I will be happy to welcome you to my home, decorated for the Christmas holidays.After a welcome drink if you wish, you can actively participate in the preparation of the dishes that we will eat for lunch or dinner. I will teach you how to prepare typical holiday dishes with the secrets that grandmothers, aunts and my mother taught me.We will pleasantly spend a few hours together and I will make you feel at home. If we have time we will also play a few games of tombola, a typical holiday game in Italian homes.

Christmas dinner: an evening in Como

Meals in Lake Como are a relaxed and leisurely time to spend with your beloved ones. Live a dining experience like the Italians do and enjoy the typical food of the area.Immerse yourself in the regional traditions of everyday Italy.Cesarina Bea welcomes us to her cozy home in the historical town center of Como, located within walking distance of the lake. Try her three-course dining experience, showcasing their favourite traditional family recipes.You will take part in an experience which is so much more than just a lunch or dinner. Dining with a Cesarina gives you the chance to be welcomed in like one of the family and live like the Italians do.Carefully selected local wines, beverages and coffee is included in the experience.

Typical dining experience in Como

We harvest vegetables from the garden to cook together a healthy, yet mouth-watering menu using the barbecue. An all-around menu consisting of meat, vegetables and fruit, paired with delicious craft beer. We will learn about the most suitable cuts of meat and how to work them, the basics of barbecue and the different types of cooking: meat cooked at low temperature, the basics of smoking and the correct temperatures.We will look together at the characteristics of the vegetables we grow in our garden and how to cut and cook them in alternative ways.

Dinner in the garden with barbecue

Do you want to surprise those you love? Book this experience at my home, I will prepare for you the best traditional dishes from Lombardy and beyond. Some examples? Fresh tagliolini with lobster or the very famous Rossini-style filet with pate and truffle. The evening will begin with a welcome drink, followed by a sampling of appetizers, the main course and a dessert all accompanied by wine, water and to finish coffee and bitters. I will make your evening special with sparkling candles, romantic music and the tranquility of an evening just for you.

Romantic dinner

We offer you the wonderful experience of a backyard barbecue that becomes a celebration and an opportunity to get together as a family.In the heart of Brianza, a stone's throw from the Lake, with a view of Mount Resegone, in a large garden of an Art Nouveau villa you will have the chance to taste something more than a classic barbecue.We can grill veggies, many types of meat and even try and cook some pizza.

Garden barbecue near Como Lake

We start with an aperitif of Italian bubbles with appetizers and then continue with antipasto and then the cooking demo of risotto alla monzese, which we will then savor togetherWe move on to the second course and then close with dessert

Typical 4 course Brianza menu with aperitif and cooking demo

A family lunch or dinner with typical local dishes