cookery school or cooking class?

You’ll love having our chef teach a cooking class at your holiday home.

If your holiday home does not have a kitchen (or one that’s on the smaller side) – or if you’d simply like to learn from inside the kitchen of a restaurant – try our wonderful cookery school!

If you choose to visit our cooking school, you will have the chance to work in the kitchen of a restaurant equipped with all of the new and traditional tools.

In this setting, it’s a little easier to learn how to prepare some of the more complicated Ligurian dishes . . . and we are also sure that the chef will ask you to taste some other delicious Ligurian dishes!

The Cinque Terre cookery school is recommended for people who want to try a cooking class from the kitchen of a real restaurant, or for those who have rented a holiday home without a kitchen (or a small one) . . . with the space and equipment of a real restaurant kitchen, the class will be comfortable and enjoyable for everyone.

Basic cooking class

Hand made pasta
Like tagliolini or small lasagna or gnocchi that you'll have with the Pesto sauce, the most famous and traditional ligurian recipe

Hand made pesto
In the old fashioned way...with the mortar.

Tasty “sgabei”
Sgabei is a kind of fried bread to be served hot as an appetizer or as a delicious second dish, when accompanied or stuffed with local ham, lardo, salami, soft cheese, or dried tomatoes.


Always included: booklet, apron, class 2 - 3 hours, quick lunch or dinner, transfers form train station.

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Advanced cooking class

A first course
Fresh tagliolini with mussels or seafood - Ligurian minestrone (a traditional vegetable soup with pesto sauce) - Tortellini with broth - pasta cooked in the oven.

A second course
Stuffed mussels - ligurian rabbit - the Cima (a stuffed meat used also to make the broth) - Ligurian vegetable pies

A dessert or starter
A fresh nest of cream with strawberries - Cantucci biscuits that we have normally with a dessert wine like Sciachetrá

4 hours approx.


Always included: booklet, apron, class 2 - 3 hours, quick lunch or dinner, transfers form train station.

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Ravioli cooking class

You’ll learn Simona’s famous and secret Ravioli recipe preparation of famous typical Ravioli with sauces.

You can choose how to learn 2 kind of ravioli at your choice between: Traditional meat ravioli - Vegetarian Ravioli - Artichokes ravioli - Pansotti with walnut sauce...
4 hours approx.


Always included: booklet, apron, class 2 - 3 hours, quick lunch or dinner, transfers form train station.

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Guided food market tour

In addition to your class you can go shopping with the chef at the colorful La Spezia market...

A lively Food Market Tour in La Spezia is always waiting to charme you and introduce to the best biological, 0 km local produce of our still preserved area...
And you'll have the opportunity to choose with our chef the ingedients you'll use for the class...a perfect experience for your children and for you...
+ 50,00 eur up to 4 people and + 10,00 eur each additional person (in Italian)
+70,00 eur in English up to 4 people and + 10,00 eur each additional person (in English)

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Antica Hostaria da Secondini

This nice old typical trattoria is one of the oldest of La Spezia; it is placed in Sarbia, a tiny village on the hills of La Spezia, not very far from the town centre of this lively, province town.
One of those little old villages that made Italy famous.
In this restaurant you will always find a familiar atmosphere and the kind, warm welcome of Chef Simona Ferrari and her husband Endrio Secondini.

The place offers simple traditional Ligurian dishes always prepared using fresh and local products.

Best renowned dish is freshly made ravioli, mesciua, stuffed muscles, stocafisso in umido (stockfish), anchovies, sgabei and vegetable or rice pies.
Restaurant can serve gluten-free food for its celiac guests.
Thanks to Endrio’s passion for wine, l’Antica Hostaria has a well catered canteen with a wide selection of the best wines of the area along with most important Italian wines.

The restaurant appears on major food and tourist guides: Osterie d’Italia Slow Food, Gambero Rozzo, Touring Club Guide Trattorie d’Italia, La Gola in Viaggio (Guida di Alice), Le Buone Tavole della Tradizione (Accademia Italiana della Cucina).