Food & Wine Tours
On the roads of the Gattopardo
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Typical experience
Rosa Maria
Spoken languages: Italian, English, French
Food Tour: discover the best places where to taste the finest local food & wine
Shared Experience
Your experience
I will take you on a journey through the heart of Palermo, following in the footsteps of The Leopard, visiting the iconic locations from the series: from the majestic Quattro Canti to the evocative Piazza Pretoria, and the beautiful Church of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria.
After the tour, we will head to the kitchen to prepare the legendary Timballo del Gattopardo: a refined shortcrust pastry shell enclosing a heart of bucatini pasta, wrapped in a béchamel sauce delicately enriched with beef jus, dried and fresh porcini mushrooms, and thin strips of cooked ham.
To end on a sweet note, we will make a mandarin or orange jelly, just like the one enjoyed by the prince immediately after the timballo in the series.
An experience blending history, tradition, and unforgettable flavors!
€111.00 per guest
(€55.50 per child)
Remaining char: 500
Total: €111.00
€111.00
per guest€55.50 per child
Reviews
5.0
123 reviews
- We loved it so much! We felt welcome in her house. She was very sweet and patient and the pasta we learned to make was delicious!
- We LOVED this cooking class with Rosa - she was very friendly, welcoming & knowledgeable. She is generous with her time, patient with questions & good company. We shared lunch with her family swapping stories which was lovely - it was also my birthday so I got candles & a happy birthday song to top it all off! Would definitely recommend to others. Grazie Mille Rosa!
- We really enjoyed the cooking class with Mrs. Rosa. She made us feel so welcome and was a great teacher!
- The pasta cooking class was a fun, very authentic experience high above the rooftops of Palermo. Rosa Maria and Celia are very friendly, the view is wonderful and the pasta is delicious.
- We had a lovely time cooking with Rosa Maria and eating dinner with her family. We were just 3 and cooked in her kitchen. We made Tiramisu and 2 types of pasta by hand. One small suggestion: while we made the pasta's and the pesto, there were other elements added to the final dishes and we weren't really involved in that. It would have been nice to be part of how it all came together. The meal itself was one of the best we had on our 2 week Italian vacation! We plan to make Pasta alla Norma this weekend at home!
Louise - July 2025
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€111.00 per guest
(€55.50 per child)
Remaining char: 500
Total: €111.00
€111.00 per guest
Where
Rosa Maria
Cesarina from 2018Location: Palermo Languages: Italian, English, FrenchIn Sicily, particularly in Palermo, there is one singular regional cuisine: pasta, olive oil, vegetables and oily fish varieties, are the four cardinal staples. The dishes prepared by Rosa Maria reflect this tradition, revised with imagination and the desire to experiment, in keeping with the ancient recipes.
Our Cesarina offers dishes inextricably linked to products and raw materials of the island; Rosa Maria welcomes us in Palermo but invites us to discover the aromas and flavors of Favignana, of Ustica and of San Vito Lo Capo.
Our Cesarina offers dishes inextricably linked to products and raw materials of the island; Rosa Maria welcomes us in Palermo but invites us to discover the aromas and flavors of Favignana, of Ustica and of San Vito Lo Capo.
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