This was fun and tasty. A nice 3 hour experience. I would do it again!
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What's Included
Includes
- COOKING CLASS & MARKET TOUR: preparation of arancine, Pasta alla Norma & cannoli with chef guidance
- ALL OPTIONS: Use of apron, cooking utensils and fresh ingredients
- PASTA & GELATO: fresh pasta making, 2 traditional pasta types & sauces and chef-led gelato demo
- ALL OPTIONS: Wine for adults or soft drinks for children
- ALL OPTIONS: Digital recipe booklet and Graduation Certificate
- ALL OPTIONS: Palermo hands-on cooking class with professional local chefs
- COOKING CLASS & MARKET TOUR: Market visit, or tastings at the cooking school if the market is closed
- ALL OPTIONS: Meal with the dishes prepared during the cooking class
Excludes
- Gratuities
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- TOWNS OF ITALY TOURIST HUB & COOKING SCHOOL | PALERMO Via Volturno, 44 90138 Palermo. We kindly request your arrival at the meeting point at least 15 minutes before departure. Regrettably, we cannot accommodate latecomers.
Return
- TOWNS OF ITALY TOURIST HUB & COOKING SCHOOL | PALERMO Via Volturno, 44 90138 Palermo. We kindly request your arrival at the meeting point at least 15 minutes before departure. Regrettably, we cannot accommodate latecomers.
Itinerary
Palermo Sicilian Cooking Class with Market Tour or Pasta & Gelato: choose your hands-on food experience with professional local chefs. Choose the Sicilian Cooking Class & Market Tour option for a 5-hour experience starting at Palermo’s Mercato del Capo. Visit the food market with your chef, discover Sicilian ingredients, then cook iconic local recipes including arancine, handmade maccheroni for Pasta alla Norma and cannoli. Enjoy your 3-course lunch with wine, Marsala wine or soft drinks. Choose the Pasta & Gelato option for a 3-hour Palermo cooking class focused on fresh pasta making and gelato. Make pasta dough from scratch, shape two pasta types and pair them with seasonal sauces. Enjoy a chef-led gelato demonstration, then sit down for your meal with wine or soft drinks. Both options include chefs, fresh ingredients, apron, utensils, digital recipe booklet and Graduation Certificate. The market tour is included only with the Sicilian Cooking Class & Market Tour option.
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The instructors were very friendly and the accommodations and overall experience was exceptional. Every bit worth the money.. at a wellness we left with the recipes and more!
An inspirational experience which has inspired us to be able to cook Sicilian dishes at home. The highlight of our trip. Our chef was highly knowledgeable and provided us with insight and inspiration for the rest of our stay in Palermo.
We had a lovely time with Nadia, and made some delicious food! Would definitely recommend to others 🙂
We had such a great time, and we also learned a few things about pasta making we did not know, same with the 2 sauces. The Gelato demo was great, it seems dangerously easy now to make at home on regular basis. Thank you an afternoon well spent!
Incredible experience! We all had so much fun cooking our food and learning from the chef! The cooking room was spacious and we never felt like we were too crowded. We also enjoyed the trip to the market with food sampling. Would definitely recommend no matter what cooking experience you have!
Salvo our leader was very friendly, encouraging chef. Amazing fresh three courses, which learned a lot and now have the confidence to try ourselves at home
Salvo was a brilliant host, I highly recommend this to anybody in Palermo. The best thing we did our entire holiday!
Excellent experience. Salvo is a great teacher.
It was great. Salvo was friendly and funny. The food was delicious!
Nadia was an outstanding, warm, friendly and most knowledgeable chef and group leader. Our entire meal was "delizioso." We look forward to duplicating it at home. What a treat!
Absolutely wonderful! Great cooking instruction, hands on, and fun. Nadia was incredibly knowledgeable and friendly. Highly recommend!
Salvo was a lovely guy and we had a great time with the most delicious food! Thank you!
This was a great experience. We'd do it again in a heartbeat. Everything was exactly as they had described and the chef was so personable and entertaining. Never a dull moment.
Salvo was a great instructor! He made the class fun and informative and we have recipes that we’ll definitely use when we get home.
Salvatore is such an excellent chef and host…we are a family of four with two younger children and everyone had an absolute blast. We did the 5hr cooking class with a jaunt through the market and we couldn’t be happier. Worth every penny!
Thank you Nadia, this was a fabulous few hours and lunch (with wine of course). We thoroughly enjoyed your instruction and it was great to see how you got my husband cooking! 😄 Highly recommended.
It was a amazing, nadia was a really good teacher and she is really cool. It was an amazing expierience.
Nadia was such a nice lady, who knew what she was doing. I enjoyed the experience very much also because of the way she stalks to people.
What a great time, from start to finish. Chef Salvo explained everything and made our cooking experience perfect. This cooking experience is a must, whether you cook or not. The experience was perfect, thank you chef Salvo.
A wonderful culinary experience
It was so good. Very informative and a nice pace to learn. Salvo was very fun and engaging and Nadia was assisting and was really nice too. My favourite day in Palermo so far. Thank you for everything!
Excellent in all ways! Highly recommend this class!
Perfect Chef, very knowledgeable and friendly!
What a wonderful, fun way to spend an afternoon making food!!!! It was delicious! Marcelo was so passionate about food, and a great pleasure to learn from. Thank you!
This was a great experience. Our chefs, Nadia and Marchelo were helpful, fun and had a great sense of humour. I would highly recommend it.
We started the class of making the rice for Aaron Cini the sauce for the Norma and the cannoli shouts. We went to the cuppa market and hadsome snack snacks and come back and rolled the pasta filled the canola and made the rest of the sauce. it was an amazing experience. Will recommend it to everyone.
Salvatore made this cooking class an absolute highlight of our trip to Palermo! My son Viktor was completely won over by him from the start, and honestly, so was I. He's funny, he sings while he cooks, and he clearly loves what he does — you can feel it in every dish. The food was outstanding, and the market tour taught us so much about local ingredients and hidden gems we never would have found on our own. Salvatore isn't just a great chef, he's a true entertainer and a wonderful host. Highly, highly recommend — one of the best experiences of our whole trip!"
Slavo was so nice and funny. In this class you really get your moneys worth an will have a lot of fun and food!!
We had such a great time doing the cooking class with market tour. Salvo was our chef and he was amazing! Made the class so fun and he made us all laugh. Would definitely recommend!
Cooking class in Palermo was very enjoyable and delicious. Chef Salvatore was great. He is an excellent teacher and very funny. Highly recommended
Would definitely recommended. Salvatore was brilliant. An amazing chef/teacher with a great sense of humour. Just perfect. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience.
Nadia did a great job of demonstrating and teaching us how to cook! We were there for 4 hours with a break to walk through the market.
Class was worth every penny. Salvo was fantastic! Sweet funny guy and made the experience a lot of fun. His knowledge of the food markets and different ingredients was great.
Salvatore was fantastic! Funny and educational.
Absolutely amazing Serena was so good and explained all the different ways of cooking and the seasonings and seasonings The tour of the market was very explanatory and informative I would definitely go again
Great experience making and cooking pasta, cannoli, and arancini! The smells and tastes were amazing! Wish we had more time to explore the market!
A great morning cooking some Sicilian dishes. Salvo our chef was informative and great fun. A walk along the market with some food tastings was also very enjoyable.
We had such a fantastic time at this cooking class! The chefs were absolutely amazing—friendly, knowledgeable, patient, and genuinely fun. They created such a relaxed atmosphere and made the whole experience feel like we were cooking with friends. What we loved most was how hands-on the class was. We didn't just watch the chefs—we actually got to make our own pasta dough, roll it out and shape our own pasta, make our own arancine, and even roll our own cannolo. Being able to make everything ourselves made the experience so much more memorable, and of course, everything we made was delicious! The class had around 20 people, but the group was divided into smaller groups of about 10 when we went to the market with the chefs. That made the market experience much more personal and gave us plenty of opportunity to interact with the chef, ask questions, and learn about the local ingredients and Sicilian food. The entire experience was fun from start to finish, and we loved getting to learn about Sicilian food while actually getting our hands dirty and making it ourselves. The food, the chefs, the atmosphere, and the hands-on experience all made this one of the highlights of our trip to Sicily. If you're visiting Sicily and looking for a cooking class where you actually get to participate rather than just watch, we highly recommend this one. Come hungry—you'll definitely leave happy!
We loved it!!!! So much fun. Worth the price
We really enjoyed the Pasta & Gelato cooking class. The two chefs were fantastic — fun, entertaining and very engaging. The whole atmosphere was relaxed and enjoyable, and the time just flew by. We had a lot of fun, learned something new and, of course, enjoyed some delicious food. A great experience that we would definitely recommend when visiting Palermo!
We had a nice day (9-14 o‘clock) with good food, interesting facts about Sicilia and our very kind chef Salvo. We were a group of 4 persons, cooked Arancinos, Pasta alla norma and Cannoli. In addition, we visited the Capo market and had a small food tasting. The Meeting Point was easy to find. Thank you for the great experience :)
Got to make Sicilian specialties for a delicious and filling lunch. Also visited nearby market and tasted street food. Chef Marcello was engaging, charming, and fun. A must do Palermo experience!
It was a great experience and Salvo was a great guide and chef.
Incredible! We were instructed well, great atmosphere. Pizza came out yummy!
This is such a nice thing to do in palermo! Marcello was great, the best host! Would do it again !
It was amazing! We really loved the class. Marcello is great! Really recommend :)
Marcheli was excellent. A great chief and kept us entertained as well as teaching us a few tips on cooking. We left with some recipes as well. It was a great experience.
We had a wonderful last day in Palermo. Frederico and Marcelo, the Chefs, were everything we could ask for - funny, professional and Italian! I would recommend this experience to everyone I know. If you are in Palermo, you should definitely go and make your own tagliatelle, ravioli and gelato! 15/10 experience 🤩.
The experience was totally worth the money! Perfect chef, great food and all together wholesome experience to finish our Italian holiday. Would absolutely recommend! 100000/10🤍✨
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