Greek Cooking Class Rhodes: Learn to Cook Local Dishes

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Duration4h

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN · EL

PickupAt your hotel

Cook four classic Rhodian dishes and eat them together at a long table.

A hands-on Greek cooking class in a traditional mountain village on Rhodes where you learn to prepare tzatziki, eggplant salad, dolmadakia and cheese pies from a local cook, then share the meal you've made with local wine and Greek coffee. The experience includes a visit to a women's agricultural cooperative, a winery tasting of seven Rhodian wines, and pickup from your hotel on selected dates.

The Experience

What does a morning in a Rhodes village kitchen actually teach you? You'll meet the local cook and the women from the agricultural cooperative who grow the ingredients you're about to use. After a walk through the village and a tasting of seven wines at a small family-run winery, you move into the kitchen. The lesson covers four dishes: tzatziki, eggplant salad, dolmadakia (grape leaves wrapped with rice and herbs), and traditional cheese pies. You work with local ingredients and learn the techniques these dishes have carried for generations—not shortcuts, not restaurant tricks, just how they're made here.

The cooking takes about an hour, then you sit down to eat what you've prepared in a communal setting. This is the meal: the salad with lettuce, nuts, apple and manouri cheese; the pies still warm; the dolmadakia; the eggplant; the tzatziki. Vegetarian variations are available if you need them. Wine pours throughout, and before you leave the village of Apollona, you'll have Greek coffee in a local café—the kind made in a small copper pot, thick and strong.

The whole experience runs four hours. Pickup is included on most dates; a few departures require you to meet the group in the village instead. Children from age 8 can join. The guide speaks English and Greek, and moves through the day at a pace that lets you actually learn the techniques rather than rush through them.

What’s included

Hands-on cooking class with a local instructor.
visit to the Apolloniatisses women's agricultural cooperative.
tasting of seven local Rhodian wines (18+).
full homemade lunch of the dishes you've prepared.
traditional Greek coffee in a local café.
hotel pickup on selected dates.
all fees and taxes.

Good to know

Stroller friendlyPets welcome

Operated by Trekking Hellas Rhodes

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn a skill you can actually use at home, not just watch a demonstration. The four-hour structure—cooperative visit, winery, cooking, then eating together—means you're building something real with your hands and sitting down to the result, which is different from a food tour where you taste what someone else made.