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I can't say enough good things about our cooking class with Thomas on September 24, 2025. We started with a tour of the local market across the street from the class where Thomas selected the ingredients for our sauces that we would watch him make to accompany the pastas that we would make in his kitchen. He chose based on our preferences and instantly worked it into his general cooking plan, showing great adaptability to our specific preferences while explaining how different meat cuts could be used. He then showed us all the fruits and vegetables available in the market, showing what is in season and what has passed. After selecting the items that would be used in our meal preparation, he then treated us to a selection of excellent cold cuts and cheeses from one of the market specialty vendors, accompanied by bread and bottles of water and red wine, while explaining the differences in the various cheeses and slices of cold cuts, all of which were delicious, and resulted in us buying some parmigiana and truffle infused cheeses. We then returned to the cooking class and watched as he prepared the meats for simmering in olive oil, water and a generous amount of regular red wine (never use "cooking wine"). While that simmered, he taught us to make our own pasta, and over the next hour and a half we personally made from scratch, our ravioli, capellini (with ricotta cheese fillings in both) and spaggatini. We then watched as he made the pasta and tomato based sauces for the capellini and ravioli, respectively, and then the ragu meat sauce that would accompany the spaggatini. During the cooking class we had unlimited availability of water and various great quality red and white wines while he educated us with his cooking techniques and shared many interesting stories form his years working as a chef in restaurants. His demonstration of how to properly chop vegetable quickly and efficiently with honed kitchen knives (without losing parts of your fingers!) was very educational and adaptable to our own future cooking skills. The afternoon flew by. When the sauces were ready we enjoyed a three course meal, with red or white wines of our choosing to thoroughly enjoy the meal that we helped prepare. Thomas was an excellent instructor and by the end of the class, it felt like we had made a new friend while learning new cooking skills.

Hi highly recommend the Pasta Class Florence cooking experience to everyone who enjoys good food, good wine and great...

This was the 2nd pasta making class I did during a week in Florence and this class exceeded the other one BY FAR.

What I liked: -The space beautiful and clean and the class was not overbooked and crowded like the other class I took. When they get to a certain size, they moved people to a 2nd location. They could have easily squeezed more people in this space but they choose not to. We learned a lot during the class. The first part of the class, Chef prepared the ragu and sauces. He explained a lot of practical things that will help me with every day cooking and I even learned that I've been ruining my expensive knives the way I've been sharpening them! Before we moved to make the pasta, I felt comfortable that the best hygiene policies were being enforced in the class. You will eat pasta that everyone has made so hygiene is important. We made 3 AMAZING pastas. The pasta I made during this class was superior in taste and quality to the other class I took earlier in the week. The sauce and ragu he made were also much tastier than the other class we took. I felt like I was eating restaurant quality dishes.

The white and red wine available was delicious. I don't want to mention the other class in this review but it's another popular wine/pasta class. While the other class was fine, it wasn't exceptional like this one was. We had so much space between people whereas the other class I took, we were ON TOP of each other...it was really hot and not as enjoyable.

I would rate this class an A+ and the other unlimited wine and 3 pasta making class I took at a C+/B-. If you want a quality experience where you will walk away learning valuable cooking lessons,...

​We had a lovely experience at Pasta Class Florence with our chef and guide, Thomas! The pasta class and market tour ended up being essentially "private" for my husband and I, since no one else had signed up that day (it was pre-summer season on a Wednesday). He walked us through the market (meats, cheeses, fish, vegetables, etc) and we had so many great conversations—about his experiences and history, passion for cooking, and he was genuinely curious about us and the story. We were able to tell him what we liked that was in season, and I had the specification of not eating beef or pork which I knew may be difficult for sauces and the base of sauces. I expressed I'd be fine with whatever I could try, but Thomas made it a point to help put together and create 4 unique sauces that I was able to try—one using Guineafowl! Both parties were learning from each other, and we got to ask him questions about the cuisine as we tried cheese. We created 4 different pasta shapes, and watched as he walked us through each of the different sauces—all of which were outstanding and so high quality, yet simple. We met one of the Michelin star chefs on the way out, who was so down to Earth. Thomas explained that Pasta Class Florence really tried to immerse the visitors in the experience as much as possible and that the chefs truly cared, rather than paying to just watch a chef cook essentially. This was definitely one of our favorite Italy experiences, and we are so grateful for all of the irreplaceable...