Cooking Class with Seaview & Taormina's Market with Chef Mimmo
Learn how to cook delicious Sicilian specialties in a family atmosphere, a few steps from the beach and the sea, with a professional Chef. We will make your holiday in Sicily unforgettable thanks to the flavors and aromas of our splendid land. You will taste a thousand of ingredients wisely mixed together so as to never create monotony and you will discover new flavors through rich dishes with a scent of sea, almond, ricotta or even oil, earth, life, of something good. Discover Sicily in its unique flavors, from Pachino cherry tomatoes to the pistachio of Bronte, a town located at the base of Etna volcano. I will delight you with the taste of aubergines while you prepare a plate of pasta “alla norma”, and discover the flavors of our sea through fresh fish from the local market, and flavored with spices such as capers from the Aeolian Islands and olives born from the fertile volcanic land.
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Sicilian Cooking Class in Taormina with Chef Mimmo Siciliano
What's included in Cooking Class with Seaview & Taormina's Market with Chef Mimmo
(Subject to Option Inclusions)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.
Food Menu
STARTER - Caponata Siciliana
Typical product of Sicilian cuisine with eggplants seasoned with tomato sauce, celery, onion, olives and capers, in sweet and sour sauce;
MAIN - Fresh pasta made with your hands
Preparation of six different types of fresh pasta handmade by customers, under the supervision of the Chef, and seasoned with fresh tomato sauce;
MAIN - Fish alla "ghiotta", or fish rolls alla Messinese
Second course of fresh fish, cooked in the sauce of tomatoes, capers and olives, to absorb all the scents and flavors;
DESSERT - Small Sicilian Cannoli and Limoncello
Tasting of small Sicilian Cannoli accompanied by a glass of Limoncello.
Inclusions
- Tasting of small traditional Sicilian Cannoli, accompanied by a glass of Limoncello
- Multilingual guided tour to the local market
- Wine tasting
- Lunch
- Cheese and salami tasting in the restaurant
- Private Transfer Service from Taormina Local Market to "Ahoy Bistró Siciliano" Seaside Restaurant
- Mineral water
- Apron
- Certificate of attendance
- Taxes
- Cooking lesson
- Coffee Break with coffee and/or tea
- Extra alcoholic drinks
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- Meet the Chef Mimmo Siciliano at the Arch "Porta Messina" in Taormina
Redeem
Ticket Redemption
Meeting point at the Arch of "Porta Messina" in Taormina. Please be at the meeting point at least 10 minutes before departure time.
