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Sip tradition and terroir with Sicilian wines

Find the unique flavors and traditions of Sicilian wines in an intimate Taormina wine bar. Learn wine regions Discover Sicily's diverse wine regions. Taste white wine Explore a crisp, refreshing native white wine. Try macerato wine Experience the complexity of a skin-contact white wine. Taste rosato Discover the special qualities of Sicilian rosato. Try one more glass Conclude with structured Sicilian red wine. Reflect and discuss Compare wines and get personalized recommendations.

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Make authentic arancino with a chef in a Taormina villa

Join me for a hands-on culinary adventure in a historic Taormina villa. You’ll learn to make Sicily’s iconic arancino, savor a delicious lunch, and take home digital recipes. • Start with a traditional breakfast of granita and brioche while I explain the importance of arancino in Sicilian cuisine. • Step into the kitchen and learn essential techniques like chopping, boiling, frying, and crafting perfect fillings and sauces using seasonal and sustainable ingredients from my farm. • Enjoy a delightful lunch in the citrus grove—or indoors if the weather isn’t favorable—paired with selected local wines. You’ll get my personal insights into Sicilian culture and cuisine—along with a digital recipe booklet, and six months of expert support to help you recreate these dishes at home.

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Harvest, cook, and enjoy lunch at centuries-old farmhouse

Get your hands dirty in a true farm-to-table experience at my 200-year-old farmhouse near Taormina. You’ll harvest organic produce, learn traditional cooking techniques, and savor the meal you’ve prepared. • Select ingredients from the estate’s vegetable garden and educational farm before enjoying a traditional breakfast with granita and brioche. I’ll discuss growing processes and Sicilian gastronomy along the way. • I’ll guide you through the preparation of our meal, including bread made with ancient grains, a traditional appetizer, a fresh pasta dish, and a main course of fish or meat. • Time to eat! Enjoy the lunch we’ve created, paired with exquisite local wines, on the outdoor patio (or indoors, depending on weather conditions). You’ll leave with lifelong skills and cherished memories, as well as a gift to help you continue your Sicilian food adventure: access to my recipes and six months of my free online culinary assistance.

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Cooking Class with Seaview & Taormina's market with Mimmo

Meet up with the Chef Mimmo Siciliano in the historical center of Taormina and visit the local market. Taste various fresh vegetable products, cheese sold by local sellers. Choose the dishes you would like to cook with the Chef, based on the fresh and seasonal ingredients you will find at the market. Transfer to the Restaurant "Ahoy Bistrò Siciliano" in Giardini Naxos (included in the price), 15 minutes from the market, facing the sea and the Bay of Naxos and Taormina. Start your experience with a wine tasting with focaccia, cold cuts, and local Sicilian cheese. After wearing the apron, you will prepare 3 traditional Sicilian dishes: an appetizer, a fish dish and six different types of fresh pasta homemade by you. And then you will sit at the table to enjoy a real typical Sicilian lunch, a few meters from the beach and the sea, with a final tasting of small traditional Sicilian Cannoli accompanied by a glass of Limoncello. At the end of the experience, customers will be taken back to the meeting point.

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Sicilian Cooking Class with with visit to local market

With the Sicilian Cooking Class, you will learn various recipes for preparing a typical Sicilian meal. Our chef will take you to the local market to buy fresh fish and other seasonal products to cook. Back in our restaurant, the magic will begin. You will learn how to prepare traditional Sicilian dishes such as meat, fish, fresh pasta and Sicilian macaroni. You will have a lot of fun and then eat everything you have prepared. Please note: this cooking course is a group course. If you are a large group or team o if you would like a personal lesson or would like an evening course please contact us privately by e-mail

4.86 out of 5 average rating, 97 reviews

Pizza & Cannolo Making in Taormina by the Sea

Appointment in Taormina, Piazza San Antonio Abate (Arch of “Porta Catania”) at 06:00 pm. Transfer to the sea (included in the price), to "Ahoy Bistró Siciliano". Together with Chef Mimmo you will prepare the dough for the Pizza and the wholemeal flour dough for the bread. While waiting for the Pizza dough to rise, you will have fun preparing the typical "Sicilian Bruschette". With the father Siciliano, a great local pastry chef, you will learn the art of preparing Cannolo, the typical Sicilian dessert. You will learn how to prepare the crispy wafer, kneading with your hands and frying the dough in the particular shape. You will also learn how to prepare the traditional cream to fill the Cannoli. When the Pizza dough has risen, you will roll out the dough, choose the toppings and personally bake the Pizza in the oven. In addition to Pizza and Cannoli, the pastry Chef will teach you how to make the typical "Angel Wings" biscuits which in Sicily are called "Chiacchiere" and which are popular of the Carnival period. And then you can sit with the view of the Mediterranean Sea, enjoying your Sicilian Pizza and Cannolo creations with a glass of Limoncello to make your holiday original and unforgettable. At the end customers will be taken back to the center of Taormina.

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Small Group Etna Countryside Food & Wine Tour

Start this wonderful culinary tour at 10am, with a pick up from your accommodation by a native authorized local guide/driver with Mercedes Minivan . Small group (Maximum 8 Guests) is guaranteed. You will continue your trip driving through quaint Sicilian Villages, admiring local and authentic lava-stone houses, listen charming stories about Sicilian culture, tradition and food. Here You enjoy views on the best Etna vineyards surrounded by frames of lava stones. You will stop at the first venue, an antique family running winery, where You will be welcomed by the owner with a glass of wine. Have a guided visit of cellars (optional) and start the wine and cold appetizers tasting. Tasting will include: glasses of Etna wine, locally produced cheeses, salami, olives, sun-dried tomatoes. The second stop will be in a antique and unique restaurant/farmhouse. Here you continue your food and wine tour that include the following samples: glasses of local Etna wines, ricotta cheese with marmalade, grilled mushrooms, grilled sweet pepper, vegetable omelette, fried cheese and pasta with seasonal local products and dessert. Drop off in Your Accommodation. Other things to note: Please inform us about Your accommodation for Pick You up and drop off. Thank You NOTE: THIS IS AN EXAMPLE MENU' THAT CAN VARY DAY BY DAY ACCORDING TO AVAILABILITY

4.89 out of 5 average rating, 221 reviews

Pizza Making Class in Taormina

With the Sicilian pizza making class, you will learn how to knead and bake pizza just like real Sicilian ‘pizzoiolo’. Two and a half hours for a fantastic experience and to become real experts in the preparation of pizza. The experience will then continue with lunch based on the delicious pizzas you have prepared. Please note: this cooking course is a group course. If you are a large group or team o if you would like a personal lesson or would like an evening course please contact us privately by e-mail.

4.91 out of 5 average rating, 174 reviews

Arancino Making Class in Taormina

Learn how to make the king of the Sicilian culinary tradition: the arancino! The cooking, the filling, the preparation of the crust and all the other secrets will be yours. While having fun, you will become a true expert in the preparation of the Sicilian arancino in a short time! Please note: this cooking course is a group course. If you are a large group or team o if you would like a personal lesson or would like an evening course please contact us privately by e-mail.

4.94 out of 5 average rating, 378 reviews

Cannolo Making Class in Taormina

Our chef will teach you how to prepare the crispy shell that you will knead with your own hands, how to fry the dough and how to prepare the delicious cream to fill it. At the end of the course you will taste the real Sicilian cannolo, prepared by you as true Sicilian pastry chefs. Please note: this cooking course is a group course. If you are a large group or team o if you would like a personal lesson or would like an evening course please contact us privately by e-mail

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Fresh Pasta, Ravioli and Gnocchi making

We will learn the basics of Italian fresh pasta, classic dough and colored dough (whit only organic and natural color). We will make Ravioli or tortellini, linguine and spaghetti, and we will learn the different regional formats and also the potato gnocchi. Everything from scratch! To accompany the three different first courses, we will make 3 different sauces such as "Classic meat sauce", "Amatriciana sauce" "Butter and sage" we will choose based on the season sauces with, asparagus or mushrooms or artichokes etc. At the end of the preparation we will make a toast to our work with a glass of Prosecco or Sicilian wine and sit down to taste the fruit of our work: 3 fresh pasta dishes made with our own hands! Other things to note Vegetarian, Gluten free, Dairy free, etc.. are welcome! For any food intolerances or allergies , just contact us for to be able to better organize the class.

5 out of 5 average rating, 3 reviews

Sicilian home cooking class on the seafront

We will have hands-on cooking class preparing 4 courses menù, including appetizer, fresh pasta from scratch, second course with side dish and dessert.. After the class, we sit down to enjoy all we have just made with a glass of sicilian wines chosen to accompany the courses. The menù will change depending on seasons and availability of fresh products, but just for an example can be: Fresh anchovies fried or Panelle (chickpeas slides fried) or Bruschette or Eggplant Caponata Fresh pasta alla Norma or Spaghetti with zucchini and breadcrumbs Meatrolls or Sardinas "Beccafico" or swordfish with caramelised onions Cannoli or Biancomangiare or Semifreddo (almond or pistacchio) Other things to note Vegetarian, Gluten free, Dairy free, etc.. are welcome! For any food intolerances or allergies , just contact us for to be able to better organize the class.

5 out of 5 average rating, 10 reviews

Discovering and tasting sicilian artisanal products

We will welcome you in our showroom in the heart of Giardini Naxos, where everything tastes of Sicily, you will participate in a sensory taste experience. The knowledge of a territory goes through the tasting of the products that are produced in it, through the experience that we offer you you can taste the artisan products of our island made with the best raw materials, learn about the history and the entrepreneurial project of the local producers designed to enhance how good our island produces. You will start with a tasting of Evo oil from different cultivations, you will continue with a variety of bruschetta on typical Sicilian bread, seasoned with a selection of creams and savory and homemade sweets (dried tomato cream, spicy black olive pâté, caponata pâté, pistachio artichoke, almond ice cream, pistachio cream, almond cream, red orange jam, On honey). You can also choose between a glass of Etna wine or a Sicilian craft beer with a few tastings of local spirits (orange amaro, pistacchio liqueur, cinnamon liqueur, almond wine). Visit the showroom with information about local producers, artists, and artisans.