Florence: Small-Group Pasta Class & Wine Tasting

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Duration2h 30m

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN

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You Shape the Menu, Then Cook It Together in Florence

You arrive and help choose the day's menu with the group, then spend hours making two types of fresh pasta and two sauces from scratch under a professional chef's eye. You eat everything you've cooked together, with wine, and leave with printed recipes. Small groups mean real instruction, not a crowd.

2h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Interactive pasta cooking class in Florence

Arrive at cooking school
Decide menu with group
Prepare fresh dough for pasta
Shape and fill traditional pasta
Make two types of pasta sauces
Create classic Italian starters
Enjoy the handmade pasta dishes

The Experience

You walk into a real cooking school in Florence and within minutes you're standing at a counter with flour on your hands and a group of strangers who are about to become your collaborators. The chef asks what you want to make — ravioli with pumpkin, tagliatelle with meat sauce, spaghetti with porcini mushrooms, whatever the seasonal ingredients suggest — and the group decides together. That's the whole thing right there. It's not a demo where you watch someone else cook. You're building the pasta from scratch: rolling dough, shaping it, filling it, saucing it. The class stays small, 10–12 people max, so there's real space to move and the chef actually sees what your hands are doing.

What makes this different from a standard cooking class is that the menu isn't locked in before you arrive. The chef guides the group through what's fresh that day — organic, local ingredients from Tuscany — and you all choose together what goes on the table. Someone wants to try pear ravioli, someone else votes for the lemon version, and suddenly you're making both. The sauces come next, built from scratch by you, not poured from a jar. By the time you sit down to eat what you've made, you've already invested in it. The wine pairing happens during lunch, and it's included. You eat together, the people you just cooked with, and the pasta tastes different because you know exactly what went into it.

The whole thing takes a few hours — class and shared meal together — and you leave with the recipes printed out so you can try it again at home. Parking is outside the city center (Florence's old town is car-free and gated), so plan to leave your car in a garage or lot before you arrive. Dress is smart casual, and if you have any allergies or dietary needs beyond gluten-free, tell them when you book so they can plan around it.

What’s included

Your experience includes the hands-on pasta class with a professional chef, all organic seasonal ingredients, two types of fresh handmade pasta and two sauces you prepare yourself, traditional bruschette or Tuscan panzanella, a shared lunch featuring the pasta you've made, wine pairing with the meal, bottled water, printed recipes to take home, and all taxes and fees. No cooking demo — you do the cooking.

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Public transport nearby

Operated by Chef Vary

Is this one for you?Right for anyone who wants to actually make pasta, not watch someone else make it, and doesn't mind a group setting where the menu gets decided together. The small size and hands-on format mean real instruction; the shared meal and wine make it social, not rushed.