Cesarine: Dining & Cooking Demo at Local's Home in Sorrento

About this tour

Cook alongside a Sorrentine home chef in their kitchen, then sit down to a four-course meal built from family recipes and local ingredients. This small-group experience with Cesarine—a network of 1000+ passionate Italian home cooks across the country—centres on watching techniques unfold, tasting what comes from the stove, and eating properly with wine and coffee included. Two and a half hours that feel less like a lesson and more like dinner at someone's place who actually knows what they're doing.

Highlights

• Watch a local cook prep and cook pasta from scratch
• Four-course menu: antipasto, pasta, main with sides, dessert
• Campania wines paired throughout the meal
• Small group setting in a real home kitchen
• Family recipes passed through generations
• Water, wine and coffee included

What to expect

You'll arrive at a local's home in Sorrento and move into the kitchen to watch them work. No standing around doing prep work yourself—this is a demonstration. You'll see how they handle dough, sauce timing, and the small details that separate home cooking from restaurant theatre. Once the show cooking wraps, you'll move to the table. The four courses arrive as they're ready: proper antipasti, fresh pasta with a sauce they've just finished, a mains dish with seasonal vegetables, then dessert. Local red and white wines flow throughout, water and coffee at the end. Expect genuine conversation, not a performance.

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