Top Venice Cooking Classes

Learn insider secrets of Italian cuisine with a cooking class in a Venetian home, located in the bustling Polo Quarter of Venice. Choose between a lunch and dinner class and get hands-on experience creating traditional Italian dishes with guidance from a passionate chef. Enjoy the meal you've made, complete with wine.

Pasta is Italy’s iconic dish, and with this cooking experience you can learn how to prepare two varieties of pasta like an authentic Italian “Cesarina” (home cook). Roll out a sheet of pasta dough by hand to make both a fresh and filled variety from scratch, and then whip up a tiramisù with the help of your “Cesarina” teacher. Relax after your hands-on class by sampling the dishes you’ve prepared together.

As a visitor to an unfamiliar city, it can be difficult to get close to local culture. This tour offers the rare opportunity to do exactly that by having a cooking lesson from a professional chef in her Venetian home .

Discover the secrets of homestyle Italian cooking during this half-day culinary experience in Venice. Meet at Rialto Market to shop like a local for fresh, seasonal ingredients with the help of a professional chef. Then, learn how to prepare authentic regional dishes with a cooking lesson inside a historic Venetian palazzo. Get tips on food and wine pairing from a sommelier, and savor your homemade feast along with excellent Italian wines.

Enjoy a local's eye view of Venice by joining this small-group cooking class led by a Venetian-born host in their home. In a small group of no more than 10 guests, learn how to make fresh pasta, then sit down together to enjoy a 3-course meal accompanied by a glass of white wine or Prosecco.

Take a course on mask making from a master artisan in Venice, and learn about the history of this ancient tradition. You can choose from a production class or a decoration class, or you can even take both. In the production class, learn how to make your own papier-mâché mask, and in the decoration class, you can paint or use materials to decorate your mask. No matter which option you choose, you get to bring home your creation—just in time for Carnival.

Get hands-on experience with one-to-one guidance during a private glassmaking lesson. Discover the secrets of Murano glassmaking techniques from one of the most renowned craftsmen of Venice. The 90-minute workshop includes all materials—including your own marvelous glass artwork to take home—plus a 10 percent discount on glassworks from the artist.

For this private mask-decorating workshop in Venice, arrive at a traditional atelier, and get a blank sand-colored mask that’s ready for your artist eye. Use feathers, sequins, and other materials to make a masterpiece. Your guide will share facts about the history of mask making and can also show you some great techniques to use. Afterward, you’ll get to bring home your decorated mask.

Visit Torcello, Murano, and Burano—three islands in the Venetian Lagoon—on this tour from Venice by motorboat. With a guide, watch glass being blown at a Murano glass factory, see historical cathedrals on Torcello, and admire exquisite handmade lace on Burano. This is a great way to see more than just the central sights of Venice and enjoy a cruise on the water. Select a departure time when booking.

See the wonders of Venice's St. Mark's Basilica without the crowds during this after-hours, small-group tour. Learn about the basilica's famed mosaics from your guide and explore the crypt below the church to see where St. Mark's remains are said to lie. Upgrade to see the Doge's Palace after the basilica and wander the former home of the Venetian Republic's government.

Experience the authentic side of Venetian culture and cuisine far from the crowds with this local-led market tour and cooking class. Join a native Venetian to browse the market stalls for ingredients, then roll up your sleeves for a hands-on cooking class in your host's home kitchen. Learn to prepare a number of traditional dishes from Veneto then enjoy the fruit of your labors over a family-style meal.

Meet your host, Massimo, for a fun and informative cooking class. Shop for ingredients at the Mercato di Rialto, then head back to Massimo’s for a lesson in Italian cuisine. Learn to prepare dishes from the Veneto region and make homemade pasta and focaccia bread from scratch. After the lesson, enjoy the meal you’ve prepared together.

Learn to make a Veneto favorite turned global standard—tiramisu—and two regional specialties, such as bigoli pasta, gnocchi, or risi e bisi (rice and peas), with a passionate home chef in her Venice kitchen. Learn the tricks of the trade as you work alongside your host, then savor the fruits of your labor for lunch or dinner with water, local wines, and coffee. You’ll even take home a souvenir apron.

Don't just sit in a restaurant but be a true Venetian! Let's pick the best fresh fish at the Rialto market, cross the Canal Grande on a gondola and hurry up heading home. Be your own chef at my place in a state of the art kitchen overlooking the canal. Become a venetian! Fish tastes better when it is fresh, seasonal and local, especially if you personally buy it and cook it at home with the tips of a local guy!

Learn how to make a delectable Venetian delicacy, the traditional cichetti, without fighting for your teacher’s attention in this private cooking class. Make a series of these small plates, served in Venice’s specialist bars and osteries, from a range of seasonal ingredients: vegetables, meats, fish and more. Make enough for your lunch and then eat them all, with a complimentary glass of Prosecco to polish them off.

If you’ve always wanted to learn to make specialty desserts, there’s no better time to learn than now. Take this Withlocals tiramisu virtual cooking class live from Venice, and participate in an interactive option that’s far more fun than reading out of a cookbook. A couple from Venice will show you step by step how to make this traditional coffee-flavored Italian dessert right from your own kitchen.

Learn to prepare secret tiramisu` in Venice with an amazing virtual class with chef Lorenzo. You will receive the recipe after the class !

Ever wanted to hang out in a Bacaro, a local Venetian bar and learn all about the wine that you are drinking, how it's made, where it comes from with local Venetians? You're in luck this tour does just that! Enjoy a Prosecco adventure with a connoisseur of natural wines and a local owner of a bacaro in the heart of Venice! We will start this private tour with a walk through the streets of Venice in the meeting place that you prefer! It will be an opportunity for a brief introduction to Venice, its millenary history and its lifestyle. After that we will meet the owner of a Venetian bacaro specialized in natural wines only, located off the tourist paths in a quiet and charming campo in Cannaregio. This Prosecco tasting will cover the historic fermentation process of this sparkling wine. You will learn and taste at the same time! The wines will be completely natural from growing grapes to fermenting and won't give you any hangover!

You can’t come to Venice this time?No worries, our host Valerio will bring Venice to you! If you have been in town before or your planning to do so, you must know that you cannot have a genuine experience of Venice without becoming a Spritz expert!What about learning all the secrets about how to make it? You will spend an Aperitivo time together with Valerio, which is the best part of every Venetian’s day.All this will happen while learning more about the Spritz: from where its name comes from and why it is so popular both among grandpas and youngster in town. You will especially learn how to make all the variants which are so popular in all bars here in Venice: the sweeter orange flavoured Aperol, the bitter and stronger one Campari, the intrigous Cynar and delicate and almost unknown Select. Drink by drink you'll learn some tips from Valerio and end with his secret recipe as a Venetian! While drinking you will enjoy the view from his dining room window overlooking the canal!

Participate in a private cooking class with an expert cook learning local recipes and tasting everything you've made with wines included. Your guide will share the culinary secrets discovering how to make the pasta according to the tradition passed down for generations, from the dough to the perfect sauce (homemade “gnocchi di patate (potato dumplings)” or “Tagliatelle”). Enjoy a meal with traditional venetian recipes as fegato alla veneziana (Venetian liver and onions) or sarde in saor (sardines and onions). You will create your own tiramisu the typical traditional cake born in Treviso. The classes will take place in the Treviso. A minimum of 3 participants are required for the class

Escape the crowds of Venice and savor an authentic Italian culinary experience. Head for the peaceful Lido and to the luxurious Relais Alberti where you will take part in a cooking class using products directly from the orchard. Your experience ends with lunch and wine pairings.

cooking class with an expert in the history of Venice, in an informal and fun environment where you can cook and have dinner together

Learn definitively with simple steps and tricks to make pasta at home. With the recipes provided you can make it whenever you want with friends. The atmosphere is relaxing and youthful, seasoned with good music and local wine!

Make gourmet ice cream from scratch at a private Venice cooking class, and learn how Italian ice cream goes from fresh milk to the delicious finished product. In addition to making your own batch of artisanal ice cream, you’ll sample a range of ice creams and sorbets in a variety of styles.