Sorrento Cooking Classes
Sorrento has more cooking classes than anywhere else on the coast, and the best of them happen in lemon groves and on family farms in the hills above town, with the transfer included. Compare the top-rated classes below, then read our notes on the formats.
Formats: hands-on classes at farms above Sorrento with pickup, making fresh pasta, a sauce and a dessert; pizza classes in a lemon grove with wood-fired ovens; private classes with wine and limoncello; a few in-town classes for people without time for the hills.
What you cook: gnocchi or ravioli by hand, a tomato or seafood sauce, sometimes a pizza, and a lemon dessert such as delizia al limone, eaten together with the farm’s wine and limoncello.
Price and time: roughly 130 to 190 euros for three to four hours, private classes 180 to 300; morning and evening sessions.
Farm classes above Sorrento
The signature format: a minibus collects you in Sorrento and climbs 10 to 20 minutes to a family farm among lemon and olive trees, where the kitchen opens onto the grove. You make pasta from scratch, typically gnocchi or ravioli, cook a sauce from the farm’s tomatoes or the day’s seafood, and finish with a lemon dessert, then eat it all at a long table with the farm’s wine and a limoncello. Three to four hours including transfers. Reviews single out the hosts; these are family businesses.
Pizza in a lemon grove
Several farms run pizza classes instead: dough made and stretched by hand, baked in a wood-fired oven under the lemon trees, with wine and limoncello. Shorter and cheaper than the pasta classes, and the format families with children choose. Private versions exist for groups.
In town
A few classes run in Sorrento itself for people on a tight schedule or arriving by ship. They teach the same dishes in a school kitchen without the setting; fine if the hills are not an option.
Choosing
For the full experience, a farm pasta class with pickup. For children, pizza in a lemon grove. For a celebration, a private class. Cruise passengers should check that the class ends before the ship sails; most operators are used to the question.
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How we choose
We list only experiences with a strong rating over a meaningful number of reviews and free cancellation where available, and we favour small-group and family-run hosts. FindEatLocal earns a commission when you book through GetYourGuide or Viator links on this page; it doesn’t change the price you pay. More about how we choose.
FAQ about Sorrento Cooking Classes
Frequently asked questions
Is transport included?
On the farm classes, yes, from central Sorrento; some also collect from Sant’Agnello or Piano di Sorrento. Check the listing.
Are Sorrento cooking classes hands-on?
The ones we list are; you make the pasta and the sauce yourself. We read the reviews for the word “demonstration” and skip those.
Can I combine a class with a coast trip?
Yes; morning classes leave the afternoon for a ferry to Positano or Amalfi, and some tours bundle a coast drive with a farm lunch.