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Florence: Tagliatelle & Ravioli Cooking Class with Wine

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Duration4h 30m

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN

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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.

4h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

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.