Traditional Cooking Class with Lunch in Lecce’s Historic Center
- 4h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
We are more than a Traditional Restaurant, but a refined Puglia Heritage Restaurant, a place where people can learn hands-on how a historical dish comes to life. The origins of a dish go beyond the recipe. They encompass the history of a region. Over the years, many of our customers have rediscovered flavors long lost in their memory. Forgotten tastes that have touched their hearts, bringing back vivid memories. Currently, our Maestro di cucina is Giorgio Grassi. He learned everything from Rosalba De Carlo, his mother, a great expert in Puglia’s culinary culture. She belongs to the noble baronial family Andriani De Vito of Corigliano d’Otranto. Being also in close contact with the peasants of her village, Rosalba has deep knowledge of both the rich and the humble versions of the same culinary tradition. For this reason, a conference with the UNESCO Patronage chose her as a Case Study in 2010. Rosalba is a great treasure to our Restaurant, but above all a precious jewel of our family.
Inclusions
What's included
- The entire restaurant is available to guests: from the preparation at the work table for handmade pasta, in the kitchen at the stove, up to lunch.
- For making pasta: a long oak and iron workbench. Into the kitchen you’re embraced by the vibrant colors of Salento. The space is also equipped with steel workbenches and elegant marble countertops.
- The menu also includes drinks and dessert: Leccese Spumone ice cream with hazelnuts and chocolate flavors, stuffed with salted chocolate soft chunks.
- The starvaulted rooms feature classic crystal chandeliers and air conditioning. Also have an old record player where you can listen to LPs by famous Italian singers like Mina, Celentano, and Battisti.
- The dishes are paired with a selected bottle of Salento wine, chosen by Giorgio Grassi according to your preferences. With dessert, at the end of lunch, we’ll serve coffee and limoncello.
- Our Traditional Cooking Class ends with a lunch that you will have prepared almost entirely with your own hands. Giorgio and Rosalba control your learning and activities… food is no joke!
- At the work counter in the dining room, you’ll learn how to make hand made fresh pasta. In the kitchen, we’ll cook traditional dishes with ancient flavors, typical of Puglia’s culinary heritage.
What's not
- Private transportation
- The tomato sauce needed for some dishes can't be made during the class, it takes too long to cook!
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Alle due corti Restaurant is the place where our traditional cooking class in Lecce and the unforgettable lunch included take place. The door is in Corte dei Giugni 1, but you can also "enter from the window", in Via Prato 42, using a large window that looks out over the pretty Prato Arch Square.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 6 travellers
- Operated by
- Alle Due Corti Traditional Cooking Classes
- Service animals allowed
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- The Restaurant allows access to guests with wheelchairs, but not for the Traditional Cooking Classes: unfortunately in the kitchen it is not possible for structural reasons.
- We serve alcoholic beverages only to travelers aged 18 and over. Non-alcoholic drinks will be served to travelers under the age of 18.
- For any intolerances, allergies, or specific ingredient restrictions please write us in advance.
How it compares in Lecce
- Its from-price is 24% above the median of the 315 experiences we list in Lecce.
- It is longer than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 91 of 315.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Lecce
Lecce is a Baroque city in Italy's heel, built in honey-coloured limestone and carved with flowers, animals and saints on every façade.
Lecce's soft local limestone could be carved like wood, and the architects of the seventeenth century used it to cover churches and palaces in garlands, cherubs, animals and plants, a style called Leccese Baroque. The Basilica of Santa Croce has the richest façade, and the Piazza del Duomo is a closed square with a campanile. A Roman amphitheatre lies half uncovered in Piazza Sant'Oronzo, and the city is sometimes called the Florence of the South.
Top-ranked sights in Lecce: Lecce Basilica of Santa Croce (Basilica Di Santa Croce), Lecce Roman Amphitheatre (Anfiteatro Romano di Lecce), Porta Napoli.
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