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Italy, one bite at a time.

Pasta classes, market crawls, wine days and the producers behind the labels — the food experiences that actually sell out, compared.

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Food is the one part of an Italian trip nobody regrets budgeting for. These are the classes, tours and tastings travellers book most on GetYourGuide and Viator — from a €20 acetaia visit to a full food-valley day.

Book food tours for your FIRST day in a city, not the last: everything you taste becomes your shopping list for the rest of the stay.

Our take: a cooking class beats one more restaurant — you keep the recipe forever.
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Fresh pasta making class
2-3hRome / Florence / BolognaN.1 most-booked class

Fresh pasta class with a local cook

Flour, eggs, and a nonna-approved technique: you eat what you make, with wine included in nearly every version.

Duration: 2–3hIncludes: dinner + wine
€35–€80 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
Campo de’ Fiori market, Rome
3-4hRomeEat like a Roman

Rome food tour — Trastevere & the markets

Supplì, pizza al taglio, carbonara where it was born: a guided crawl through the city that invented the long lunch.

Duration: 3–4hStops: 6–8 tastings
€60–€95 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
Street food in Palermo
3hPalermoEurope’s street food capital

Palermo street food tour

Panelle, sfincione, pani ca meusa for the brave: Palermo’s markets are the closest Europe gets to Marrakech.

Duration: 3hMarkets: Ballarò + Vucciria
€30–€60 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
Neapolitan margherita pizza
2-3hNaplesWhere pizza was born

Pizza making class in Naples

Learn the slap technique from a pizzaiolo in the city that invented it. UNESCO-listed craft, wood oven, your own margherita.

Duration: 2–3hCertificate: yes, really
€40–€80 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
Chianti vineyards, Tuscany
Full dayFrom Florence / SienaThe classic wine day

Chianti wine day — two wineries & a long lunch

Two family estates, cellar visits, and the drive through the Chianti hills that made Tuscany famous. Someone else drives.

Duration: 7–9hTastings: 6–10 wines
€65–€140 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
White truffles from Alba
Half dayAlba / Piedmont — Oct-DecWhite gold

Truffle hunting in the Langhe

Follow a trifolao and his dog into the oak woods, then eat your finds shaved over tajarin. October to December for the white one.

Duration: 3–5hSeason: Oct–Dec (white)
€90–€160 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
Parmigiano Reggiano wheels ageing
Full dayFrom Bologna / ParmaThe Food Valley

Parmigiano & food valley tour from Bologna

Dawn at a caseificio to see the wheels born, then prosciutto di Parma and a balsamic acetaia. The single best food day in Italy.

Duration: 7–8hStops: 3 producers + lunch
€90–€150 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
Acetaia barrels in Modena
1-2hModena25 years in a barrel

Traditional balsamic tasting in Modena

A family acetaia, five barrel woods, and the syrup that has nothing to do with supermarket dressing. Taste the 25-year-old.

Duration: 1–2hTasting: 4–6 ages
€10–€35 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
A historic bacaro in Venice
2-3hVeniceVenice like a local

Cicchetti & bacaro tour in Venice

Ombra of wine in hand, counter to counter: baccalà mantecato, polpette, and the bars Venetians actually drink in.

Duration: 2–3hStops: 4–5 bacari
€45–€85 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
Limoncello and Amalfi lemons
1-2hAmalfi / SorrentoSfusato lemons

Limoncello & lemon farm on the Amalfi Coast

Terraced lemon gardens over the sea, the sfusato amalfitano, and the family recipe poured ice-cold at the end.

Duration: 1–2hIncludes: tastings + granita
€25–€60 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
A farmhouse in the Val d’Orcia
4-6hTuscanyThe full fantasy

Cooking class in a Tuscan farmhouse

Pici by hand, ragù from scratch, lunch under the pergola with the estate’s own wine. The Tuscany you came for.

Duration: 4–6hIncludes: full lunch + wine
€95–€160 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours
Gianduiotti, Turin’s chocolate
2hTurinChocolate capital

Turin chocolate & gianduiotto walk

Bicerin, gianduiotti and the historic cafés where Italian chocolate was born. Best in the cooler months.

Duration: 2–3hTastings: 6+ stops
€25–€55 typical per person · final price at checkoutGetYourGuide toursViator tours

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