Bologna Cooking Classes: Which Pasta Class to Book

The best Bologna cooking class for most visitors is the Pasta Cooking Class with Ragu, Spritz, Wine & Gelato. It lasts three hours, it is rated 4.9 from 1,317 reviews, and you roll fresh pasta, cook a ragù and finish with wine and gelato. On 14 October 2026 it was listed from $58, a sale price against its usual $88. The only other cooking class in our GetYourGuide data, a pasta and tiramisu class with wine, was listed from $62.

There are only two to choose between here, so this page is short.

The two classes compared

Both were on discount the day we checked, and GetYourGuide prices move with the season and the date. The order between them can flip. If the gap is only a few dollars when you book, choose on the menu, not the price.

Which one to book

The pasta and ragù class is the one to book if Bologna’s own food is the point. Ragù is the slow-cooked meat sauce the city serves on tagliatelle, its everyday dish, and here you cook it yourself. The spritz, wine and gelato turn the lesson into a meal. It is also the most-reviewed and highest-rated class we found, which matters when you are booking one night of a short trip.

The pasta and tiramisu class suits anyone who wants dessert in the lesson as well as pasta. You still make fresh pasta, and a glass of wine is included.

Neither listing names every pasta shape you will make. If you have your heart set on tortellini, read the full description on the booking page before you pay. Tortellini are the city’s festive dish: small hand-folded parcels of pork loin, prosciutto, mortadella, Parmigiano and nutmeg, served in broth, with a filling the Dotta Confraternita del Tortellino registered with Bologna’s Chamber of Commerce in 1974.

How we picked

We took every class tagged as cooking in our GetYourGuide data, refreshed on 14 October 2026, and compared the listings on review count, average rating, price, length and what each says you make. We have not taken these classes ourselves. We earn a commission if you book through our links; see our affiliate disclosure.

Cooking class or food tour?

A class teaches you one or two dishes properly. A Bologna food tour walks you through the Quadrilatero market streets and lets you taste mortadella, Parmigiano, tortellini and the local wines in a few hours. The two cost about the same, from $64 to $91 for the city food tours on our list.

If you have two days, do both: the tour first, so you know what fresh pasta should taste like, then the class. If you have one evening, the class is the better souvenir, because you take the skill home.

Other cooking schools in Bologna

GetYourGuide is not the only place to book. Bologna Welcome, the city’s tourist board, publishes its own list of cookery schools in and around Bologna.

To buy the ingredients afterwards, walk the Quadrilatero behind Piazza Maggiore, where the delis sell fresh pasta, mortadella and Parmigiano. Our guide to what to buy in Bologna covers what travels well, and where to eat near the square covers the restaurants for the nights you are not cooking.