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Sicilian Cooking Class in Taormina: Create a 3-Course Meal with a Professional Chef
4.7
160 Ratings
Taormina
Immerse yourself in Sicilian cuisine with a hands-on cooking class in Taormina. Select fresh ingredients at the local market and learn to prepare a 3-course meal with a professional chef. Indulge in the flavors of Sicily and pair your dishes with local wines. Book now!
Immerse yourself in Sicilian cuisine with a hands-on cooking class in Taormina. Select fresh ingredients at the local market and learn to prepare a 3-course meal with a professional chef. Indulge in the flavors of Sicily and pair your dishes with local wines. Book now!
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Ristorante Pizzeria Porta Messina - Meeting at the Porta Messina Restaurant besides the Porta Messina Arch, the activity starts with a guided tour of the market of Taormina to buy the various fresh ingredients. Back at the restaurant the Chef will explain the recipes in program during a coffee break. The preparation and the cooking of the food…
- Ristorante Pizzeria Porta Messina - Meeting at the Porta Messina Restaurant besides the Porta Messina Arch, the activity starts with a guided tour of the market of Taormina to buy the various fresh ingredients. Back at the restaurant the Chef will explain the recipes in program during a coffee break. The preparation and the cooking of the food will then start. The hand-made pasta represents the highlight of the activity. Once the dishes are prepared, everybody is invited to the table for the typical festivity lunch with local wines. At the end of the activity, each participant will receive a certificate and an autographed apron as a souvenir of this special day.
What's Included
- Lunch included
- Complimentary water, wine, tea, and coffee
- Free apron
- Cooking certificate of completion
- Guidance from a local multilingual guide
- Lunch included
- Complimentary water, wine, tea, and coffee
- Free apron
- Cooking certificate of completion
- Guidance from a local multilingual guide
What's Not Included
- Extra alcoholic beverage
- Extra alcoholic beverage
Meal Options
- Sicilian Caponata - Mixed sauted vegetables with sweet & sour sauce
- Hand-made maccheroni with tomato sauce - Maccheroni are freshly hand made by the customers.
Sauce is prepared with fresh tomatoes.
- Fish “alla ghiotta” style - Fish is cooked with tomatoes, garlic, parsley, capers and olives.
- Sicilian Caponata - Mixed sauted vegetables with sweet & sour sauce
- Hand-made maccheroni with tomato sauce - Maccheroni are freshly hand made by the customers.
Sauce is prepared with fresh tomatoes.
- Fish “alla ghiotta” style - Fish is cooked with tomatoes, garlic, parsley, capers and olives.
Additional Information
Prepare a traditional Sicilian three-course meal at a centrally located restaurant in Taormina, followed by a tasting session paired with local wines! This 4-hour culinary lesson is conducted by a seasoned local chef and features a trip to Taormina’s open-air market to choose the day’s freshest ingredients. Discover the diverse, aromatic and…
Prepare a traditional Sicilian three-course meal at a centrally located restaurant in Taormina, followed by a tasting session paired with local wines! This 4-hour culinary lesson is conducted by a seasoned local chef and features a trip to Taormina’s open-air market to choose the day’s freshest ingredients. Discover the diverse, aromatic and season-centric cuisine of Sicily, and gain insights into iconic Sicilian creations such as ‘Parmigiana di melanzane.’
- Minimum numbers of 2 apply.
Location
Ristorante Pizzeria Porta Messina
Largo Giove Serapide
The Restaurant Porta Messina is besides the Porta Messina Arch.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(160 Ratings)
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Kaykristiana
Aug 20, 2024
A fantastic Sicilian experience - One of our favorite days on our entire European Summer holiday! Market tour for ingredients and then cooking for a bit and then eating and laughing for more fun! Chef was amazing and gave each and every guest attention, instruction and sheer joy! Highly, highly recommend this Sicilian afternoon!
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Mal00ma
Aug 3, 2024
Pizza in the family - The experience was exciting , our ‘cooking masters’ very kind, welcoming and fun. We took a lot of pictures, socialized with the others in the cooking group and then ... we ate great. Experience to be repeated again and again!
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Myles
Jun 28, 2024
Excellent - Paolo is amazing and super knowledgeable about Sicily this was the best tour in the area, hand down. We explored the local area, grabbed food and cooked everything
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616bonnieb
Apr 5, 2024
Learn to cook a Sicilian style and have great fun - Chef Paolo first took us to a market to show us all the various vegetables, and to explain how they are used. That was great fun because he is such an interesting and entertaining fellow. We went back to the restaurant and learn to make pasta. Then we learned to make salt baked fish, delicious. When it was done, we learned how to fillet it. Then we learned how to make very delicious eggplant Parmesan. And if that wasn’t enough, we also learned to make excellent breadcrumbs, and to create a sardine and crusted breadcrumbs.
Paolo very amusing with his stories about his grandmother, and how he learned to cook the hard way.
Midway, we had a break for wine and cheese and bread,
When the cooking was done, we all sat down to a very delicious meal that we had made, of course, with the help of a very busy and very friendly kitchen staff. We got aprons to take home, and and Paolo sent us the recipes so that we could continue to cook Sicilian style. It was a great adventure and I highly recommend it as a wonderful way to spend a long morning to afternoon.
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Jozej650
Nov 13, 2023
Sicilian cooking delicious - It was set up very nice. Received a lot of explanation about Sicilian cooking and products at the market. Made my own pasta and made many Sicilian dishes, delicious. Definitely recommend this cooking course
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Boardingpass660442
Oct 9, 2023
Wonderful Cooking Experience - Great fun experience plenty of helpful cooking tips and at the end we were able to eat our delicious creations with plenty of wine.
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Michelleng7606ui
Sep 30, 2023
Embrace Sicilian cooking - Great fun and well organised. There were assistance chefs to help and the atmosphere was relaxed. Lots of praise for trying to make my pasta take on different shapes.
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Y5439cpmelissak
Sep 29, 2023
Wonderful! - What a delightful time! Just do it. The chef was a delight and the experience was fun, engaging, and delicious!
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Kingswaycondos
Sep 23, 2023
Cooking School - We had a lovely morning preparing food for our lunch. Would highly recommend doing this to enhance your stay in Taormina.
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865maries
Sep 24, 2023
Fun experience, some pros and cons - We booked this last minute as it was the only cooking class with availability for the following day. Overall we found that the group was just too big (maybe 20 to 25 people). There was one main chef and some other chefs rotating around the group but it just felt like a big production. The cooking part was very simple, no actual skills learned. The parts which were more complicated like frying aubergine or gutting the fish was already prepared for us. I also didn’t like that the food you prepared and handled gets mixed in with everyone’s food and you do not get your own back after it’s cooked. Some of it was handled a lot like the pasta and swordfish rolls rolled by hand. It totally put me off eating any of it knowing it had been in everyone’s hands (maybe that’s just me!).
Despite those couple of points we (couple) did really enjoy the experience and it was a good way to pass a few hours whilst it was raining. The chef was fun and the location was very nice. I liked the choice of dishes that we made. We met some lovely people in the group. One of the best things was there was a lot of wine served and we were able to stay for a while after the session chatting to some of the others we had met. Overall I would recommend if booking last minute as it seems that some of the more popular cooking classes are not available.
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