Immerse yourself in a private pasta and tiramisu-making class in a welcoming home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and tiramisu and taste the fruit of your labour for lunch or dinner accompanied by local wines. During this private lesson, you will learn how to prepare 2 pasta recipes and the tiramisu dessert from scratch. Your Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of these iconic recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family once home with an Italian meal! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Le Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.
Out at sunset: the 5:00 PM departure is under way when the sun sets, around 6:25 PM in the coming weeks.
In demand: 21 of the next 60 departures are already sold out.
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 8.
Reviews collected by Viator and Tripadvisor
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Pasta & Tiramisu Feast in Lucca lasts about 3 hours.
Prices start at $205 per person for this Lucca experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There are 2 booking options, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs every day, starting at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.
Children aged 4–8 pay from $103, adults from $205. Infants go free.
It can: 21 of the next 60 departures are already sold out, so booking ahead is a good idea.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
The meeting point is This experience will be held in one of our Cesarina homes and, for privacy reason, you will receive the full address of your Cesarina host after you have booked. We will contact you after you've booked to match you up with your ideal Cesarina based on what you are looking for. Hotel pickup is not part of this experience.
The experience is available in EN, IT.
It is a private experience: only your party takes part. Up to 8 travellers can book together.
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
Travellers rate it 4.6 out of 5 across 11 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor; it is run by Cesarine: Cooking Class.
Reviews collected by Viator and Tripadvisor
We highly recommend this cooking experience! Our hostess was absolutely wonderful. She walked us through how to make tiramisu and pasta. We enjoyed the wine that was offered and the conversation was excellent. We learned a lot about Italian cooking.
Silvia was wonderfully patient and so very kind. She gave us many tips about how to create an Italian dish. Silvia welcomed us into her beautiful home and treated us like royalty. I would definitely schedule another cooking class with her and I highly recommend this on your next visit to Lucca.
Hello all! I was away on business and feeling a little homesick. This experience hosted by this wonderful local family in their family residence from the 1600’s is worth making a trip for. The incredible home-cooked meal highlights the true meaning of family. I encourage you to take the risk and rep the reward all at an incredible value, and connect with wonderful human therapy. Enjoy your custom dinner. -Dino Georgetown, DC
Save your money and book with a real cooking company directly. We spent $420 for 2 people. I highly do not recommend. The hosts were not who was displayed on Viator. They were nice girls but for the same price or less you can book with a legit company or chef. We “cooked” for 45 min for a 3 hour booking. One item is tiramisu. You make it first by mixing some eggs in a bowl. The allotted time does not allow for tiramisu to chill, so when we ate it at the end it was soupy. It just wasn’t good at all. We ate it to not seem rude. So sorry to say because the girls were so nice but it wasn’t good. Then you make the pasta for about 15 min. Then they take it and make the pasta and some sauces while you drink wine. The sauces were olive oil, spices, and Parmesan for one. The other was a tomato sauce that had little flavor. You don’t cook the sauce, they make it while you sip wine. Sorry but just don’t book it unless you want to throw out some $. Literally you can eat a Michelin star restaurant for this price…. We felt like we got ripped off for the price. Especially considering they told us that if we “booked with them” we would have paid 50% less.
Dear Elizabeth, Thank you for sharing your honest feedback. We’re truly sorry that the experience didn’t meet your expectations and that you left feeling disappointed. Our classes are meant to be hands-on but also relaxed and social, with time split between cooking together and enjoying the food, wine, and atmosphere. We understand that this may not have been what you were expecting, and we’re sorry. We do truly appreciate your kind words about the girls hosting the class — they care a lot about what they do. Your comments are important to us, and we’ll take them to heart as we keep working to improve and to be clearer about what guests can expect! Thank you again for taking the time to write, Cesarine Team
Sylvia, our host and teaching chef, was fantastic. Taught us how to make gnocchi, gnudi (ravioli without pasta)and tiramisu. Everything was delicious and I just hope we can recreate it when we get home. Sylvia is warm and welcoming and I would highly recommend her when you visit Lucca.
We didn’t make Tiramisu but we had the opportunity to learn about olive oil made in Italy and so tasting. We enjoyed some with lovely appetizers. We had some great wines and made pasta with two kinds of sauces. Our hosts were fantastic made us feel at home we enjoyed our experience celebrating very much as a family and meeting them.
This was a great experience! Ginevra and Ilaria were amazing hosts. They made it fun while also sharing their extensive knowledge of olive oil and pasta making. I would recommend this for anyone visiting Lucca!
We enjoyed learning about all the cooking tips, and learning how to make pasta from scratch! It was great to learn all the tips around sauces, patience, patience!
Ginevra and the team were great. The cooking experience was better than expected but, the viator interface and customer service was terrible. Our friends were directed into a different class and tried to redirect into the same class with us and despite customer service intervention were directed into another wrong group and now viator is trying to double charge our friends. Don’t make a mistake on your booking.
We loved every second with Silvia. She is a warm, inviting hostess who made all of us feel welcome in her beautiful home. We were a big group—5 adults, 2 kids and a baby. She was wonderful with the our two older boys and helped us keep the baby entertained too. It was truly a small miracle to see my two older sons eat and enjoy spinach. Not only was it delicious but it was also made by their own hands. Both of them said Silvia and her cooking class was in their top experiences of Italy.
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