Rome Trastevere: Pasta Making Class & Food Tour

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Duration3h

GroupUp to 10

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You Walk Into a Roman Butcher Shop and Leave With Dinner You Made Yourself

You shop at a famous Roman butcher, taste porchetta and wine, then spend two hours learning to shape fresh pasta at a local trattoria. You cook fettuccine and ravioli, sit down and eat them with wine, then finish at a gelateria where you learn to spot real gelato. The guide is local, English-speaking, and knows which details matter. Dietary needs can be accommodated if you mention them at booking.

Step-by-step itinerary

Trastevere pasta making and tasting

Visit Roman delicatessen for porchetta and wine
Shop ingredients for pasta class
Attend pasta making at trattoria
Make fettuccine and ravioli
Eat fresh pasta with wine
Enjoy organic gelato at gelateria

The Experience

The moment you step into Norcineria Iacozzilli in Trastevere, you're standing where Romans have shopped for generations. Your guide is already there, pointing out which eggs, which Parmigiano, which sheep ricotta will go into what you'll make in a few hours. You taste the porchetta on pizza bianca — crisp, salty, the kind of thing that makes you understand why people have opinions about food — and a glass of wine while the guide talks through the day. It's not a lecture. It's the opposite of a lecture.

Then you head to Rione XIII, a trattoria that looks like it hasn't changed since 1987, and you learn to make pasta. Your hands are in the dough. The guide shows you the shape of fettuccine, the fold of ravioli, and you do it wrong the first time and then less wrong and then it's actually okay. You're working alongside other people who also showed up not knowing how to do this, which somehow makes it easier. After maybe an hour of that, you sit down and eat what you made — pasta chitarra with amatriciana, ravioli with ricotta and lemon, butter and sage — and there's wine, and it tastes different because you made it.

The class wraps at a gelateria in Trastevere where they teach you how to spot real gelato from the fake stuff (the real stuff doesn't have that artificial sheen). You get to eat some. It's a small thing, but after a morning of work and eating, it lands right.

What’s included

Your morning includes a visit to Norcineria Iacozzilli where you sample porchetta and wine while your guide picks ingredients, hands-on pasta-making instruction at Rione XIII trattoria, the fresh pasta lunch you prepare (fettuccine and ravioli with sauce and wine), and a stop at a Trastevere gelateria for organic gelato with a lesson on spotting real from fake. Alternative beverages are available for kids and non-drinkers, and dietary accommodations can be arranged with advance notice.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

Operated by Eating Europe Food Tours Rome

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn to make pasta in Rome without spending a day in a cooking school — the butcher shop and trattoria are real neighborhood stops, the guide is local, and you eat what you make the same day.