Florence: Tagliatelle & Ravioli Cooking Class with Wine

Make Pasta from Scratch in Florence, Then Eat It

You visit Sant'Ambrogio Market with a chef to buy ingredients, then spend hours in a Tuscan trattoria learning to make tagliatelle, ravioli, and tiramisù entirely by hand. Lunch or dinner comes with unlimited local wine, and the small group means real instruction, not assembly-line teaching. The morning class includes the market. Afternoon skips it and runs shorter.

Step-by-step itinerary

Florence cooking class and market visit

• Meet in central Florence
• Visit Sant’Ambrogio Market with chef
• Select fresh local ingredients
• Return to Tuscan trattoria kitchen
• Prepare ragù and tomato sauces
• Knead pasta dough with eggs and flour
• Make authentic tiramisù
• Enjoy Tuscan appetizers and food stories
• Roll out dough and shape pasta
• Cook and serve tagliatelle and ravioli
• Eat meal with house wine

The Experience

You meet your chef in central Florence and head straight to Sant'Ambrogio Market: the real one locals use, not a tourist version. The morning air smells like produce and noise, vendors calling out prices, and you're there to pick the exact ingredients you'll cook with in a few hours. It's the kind of detail that changes how you think about cooking: you're not following a recipe someone else assembled, you're choosing your own tomatoes, your own ricotta, your own eggs.

Back in the trattoria kitchen, you tie on an apron and start with the dough. Flour, eggs, salt. That's it. Your hands learn the feel of kneading, the way the dough changes texture, and the chef watches and adjusts without hovering. While the pasta rests, you move to tiramisù: mascarpone, sugar, espresso, cocoa. The small group size (nobody said how many, but it's small enough that the chef knows your name) means you're not standing around waiting for a turn. After a break with Tuscan appetizers and stories about why Italians cook the way they do, you roll out your dough and shape it into tagliatelle and ravioli. The ricotta filling goes inside, and then everything hits boiling water.

You sit down and eat what you made. Tagliatelle with ragù, ravioli, the tiramisù you assembled an hour ago. A glass of house wine comes with it, and you can have more. It's unlimited. The whole thing takes between two and a half and three and a half hours depending on which class you pick. The morning option with the market visit runs longer. You leave with a graduation certificate, which sounds silly until you realize you actually made fresh pasta from nothing, and now you know how.

What’s included

Your day includes a visit to Sant'Ambrogio Market (morning class only) to select fresh local ingredients with the chef, hands-on instruction in making tagliatelle, ravioli, and tiramisù from scratch, all ingredients and cooking utensils, Tuscan appetizers during a break, the meal you've prepared paired with unlimited house wine, and a graduation certificate. You'll also hear stories about Italian food culture and culinary traditions throughout the class.

Good to know

Stroller friendlyPublic transport nearby

Operated by Ciao Florence Tours Srl

Is this one for you?Pick this if you want to learn to make fresh pasta properly, not a demo where you watch, but a class where your hands do the work and the chef corrects you. The market visit (morning only) and the small group size mean you're not one of twenty people in a commercial kitchen. You're in a real trattoria learning from someone who cooks this way every day.

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Top questions

Do I need cooking experience?

No. The chef teaches from the beginning: kneading dough, shaping pasta, layering tiramisù. You learn by doing, not by watching.

Is Sant'Ambrogio Market included?

Only in the morning class (not Sundays or public holidays). The afternoon option skips the market and lasts three and a half hours instead of the full morning duration.

What if I have dietary restrictions?

Contact the provider before booking. The class focuses on traditional recipes, but they may be able to accommodate requests.

Where do I meet?

It depends on which class you choose. The Extended Cooking Class with Market meets at La Cucineria (Via della Mattonaia 19 RED). The shorter Pasta & Tiramisù Class meets at Ciao Florence Sales Office (Via Cavour 18 black). Check your confirmation for the exact location.

Is wine really unlimited?

Yes. House wine is included throughout the meal, and you can have as much as you want.

Can I bring children?

Infants and small children can come in a pram or stroller, though the hands-on cooking part is really for older kids and adults.

How long does it take?

The morning class with market visit runs longer. The afternoon class without the market is three and a half hours. Both include the meal.