Rome

Authentic Roman Cooking Class & Market Tour Experience

Name: Authentic Roman Cooking Class & Market Tour Experience
Brand: Gray Line I Love Rome by Carrani Tours
SKU: 5034ROMEFOOD
Price: 203.58 USD
Rating: 5.0 (359 reviews)

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5 hours
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Offered in: English

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Overview

Experience Rome to the fullest by including an Italian cooking class into your sightseeing itinerary. In a private kitchen in central Rome, you'll learn how to make a 4-course meal under the watchful eye of an instructor. Plus, visit Rome’s Central Market to shop for ingredients and chat with local farmers and other vendors. You'll receive personalized attention while you cook in a group limited to eight people. Then sit down to enjoy your meal with wine.

Small-group cooking lesson in Rome
Learn to cook an Italian meal with an expert chef
Cook in the private kitchen of an English-speaking Italian
Purchase ingredients in the Rome Central Market
Small-group class limited to 8 people, ensuring a more personalized experience

Sample Menu

Main

Hand-made Pasta

Guided by a chef, create classic pasta like ravioli or fettuccine. Complement them with chosen dishes and a chef-selected wine.

What's Included

Guided grocery shopping in Rome's city center
Cooking class with a trusted chef de cuisine
All ingredients and necessary tools
Lunch made up of dishes you've prepared
Complimentary beverages, including Italian wine
Small-group experience (maximum of 8 people)
Available in both English and Spanish languages
5-hour immersive food experience

Gratuities
Food and drinks, unless specified

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Rossopomodoro
Largo di Torre Argentina, 1, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Largo Argentina The meeting point is outside the main entrance of Teatro Argentina, next to Rossopomodoro Restaurant

Start time

09:30 AM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

No matter what your level of skill in the kitchen, this Rome cooking class is an entertaining and educational experience that allows you to gain insight into a very important piece of Italian culture—food.

Begin with a visit to Rome’s Central Market, where you’ll follow your guide past stalls where farmers, bakers, and butchers sell their fresh goods. Select produce for your class, and learn how to spot the best ingredients.

Then make your way to the private kitchen where your cooking class takes place. With personal guidance from your expert instructor, learn how to prepare and cook three different varieties of homemade pasta plus a main course. When the cooking is over, sit down with your group to enjoy your creations, accompanied by a selection of regional wines.

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 3 days of travel. In this case confirmation will be received within 48 hours, subject to availability
For vegetarian cooking options, please indicate during booking.
Not wheelchair accessible

Near public transportation
This tour requires a minimum of 2 booked participants.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers

Operated by Gray Line I Love Rome by Carrani Tours

Cancellation Policy

This experience is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Featured review

Karen D

This was a highlight of our trip to Rome. The chef began the event with a walk through a great outdoor market and talked a bit about her approach--which was to cook with fresh ingredients in season sourced locally. We then went to a number of specialty shops to buy the cheese, prosciutto and veal for the meal we were to prepare. The class was very well organized and the chef spoke clearly about everything we were preparing--showing us how to make the 3 types of pasta and the vegetables, main dish and dessert. I love to cook, cook a lot, and am quite good. I learned a lot and noted that people with different skill levels were all helped to learn a bit more. and our meal was great! way too much food, but we all felt we had to eat it because it was so wonderful. I can recommend this very highly.

Reviews

5.0

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Highlight of our trip!

Lisa_L, Feb 2024

This was a great experience. We started with a tour of the outdoor market and a few small shops to buy ingredients. The kitchen space was spacious and comfortable. Our instructors were friendly and fun. We learned so much! I will definitely be making pasta at home. Overall, this was our favorite experience of our trip.

Chef luca and team were incredible

alma_a, Jul 2023

The chefs were great the space is unique and loved the visit to the market and walk to the kitchen space through town. Definitely feel like we will recreate some of the pasta dishes when we are back home. The whole day was lovely ending in a delicious multicourse lunch!

Absolutely wonderful experience!

Sarah_H, Apr 2023

I had an absolutely wonderful experience! The other participants didn’t show despite waiting 30 minutes for them so I got a private lesson. Luca was a wonderful teacher! And the food was delicious! I look forward to making pasta using what I learned.

Italian cooking with friends

Teresa_R, Aug 2022

Watching and listening to Victoria explain technique, for example how to add pasta water to thicken the sauce. Also, what steps are the most critical. It was also fun to learn how to roll the fusilli.

Do this

rhonda_v, Jul 2022

The entire experience was great! The group bonded well and really learned some techniques! The space was perfect and the brief history of the area was also appreciated!

Did not learn anything

Andrei_T, Jun 2022

Unfortunately not what we have expected, you will not learn much. The whole cooking we did was chopping some vegetables and mixing dough, no information was given about the cooking process, the quantities, or anything else. At the end we did not even get the recipes of what we „cooked“. The chef and Assistent we’re doing most of the cooking without much explanation of what was happening. If you really want to learn something, this is not the course, if you want cute activity to say you cooked pasta in Italy then is ok.

Response from Host, Jun 2022

Dear Andrei, we are very sorry to read this and we apologize if you didn't like your experience or found it useful. We have to admit it comes a little bit as a surprise because our Cooking Lesson activity is always reviewed very well and our guests are enthusiastic about it. Of course it is subjective and we don't doubt your words. Let us conduct an internal audit or a closer scrutiny to know who was the chef in charge that day and what he/she has to say about it. We're sure you can give us another chance and we'll make it up to you. Best regards, Gray Line Rome Feedbacks Team

Excellent and well worth the cost of the event.

Margaret_F, Jun 2022

I loved every aspect of the class. Fabio was a wonderful host/instructor! We had a delicious and educational experience.

Best tour ever!

Cathryn_S, May 2022

Shopping at Farmers Market for fresh ingredients, making our own fresh pasta multiple ways. Dining on our fabulous creations so satisfying.and meeting Chef FBio was the best of course

Chef Fabio Bongianni was...

GARYYUNHUI_X, Dec 2021

Chef Fabio Bongianni was a great character and Roy was very helpful. Kitchen is in such a unique part of Roma

Great food, not my favorite format

Mackenzie_C, Oct 2021

Really incredible food with an exceptionally talented chef. A few things though for negatives that prevented a 5 star review. First the chef was pretty late and I didn’t get any notice from the company, second he really was on his phone for probably 45 minutes to 1 hour of the three hour experience, and lastly there was a lot of different dishes that we made so the cooking was a bit hectic. Since we made so much there was not much instruction, and instead a lot of “chef points and you do X” which is fine, but I would have preferred to make less and learn more.

Absolutely wonderful!

Chelsea R, Dec 2019

Monica was our instructor and absolutely amazing! The location was a super unique and the class was super educational! We made so much food and left full and happy! Lots of hands on learning not just watching the chef. Monica made the great experience even better! Would definitely recommend to anyone and everyone!

Fantastic

Rebecca_B, Nov 2019

Chef Monica and her assistant. Nicolette were amazing. From the market to the cooking we learned a lot. The location was very unique and truly outstanding. We thoroughly enjoyed the meal we prepared. What a great experience. We highly recommend it.

Best part of Rome

Randy_K, Oct 2019

The class was wonderful. First we went to the markets and shops to get vegetables , meat and cheese. Then we went back to a beautiful piazza that had a professional kitchen. We made 3 kinds of pasta, sauce. Soltimboca and tiramasu and we ate all of it

Awesome experience

randy740, Oct 2019

This was the height of our 4 days in Rome Monica the chef and her assistant were wonderful! So warm and friendly. First we shopped, then we cooked and then we ate what we cooked- do not eat breakfast before this!!!

So much fun!

BoardingPass829773, Sep 2019

Had an amazing time shopping in the market, learning cooking techniques, making homemade pasta, and enjoying all 4 dishes we created in the beautiful garden. Thank you Marco and Nicoleta for a great experience!

The best

Go05374635508, Sep 2019

This class was so much fun for everyone their weather you could cook or not. Nicoletta was great she and her helper went over everything . Were always by if you needed help or just didn't want to do it. I learned so much about making pasta and cooking in general. I had the best time in this class and the food we made was great much better then I make at home. I would serously recomend to do this class with her if you are in Rome. It was worth the time.

Don’t bother

Debbie_G, Sep 2019

When we signed up for the class it said a maximum of eight and we had 12 people in our class. It was so crowded and so many people that half the time we did not know what they were doing or how to do it You spend a lot of time standing around and really did not get to cook anything. There was not enough room at the Counter for everyone. I felt like they were just trying to maximize their profits and didn’t care at all about the quality of the class. Half the time we could not hear or see what they were doing and the people running it did not seem to care. I felt like it was all about making the most money possible they cramming us all in there. We had taken the same class two years earlier and it was outstanding. This time it was absolutely the worst and a waste of a day in room! I would never recommend this particular class to anyone. I’m quite sure 2/3 of the class was extremely unhappy with the entire experience. we spent most of her time standing around with nothing to do and even when we sat down to dinner they only had 11 places set so when poor person had to wait while they added an additional setting for them. I will say it again find a better class that cares about the experience not just making money!

Cooking lesson in Rome!

Todd_J, Sep 2019

Fantastic time!! We had a great time with Chef Nicoletta and her assistant Laura! It was one of the best things about our trip to Rome!

Rome Cooking Class

Denise B, Aug 2019

Great experience! Lots of fun, great chefs, great food. One of the best parts of our trip! Worth every minute of it.

An excellent experience

Sonya_M, Jul 2019

What a fantastic way to experience Rome. Fortunately, yesterday, due to who knows what, we were a group of 3 only. Nicoleta and Roy taught us incredibly well and the food we produced together was of an exceptionally high stand. The wines were also brilliant. I would not hesitate to recommend this experience to anyone. I will certain sign up for another experience with Fabio's chefs on a return trip to Rome. I will be trying my hand at some of these dishes in a couple of days and hope they will be of the same standard. Thanks again to Nicoleta and Roy.

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