvia and Alessandra welcomed us into their lovely home to teach us how to properly make an authentic pesto and gnocchi. This seemed less like a cooking class and more like visiting and cooking with a group of old friends. They were patient and generous with their time and knowledge. We laughed and sipped wine and enjoyed the fragrant flowers on the balcony while overlooking the city of Genoa. I highly recommend this class to people staying in Genoa or just visiting for the day on a cruise. The location is convenient to the port as well as the city center. The food is excellent and so is the company. We will definitely come back and do this again the next time we are in Genoa.

Reviews

4.6

based on 37 reviews

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Gnocchi and Pesto cooking class was amazing!

Adam_C, May 2025

Splendid

Sandra_M, May 2025

We had an amazing meal. Both Alexandra & Lydia were patient, friendly & warm. Passion for food is obvious & we learned skills that we can use.

True Italian Experience

Christine_A, May 2024

Alberto was a wonderful host and shared historical, traditional knowledge with us to teach us not just how to make pesto and fresh pasta, but how to make the very best! It was delicious and he was charming and hospitable. He’s as Italian as they come! Just know that there are many stairs to climb-our app didn’t inform us of that—and leave plenty of time to find the location.

Genoa Cooking Class

Gabriella_P, Apr 2024

We truly enjoyed a beautiful evening on the terrace and Alberto’s gracious hospitality. The food and instruction were excellent and were a wonderful final chapter to our vacation

Alberto’s cooking class...

Lily_G, Mar 2024

Alberto’s cooking class was a highlight of our trip to Genoa. He’s very kind and instructive. In addition to making pesto and pasta we were also served some Genovese pies, focaccia and wine. A delicious experience!

Excellent experience and...

jeff_k, Oct 2023

Excellent experience and a lot of fun cooking in a local flat. Gave us a true home cooking feeling. Definitely recommend. Food was great too.

10/10 class!

Dominick_P, Aug 2023

The class was amazing. Alberto was a great teacher and was so welcoming. We cooked, laughed, talked history and culture, drank wine, and learned a lot. Not to mention, the food was delicious. One of the best experiences of our trip, highly recommend!

Was so so nice!!! Best...

Amelie_S, Aug 2023

Was so so nice!!! Best experience ever! The pasta was so good and we felt so welcomed! The atmosphere was also fantastic! Just such an enjoyable evening, really recommend it to everyone!

We really enjoyed the...

Cyrill_S, Aug 2023

We really enjoyed the course. Alberto is an excellent host and the location on the rooftop is just stunning. The pasta and pesto that we cooked was very delicious!

Magic

Jennifer_R, Dec 2021

Host was very very nice! We’ll prepared. Lovely setting. Friendly and considerate. Simple ingredients turned into a magic sauce.

Authentic and welcoming pasta cooking class with Cristina

Nico_L, Aug 2021

It was an excellent cooking event. Cristina, our host, has warmly welcomed us at her house and shared with us her pasta and pesto insight. We, adults and kids loved the cooking and enjoyed the food and friendliness of Cristina. Thanks a lot.

The location was a little hard to...

Jaclyn W, Jun 2018

The location was a little hard to find definitely not a hotel pickup and we recommend you take an Uber to the class. However, our teacher was so welcoming and sweet though her english was so-so--- definitely a language barrier! We learned how to make pesto and pasta and both were fantastic! The lunch was great, served on the terrace with a beautiful sea view. The wine was refreshing and delicious and we loved the melon with port wine for dessert. Would have loved to learn how to make the focaccia she served, but we were overall very pleased with this cooking course! Great home cooking experience. We can't wait to make pasta and pesto in the US!

Our family of four went to the...

Harry M, May 2018

Our family of four went to the cooking class, aIong with 3 other ladies on May 25th, 2018. The advertisement for the class mentions he and she that his name is Chiara and that he has extensive cooking experience, but it was a female who led the class. If you can call it a class. We were VERY disappointed considering we didn't get a chance to cook things listed on the menu, except for the pasta we all got turns kneading the dough, making the pesto and to bread the anchovies. The menu mentions: 1 PANZANELLA, appetizer 2 main : trofiette pasta with pesto sauce 3 second : Chicken at the Genoese with roasted potatoes 4 dessert : Home made Yogurt Cake or canestrellini liguri di Pannarello 5 Authentic Moka Coffe. It also mentions that the house is in Nervi, which it wasn't. Not sure how we got so mislead. We were served focaccia which wasn't that fresh, and possibly boughten, pasta with pesto, fried anchovies which are very cheap and ample to buy at this time of year, according to the hostess, and boughten gelato. We did have some wine and an espresso. At a 106./person we were a family of 4, I would say that at a maximum, the meal would have cost 100. in total. The hostess was a very nice lady, but this cooking class was rip-off, and would not recommend anyone to take it.