Learn to make fresh pasta, cannoli, arancini and Sicilian bread from a Sicilian chef who cooks them for a living. Small groups, real technique and a glass in your hand, in Leichhardt, Sydney's Little Italy.
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The class most people start with. You'll work the dough by hand — no machine shortcuts until you've felt what the dough should feel like — then shape, fill and cook it.
Pasta making classes in SydneyYou'll learn
Cannoli and cassata as they are actually made in Sicily — the shells fried to order, the ricotta drained and sweetened properly, and never filled until the moment they are served.
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Sicilian street food is its own cuisine. This class covers the fried classics you'd eat standing up at a friggitoria in Palermo or Catania.
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Bread with a long, slow rise and real character. You'll leave understanding fermentation well enough to bake it again at home without a recipe in front of you.
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A class runs like dinner at a Sicilian house that happens to have a chef in it. You cook, you drink, you argue about how much salt goes in the water, and then you sit down together and eat it.
No. Classes are built so complete beginners can follow comfortably, while people who already cook still pick up technique they haven't seen before. Chef Gabriele teaches the way he trained — by hand, with explanation of why each step matters.
Most classes run at La Botte D'Oro, Gabriele's restaurant at 137 Marion St, Leichhardt — a short walk from Norton Street and easy to reach from the CBD, Newtown and the rest of the Inner West. Some are hosted at Table & Together, also in the Inner West. Each class listing says where it runs.
Yes. Private classes for birthdays, hens' parties, team building and client entertaining are available on request, and the menu is built around what your group wants to learn. Get in touch with your group size and preferred dates.
They are one of the most popular gifts we're asked about. Contact us and we'll arrange it for the recipient, including their choice of class and date.
You're taught by a Sicilian chef who runs his own kitchen — not a general cooking-school instructor. Gabriele grew up cooking this food in Sicily and now serves it at his own award-winning restaurant in Leichhardt, so what you learn is what is actually cooked and sold, not a simplified classroom version.
Private classes, team days, hens' parties and gift vouchers. Tell us your group size and what you'd like to learn, and Chef Gabriele will put a class together.
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