Florence: Tuscan Cooking Class & Market Tour with 4-Course Lunch

You're in Florence. By lunch, you'll be cooking in the hills.

You visit Florence's historic central market to select fresh ingredients, then travel to a working Tuscan farmhouse where you cook a four-course menu from bruschetta and handmade pasta to roast pork and tiramisu. Lunch is served on a terrace with Chianti wine, and you leave with recipes and a diploma. Transport and all ingredients are included in the price.

Step-by-step itinerary

Cooking class and market visit in Tuscany

• Visit Florence central food market
• Travel to Tuscan farmhouse
• Prepare bruschetta appetizer
• Make fresh tagliatelle with meat sauce
• Cook Tuscan roast pork with potatoes
• Prepare tiramisu dessert
• Enjoy 4-course meal with Chianti wine

The experience

The morning starts at San Lorenzo Mercato Centrale, Florence's central food market, where you'll walk the stalls with your guide and pick out the exact tomatoes, herbs and cuts of pork you'll cook with later. It's the kind of market that's been there for centuries: vendors calling out, the smell of basil and fresh bread mixing together. You're not just browsing. You're shopping like someone who knows what they're making. After about an hour, you load into an air-conditioned minibus for a 20-minute drive out of the city into the Tuscan countryside, where the farmhouse sits surrounded by rolling hills and vineyards.

Once you arrive, you roll up your sleeves. The cooking class is hands-on from the start: no watching from a stool. You'll make bruschetta with homegrown tomatoes and olive oil, hand-roll fresh tagliatelle and coat it in a traditional meat sauce, roast pork loin with potatoes, and finish with tiramisu. The instructor walks you through each step, but you're doing the work. It's designed for beginners, so if you've never made pasta by hand, that's fine. If you cook at home already, there's still technique to pick up. The whole class takes a few hours, and then everyone sits together on a terrace overlooking the hills.

That's when the 4-course meal happens. You eat what you made, course by course, with up to four glasses of Chianti wine poured throughout. It's not rushed. It's the kind of long lunch where you're sitting with other people who spent the morning cooking, and the food tastes different because you made it. Before you leave, you get a cooking diploma and the recipes sent to your email so you can actually recreate this at home. Transport back to Florence is included, and you're back in the city by evening.

What’s included

Your day includes pickup from Florence, a guided visit to San Lorenzo Mercato Centrale to select fresh ingredients, transport by air-conditioned minibus to the Tuscan farmhouse, a hands-on cooking class where you prepare bruschetta, fresh tagliatelle, roast pork and tiramisu, a 4-course lunch served on the terrace with up to four glasses of Chianti wine, a cooking diploma, and recipes emailed to you after the tour.

Options for this experience

2 options

Cooking Class: Pasta & PestoGuide in English · 10:00Take part in a hands-on Pasta & Pesto Class departing from Florence, where you'll make fresh pasta from scratch and authentic homemade pesto in

Market Tour Included with Pasta & PestoGuide in English · 09:00Begin with a stop at a local market, then learn to prepare fresh pasta and genuine pesto in the Tuscan countryside

You see the exact price of each option when you check availability.See dates & prices

Before you book

Days and timesEvery dayDepartures at 09:00 and 10:00

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AgesAdult (18 and older) · Youth (8 to 17 years) · Under 8: can't be included in the booking

GroupUp to 26

Live guideEnglish

Meeting point and pickupNo hotel pickup: you go to the meeting point. Ends back at the starting point.

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24 h before the start. After that, no refund.It may be canceled if the minimum number of travelers isn't reached. If that happens, you're offered another date or a refund.

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Operated by Walkabout Florence Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to cook something real in Tuscany without arranging the market, the farmhouse, transport or the wine yourself: the fixed itinerary and small-group format mean you spend the day cooking and eating, not planning logistics.

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Top questions

Can children come?

Yes. Ticket types: Youth (8 to 17 years). Under 8: they can't be included in the booking.

What if I have dietary restrictions or allergies?

The tour cannot accommodate vegetarian, gluten-free or other alternative dietary requirements, so it's not suitable if you have these needs.

What happens if I visit on a Sunday or public holiday?

On Sundays and public holidays, the market visit is replaced with a visit to the farmhouse vegetable garden where you pick fresh ingredients instead.

How long is the full day?

The market visit takes about an hour, the minibus ride is 20 minutes, the cooking class runs several hours, and lunch follows. Plan for a full day from morning until early evening.

Is the cooking class suitable for beginners?

Yes, it's designed for both beginners and people who already cook. No prior experience is required.

What's included in the price?

Market visit, ingredients, cooking class, 4-course lunch with up to four glasses of wine, transport by minibus, cooking diploma and recipes sent by email.

Are there any physical limitations I should know about?

The farmhouse has uneven and steep surfaces, so it's not accessible for people with walking difficulties or wheelchair users.