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Milan: Pasta & Tiramisu Cooking Class with Wine in Local Restaurant

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Duration3h

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN

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Make classic Milanese pasta and tiramisu with wine in a cozy kitchen

You’ll step into a real Milanese kitchen for a small group cooking class where you’ll learn to make fresh pasta and creamy tiramisu from scratch. Sip wine as your local guide shares family recipes and stories, then sit down together to enjoy the meal you created. Expect laughter, hands-on moments, and flavors you’ll want to bring home with you.

Step-by-step itinerary

Arrive at meeting point
Receive welcome glass of Prosecco
Go behind scenes of Italian restaurant
Tie apron and enter kitchen
Learn to prepare pasta dough
Make pasta from scratch
Prepare tiramisu step by step
Sit down to enjoy meal with wine

The Experience

“Don’t worry if you get flour everywhere,” our instructor grinned, sliding a glass of Prosecco into my hand before I’d even tied my apron. Milan was humming outside but inside the restaurant it smelled like coffee and warm dough, and people were already laughing about their first attempts at cracking eggs. Our guide (I think her name was Chiara?) had this way of showing you how to knead the pasta dough that made me feel like I’d done it before — even though my hands were totally sticky and I kept forgetting which flour was which. She told us about her grandmother’s recipe for tiramisu, which apparently has more secrets than I expected. The espresso they used was so strong I felt awake just smelling it.

I liked that we weren’t rushed — there was time to ask why some pasta is “fresca” and some “secca”, or just to chat about Milan’s food scene (someone at our table had tried risotto alla Milanese the night before and couldn’t stop talking about saffron). When we finally sat down together, eating what we’d actually made, it felt sort of homey. The wine paired with the food better than anything I’ve ever picked out myself — maybe because Chiara poured it for us with this little toast in Italian that none of us understood but all tried to repeat anyway. My tiramisu didn’t look perfect but honestly? It tasted better than any I’ve had back home.

There’s something about sharing a meal you cooked yourself with strangers who are suddenly friends — especially after you’ve all fumbled through whisking egg yolks or rolling out tagliatelle together. The whole thing was just a few hours but now every time I smell espresso or see an apron, I remember that afternoon in Milan — flour on my hands, wine glass in reach, everyone smiling like they’d known each other longer than they really had.

What’s included

Your day includes step-by-step instruction from a local guide inside a central Milan restaurant, all ingredients for making fresh pasta and tiramisu from scratch, plus wine and soft drinks served as you enjoy your homemade lunch or dinner together at the end of the class.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPublic transport nearby

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