Cook a 3-course Sicilian meal at a Restaurant in central Taormina, and then savor the dishes with samples of local wine! The 4-hour cooking class is led by a professional local chef, and includes a visit to Taormina open market to select the freshest ingredients of the day. Learn about Sicily’s varied, fresh and fragrant cuisine that follows the seasons, and learn about classic Sicilian dishes like ‘Parmigiana di melanzane.’
Posted By : Myles O
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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Posted On : 2024-06-28 07:42:20 
Posted By : 616bonnieb
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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Posted On : 2024-04-05 15:46:16
Posted By : jozej650
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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Posted On : 2023-11-13 03:11:09
Posted By : BoardingPass660442
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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Posted On : 2023-10-09 01:20:22
Posted By : michellenG7606UI
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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Posted On : 2023-09-30 15:07:31
Posted By : Y5439CPmelissak
What a delightful time! Just do it. The chef was a delight and the experience was fun, engaging, and delicious!
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Posted On : 2023-09-29 11:52:34
Posted By : 865maries
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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Posted On : 2023-09-24 12:26:30
Posted By : kingswaycondos
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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Posted On : 2023-09-23 14:44:25
Posted By : Sarajrheaume
I was disappointed in this experience. Tour meet up location was not clear, they left for the market before we arrived (which was on time). You could not hear the guide at the market. We did not shop for the food at the market, not sure the benefit of going there.
The class is at a restaurant with customers being served during the class. There are different instructors during the class. Only one was good and explained the food, cooking techniques.
We made salt crusted fish that was loaded with bones because of poor cleaning and inedible. The eggplant Parmesan was somewhat edible but soup like due to poor cooking guidance to the people making it.
We made pasta and a lot of it but only had one small bowl barely one serving for a table of 12.
It was so hot the entire time trying to prepare the dishes as we were by the pizza oven in an outdoor area.
I’ve done several cooking classes in the past and never had an experience like this.
I left the class early and went to get lunch because it was so disappointing. Unfortunately I would not recommend this class.
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Posted On : 2023-09-19 07:41:23
Posted By : Danise_G
Chefs Giovanni and Paolo were so fun and personable, really created the best experience. The food was amazing - we made four different dishes and had an excellent meal. Met great people from around the world. Restaurant setting was perfect. Can't recommend this enough - would definitely do it again on future trips!
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Posted On : 2023-09-12 12:52:50 
