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Morning Cooking Class and Market visit with lunch
5 h
Lunch
Morning
Class
About this activity
Meet your cooking instructor at their home in central Milan in the early morning. After introductions, take a 15-minute walk to the local market. As you browse the stalls, listen to the seasoned chef explain how to select the best produce.
Take the ingredients back to the chef’s home, where’ll you discuss the menu further over tea and coffee. After you’ve drained your cup, head to the kitchen, where preparation gets underway.
Start by learning how to make either fresh pasta or gnocchi, two Italian food staples. Find out how to mix and knead the dough to ensure the consistency is just right. Next, tackle a typical Italian meat dish such as saltimbocca alla romana or spezzatino. Receive guidance at every step from the experienced chef instructor.
Then, master the basics of making mouthwatering deserts. Depending on the seasonal produce available at the market, the dessert might consist of homemade ice cream, delectable fruit tart or crème caramel (sweet Italian pudding with eggs and caramelized sugar).
Once all the dishes are ready, sit down at the table and tuck into the 4-course feast you and your fellow classmates have produced. Pair it with two glasses of fine Italian wine; your cooking instructor is also a qualified sommelier and can talk you through the nuanced flavors as you drink.
Finish off the meal in typical Italian style with an espresso. Your experience concludes after lunch, but you’ll get to take home a recipe booklet and a diploma as evidence of your newfound cooking skills.
Select "view additional information" to see a sample menu.
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Take the ingredients back to the chef’s home, where’ll you discuss the menu further over tea and coffee. After you’ve drained your cup, head to the kitchen, where preparation gets underway.
Start by learning how to make either fresh pasta or gnocchi, two Italian food staples. Find out how to mix and knead the dough to ensure the consistency is just right. Next, tackle a typical Italian meat dish such as saltimbocca alla romana or spezzatino. Receive guidance at every step from the experienced chef instructor.
Then, master the basics of making mouthwatering deserts. Depending on the seasonal produce available at the market, the dessert might consist of homemade ice cream, delectable fruit tart or crème caramel (sweet Italian pudding with eggs and caramelized sugar).
Once all the dishes are ready, sit down at the table and tuck into the 4-course feast you and your fellow classmates have produced. Pair it with two glasses of fine Italian wine; your cooking instructor is also a qualified sommelier and can talk you through the nuanced flavors as you drink.
Finish off the meal in typical Italian style with an espresso. Your experience concludes after lunch, but you’ll get to take home a recipe booklet and a diploma as evidence of your newfound cooking skills.
Select "view additional information" to see a sample menu.
Included
- Cooking instructor (an expert chef)
- Use of all required equipment
- 4-course meal
- Coffee or tea
- 2 glasses of wine, water
- Espresso
- Recipe booklet
- Cooking diploma
Not included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Apron available for purchase (approx. 10 euro)
Additional
- 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 your safety, you are strongly advised to wear comfortable closed-toe shoes (no flip flops or high heels)
- Please do not wear jewelry (particularly rings, watches and bracelets) and, if possible, no nail polish
- Minimum age is 6 years
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements or allergies at time of booking
- 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
Features
Tourism
100%
Food
90%
Cultural
85%
Original
50%
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This cooking class was probably my favorite thing I've done in Milan! Clara is an excellent host and chef who welcomed our group into her home and took us on a fun and informative market trip to pick up ingredients for our meal. She is an excellent teacher and in additional to being a great chef, is a sommelier. Our winter menu was delicious and paired exceptionally well with great wine. I would HIGHLY recommend this experience to all. I would consider myself a beginner in the kitchen and by the end of the class I felt like I could tackle many new dishes. Thank you again, Clara, for a great day!
Clara is amazing! This is one of the best food tours I've ever done. Market visit was so nice because you get to see the fresh ingredients you buy that you will cook with. Clara was so warm, inviting, knowledgeable, friendly and funny. So organized and very knowledgeable. It felt like we were a group of friends rather than a tour group. It was a nice intimate size so it felt very personalized and customized. Would highly recommend this tour!
If you plan on a doing a cooking class in Milan then this is the class for you. This is the best cooking class we have taken overseas. Clara was exceptional. Her passion for cooking was contagious. We have come away from this class with new skills, wonderful recipes, fantastic tips and cannot wait to recreate the dishes we made.
This cooking experience was the best memory in Milan. Clara is very friendly. Her recipe was delicious and we learned a lot about food culture in Italy. Visiting local market was also great. We saw and taste wonderful Italian ingredients. Thanks Clara!
It was such a wonderful experience! I can't wait to Go back the class next year'
An EXCELLENT and NOT TO BE MISSED Cooking Class with a highly qualified Chef who is extremely knowledgeable about northern Italian food and cooking. My two traveling companions and I, plus one other guest, spent an hour with Chef Clara Raimundi at a local outdoor market learning about and shopping for ingredients to be used that morning in our class. We returned to her kitchen and spent three hours prepping, assembling, cooking, and then eating a wonderful four course lunch. Dishes included a radicchio centered risotto prepared the right way, a special local squash lasagna Chef's own recipe, a cotechnino and lentil side dish, and a special chestnut cream tartlet as the dolce. Two wines accompanied our efforts and the meal. No matter your level of kitchen expertise, you will learn and be inspired by Chef Clara's knowledge, skills, and most important her teaching ability. If you have an interest in northern Italian food and cooking, this class is NOT TO BE MISSED!
I have traveled extensively throughout Europe the past 10 years and have visited Italy 5 times. I have scheduled tours with Viator in the past as well as with other tour companies. I had booked and attended the Milan Cooking Class an Market Visit on my birthday, September 10th. I have to say that in my 10 years of travel, this by far was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I had always been interested in Italian food and cooking -but just when I thought that I had known it all, I had met Clara. She is extraordinarily talented and educated in Italian cooking having attended chef school for 3 years, sommelier school for 3 years, and is currently attending pastry school. To further enhance the experience, this class takes place in Clara's apartment. Upon meeting, the menu is discussed over coffee and an approximate hours visit to the fresh market occurs. Clara is an extremely dynamic individual, very knowledgeable, gregarious, generous, kind, warm and outgoing personality, extremely passionate about her craft. She is also very patient, and on the occasion interjects humor into the layperson's misinterpretation of what Italian cooking is all about. She spends a good quality of time taking the multiple course meal step by step without rush. The day of my class also happened to be my birthday, and our prepared meal was finished off with our delicious endeavor, great wine, laughter, and dessert complete with a singalong happy birthday to me. I would highly recommend this class without hesitation. It was one of the greatest experiences in my life that I have encountered!!!