A fantastic Sicilian experience - One of our favorite days on our entire European Summer holiday! Market tour for ingredients and then cooking for a bit and then eating and laughing for more fun! Chef was amazing and gave each and every guest attention, instruction and sheer joy! Highly, highly recommend this Sicilian afternoon!

Pizza in the family - The experience was exciting , our ‘cooking masters’ very kind, welcoming and fun. We took a lot of pictures, socialized with the others in the cooking group and then ... we ate great. Experience to be repeated again and again!

Excellent - Paolo is amazing and super knowledgeable about Sicily this was the best tour in the area, hand down. We explored the local area, grabbed food and cooked everything

Learn to cook a Sicilian style and have great fun - Chef Paolo first took us to a market to show us all the various vegetables, and to explain how they are used. That was great fun because he is such an interesting and entertaining fellow. We went back to the restaurant and learn to make pasta. Then we learned to make salt baked fish, delicious. When it was done, we learned how to fillet it. Then we learned how to make very delicious eggplant Parmesan. And if that wasn’t enough, we also learned to make excellent breadcrumbs, and to create a sardine and crusted breadcrumbs. Paolo very amusing with his stories about his grandmother, and how he learned to cook the hard way. Midway, we had a break for wine and cheese and bread, When the cooking was done, we all sat down to a very delicious meal that we had made, of course, with the help of a very busy and very friendly kitchen staff. We got aprons to take home, and and Paolo sent us the recipes so that we could continue to cook Sicilian style. It was a great adventure and I highly recommend it as a wonderful way to spend a long morning to afternoon.

Sicilian cooking delicious - It was set up very nice. Received a lot of explanation about Sicilian cooking and products at the market. Made my own pasta and made many Sicilian dishes, delicious. Definitely recommend this cooking course

Wonderful Cooking Experience - Great fun experience plenty of helpful cooking tips and at the end we were able to eat our delicious creations with plenty of wine.

Embrace Sicilian cooking - Great fun and well organised. There were assistance chefs to help and the atmosphere was relaxed. Lots of praise for trying to make my pasta take on different shapes.

Wonderful! - What a delightful time! Just do it. The chef was a delight and the experience was fun, engaging, and delicious!

Cooking School - We had a lovely morning preparing food for our lunch. Would highly recommend doing this to enhance your stay in Taormina.

Fun experience, some pros and cons - We booked this last minute as it was the only cooking class with availability for the following day. Overall we found that the group was just too big (maybe 20 to 25 people). There was one main chef and some other chefs rotating around the group but it just felt like a big production. The cooking part was very simple, no actual skills learned. The parts which were more complicated like frying aubergine or gutting the fish was already prepared for us. I also didn’t like that the food you prepared and handled gets mixed in with everyone’s food and you do not get your own back after it’s cooked. Some of it was handled a lot like the pasta and swordfish rolls rolled by hand. It totally put me off eating any of it knowing it had been in everyone’s hands (maybe that’s just me!). Despite those couple of points we (couple) did really enjoy the experience and it was a good way to pass a few hours whilst it was raining. The chef was fun and the location was very nice. I liked the choice of dishes that we made. We met some lovely people in the group. One of the best things was there was a lot of wine served and we were able to stay for a while after the session chatting to some of the others we had met. Overall I would recommend if booking last minute as it seems that some of the more popular cooking classes are not available.