Learn Italian Cooking in Lucca’s Historic Center (4-Course Meal)

About this tour

Spend four hours in Lucca's old town learning to cook an elegant Italian menu under a local chef's guidance. You'll prepare beef carpaccio with buffalo mozzarella, your choice of risotto (saffron and prawn, porcini, radicchio with speck, or squid ink variations), veal scaloppine three ways, and creamy semifreddo with caramelised almonds. Cook in a proper restaurant kitchen, then sit down to eat what you've made.

Highlights

• Beef carpaccio and buffalo mozzarella starter
• Risotto with four regional flavour options
• Veal scaloppine prepared multiple ways
• Caramelised almond semifreddo for dessert
• Working kitchen in Lucca's medieval centre
• Chef demonstrates authentic Italian technique
• You eat the full four courses at the end

What to expect

You'll arrive at the restaurant and work through four dishes with hands-on guidance from a local culinary instructor. The pacing lets you learn proper technique—knife skills for the carpaccio, risotto stirring discipline, veal cooking methods—without rushing. Between each course, you cook together, ask questions, and understand why Tuscan cooks make specific choices. Once the kitchen work wraps up, you sit at a table and taste everything you've prepared, wine and water included.

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