Sorrento Cooking Class: Handmade Pasta & Wine Tasting

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Make Pasta From Scratch in Sorrento, Then Sit Down and Eat It

You spend 2.5 hours learning to make fresh pasta and a full three-course meal from a local chef in a small group (or private), then sit down and eat what you prepared. Wine and water are included. No cooking experience needed — the techniques are old and simple, designed to work in your own kitchen at home.

Step-by-step itinerary

Cooking class and tasting experience

Arrive at Quanto Basta school
Enjoy welcome prosecco cocktail
Learn to make handmade pasta
Prepare main course dish
Make coffee tiramisù dessert
Eat the dishes prepared

The Experience

So you're standing in a kitchen in the middle of Sorrento, flour on your hands, and the chef is showing you how to roll out scialatielli the way her grandmother did it — and honestly, it's nothing like the YouTube videos make it look. The cooking class runs 2.5 hours, small groups only (max 12 people, or you can book it private), and you start with a prosecco welcome and a tasting of local cheeses and cured meats while the chef walks you through what you're about to make. Then you're actually doing it: kneading dough, shaping ravioli, learning the old techniques that work at home because they're not some restaurant trick.

You pick your menu when you book — meat, fish, or vegetarian — and that decides what you cook and eat. The meat option takes you through handmade pasta with mozzarella and tomatoes, then meatballs or chicken cooked Cacciatora style with cherry tomatoes and wine. Fish means clams and mussels in the pasta, then fish Acqua Pazza or fish in salt crust. Vegetarian gets eggplant parmesan or courgettes parmesan alongside the same fresh pasta. Every version ends with coffee tiramisù, and wine — a bottle shared between two — runs through the whole thing. The chef isn't rushing you through steps; she's actually teaching, pointing out why you knead the way you do, what the dough should feel like, how to tell when it's ready.

At the end you sit down and eat everything you made. That's the part that lands different — you're tasting your own work, still warm, and it tastes like you learned something instead of just watched someone else cook. The school is in the center of Sorrento, so you're not traveling out somewhere; it's walkable from the main streets. If you need vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free, you tell them when you book and they adjust the whole class around it.

What’s included

Your 2.5-hour class includes a prosecco welcome with local cheese and cured meat tasting, hands-on instruction in making fresh pasta and a three-course meal (first course, main course, and coffee tiramisù), wine and water served throughout, and the food you prepare to eat at the end of the class.

Good to know

Stroller friendlyInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by Quanto Basta Sorrento

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to actually learn to cook something you'll make again at home, not just watch a demonstration — the small group size and local chef mean real instruction, and eating what you made is what makes it stick.