The cooking class includes stuffed egg pasta, semolina pasta and tiramisu: ravioli stuffed with ricotta cheese and spinach stir fried with butter and sage, Maltagliati (irregularly cut fresh pasta) with ragù.The tasting of these two fresh homemade pasta will be served with Vermentino, a regional Ligurian wine.Such an experience will be completed with Tiramisù.A wide terrace will be the perfect location to taste the results of your class!There are beautiful places you can reach to make your stay a great experience, such as Cinque Terre (Five Lands) with just a 30' train ride, Portovenere (my hometown) or Lerici.Nice places for those who love the seaside and those who want to start appreciating inlets and peculiar landscapes filled with the scent of sea, seafood dishes and Ligurian focaccia!

Pasta and Tiramisù Cooking class in the hills near La Spezia

We warmly welcome you to our beautiful gulf, beginning with the typical Ligurian vegetable pies. Next, we'll delight in a colorful pasta dish to brighten up the day: durum semolina spinach gnocchi with ragù. This Ligurian taste experience will be completed with tiramisu, the quintessential Italian dessert, and some homemade limoncino, crafted with lemons from our garden. After this delicious meal, you'll be ready to continue exploring the beauty of our region: Portovenere, Lerici, and Cinque Terre. Enjoy the experience!

Colour in pasta for pasta lovers 

We are Maria Elena and Nicola, and our passion for hospitality leads us to welcome guests into our home, offering traditional dishes from the La Spezia region. On this special occasion, we will serve dishes rooted in humble origins, inspired by the way our elders used to cook. Nicola's grandparents owned the oldest La Spezia tavern, "Da Caran," which serves as our inspiration. We'll begin with a welcoming poolside aperitif before moving to the garden patio for our meal. We'll serve stuffed mussels and crostini with Monterosso anchovies in oil, artisanal spaghettoni with Gulf mussel sauce, mixed Ligurian-style stuffed vegetables, and to conclude, cinnamon apple fritters. The meal will be accompanied by excellent local white wine

In the Gulf of Poets: a special journey into tradition

We are Maria Elena and Nicola, and our passion for hospitality leads us to welcome guests to our home by offering traditional La Spezia dishes. In this experience, we will prepare dishes of poor origin in the manner of our "elders". Nicola's grandparents were owners of the oldest La Spezia tavern "Da Caran" from which we draw inspiration. We will serve the appetizer with a welcome drink by the pool and then move to the table under the patio in the garden. We will prepare fried squash blossoms and croutons with anchovies in Monterosso oil, potato gnocchi with pesto prepared in front of you, mixed vegetables from the garden stuffed Ligurian style and to finish the inevitable tiramisu in a jar. All washed down with an excellent white wine from our area.

A journey into tradition

We are Maria Elena and Nicola, and our passion for hospitality inspires us to welcome guests into our home, offering traditional Italian dishes. In this experience, we'll teach you how to prepare various types of fresh pasta, such as ravioli and tagliatelle. During spring and summer, guests will have the opportunity to cook in our outdoor area under the patio, just beside the swimming pool, and savor their culinary creations. All of this will be complemented by fine local wine.

Your hands in pasta: a journey through Italian tradition

We are Maria Elena and Nicola. Our passion for hospitality leads us to welcome guests to our home to put our knowledge of local cuisine at their disposal and let them enjoy specialties in a natural and welcoming setting. We will cook a typical menu: welcome drink by the pool with fried sage leaves and crostini with anchovies in Monterosso oil and artisanal butter. Next, freshly made egg tagliatelle topped with basil pesto from our garden. To finish, traditional tiramisu and espresso or coffee made with the typical Italian "moka". The wine that will be offered will be strictly from the territory.

Savoring La Spezia's culinary tradition in nature!

In the charming village of Vezzano Ligure you will have the pleasure of cooking and tasting traditional Ligurian dishes, admiring a unique landscape: the Apuan Alps, the hills and the sea. As an appetizer we will prepare a vegetable pie according to your tastes and seasonality, enriched by the scents of herbs from my terrace. As a first course we will learn together the secrets to recreate the famous ravioli with meat sauce of Grandma Luisa. To close in sweetness we will prepare a tart with caramel cream and walnuts, or alternatively, depending on taste, with one of my jams.

Ligurian cuisine between the sea and the countryside

We created for you a relaxing experience to give you a break from the busting Cinque Terre life.We will greet our guests in our vineyard in a boho-chic atmosphere with autentique rugs,candles, flowers and of course wine.During your wine experience, Max, a certified "sfoglino "with world wide experience in restaurant, will prepare frescj pasta just for you.Guests will be free to take pff their shoes, lay back and relax or wander throught the vineyards with a glass of excellent wine in their hands while they watch Max doing his magical pasta Show.An autenthic detoxing experience sometimes with live musicin the simplicity of an Italian countryside vineyard at sunset.

Boho Sunset in the vineyard

In a magnificent setting in our barn overlooking the vineyard at Podere Ferrari, Massimo will teach you the magnificent art of making homemade pasta.Massimo is a certified "Sfoglino" who has worked in restaurants around the world bringing his art and sharing it with others. During The clas, Massimo will a variety of types of pasta that you will be able to reproduce and surprise friends and family back home with.After making your pasta Massimo will prepare dinner or lunch for you with the pasta you have made.

Sfoglino pasta class with rolling pin

We created for you a relaxing experience to give you a break from the busting Cinque Terre life.We will greet our guests in our vineyard in a boho-chic atmosphere with autentique rugs,candles, flowers and of course wine.During your wine experience, Max, a certified "sfoglino"with world wide experience in restaurant, will prepare frescj pasta just for you.Guests will be free to take pff their shoes, lay back and relax or wander throught the vineyards with a glass of excellent wine in their hands while they watch Max doing his magical pasta Show.An autenthic detoxing experience sometimes with live musicin the semplicity of an italian countryside vineyard at sunset.\

Wine Experience and rolling pin pasta

In this fantastic experience, you will learn all the secrets to making an excellent homemade Neapolitan pizza. Together we will make the dough following the traditional recipe, using only high quality ingredients. You will learn the secrets for proper rising, the importance of choosing the right ingredients and the technique for rolling out the pizza.Next, we will cover pizza baking, using a professional wood-fired oven to achieve a crispy crust and even baking. You will be able to customize your pizza with your favorite ingredients and enjoy it with your classmates.If you would like to learn how to make a delicious Neapolitan pizza as good as the pizzeria pizza, don't miss your chance to take this course!

Neapolitan Homemade Pizza: Learn All the Secrets

We will go together to make various types of homemade pizzas and discover together the secrets of making real Neapolitan pizza, just like in a pizzeria. To end on a sweet note with sweet pizza or a typical treat. It will be a unique experience, at the home of Pierluigi, Ada and their whole family...

La Spezia: Cooking Classes, Home Restaurant Dining and Food Tours