Cesarine: Private Pasta Class at Local's Home in Messina

Inclusions / Exclusions

Mobile ticket
Offered in: English, Italian
Beverages (water, wines and coffee)
Tasting of the 3 pasta recipes
Private Pasta-making Class
Local taxes

Overview

Immerse yourself in a private pasta-making class at a local's home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied by a selection of local wine. During the lesson, the local home cook will reveal the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic regional pasta recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. Each participant will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines. This experience is held by Cesarine: Italy’s oldest network of 1000+ home cooks all over the country in more than 500 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Meeting points

Messina, Italy, IT

This experience will be held in a local's home. For privacy reasons, 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.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Immerse yourself in a private pasta-making class at a local's home in Messina, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied by a selection of local wines.

Sample Menu

MAIN

Fresh Pasta

Sample pasta dishes: busiate, anellini, tagliatelle, scialatelli or ravioli

Additional Info

Public transportation options are available nearby
Please note that our Cesarine are ready and thrilled to host you in their homes! All Cesarine are always very careful and attentive of the important sanitary rules needed, even more now! The homes provide all the essential sanitary equipment for the guests (paper towels for washing hands, hand sanitizing gel and so on). Remember to always maintain 1 meter distance from each other and if not, wear masks and gloves

Free Cancellation

February 06100% refund

February 07No refund

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

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A wonderful, memorable day!

Published on Oct, 2024

We absolutely adored our time with Consuelo. She was a delight, so friendly, fun and happy. We arranged for her to pick us up and she stopped on the way to the house to show us pretty vistas and take pictures. We had a lovely time working together with her aunt Maricella and another couple in making pasta dough and rolling it out for ravioli and tagliatelle pasta. They had also pre-prepared some antipasto and side dishes. Lots of laughs and great fun, and we come away with confidence in trying to reproduce this back in America. Consuelo was a wonderful host and teacher — and photographer (she was secretly taking pics the whole time and sent them to us).

A fun, easy going cooking experience

Published on Oct, 2024

Mariela and Gianni were wonderful hosts. The cooking was a lot of fun and as it was just the two us we felt it was a special experience. Would recommend this to everyone.

Unforgettable experience with an unforgettable host

Published on Sep, 2024

I'm honestly not even sure how to put into words what a wonderful experience me and my family had with the most wonderful host, and cooking teacher, Consuelo. My family and I went to Europe for two weeks which included countless tours, guides and we met countless people. Each and every one of us agreed that this experience of learning how to cook traditional pasta (and tiramisu!) in a beautiful home in Sicily by an even more beautiful person, Consuelo, was the best experience of the whole trip. Consuelo went above and beyond in so many ways to make this a special and welcoming experience for us. She offered to pick us up and drop us back off safely at our ship, she pulled over on the drive to her house to allow us to take some memorable photos as a family together (in total for the day she took 80 pictures for our memories for us!), she had the most delicious appetizers prepared and waiting for us, she made sides for us to eat with our pasta (the most delicious meatballs!), she made the most refreshing drink we'd ever tasted and she had a friend of hers there to help with translation. We even had someone with us who is lactose intolerant and she was made to feel so cared for and special by the fact that Consuelo purchased especially for her several lactose free items so that she could be included in the entire experience. We were honored to meet this beautiful soul, grateful to enter into her home and honored to sit with her at her dining room table and share a meal with her that she taught us to make alongside her. Consuelo truly made us feel like we were visiting a family member who wanted you to feel comfortable in her home. The best way that I can come up with to summarize our overall experience is to let you know that we cried and hugged saying goodbye to Consuelo which took us all by a very unexpected, and special, surprise. We are so grateful to Consuelo for this experience that will live in our hearts forever.

Must do experience!!

Published on Sep, 2024

Mariella was the best host! She walked us through how make pasta, focaccia bread and a desert. Not to mention the canoli from a local bakery. Highly recommend this experience!!

The best experience in Messina

Published on Aug, 2024

This was the most amazing experiences!! We were picked up and brought to our chefs house where we made pasta and bread and dessert!! I’m lactose intolerant and everything was made with my diet in mind. She was amazing with the kids and we can’t wait to try some of the dishes at home!