Food & Wine Tours
Discover the secrets of Bolognese cuisine
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Follow your Cesarina in a local market tour and challenge yourself with a hands-on cooking class
Private Experience
Your experience
- A selection of cured meats, Parmigiano Reggiano and baked polenta
- Tagliatelle with ragu sauce
- Caprese cake (for my Neapolitan origins)
I look forward to welcoming you for a truly special itinerary through the streets of Bologna's ancient market, the Quadrilatero. This neighborhood is certainly a favorite among food lovers as it offers all sorts of Bolognese specialties. In Via Pescherie Vecchie, we will explore the colorful fruit and vegetable markets, where you can also find some of the best delicatessens. The experience continues with the cooking course. We start with a selection of cured meats, Parmigiano Reggiano, and roasted polenta, to introduce you to the qualities of Emilian products, followed by tagliatelle with ragù, where you will get your hands dirty, and the Caprese cake, which traces back to my origins. I await you in my kitchen, where we will have the pleasure of cooking together!
€189.00 per guest
(€94.50 per child)
Remaining char: 500
Total: €189.00
€189.00
per guest€94.50 per child
Reviews
5.0
34 reviews
- Oriana gave this family and friends of six a beautiful memory. One we will always cherish💕 Our evening of cooking with Oriana was wonderful! She was so gracious ( we were a bit late), and she immediately made us feel at home, relaxed and ready for some fun. The view from her balcony was also very beautiful . We started with some white sparkling wine and delicious appetizers including aged Parmesan and homemade crackers and another delicious dish she prepared for us. Then she taught us how to make three different pastas and tiramisu. Afterward, she cooked our pasta with both her delicious bolognese sauce and cheese sauce . They were perfect! Along with another bottle of red wine and then the tirimasu, it was a perfect night. We can’t recommend her and this experience enough! She is fabulous!!! Thank you so much for the beautiful memory Oriana😘
- I rarely write reviews; however, in this case I feel compelled to do so. Oriana was outstanding!!! Foremost, she is an amazing instructor with great patience and attention to detail. I was completely relaxed in her company and home (you cannot be nervous making pasta). Additionally, she is an amazing person, taking the time to get to know you and making the most helpful suggestions to enrich your time in Bologna. It is with complete confidence that I highly recommend Oriana to others.
- Octavia is an amazing host and teacher. We thoroughly enjoyed the evening in a beautiful Italian apartment and brought back skills in pasta making and tiramisu preparation that we didn’t have before. Grazie mille, Octavia! From Bill & Jane, David & Joy, and Sherry & Taylor
- Oriana is a wonderful and lovely person, a great chef, a passionate teacher, generous and hospitable to open her home to us (17people) teaching us the love for the perfect pasta!! It was an amazing night full of Italian flavours and Oriana has been an amazing host - we all fell in love with her!
- Oriana was great company & a great teacher-so generous and fun. We came away with so many tips on making authentic Bolognese dishes & delighted at being made so welcome in her home.
Daneen - June 2025
Dale H - May 2025
Bill Jacobsen - May 2025
ANKE - November 2024
Edwina - November 2024
€189.00 per guest
(€94.50 per child)
Remaining char: 500
Total: €189.00
€189.00 per guest
Where
Oriana
Cesarina from 2018Location: Bologna Languages: Italian and EnglishOriana, our Cesarina, lives within walking distance of one of the most historically rich and picturesque places in Bologna, the Basilica di Santo Stefano. Here, in one of the most beloved areas of the historic town, by both Bolognese and tourists, Oriana introduces us to her family: Salvatore, her husband, and their four children that they love to pamper by cooking them healthy meals, while passing on the family recipes. Oriana is originally from Naples, but living in Bologna, she has learned how to make sfoglia, the typical local pasta, and ragù alla Bolognese. She delights in choosing the best cuts of meat to prepare her excellent bollito, or boiled meat, and for the smallest of her daughters, a lover of tortellini, she cooks this local pasta strictly in meat broth.
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