Cooking classes in Rome

Rome food tours: Special meals

One-day cooking courses in Rome, Italy

Take a day—or even just a morning or afternoon—to tour the food market with a professional chef or cookbook author then retire with your bounty to a private kitchen and learn to cook some of the staples of the Roman menu, from simple pasta or pizza to gelato to entire feasts.

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Spending time in a Roman kitchen provides an unparalleled opportunity to dig beneath the surface and learn about one of the most important aspects of this city's culture: its cuisine

Duration: 4 hours; Cost: $141 per person; Private: $604 per group

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Best of Rome Walking Tour and Authentic Italian Cooking Class with Lunch or Dinner

Experience Rome’s history, art and culture with a guided walking tour of the Eternal City followed by a small-group Italian cooking class! Your day begins with a large-group walking tour of Rome’s most famous ancient monuments, including Navona Square, the Pantheon and Trevi Fountain. Next you’ll continue to a Roman restaurant near the Trevi Fountain, where you and up to 11 others will learn to prepare a sensational Italian banquet from an expert Italian chef.

Duration: 4 hours; Cost: $88 per person

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Small-Group Cooking Lesson in Rome

Learn how to cook a four-course Italian meal in a private kitchen in the heart of Rome! You’ll start with a trip to Rome’s Central Market, where your guide will help you shop for the best produce. You’ll meet butchers, bakers and farmers selling meat, bread and fresh-picked vegetables, and you’ll learn how to distinguish high-quality ingredients. Plus, learn how to barter for the best price. Then, head to a private kitchen in Rome

Duration: 5 hours; Cost: $129 per person

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Learn to Cook a Roman Meal

The Eternal City is famous for a variety of things -- the Colosseum, the Pope, its ancient ruins -- but one thing that many tourists tend to overlook is its centuries-old culinary tradition. What would Italian cuisine be without tasty Roman specialties like saltimbocca alla romana, spaghetti alla carbonara or Jewish style artichokes? This cooking class takes place in a culinary school.

Duration: 3 hours; Cost: from $517 per group

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Rome Cooking - Make Pasta

Eugenio Rossi presents a brief historical-cultural introduction on the traditions of the Italian Mediterranean kitchen and historic-social evolutions. Instruction on the preparation of hand-made “pasta all‘uovo,” and two types of sauces. Lunch and discussion (upon request) on the production and characteristics of wines from Lazio

Duration: 4 hours; Cost: $224 per person

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Pizza Romana

Italy's most widely known dish is none other than pizza. Why, you ask? Because it's fast, it's flavorful, it's fresh, it's fragrant and it's fantastic! Pizza may be common in the U.S., but it's nothing like what you'll find in Rome! Pizza, as we know it, was invented in Naples in 1889 to honor Queen Margherita of Savoy. A local chef created the still famous "Pizza Margherita," garnished with tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and basil

Duration: 3 hours; Cost: from $444

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Rome Cooking - Make Pizza

Imagine learning to cook Pizza in one of the greatest Neopolitan kitchens in Rome. The nautical decor of hand painted oleo-graphics on the walls, high-ceiling grotto of fishing nets, crustaceans, and a miniature three-masted schooner complete the experience of feeling you have traveled to the south of Italy if only for a few hours. Since 1870 in Naples, 3 generations of the the Rossi family have perfected the art of cooking and hospitality. They have developed a long tradition of quality and freshness of ingredients, imaginative cooking, a love of food and a generosity of spiri where traditional methods are still honored

Duration: 4 hours; Cost: $206 per person

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A Market Walk and Private Cooking Class

One of the most accurate stereotypes about Italy is that the "Italians don't eat to live, they live to eat!" And Romans eat (and cook) with a special brio that is also expressed in the city's vibrant and colorful markets. This half-day lesson combines a market visit with the hands-on preparation of an authentic, multi-course Roman meal. You will meet Valeria, a native Roman, at her cooking school in the Prati neighborhood of

Duration: 4 hours; Cost: Group rate from $364 per person

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Small-Group Cooking Lesson in Roman Countryside

If you’re a gourmand, cooking aficionado or a fan of homemade cuisine, this intimate, full-day cooking tour from Rome is for you! You will travel to the small village of Mazzano Romano in the Roman countryside, where you’ll visit the local market to acquire all the necessary ingredients and learn to cook a traditional Italian meal with personalized attention (class size is limited to 12)

Duration: 7 hours; Cost: $152 per person

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Savoring Rome, A Culinary Stroll

Maureen Fant is a well known food writer living in Rome who has lectured widely on the history of Italian cuisine. In this walk and seminar on traditional Roman food, Maureen takes

Duration: 5 hours; Private: $695 per party

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Culinary tours

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Rome food walks & seminars

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Special meals

Rome wine tastings

Rome vineyard visits

How long does Rome take?

Planning your day: Rome wasn't built in a day, and you'd be hard-pressed to see it in that brief a time as well. Still, you can cram a lot into just a day or three.

To help you get the most out of your limited time in the Eternal City, here are some perfect itineraries, whether you have one, two, three, or four days to spend in Rome.

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Useful links

SIGHTS

Tourist info
Turismoroma.it

Other useful sites
060608.it (tourism info database)
Vatican.va (Vatican)
Coopculture.it (major sights/ruins)
Archeoroma.beniculturali.it (civic archaeology department)
Museiincomuneroma.it (civic museums)
Comune.roma.it (city site)
Sovraintendenzaroma.it (city cultural department)

LODGING

TRANSPORT

Public transportation:

Agenziamobilita.roma.it (all transit and driving/parking info)
Atac.roma.it (bus & Metro/subway)

plane

Rome airports:

Adr.it

Airport transfers:

Trenitalia.com (express train: €14)
Viator.com (private car: €14–€16.50)
Terravision.eu (bus: €4)
Cotralspa.it or Sitbusshuttle.com (bus: €5)
Taxi: €45–€55

Airfares:

train

Trains:

automobile

Driving/parking:

Sabait.it (Villa Borghese garage; €18/day)
Atac.roma.it (outlying commuter parking lots; from €5 per day)
Agenziamobilita.roma.it (more on the ZTL)

Car rentals:

Car resources
Emergency service/tow: tel. 803-116
Highway agency: Autostrade.it (traffic info, serivce areas, toll calculator, weather)
Italian automotive club (~AAA): Aci.it
ZTLs: Ztl-italia.blogspot.com (lightly outdated, but handy, links to cities' traffic-free zones)