Genoa

Genoa: Hands-on Cooking Class and wine tasting with a Sommelier

Genoa, Italy
Traditional Home Cooking Class in Genoa
  • 3 hours
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

Overview

Immerse yourself in Italian culture with a hands-on home cooking class. Learn to prepare an authentic four-course Genoese lunch with local wine and coffee. Work with your host to discover the secrets to traditional Genoese pesto, trofiette pasta, panzanella, and dessert. Sit down and enjoy your meal on a terrace overlooking the ocean and bring your new cooking skills and printed recipes home with you
  • Learn authentic Genoese cooking in a local cook's home
  • Prepare and enjoy a traditional 4-course lunch with wine and coffee
  • Learn to pair Italian wine with different dishes and try local wines
  • Gain skills to cook panzanella, trofiette, and canestrellini liguri di Pannarello at home

Sample Menu

Main

Hand made pasta with pesto sauce

Starter

Focaccia

What's Included

  • Hands on cooking class • lunch or dinner • Coffee /wine / bevareges
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Bottled water
  • Coffee and/or Tea
  • Alcoholic Beverages

    Meeting and Pickup

    Meeting point

    • Vico Inferiore Valoria, 1, 16123 Genova GE, Italy

      If you can't find the flat, please google map Cucina Valoria Restaurant, once you get there, in front of the restaurant at the left of the Square, you will see the entrance of Vico inferiore Valoria. Go there and on the left you will find a little gate, ring number 11 named "Granara"

    End point

    This activity ends back at the meeting point.

    What To Expect

    Additional Info

    • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
    • Not wheelchair accessible
    • Kids under 6 are free
    • Near public transportation
    • Communicate in advance any dietary restriction
    • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers
    Operated by Curioseety SRLS

    Cancellation Policy

    You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

    • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
    • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
    • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
    • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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    Dominick_P
    The class was amazing. Alberto was a great teacher and was so welcoming. We cooked, laughed, talked history and culture, drank wine, and learned a lot. Not to mention, the food was delicious. One of the best experiences of our trip, highly recommend!

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    Gabriella_P, Apr 2024
    We truly enjoyed a beautiful evening on the terrace and Alberto’s gracious hospitality. The food and instruction were excellent and were a wonderful final chapter to our vacation
    Alberto’s cooking class...
    Lily_G, Mar 2024
    Alberto’s cooking class was a highlight of our trip to Genoa. He’s very kind and instructive. In addition to making pesto and pasta we were also served some Genovese pies, focaccia and wine. A delicious experience!
    Excellent experience and...
    jeff_k, Oct 2023
    Excellent experience and a lot of fun cooking in a local flat. Gave us a true home cooking feeling. Definitely recommend. Food was great too.
    10/10 class!
    Dominick_P, Aug 2023
    The class was amazing. Alberto was a great teacher and was so welcoming. We cooked, laughed, talked history and culture, drank wine, and learned a lot. Not to mention, the food was delicious. One of the best experiences of our trip, highly recommend!
    Was so so nice!!! Best...
    Amelie_S, Aug 2023
    Was so so nice!!! Best experience ever! The pasta was so good and we felt so welcomed! The atmosphere was also fantastic! Just such an enjoyable evening, really recommend it to everyone!
    We really enjoyed the...
    Cyrill_S, Aug 2023
    We really enjoyed the course. Alberto is an excellent host and the location on the rooftop is just stunning. The pasta and pesto that we cooked was very delicious!
    Magic
    Jennifer_R, Dec 2021
    Host was very very nice! We’ll prepared. Lovely setting. Friendly and considerate. Simple ingredients turned into a magic sauce.
    Authentic and welcoming pasta cooking class with Cristina
    Nico_L, Aug 2021
    It was an excellent cooking event. Cristina, our host, has warmly welcomed us at her house and shared with us her pasta and pesto insight. We, adults and kids loved the cooking and enjoyed the food and friendliness of Cristina. Thanks a lot.
    The location was a little hard to...
    Jaclyn W, Jun 2018
    The location was a little hard to find definitely not a hotel pickup and we recommend you take an Uber to the class. However, our teacher was so welcoming and sweet though her english was so-so--- definitely a language barrier! We learned how to make pesto and pasta and both were fantastic! The lunch was great, served on the terrace with a beautiful sea view. The wine was refreshing and delicious and we loved the melon with port wine for dessert. Would have loved to learn how to make the focaccia she served, but we were overall very pleased with this cooking course! Great home cooking experience. We can't wait to make pasta and pesto in the US!
    Our family of four went to the...
    Harry M, May 2018
    Our family of four went to the cooking class, aIong with 3 other ladies on May 25th, 2018. The advertisement for the class mentions he and she that his name is Chiara and that he has extensive cooking experience, but it was a female who led the class. If you can call it a class. We were VERY disappointed considering we didn't get a chance to cook things listed on the menu, except for the pasta we all got turns kneading the dough, making the pesto and to bread the anchovies. The menu mentions: 1 PANZANELLA, appetizer 2 main : trofiette pasta with pesto sauce 3 second : Chicken at the Genoese with roasted potatoes 4 dessert : Home made Yogurt Cake or canestrellini liguri di Pannarello 5 Authentic Moka Coffe. It also mentions that the house is in Nervi, which it wasn't. Not sure how we got so mislead. We were served focaccia which wasn't that fresh, and possibly boughten, pasta with pesto, fried anchovies which are very cheap and ample to buy at this time of year, according to the hostess, and boughten gelato. We did have some wine and an espresso. At a 106./person we were a family of 4, I would say that at a maximum, the meal would have cost 100. in total. The hostess was a very nice lady, but this cooking class was rip-off, and would not recommend anyone to take it.
    She was a great host, very friendly...
    Makenna V, Apr 2018
    She was a great host, very friendly, and the cuisine was amazing.

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