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A cooking class in Rome is usually a pasta making class of about three hours: you roll fettuccine or ravioli, make a Roman sauce and tiramisu, then eat it all with a glass of wine. Rome has more of these short classes for visitors than any other Italian city, which makes it easy to fit one between the Colosseum and dinner.
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The short cooking classes most visitors book in Rome, cheapest published price first. Prices as each school publishes them.
14 to 31 days. 1 courses, cheapest published price first.
Price depends on module and internship; range EUR 2,000-10,000. Courses from one month to one year. Chef lessons 9:30-14:30, pastry lessons 15:00-20:00, three times a week. Payment 30/30/40 instalments.
School page: “Prices start from a minimum of €2,000 including VAT and go up to a maximum of €10,000 including VAT.”
Each bar spans the cheapest to the dearest published price per person for courses of that length in Rome.
Roman cooking centres on four pasta sauces, carbonara, cacio e pepe, amatriciana and gricia, built on guanciale and pecorino romano, plus fried snacks like supplì and seasonal vegetables such as artichokes. Classes in Trastevere or near Campo de’ Fiori often start with a market walk. For more than an afternoon, Rome also has professional chef and pastry courses of several weeks.
Dishes you are likely to cook: carbonara, cacio e pepe, amatriciana, fettuccine, supplì, tiramisu.
Classes run all year; book a week or two ahead around Easter and in May and October.
Rome Fiumicino airport is 32 minutes from Termini station by the Leonardo Express; most classes are in the historic centre or Trastevere and reachable on foot or by tram.
Every school we list, with its lowest published price.
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2 to 4 weeks (14 to 31 days): published prices run from €2,000 to €2,000 per person (1 priced), the lowest being Italian Chef Academy at €2,000 per person, from (VAT included). Prices were read on each school’s website; US dollar and pound prices are converted to euros at the ECB rate.
Most run about 3 hours including the meal; classes with a market visit take 4 to 5 hours. Each card shows the length the school states.
Yes, it is the most common menu: several Rome schools teach fresh pasta with a Roman sauce and tiramisu in one class. Look for the Tiramisu tag on the cards.
Yes. Rome has professional chef and pastry courses that run for several weeks; they are in the week-long section of this page.