Cesarine: Learn Pasta Making Secrets in a Traditional Home Cooking Class in Bologna

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Discover the secrets of pasta making in a traditional home cooking class in Bologna. Learn authentic regional recipes, taste your creations, and enjoy local wine with your Italian family.

Duration: 3 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Bologna - Dive into a personalized pasta-making session at a local residence in Bologna. Discover the secrets behind the region’s renowned pasta recipes and savor your creations, paired with a variety of local wines.

What's Included

Private Pasta-making Class
Learn and taste 3 pasta recipes
Alcoholic beverages

Meal Options

Fresh Pasta - Sample pasta dishes: Tortellini or Lasagne or Tortelloni or Tagliatelle or Gramigna or Strichetti or Balanzoni

Additional Information

Dive into a private pasta-making course at a local Cesarina’s residence, uncover the techniques behind the region’s renowned pasta recipes, and relish your homemade creations paired with a local wine.
You’ll be provided a fully furnished workspace complete with tools and elements, and your host will share the secrets of 3 genuine regional pasta recipes,…

Location

Bologna

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 by e-mail after you've booked to match you up with your ideal host based on what you are looking for.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Smithkarentally

Dec 29, 2025

Authentic and welcoming cooking experience - Our pasta-making experience with Rosa, our Nona, through Cesarine Cooking Company was absolutely unforgettable and one of the highlights of our time in Bologna. Rosa welcomed us into her home like family. She was incredibly personable, warm, and deeply knowledgeable, sharing both traditional techniques and stories that brought the food — and the region — to life. We made gnocchi, torteloni and tagliatelle completely from scratch, learning the proper textures, shaping methods, and regional traditions behind each pasta. The gnocchi, guided by Courtney Takita, was pillowy, delicate, and honestly some of the best we’ve ever had. The tagliatelle was classic Bologna — simple, elegant, and absolutely perfect. From hands-on cooking to sitting down together to enjoy what we made, the experience felt authentic, relaxed, and full of heart. This wasn’t just a cooking class — it was a cultural experience that gave us a deeper appreciation for Italian food and hospitality. Highly recommend to anyone visiting Bologna who wants a meaningful, delicious, and memorable experience.

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Nicogh4409vs

Dec 22, 2025

Best Experience of our Trip! - We had a wonderful evening at Laura Ambrosi’s apartment. We were welcomed with a snack and a drink. After that we started right away to make the dough for pasta and in between we prepared the best tiramisu we ever ate. Everything was best organized! She even prepared some dough for the tagliatelle in advance because it need some rest. Our highlight was to make the tortelloni. It was well explained and we had a lot of fun doing it. After all that we had a super nice dinner with the stuff we made, some coffee and great conversations! The whole experience was the highlight of our trip to Bologna and we can just recommend Laura as a host! Thank you and we hope to see someday again! :)

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H2093eymassimon

Dec 21, 2025

Great experience!!! - If you want to learn the secrets of Bolognese pastry this is the place! My wife and I were welcomed by Veronia in a beautiful location in the heart of Bologna. The lesson was beautiful, immersed in a typical atmosphere, with pleasant background music and the magnificent stories of our amazing teacher. The lesson was fun and at the same time interesting and accurate. Time has really flown!

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H8261nmmariac

Dec 21, 2025

Beautiful experience - Staying at Rosa's house was like staying at my house: the same warmth, the same welcome. With infinite patience he taught me how to make tortellini, explaining each gesture over and over again, until I succeeded. Rosa does not just teach you how to cook: she transmits her love for tradition, from broth to the little secrets that make the difference. It was a beautiful, authentic experience that I will take with me. Thank you Rosa, really.

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Eric_s

Dec 12, 2025

Amazing experience and helpful insights and tricks - Paola was fantastic! Very welcoming and kind. We are so appreciative that she adjusted her schedule to fit us in at the last minute. She gave us so many insights and helpful tips for making incredible pasta. She was very patient in helping us learn and refine the techniques that we will be able to take home and use for trying to make it on our own. She said we passed but have to come back for a follow-up next time we are in Bologna and possibly learn some more recipes 😀

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Christian_r

Dec 9, 2025

Pasta class with tiramisu - Claudia was wonderful! This was an amazing experience! My wife and I both learned a lot. So glad to have this experience

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Exploration740007

Nov 30, 2025

Fantastic learning to make pasta experience - We (family of 5) spent an absolutely lovely late morning/early afternoon with Veronica learning how to make Tortolani and Tagliatelle. She was a great teacher and in addition to learning to make pasta she shared a lot about Bologna and its cuisine and culture. The meal was delicious and lively - the wine was (even for a Californian wine snob) delicious and a perfect pairing. If you are in Bologna I strongly recommend!!!

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Catherine_c

Nov 26, 2025

Exceptional cooking class - This experience was worth every dollar spent!! She was such a lovely host and extremely easy to learn from! We’ve taken cooking classes in other cities and this by far was the best! Roberta was the best!!!!

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George_j

Nov 17, 2025

A must - Expected group,turned out just us and 2 hosts.Wonderful evening .Private class and dinner Exceptuonal hosts.

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Shauna_d

Nov 17, 2025

Mismatched meeting locations - The Viator ticket had a meeting location. And so sadly i didn’t confirm the meeting location with the text. So we were a long walk from the correct lactation. It was incredibly stressful to navigate down the residential seats. Although I kept in touch with our host we were greeted with an unpleasant response about having pushed the wrong doorbell. I hadn’t done anything wrong and was quite overwhelmed and feel our host could have been less defensive and kinder. The food was good, the house was beautiful and our host warmed up but the experience was less than ideal.

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From $115

up to 10 guests

1 - Adult