Make Italian Pizza & Bread at a Restaurant in the Historic Center

About this tour

Master the foundations of Italian bread and pizza-making in a four-hour hands-on class at a traditional Lucca restaurant. Work alongside a local chef to shape doughs from scratch, learning how flour type and technique shift texture and flavour. You'll bake several bread varieties, top your own pizza and focaccia, then finish with a fruit or chocolate-topped sweet pizza. Everything you make gets eaten straight after, still warm from the oven.

Highlights

• Shape and bake Tuscan, semolina and whole wheat breads
• Top and cook traditional pizza with fresh mozzarella and cured meats
• Make focaccia and learn oil-and-salt finishing
• Prepare a dessert pizza with seasonal fruit or chocolate
• Eat every dish you've made at the end of class
• Work in a centuries-old restaurant in central Lucca
• Customise menu around dietary requirements with advance notice

What to expect

You'll arrive at a characterful restaurant tucked in Lucca's old town and tie on an apron. The chef walks you through dough from first mix—showing how different flours and hydration levels change the result. You'll knead, stretch and fold through the morning, moving between bread varieties. Once the first batch goes into the oven, you'll move to pizza: topping your own with ham, mushrooms, spicy salami or buffalo mozzarella, watching it bubble and char. By mid-afternoon, you'll prepare a sweet finale pizza topped with whatever fruit is in season or melted chocolate. Everything comes out hot; you'll sit down and eat it all together.

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