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Florence: Pizza & Gelato Class with Unlimited Wine

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Duration3h 30m

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN · IT

Mobile ticketAccepted

Three Hours to Make Pizza Like You Grew Up in Florence

You'll spend three and a half hours in a working pizzeria in central Florence, mixing pizza dough and making gelato from scratch under a professional chef's guidance. You cook your own pizza in a wood-fired oven, prepare gelato with fresh ingredients, and eat both immediately, all while drinking unlimited Chianti wine. Everything — apron, tools, seasonal ingredients, lunch, wine — is included, and you walk out with a certificate and the actual skills to do it again at home.

3h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Meet in the heart of Florence
Learn to knead pizza dough
Prepare authentic Italian gelato
Cook your pizza to perfection
Taste your pizza and gelato
Enjoy unlimited Chianti wine

The Experience

You're standing in a real pizzeria in the center of Florence, apron tied, flour already on your hands. The chef is handing you a bowl of flour, water and yeast — the three things that start every pizza in Italy — and you're about to spend the next three and a half hours learning what takes most people years to figure out. The dough goes down on the counter in front of you, not on a screen or in a video. You knead it yourself, feel how it changes texture as you work it, watch it rest while the chef talks you through what's happening and why.

While the dough rises, you move into gelato territory. The chef walks you through the fresh ingredients — no shortcuts, no stabilizers that aren't real — and you make a batch that tastes nothing like the industrial stuff you've had before. It's a different skill entirely from pizza, and the class doesn't rush either one. You're not watching a demonstration; you're doing the work, tasting as you go, getting corrected in real time. The unlimited Chianti flows the whole time, which somehow makes the learning stick better and the mistakes funnier.

Then comes the part that justifies all of it: you cook your pizza in the actual oven, pull it out when it's right, and eat it straight away with the gelato you made sitting next to it. The class includes a graduation certificate at the end, which sounds like a gimmick until you're holding it and realizing you actually know how to do this now. The whole thing — ingredients, apron, the professional chef, lunch, wine, water — is included in the price. You leave knowing you could teach someone else tomorrow.

What’s included

Your three-and-a-half-hour class includes an apron and all cooking utensils, seasonal ingredients for both pizza and gelato, access to the wood-fired pizza oven, instruction from an English-speaking professional chef, the pizza and gelato you prepare (your lunch), unlimited Chianti wine and water throughout the session, a graduation certificate, and a gluten-free pizza option if needed.

Good to know

Stroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by Ciao Florence Tours Srl

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to actually learn pizza and gelato-making rather than just watch, and you'd rather spend an afternoon doing it in Florence than reading about it at home — the three-and-a-half-hour format gives the chef time to teach you properly, not rush through a demo.