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Hands-On Cooking Lesson in Bellagio with Chef

Meet your assistant at the most convenient pier close to your location and board your private boat to Bellagio.... Just a few minutes drive from Bellagio’s city center and Lake Como, an elegant restaurant in Bellagio is home to the award-winning imaginative Chef. While young, The Chef worked in the illustrious Villa D’Este for seven years and has already won 40 gold medals in international culinary competitions. Still, The Chef is humble and energetic as he talks about using local ingredients and teaches his hands-on pasta cooking class in his family-owned restaurant.

Your culinary adventure begins at 10:00 a.m. when Chef himself picks you up from your meeting point in Bellagio and regales you with tales from his kitchen on the ride over to his family’s restaurant. Once at the restaurant, relax for a moment with a cup of coffee or cappuccino with the chef and then you dress on the apron and explore the herb garden behind the restaurant. The hands-on cooking lesson begins at 10:30 a.m. and focuses on creating homemade pasta fresca, packed with fresh day ingredients, as well as risotto, tagliatelle, gnocchi and dessert, every day different. After, enjoy your lunch on the terrace (weather permitting).

The Chef will also send you off with a home made bottle of olive oil, an apron, a diploma of participation, as well as a recipe book (in English) focused on dishes typical to the region. Your class ends at 2:30 p.m. when the Chef returns you to Bellagio town with the private van of the restaurant with all of your culinary souvenirs.

Transfer back to the closest location convenient for you by private boat.

Package Includes

  • Transfer by private deluxe boat from a pier in Como to Bellagio and return
  • Private English-speaking assistant (max 6 hrs.)
  • Cooking Lesson
  • Lunch
  • Culinary Souvenirs

Package Policies

Notes: - Cooking Lesson not available on Tuesdays - The tour rate may vary if a transfer by private vehicle is required from a particular distant area to the nearest pier

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