Home Cooking Class & Meal with a Local in Messina

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Duration
3 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 15 guests
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English, Italian
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Join a private cooking class in Messina. Learn local recipes, cook with a Cesarina, and savor your creations with local wines. A unique culinary adventure awaits you in Italy!

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

Experience Details

Immerse yourself in a private cooking class at the Cesarina's home,  learn the secrets of the most famous dishes of Messina cuisine and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied by a glass of local wine.


During the lesson, the Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic regional recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. Each participant will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines.


Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of 1000+ home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Sample Menu

STARTER
Seasonal starter
MAIN
Fresh Pasta
Sample pasta dishes: Pasta with sardines or "Pasta ‘ncaciata" - baked pasta or Pasta with cauliflower 'alla messinese'
DESSERT
Sicilian dessert
Sample dessert dish: Cannoli siciliani or Cassata or N’zuddi biscuits or Tiramisu or similar typical desserts

What You Get

Beverages (water, wines and coffee)
Tasting of the 3 recipes
Private Cooking Class

Good To Know

  • Please note that our Cesarine are ready and thrilled to host you in their homes! All Cesarine are always very careful and attentive of the important sanitary rules needed, even more now! The homes provide all the essential sanitary equipment for the guests (paper towels for washing hands, hand sanitizing gel and so on). Remember to always maintain 1 meter distance from each other and if not, wear masks and gloves
  • Public transportation options are available nearby

What You’ll Experience

Immerse yourself in a private cooking class at the Cesarina's home, learn the secrets of the most famous dishes of Messina cuisine and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied by a glass of local wine.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Messina, Italy, IT

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This experience will be held in a local's home. For privacy reasons, you will receive the full address of your Cesarina host after you have booked. We will contact you after you've booked to match you up with your ideal Cesarina based on what you are looking for.
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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What People Are Saying
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Exceptional, great time, excellent host
June 02, 2025
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The hospitality was superb, we really enjoyed our host, the food was delicious. Overall a great experience and would recommend to anyone spending a day in Messina.

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Incredible home chef experience!
April 24, 2025
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Incredible and personal teaching experience with our chef, Mariella in her beautiful home. She picked us up and dropped us back to the port. We made pasta, focaccia, and other dishes which we had ...read more

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Cesarina Cooking Class
February 03, 2025
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Very comfortable, felt very welcomed. Mariella ran a fun and interesting cooking class. A high point in our trip.

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Excellent cooking experience
September 30, 2024
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My wife Sherry wanted to know how to make pasta from scratch, so I found a Viator tour that was exactly what she wanted. We were picked up at Cathedral and driven to her beautiful home overlooking...read more

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Delicious , quaint and lots of fun!
September 25, 2024
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We had a great time at our cooking class. We find this home very nice and the cooking instructions were great!

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