Pasta & Tiramisu Cooking Class in Milan: Family Recipes

You make the pasta, you make the dessert, you eat it all together.

A three-hour hands-on cooking class in a private Milanese home where you prepare fresh tagliatelle, handmade ravioli and authentic tiramisu using family recipes passed down through generations. Grandmother Bruna or one of her trained children teaches in English; the class ends with dinner and wine in the home's art-filled rooms. Children are welcome from age seven.

The Experience

What do you actually make in a cooking class in Milan? Here you prepare fresh tagliatelle entirely from scratch, shape ravioli with a Michelin-inspired filling, and build tiramisu layer by layer using the family recipe. The class runs three hours in the home itself—a Milanese apartment on Via Giuseppe Dezza, just 20 meters from the Blue Metro Line (M4)—so there's no commute to a cooking school or a studio kitchen. Grandmother Bruna trained at the Paul Bocuse Institute in France, as did her grandchildren, but the recipes you're learning are the ones that came before that: the ones her own grandmother made.

You cook alongside your instructor, not watching a demonstration. The home is filled with antique furniture and the family's private art collection, so the setting itself is part of what you're there for—the sense of being a guest in a real place rather than a paying visitor in a classroom. About twelve hours before your class, you'll get an email with your instructor's name. If Grandmother Bruna isn't teaching that day, one of her children or grandchildren will be there with the same recipes and the same techniques.

When the cooking is done, you sit down to eat. The meal is the pasta you made, the ravioli you shaped, the tiramisu you layered—finished with wine and water. There's no separate restaurant meal, no ordering from a menu. You eat what you cooked, in the room where you cooked it.

What’s included

• Bottled water.
• wine and dinner (the meal you've prepared).
• instruction in English.
• recipes to take home.

Good to know

Pets welcomePublic transport nearby

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Is this one for you?The class runs three hours straight, with no breaks between cooking and eating, so you're on your feet and focused the whole time. Book this if you want to actually make the food rather than watch someone else make it, and if you're comfortable learning in a family home instead of a professional kitchen.

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Top questions

What exactly do I make during the three hours?

Fresh tagliatelle with homemade tomato sauce and Parmigiano Reggiano; handmade ravioli with a Michelin-inspired filling; and traditional Italian tiramisu from the family recipe. You prepare each one from scratch.

Who teaches the class if Grandmother Bruna isn't available?

One of her trained children or grandchildren teaches using the same authentic family recipes and techniques. You'll receive an email with your instructor's name about twelve hours before the class starts.

Is the meal included, or do I eat separately afterward?

Dinner is included and it's the food you've made—your pasta, ravioli and tiramisu—served with wine and water in the home.

How do I get to the cooking class from central Milan?

The home is on Via Giuseppe Dezza, just 20 meters from the Coni Zugna–Via Foppa stop on the Blue Metro Line (M4), so public transit gets you there directly.

Can children join the class?

Yes, children are welcome from age seven. They participate in the hands-on cooking and eat the meal with the group.