Location: Venice
Top Things to do in Venice
Top 10 Cooking Classes in Venice, Veneto
With its gondolas, canals, amazing restaurants, and unforgettable romantic ambiance, Venice is definitely a city for one's bucket list. Waterfront palazzos, palaces, and churches make drifting down the Grand Canal feel like cruising through a painting. To really experience Venice you must go to the opera or to a classical music performance, nibble fresh pasta and pastries, and linger in the exhibit halls of an art gallery. Label lovers will drool over the high-end shopping in Piazza San Marco.
Restaurants in Venice
1. Maria's Cookery Course - Cooking School Venice
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5.0 based on 49 reviews
For more than 10 years, for lovers of Italian food, we have been offering a unique opportunity to participate in small groups in a hands-on cooking experience in the peace of an historic Venetian Villa of the 15th century. Meeting point is in Venice: Piazzale Roma, Tronchetto Parking or at the airport. The local women of Veneto will share Countess Maria's cooking philosopy, her traditional techniques, special ingredients, and family recipes. And you'll enjoy your creation "a tavola" for lunch, together with the best Italian wines of the region. We use fresh products like the vegetables of our garden, the eggs of our chicken for making pasta, and the best products of the day that we find on the local market. Programs are offered from March to December. Our daily classes begin at 10:30 and end at around 14:30, including lunch with d.o.c. Italian wines. In the afternoon, you can enjoy food and wine traditions of Veneto taking part in our optional excursions and wine & food tasting tours. Our programs are flexible. We can customize them according to your wishes and the activities you prefer. Send us an enquiry to get your program and rates.
2. Enrica Rocca Cooking School Venice
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5.0 based on 58 reviews
Enrica Rocca runs a cookery school with a difference. “Born in Venice, Enrica is an Italian cook of note and a flamboyant and passionate chef and restaurateur. She has Italian cooking in her blood and a contagious zest for life and food…” David BakerFinancial Times
3. Friend in Venice Tours
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5.0 based on 736 reviews
Life is a journey, travelling is living twice.” – Omar Khayyam – (Persian poet of XII century)I am a tour leader. I visited many countries… not to find myself, tot o learn how to live. And from you, and all of those I met during my journeys I learned something.This is the reason why I love my job. For me it represents an opportunity to meet men and women from different places and with different cultures.
4. Traveling Spoon
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5.0 based on 2 reviews
Traveling Spoon provides travelers with private, authentic food experiences, from homemade meals to cooking classes and market tours, with local hosts in their homes.
5. Artisan Tours
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5.0 based on 5 reviews
We tour an authentic tour of some of the wine regions of Northern Italy including Prosecco, Colli Euganei. We tour wineries, olive oil orchards, and eat some of the regions best food! Joined with my with local friend Laura together we are now offering one of the best tours in the region!
6. Acquolina Cooking School
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5.0 based on 234 reviews
Marika's warm, functional kitchen equipped with the most modern technology, you will have the pleasure of preparing both typical venitian dishes and more, using the fresh herbs grown in the garden of the beautiful old venitian villa: villa inespartecipate actively in the preparation of ravioli, tagliatelle, risotti, local specialty of fish and meat, vegetables and dessert.each class last for 4 hours and finished with tasting of the menu prepared. Maximum 10. Folder with recipes is given to each partecipant
Reviewed By mdmockbee - Potenza, Italy
My mom and I took two of Marika’s cooking experiences in her beautiful open kitchen, where culture meets food and tingles all your senses, tastes and textures. Her catering, events and cooking experience company is called Acquolina. In Italian one of my favourite phrases is ‘acquolina in bocca,’ meaning mouth-watering, and that is exactly the flavors and smells that ensue when spending time in Marika’s Kitchen. Diving into the rhythm of cooking, we experienced creating a Michelin star quality meal in a matter of 4 hours. The first meal we made was Milanese, Ossobuco with Saffron Risotto. Marika said that it is one of the only dishes in Italy where the primo and the secondo come together. She moves fast, giving us lessons in cooking, technique and her personal connection to the cuisine. I had never made risotto, used saffron, nor had any idea what ossobuco was. Marika said it’s a perfect winter Milanese dish. The technique involved toasting rice in wine and constant stirring. As Chef Marika said, ‘that is why you let the guest wait for the risotto, and not the risotto for the guests.’ For the second meal we cooked was an explosion of pasta varieties. More than the technique, Marika explained how pasta and Italian cuisine are rooted in season, regionally and in the home. Together we prepared two fillings for ravioli: asparagus with leek and Spinach with ricotta. The first sauce to accompany the asparagus and leek ravioli was made with butter sage and Parmesan with asparagus tops. The second sauce was a salsa simplice with little tomatoes, olive oil and garlic. We also made a basil pesto with spinach infused tagliatelle. And finally pillow-like potato gnocchi. It was all overwhelming in a way that we couldn’t even believe the quantity of different types of pasta we had made. The technique of which takes consistency in practice and a lifetime, which we realised very quickly as Marika effortlessly showed, and as my mother and I fumbled our way through laughing. Even the shapes and how you make each pasta is founded in different locales of Italian cooking. Marika’s stories of cooking with her grandmother when she was a young girl in Milan, and her connection to the rich agriculture that comes from the regions of her grandfather in Puglia further South came together as we rhythmically prepared our meal together. This day was just my mother, myself, Tonia Marika’s sous chef and Marika. At the end, my mother and I ate together enough pasta for ten, and the meal was one that no restaurant in Venice could compare.
7. Mama Isa's Cooking School
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5.0 based on 387 reviews
Awarded as Italy's Top Cooking School by The New York Times, The Mama Isa's Cooking School is English-Speaking Culinary Schools in Italy. Fodor's Travel recently released its "Fodor's Essential Italy 2020", which ranks the Italy's best and fantastic cooking classes. Fodor's Travel named Mama Isa's Cooking School as one of the top 10 cooking classes in Italy. Have fun at our one day or 2-3 day or week-long cooking classes.Our mission is to offer our guests the cooking vacation of a lifetime. We offer 1 day - or 2-3 days or week-long cooking classes. By experiencing cooking classes and cooking courses, you can discover the wonderful flavours of the local produce (farm to table) and learn how to blend these high quality and fresh ingredients together to create delicious Regional Italian dishes. Suitable for both beginners and confident cooks.
Reviewed By Pioneer725803
I did this cooking class several years ago. The cooking class was excellent, so I decide to complete a six day cooking course with chef Isa during the last February. The chef Isa was extremely helpful, professional and friendly. The food we cooked was delicious. I learnt so much in terms of techniques and tips. This is a great cooking course: completely hands-on and from scratch!
8. J.W. Marriott/Venice Sapori Cooking Academy
9. Cooking & Travelling - Cooking classes in Venice Italy
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5.0 based on 71 reviews
Do you want to learn the basics of Italian cuisine? I organize Italian cooking classes in Venice for anyone interested in Italian food and wine, all of which in English. I focus on and teach how to cook dishes you can prepare every day at home. At the end of the course you will be able to cook pasta, lasagne, gnocchi, risotto, tiramisu.
Reviewed By TammyCowan - Canada, null
Gioia is a great teacher and was very patient with both our teen boys and us. So much fun, awesome food, learnt so much and great company. The best meal we have had in Venice. The coffee, wine and food we all cooked was incredible. Thank you Gioia!
10. Cesarine
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5.0 based on 16 reviews
Cesarine in Venice are passionate home cooks, recognized ambassadors of the Italian culinary heritage. Cesarine open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences. From signature lunches and dinners to hands-on cooking classes, explore special Cesarine bundles that combine local market visits and local producers tastings. Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of 700+ home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities.
Reviewed By JustinePearson
Where to begin! Our Cesarine experience was wonderful from start to finish. Our class was originally booked for Venice, but something came up and we had to try find another night of our trip to do it on. Thank you so much to Francesca for making a plan for us to still have our class in Verona and for the open and prompt communication, you managed our minor hiccup so smoothly and we really appreciated this! As luck would have it, we were so grateful to have the class moved to Verona, as we got to meet the wonderful Silvia Grillo, who welcomed us into her warm home with such grace and fun. We loved every minute of our class and highly recommend this experience to everyone travelling in Italy, especially if you are travelling by yourself or in smaller groups! It's a great way to get out and actually meet and spend time with someone who lives locally and to learn a great new skill and learn a little bit more about the place you're in!
