Top Amalfi Coast Food & Drink

Get a true taste for southern Italy on this 5-hour culinary experience from Sorrento. Led by a local guide, travel to a pizzeria, cheese factory, and family-run farm for tastings of their top products, including homemade bread, lemonade, and extra virgin olive oil. Learn the secrets behind Italian family recipes and try your hand at pizza making, Neapolitan style. Top it all off with coffee, dessert, and a limoncello digestivo before returning to your original departure point in Sorrento.

Spend a day exploring the history and beauty of Campania on a private full-day tour of Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius from Sorrento or Naples. See the excavated ruins of the ancient city of Pompeii and then hike to the crater of the volcano that buried the city 2,000 years ago. Visit a nearby winery for a light lunch (own expense) and wine tour.

Experience - and taste - the Italian farm to table process on a three-hour food tour. Convenient transportation takes you from your Sorrento hotel to a fourth-generation farm. Explore the olive and lemon groves, before observing about the wine, oil, and honey making making processes. After a generous sampling of the farm’s products (including its limoncello), your visit concludes with a filling lunch and dessert.

Spend three delicious hours learning how to cook Italian cuisine in Sorrento. Led by an experienced chef, this cooking class provides instruction on making dishes such as handmade gnocchi, meatballs, eggplant parmesan and tiramisu. When you're finished, enjoy your creations. Wine is included. Select from three menu categories when booking: fish, meat or vegetarian.

Explore Tuscany beyond Florence or Siena with a full-day wine tour. Get picked up at your hotel for a small-group tour to visit local wineries and relax over lunch in the town of Montepulciano. Learn about how wine is made and taste regional specialties including Brunello. Meet the people behind the wine without the hassle of a rental car or navigating between wineries.

Most people know that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii, but not many realize that it also left behind fertile slopes that today host lush vineyards. With this unique tour, see both sides of the volcano’s legacy with a stop to visit the archaeological ruins of Pompeii followed by a tour and tasting lunch featuring Lacryma Christi wine and Neapolitan dishes at a family-run winery nearby.

Learn to prepare traditional Italian dishes from a professional chef in a four-hour cooking class. Choose from two convenient start times, depending on your schedule. Prepare fresh pasta, a main course, and dessert during the hands-on culinary experience. With the help of your teacher, you can easily follow along step by step.  Finally, enjoy your three-course creation with complimentary prosecco, wine, or limoncello.

Learn to make Limoncello on this tasty and memorable excursion from Positano. Meet your guide at your hotel and travel to Furore, where you’ll admire the lemon plants before joining a local chef to prepare this iconic lemon liqueur. After your lesson, enjoy a 5-6 course lunch with lemon beer, local wine, and of course, limoncello.

On this unique, ingredient-to-meal half-day tour in the Amalfi Coast, you’ll get an insider’s introduction to the region’s famed gastronomy. Hike through stunning local landscapes to forage for flowers, wild herbs, and aromatic plants. Then, learn how to prepare a four-course gourmet meal, paired with wines and homemade liquors, which you’ll then sit down to enjoy.

Scout out truffles on a trek through Mt Terminio’s forested foothills, led by a professional truffle hunter and dogs. After leaving Sorrento, you’ll travel through the scenic Monte Picentini park, and then start the forest walk. Stop to learn about truffle hunting in southern Italy, and try some of the earthy delights, dug straight from the soil. Finish at a restaurant to savor wine and a truffle-themed, 3-course dinner before your return to Sorrento.

Learn the secrets of traditional Italian pizza making with an authentic “"pizzaiolo" during a pizza making session in the Sorrento hills. You’ll learn how to select the best ingredients and then be guided through the entire pizza making process from start to wood-firing finish. You’ll taste your own creation as well as sampling slices from a variety of different pizzas and enjoying a libation or two.

Learn practically the traditional recipes of a typical Italian family in a characteristic kitchen in the historic center of Sorrento. The lesson, lasting about 3 hours, is conducted by a classic Neapolitan mother in an informal and comfortable family environment: homemade recipes, tips, secrets and stories of her grandmother. You will be able to take part in the preparation of a complete menu using equipment and utensils of real home cooking and typical Campania ingredients. It will be a simple and fun way to get to know and taste the gastronomic excellences of our country. At the end of the lesson you can enjoy the dishes prepared together, comfortably seated at the table, accompanied by local wine, craft beer from Sorrento, water, coffee and limoncello.

Learn how to make pasta in the true Italian way at Chez Barone Cooking School. Located in a villa, this cooking class introduces you to Sorrentine and Neapolitan cuisine. After you've helped to prepare the meal, sit down to enjoy your creations with a wine tasting. Booking in advance ensures you won't miss out on a sold-out experience.

Head to Italy’s Irpinia region on a day-long wine tour from Sorrento. Led by a private sommelier-guide, the experience visits two prestigious wine estates in Campania’s rugged Apennine Mountains. Sip on the estates’ signature produce — wine made with the local fiano and aglianico grapes — and enjoy a total of three varietals at each winery. It’s a great way to taste and learn about Campania’s often-unsung wine, and see stunning mountain scenery at the same time.

Indulge your inner foodie and get off the beaten path on this guided excursion in Sorrento. Meet up with a knowledgeable local guide at Piazza Angelina Lauro and explore beloved local restaurants while enjoying generous complimentary samples. Savor delicious dishes like parmigiana di melanzane and oven-baked ricotta cheese, sip wine and limoncello, and finish the night with a tasty dessert.

Immerse yourself in the art of Italian pizza-making during this cooking class in Sorrento. Learn from your chef/guides, pros at rolling and tossing dough and picking out the freshest ingredients. Have fun learning the techniques, tasting olive oil and limoncello, and finally sitting down to feast on the pizzas you made.

Get to know the culinary side of the Amalfi Coast on a food tour from Sorrento. You’ll travel to a family farm in the hills and enjoy the chance to sample mozzarella, olive oil, wine or beer, and limoncello, plus make your own pizza. This excursion provides an easy way to see more of the area for those with limited time by providing round-trip transport that lets you skip the stress of car rental.

A genuine experience in a true Sorrento mill. An unmissable tour if you love olive oil and culinary traditions.

Explore the gateway to the Amalfi Coast on this 2-hour small-group walking tour of Sorrento. Follow your guide around lively Piazza Vittoria and Tasso Square, get a sense of local life as you stroll around the fishing harbor where Sophie Loren played her first movies and take in the views from the public gardens. Along the way, admire landmarks like the Sant'Antonino Church and the San Francesco Cloister, and marvel at the spectacularly situated Valley of the Mills. Set out to explore the town historic center and you will not miss to stop for a Neapolitan Espresso, pastries and home made ice cream. Along the way, listen as your guide fills you in on Sorrento’s fascinating history and heritage, and end your tour with an intimate knowledge of the resort town.

Take a gelato-making class at the famous Gelateria David School in Sorrento. Discover the ingredients and techniques that go into making the delicious and creamy ice cream. Make your own production of gelato with the owner of the shop and get an official certificate of attendance after your class. Leave with your favorite flavor from the gelateria window and newfound knowledge about gelato.

Take home a souvenir from Sorrento in the form of new Italian cooking skills. This 3-hour cooking class is a great way to discover the taste of Italy and the Mediterranean. Learn from the instructor how to make Amalfi Coast classic dishes and then sit down and enjoy the feast you just prepared complete with a glass of local wine, some limoncello or a soft drink. Upgrade the tour to include a transfer to and from Sorrento.

Rather than just eating classic Italian food, deepen your understanding of the world-famous cuisine during a cooking class in Sorrento. Unlike some other culinary tours, this farm-to-table experience lets you harvest ingredients from a local vegetable garden and gives you access to both ingredients and equipment that you may not have at home.

In Tramonti, you will discover an unexpected Amalfi Coast: unpolluted nature, centuries-old vineyards, churches and lovely villages where time has stopped. Your native hosts will welcome you in their beautiful farm, where you will learn all secrets of rural life and, much more, you will try the organic recipes for the locally-preferred cuisine.