Authentic Culinary Experience in a Tuscan Family Estate

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What You’ll Experience
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5 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 14 guests
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English
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Discover a Tuscan culinary haven at La Quercia Estate. Enjoy hands-on cooking classes with local ingredients, savoring wines and olive oil produced on-site in a setting rich in artistic history.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

This boutique cooking studio is set on the family estate surrounded by 20 acres of land, cultivated with vines and 600 olive trees; we produce Trebbiano and San Giovese wine, and Extra Virgin Olive Oil. This property is drenched in history; it was purchased in the 1960s by the Chef's father, the abstract painter Francesco Clemente. The cottage, that used to be his painting studio, was turned into a cooking studio about 10 years ago, and still today, art and food blend together to create a magic atmosphere. After all, food is art, and your host will be happy to help you create your culinary masterpiece with extreme love and passion.


La Quercia Estate has been nominated by Forbes as the top 5 cooking schools and foodie vacations in Italy!

Sample Menu

STARTER
Focaccia con la Salvia
Focaccia Bread with Sage Leaves, Picked Fresh From the Kitchen Garden
MAIN
Gnocchi di Patate con Sugo di Pomodoro Fresco
Home Made Potato Gnocchi with Fresh Tomato Sauce
MAIN
Polpettine al Limone
Lemon Scented Meat Balls
MAIN
Pisellini alla Toscana
Tuscan Peas Cooked in the Typical Terracotta Casserole
DESSERT
Dolce al Cioccolato
Melt in Mouth Chocolate Cake Dusted with Confectioners’ Sugar

What You Get

Lunch with the estate wines
All taxes, fees and handling charges
All necessary equipment
Private transportation

Good To Know

  • Minimum of 2 people required per booking
  • Maximum number of guests is 10 people

What You’ll Experience

Immerse yourself in the Tuscan countryside, and get hands-on during this authentic cooking course designed to introduce you to the aromas, flavours and traditions of the Italian famous cuisine. You will prepare an special five-course meal at our boutique cooking studio using cherished family recipes and garden-fresh ingredients that honour the seasons. The menu is usually Mediterranean/Tuscan and it can be tailored to the guests taste. On arrival, you’ll enjoy a delicious steaming cup of vanilla tea or traditional Italian espresso coffee with homemade cake, and receive a brief overview of the lesson of the day. Around noon, you’ll take a break by sipping a glass of wine of the estate: white Trebbiano and red San Giovese, and enjoying the antipasto that you’ve prepared during the first part of the class. After your break, you’ll get back to work in the cucina as you put the finishing touches on your delicious meal before enjoying lunch at around 1.30 pm. Your cooking instructor is a Tuscan native whose passion for cooking started at a very young age in the home of her nonna, who shared her Tuscan family recipes with her, which she’s perfected and now thrilled to share with you

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

La Quercia Estate, Via di Fabbiolle, Impruneta Città Metropolitana di Firenze Toscana, Italy, IT, 50023

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If you are traveling without car, we can arrange transportation for a fee
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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Buonissimo
June 05, 2025
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The most amazing cooking experience! Mother and daughter team of Veronica and Margherita expertly and effortlessly prepared a bountiful meal from the fruits of the harvest from the gardens on their...read more

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Exquisite experience
May 26, 2025
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An exquisite experience with Veronica and Margarita who with love and passion shared their family recipes and detailed techniques to make these delicious meals. Such warmth and caring to detail ...read more

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Cooking in the countryside
May 08, 2025
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Our time at La Quercia Estate was nothing short of magical. Nestled in the serene countryside, this cooking class offered not only a hands-on culinary experience, but also a deeply personal and sou...read more

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Incredible cooking experience with our family and theirs
March 31, 2025
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Margherita and her mother are simply magic. The experience they created for me, my husband and our three college age girls studying in Florence for the semester was nothing short of amazing. The fo...read more

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Wonderful cooking and eating experience.
November 06, 2024
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The estate and cooking studio are beautiful. The effort to make us comfortable and teach authentic Italian cooking exceeded our expectations. Veronica and her daughter Margherita are wonderful host...read more

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