Florence
Cooking Class in a Tuscan Farmhouse
Pick your ingredients from the garden, make gelato, then choose pizza or pasta
Food & Wine
Why We Love it
The gelato is the part nobody expects — you mix your own at the start, leave it to chill through the class, and come back to it at the end for a demonstration with liquid nitrogen.
The Experience
Six hours out of Florence at a private estate, with transport from the city included. You meet the chefs, walk the estate garden, and pick the seasonal ingredients you'll be cooking with. There's an appetizer and a glass of wine waiting when you arrive.
Gelato comes first — choose your flavors, mix your own, set it aside to chill. Then it's pizza or pasta. Pizza means learning the dough and topping it with vegetables you picked yourself, baked in a wood-fired oven. Pasta means three shapes made from scratch, with sauces including pesto and cacio e pepe.
You finish where you started, back at the gelato for the liquid nitrogen demonstration. Then everyone sits down to eat what they made, drinks included.
My pick for travelers who would rather make a meal than stand in line for one, and for groups and families who want a few hours outside the city with something to show for it.
From $184 per person
6 Hours
Shared
10:00 am, 2:30 pm or 5:00 pm
Highlights
What's Included
Transport from Florence out to the estate
Appetizer and wine on arrival
Chef-led cooking class (pizza or pasta)
Your meal, with drinks
What's Not Included
Transport to the meeting point in Florence
Gratuities
Need to Know
6 hours, departing 10:00 am, 2:30 pm or 5:00 pm
Shared class — numbers vary day to day, up to around 28 to 30 people
Meet at the Biblioteca Nazionale, the National Library, in Piazza dei Cavalleggeri in central Florence — look for your guide holding a Walkabout sign
Getting to the meeting point is your own arrangement; transport from there out to the estate is included
Choose pizza or pasta when you book — the price is the same either way
If you need help on the day, call Walkabout Tours on +39 055 2645746 or +39 392 5265865 (WhatsApp)
Free cancellation up to 7 days before
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Need to know
Six hours out of Florence at a private estate, with transport from the city included. You meet the chefs, walk the estate garden, and pick the seasonal ingredients you'll be cooking with. There's an appetizer and a glass of wine waiting when you arrive.
Gelato comes first — choose your flavors, mix your own, set it aside to chill. Then it's pizza or pasta. Pizza means learning the dough and topping it with vegetables you picked yourself, baked in a wood-fired oven. Pasta means three shapes made from scratch, with sauces including pesto and cacio e pepe.
You finish where you started, back at the gelato for the liquid nitrogen demonstration. Then everyone sits down to eat what they made, drinks included.
My pick for travelers who would rather make a meal than stand in line for one, and for groups and families who want a few hours outside the city with something to show for it.