Small Group Market tour and Cooking class in Padua

Name: Small Group Market tour and Cooking class in Padua
Brand: Cesarine
SKU: 68460P1344
Price: 163.54 USD
Rating: 5.0 (7 reviews)

Padua, Italy

From $163.54

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up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)

5 hours
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

The best way to expand your knowledge of Italian food is to dive right in and learn how to make authentic recipes from scratch. Start your Padua culinary adventure with a market visit to pick up fresh seasonal ingredients. Then, enjoy a hands-on pasta and tiramisu class with top tips that you wouldn’t find in a cookbook, and a chance to feast on your delicious creations at the end.

Combine a market tour and a cooking class on the same day
Use seasonal ingredients to make a delicious pasta dish
Don’t worry about crowds: This is a small-group experience
Taste the dishes you’ve created at the end of the lesson

Sample Menu

Main

Pasta

Dessert

Tiramisu

What's Included

Share your passion for the Italian cuisine with other lovely guests
Italian Aperitivo: Prosecco and nibbles
Local market tour
Learn to make 1 iconic Pasta type
Learn to make the famous Tiramisu
Official ‘Cesarine’ apron
Tasting session: enjoy everything you've prepared with wine, beverages and coffee included
All Fees and Taxes

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Padua, Province of Padua, Italy
The meeting point of this experience will be our Cesarina home. For privacy reasons, you will receive the full address of your Cesarina host after you have booked. We will contact you after you've booked to match you up with your ideal Cesarina based on what you are looking for.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Near public transportation

Not wheelchair accessible
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travelers

Operated by Cesarine

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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Featured review

Josh_S

Great experience. The memories of this day will stay with us forever. Catia is friendly, fun and a superb hostess. It was so wonderful to spend the day in her beautiful home and enjoy the art, music and mostly the food.

Reviews

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7 reviews

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Make and Cook Italian Food in the Home of an Italian Cook

Robert_D, May 2024

We had a very enjoyable 5 hours with Catia. We met at the market at Piazza Erbe. She took us through the outside produce market and indoor meat and cheese market. All the while she gave a historical summary of the many buildings around Piazza Erbe. When we arrived at her house we were put to work making tiramisu, cicchetti and bigoli pasta our thirst quenched by some very good local Cabernet Franc. We highly recommend the tour with Catia

A wonderful day of cooking with a new friend!

Sara_D, Jun 2023

My cooking experience with Catia was the highlight of my time in Padua. She was so generous and passionate about sharing her love of cooking, drawing on her family history as well as her own. This was not the cooking class I expected, rather, it was a special day with a friend who had invited me to her home and kitchen. And of course, the food we made together was amazing! This is an experience I will never forget!

Magical and memorable experience

Michael_G, Jun 2023

When we first met Catia, she was so warm and knowledgeable as she guided us through the market place, and sharing the history of her beautiful city and all the best places to get our favorite items, then she so generously treated us to a cappuccino and we were on our way to her home to cook. What a magical experience to be truly immersed in the culture of Padua through meeting Catia’s family and hearing of her generations of cooking Venetian traditions and picking ingredients from her own garden! We started with a Venetian appetizer of chichetti, which were like tapas but each was a work of art. And Catia is an artist! A painter! Then we made homemade Venetian pasta called Bigoli on her grandmother’s heirloom pasta maker and then we made traditional tiramisu. It was organized and at the same time relaxed. She had so much patience for all of our questions and our messy spills and we truly feel like we made a lifelong friend. This experience was the highlight of our trip and one that our family will never forget!

How beautiful memories are made

Josh_S, May 2023

We had an excellent...

Richard_F, Jan 2023

We had an excellent experience with Catia. It was so fun cooking some ofher family recipes including starters, homemade pasta and Tiramisu. Catia is a very knowledgeable chef and we were so honored that she opened her home for us. We can highly recommend getting a memorable taste of Padova.

Italian Cooking with Catia

Stephen_M, Nov 2022

Extraordinary day with on our small group tour and cooking class in Padua. Catia was an exceptional host, warm and welcoming, as she guided us through a wonderful day. Even before meeting up for our experience, she was in contact, giving us confidence about what to expect and reinforcing our meeting place and time. We started the day by learning the fine points of shopping in the busy marketplace, along with perspective on its history and place in Italian culture, as we gathered ingredients for our lesson and meal. There was also excellent explanation about the regional food differences in Italy. She then brought to her home and made us feel like family as she guided us through a fun and insightful afternoon celebrating food and its preparation. With some of the market purchases, she put together an amazing assortment of Venetian appetizers with her own special twist. It was a beautiful meal in itself. And that was before we even got down to the pasta and tiramisu preparation! Catia was an excellent teacher showing us some traditional ways of making fresh pasta and the tiramisu in tandem, offering valuable perspective to ensure success. Even with some cooking experience we learned a lot, tried some new things and had great fun working together. The results were magnificent, delicious and completely satisfying. The best part was that we did all of this in great company. This was an outstanding experience all around and highly recommended. Great memories created that we’ll likely think about whenever we’re shopping, cooking or enjoying food with friends and family.

A must do in Padua!

susanm_S, Jul 2022

We walked through the Padua market, enjoying the many different stalls and shops. Then we made magic with semolina flour and water, bucoli! Fabulous day, great host.