MONTICCHIELLO · VAL D’ORCIA

Cooking Class

Fresh Tuscan pasta, made by hand — then eaten at our table

MONTICCHIELLO · VAL D’ORCIA

Cooking Class

Fresh Tuscan pasta, made by hand — then eaten at our table

You can walk the lanes of the Val d’Orcia and photograph its cypresses, but you don’t really know Tuscany until you have made its food with your own hands.

You cook inside Ristorante Daria, in a granary built in the sixteenth century, with our chef beside you. You roll the pasta yourself. You learn why the dough behaves the way it does, how much flour is too much, and the small habits Tuscan home cooks have never bothered to write down.

No experience is needed. Most of our guests have never made pasta before.

START
10:30 am
DURATION
About 4 hours
LUNCH & WINE
Included
PRICE
€130 per person

What you’ll make

Everything by hand, from the dough to the dessert.

Parmigiana di melanzane

Layers of fried aubergine, tomato sauce and cheese, baked until golden.

Pici all’aglione

The hand-rolled pasta of the Val d’Orcia, in a tomato sauce with aglione, the mild giant garlic of the area.

Tiramisù

The Italian classic, layered by hand: coffee-soaked savoiardi and mascarpone cream.

How the morning goes

10:30

Welcome aperitivo

A glass and something to nibble, a moment to settle in before the aprons go on.

THEN

Hands-on class

At your own station you make every dish yourself, with the chef guiding each step.

ALONG THE WAY

Olive oil tasting

A tasting of Tuscan extra virgin olive oil, the base of everything we cook.

AROUND 13:00

Lunch together

We sit down in the restaurant and eat what you made, with wine selected by our sommelier.

Where you’ll sit down

When the cooking is done, this is where we eat: the vaulted rooms of the old granary, with our cellar running along the wall.

The wine wall and set tables in the dining room of Ristorante Daria The vaulted dining room of Ristorante Daria, in a sixteenth-century granary in Monticchiello

Book your class

Tell us your dates and how many you are, and we’ll confirm by email within 24 hours.

PRICE
€130 per person — class, aperitivo, olive oil tasting, lunch and wine included
GROUP
Small groups, minimum two people
LANGUAGE
Held in English
WHERE
Ristorante Daria, Via San Luigi 3, Monticchiello — 53026 Pienza (SI)

Prefer to write to us directly? cooking@ristorantedaria.it