Morning Cooking Class and Market visit with lunch | La Vacanza Travel

Morning Cooking Class and Market visit with lunch

Duration: 5 hours
Destination: Italy, Lombardy, Milan
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  • 5 hours
  • Milan
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Learn how to make authentic Italian food from scratch during this 5-hours culinary experience in Milan. In the company of an expert chef, visit a market and pick up fresh ingredients. Then, head to the chef’s home kitchen to discover the secrets of Italian cooking in an intimate setting. Prepare and cook five courses including homemade pasta, then sit down with your fellow food lovers to dine on the feast you’ve created. As you eat, enjoy two glasses of fine Italian prosecco!

What Can You Expect?

You will first visit an open-air food local market with Chef Ornella, to get some useful tips about local seasonal ingredients. Then you wil go back to the school to start cooking together, 100% hands on, a full traditional Italian meal (see sample menus hereunder). Gluten free and veg options also available, if known in advance. Then you will enjoy tasting the fruits of your labor with a nice glass of wine. At the end you will get your Italian recipes!

Stop At:

• Viale Papiniano Market, Viale Papiniano 44, 20123 Milan Italy

Sample Menu

• Yummie zucchini - Lovely zucchini cooked in oven following a family recipe full of taste
• Tagliatelle or Pappardelle - Typical Italian homemade pasta, made100% hands on just with eggs and flour, served with a pesto sauce.
• pesto sauce - The real, traditional, italian pesto made from scratch by yourselves
• Saltimbocca alla romana - Veal thin slices tossed with Parma prosciutto and sage, then cooked with olive oil and white wine
• Ricotta cream for cannolo - A perfect dessert to end your milanese experience

Inclusions & Exclusions

Inclusions
  • Cooking instructor (an expert chef)
  • Use of all required equipment
  • 5-course meal
  • 2 glasses of wine, water
  • Espresso
  • Recipe booklet
  • Local open-air food market visit

Exclusions
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Gratuities
  • Apron available for purchase (approx. 10 euro)

Additional Info

  • For your safety, you are strongly advised to wear comfortable closed-toe shoes (no flip flops or high heels)
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Please do not wear jewelry (particularly rings, watches and bracelets) and, if possible, no nail polish
  • Minimum age for kitchen admission is 10 years
  • Vegetarian and gluten free option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
  • Near public transportation
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements or allergies at time of booking
  • Not recommended for travelers with back problems
  • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
  • Cooking requires standing most of the time
  • 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
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
  • 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

Departure Point

Departure Point

Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy


Departure Time

09:00 AM


Return Details

Returns to original departure point

Duration & Voucher Info

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

5 hours

Cancellation Policy

User's Reviews

jannap938

12 Jul, 2023

We made pasta! Was a great visit/class! We had just the two of us, it was so cool to actually cook something myself that was so delicious & to know where all the ingredients in the food we made were from! We had a really great time & look forward to making this recipe for our friends & family at home!

toseefa743

11 Jul, 2023

What an amazing experience this was. Wow. One of the best cooking classes I have been to. My wife and I love to explore local cuisine and make it a tradition that when we go away we always do a cooking class. This was by far one of the best. We were unfortunately sightly late as we got lost! but Ornellina was very understanding. Ornellina went above and beyond as we booked it last minute and my wife had a preference of gluten and dairy free. She went above and beyond to accommodate her and I am so grateful, she is so kind and welcoming and full of so much knowledge and wisdom. We cooked outside in the lovely sun and this made the experience even better. The experience was so wholesome and we really got to cook everything from scratch and learn all about it. We made amazing fresh pesto pasta, breaded courgettes, sage infused chicken, cannelloni I would highly recommend this class with Ornellina Thank you so much for a great experience and we will definitely be back!

janehY8345FC

06 Dec, 2021

My two daughters and I meet Clara early in the morning by her apartment and walked to her local outdoor market. Clara was very welcoming and personable and we felt comfortable right away. It was clear from her interactions with the vendors in the market that they had an excellent relationship. We liked her philosophy of buying local and organic where possible. She even found goat Gorgonzola as I am lactose intolerant but to my surprise the vendor correctly told us that Gorgonzola even made with milk from a cow is lactose free. We walked back to her apartment where we met her husband Fabio and proceeded to cook her Winter seasonal menu. I have taken numerous cooking classes through out travels and found Clara's to be one of the best. She is very informative and makes you feel comfortable in her kitchen. It was a lovely mother-daughter activity. After finishing our cooking we ate our meal starting with some Prosecco and excellent wine pairings. All courses were delicious! We look forward to making all the recipes in Toronto.

464nicholasg

02 Nov, 2021

An early Saturday morning start with a rendez vous set up at 08h30 with our hostess. We were meet by Clara our hostess and her husband Fabio. Clara explained our morning visit, with first a visit to her local butcher shop and then in to the local market. At the market most of the stalls had made an effort to decort their stands for Halloween. Clara explained to us the vast range of fruit and vegetables available from Italy and Clara was very keen to only buy Italian products and products in season. After our market visit we went back to Clara's house where we all washed out hands and moved into the kitchen to start cooking, we mad our own fresh pasta, a pumpkin and leek rissoto with cannoli shell filled with ricotta. Everything was done in a very orderly fashion and with plenty of enjoyment by everybody, at the end of cooking class we got eat everything we had cooked. At this stage I would warn everybody that you should eat only a very very small breakfast beforehand. Fabio and Clara are excellent hosts and the whole family realty enjoyed this cooking experience.

Anat A

28 Oct, 2021

Cooking with Clara was one of my best experiences in Milano, she is so great! We cooked a vegetarian meal, all the dishes were excellent and I learned a lot from the cooking process with her. She is very helpful and professional. It's in her home so it makes it even more authentic. I definitely highly recommend this experience with or without the market walk which was also very nice.

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Delicious pasta!

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Excellent market visit followed by excellent cookery class

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Outstanding experience and absolutely delicious food.

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AMAZING experience for the whole family!

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A true local experience with a passionate chef

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Amazing Experience of Italian Cooking

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Une superbe expérience culinaire!

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