SUMMER 2024

Cooking Classes

HOW TO BOOK

Available to book for groups of two to 48, our private cooking classes are booked on your schedule. You choose the date, time and menu from our list of classic and seasonal three-course menus. Ask us about wine and beverage pairings!

To book your class, call us at 616.206.5175.

COOKING CLASS MENUS

NEW! THE PASTA SERIES

All options include a three-course meal after your class featuring your handmade creations, caprese salad and lemoncello sorbetto.

Pasta 101: Pasta Fundamentals
Learn to make pasta practically without special equipment
Rolled / Ribbons & Ravioli
$99 per person

Pasta 102: Seasonal Gnocchi
Infuse pasta with parmesan cheese & fresh herbs to make unique, delicious gnocchi
$99 per person

Pasta 103: Signature Scissor Noodles
Learn the art of this unique pasta infused with basil in a sun-dried tomato pesto sauce
$99 per person

STEAK & RAVIOLO BRUNCH

Learn to make the classic Roman breakfast, a delicious egg & cheese raviolo!

Burrata Caprese Salad
heirloom tomatoes / 25 year aged balsamic / extra virgin olive oil

Tenderloin Raviolo
whole egg & cheese stuffed raviolo atop pan-seared beef tenderloin with béarnaise sauce

Handmade Gelato
vanilla bean gelato / lemon curd / berries

$99 per person

CLASSIC & SEASONAL 3-COURSE MENUS

Fog Smoked Risotto Class & Dinner
What you’ll learn: the art of making the perfect risotto
What you’ll eat: panzanella salad, your own custom butternut squash risotto, handmade apricot sorbetto
$99 per person

Calabria Rack of Lamb
What you’ll learn: the secrets of making authentic rack of lamb
What you’ll eat: romaine wedge salad with sun-dried tomato vinaigrette, rosemary pecorino pesto and handmade spaghetti with lamb, lemon & pear sorbetto
$99 per person

Sicilian Scampi
What you’ll learn: how to make tortellini pasta
What you’ll eat: burrata caprese salad, shrimp scampi & handmade tortellini with tomato & basil sauce, lemoncello sorbetto
$99 per person

Piedmont Black Truffle
What you’ll learn: how to cook with truffles
What you’ll eat: arugula salad with truffled brie croutons and Bordeaux dark cherry balsamic vinaigrette, handmade fettuccini with fresh black truffles, foraged mushrooms and parmesan cream sauce, pear sorbetto
$119 per person

Ligurian Lobster
What you’ll learn: how to cook with seafood
What you’ll eat: roasted garlic wild-caught prawn scampi with fennel & tomatoes, ricotta & lemon tortellini topped with a warm water lobster tail and a fortified Sherry cream sauce, lemoncello sorbetto
$129 per person

Umbrian Tenderloin Steak
What you’ll learn: how to cook the perfect steak
What you’ll eat: burrata caprese salad, seared garlic steak topped with wild ramp butter, handmade linguini with sun-dried tomato pecorino pesto, peach sorbetto
$99 per person

Chicken Parmesan “Parma” Dinner
What you’ll eat: the art of the classic Chicken Parmesan
What you’ll eat: roasted garlic romaine & prosciutto wedge salad, chicken parmesan with handmade fettuccini and fresh blistered tomato sauce, peach sorbetto
$99 per person

Tomahawk Chop Ribeye: Bistecca alla Fiorentina
What you’ll learn: how to cook a tomahawk steak
What you’ll eat: crispy prosciutto arugula & pecorino salad, 2-pound Tuscan garlic & rosemary ribeye, linguini cacio e pepe, fresh-churned apricot sorbetto
$129 per person

Venetian Madeira Duck
What you’ll learn: how to cook duck
What you’ll eat: heirloom apple salad and gorgonzola dolce cheese, pan-seared & caramelized duck in an intense Maderia mushroom sauce served with smoked handmade pasta, apple sorbetto
$109 per person

Dinner in Venice
What you’ll learn: how to make tortellini
What you’ll eat: roasted garlic caesar wedge salad, handmade five cheese tortellini tossed with beef Bolognese sauce, apple sorbetto
$99 per person

Morel Mushroom
What you’ll learn: how to cook with Morel mushrooms
What you’ll eat: butter-sauteed morels bruschetta with fennel & fig balsamic, Madeira chicken and morels tossed with handmade spinach “chitarra” noodles, apricot sorbetto
$119 per person

“Italian Islands”  Soft Shell Crab
What you’ll learn: how to cook soft shell crab
What you’ll eat: scallops on the half shell atop creamed parmesan spinach, lightly battered soft shell crab with lemon-caper aioli and fog smoked fennel-lemon asiago risotto, lemoncello sorbetto
$109 per person

Diver Scallop 
What you’ll learn: how to cook scallops on the stovetop
What you’ll eat: lemon goat cheese wedge salad, pan-seared lemon scallops atop scissor noodles with a spinach cream sauce, lemoncello sorbetto
$99 per person

Eggplant Parmesan Lasagna
What you’ll learn: how to cook eggplant
What you’ll eat: roasted garlic caesar wedge salad, cheese-stuffed eggplant parmesan lasagna topped with blistered tomato basil sauce, peach sorbetto
$99 per person