Private Handmade Pasta Class in Rome with a Local Chef, Chiara

About this tour

Step into Chiara's Roman kitchen for a three-hour private pasta session where you'll learn to roll, shape and cook two or three dishes straight from her family archive. Chiara trained formally in cooking but teaches in her own home, not a studio—this is about picking up techniques whilst getting to know someone who's cooked these recipes her whole life. You'll prepare the meal together, then sit down to eat it in her neighbourhood kitchen, the kind of thing Romans do on weekends with people they know.

Highlights

• Make fresh pasta by hand under a local chef's guidance
• Learn two to three traditional Roman family recipes
• Cook and eat together in an actual home kitchen
• One-to-one teaching, no other guests
• Vegetarian and gluten-free options available
• Included wine and aperitifs during the meal

What to expect

You'll arrive at Chiara's place in a residential Roman neighbourhood and move straight into her kitchen. She'll walk you through selecting and mixing flour, kneading dough, and shaping pasta—whether that's tagliatelle, ravioli or something else from her repertoire. Expect to use your hands a lot and to make mistakes; that's the point. Once everything's cooked, you'll eat at her table with wine, talking through what you've made and how her family has always done it. The space is modest and doesn't have air conditioning, which is typical for older Roman homes. This isn't a polished cooking school; it's someone's actual working kitchen.

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