Cooking experience with the chef Luigi Gandola at the Restaurant Salice blu in Bellagio
Just a few minutes drive from Bellagio’s city center and Lake Como, an elegant restaurant in Bellagio is home to the award-winning imaginative Chef Luigi. While young, Chef Luigi worked in the illustrious Villa D’Este for seven years and has already won 40 gold medals in international culinary competitions. Still, Chef Luigi is humble and energetic as he talks about using local ingredients and teaches his hands-on pasta cooking class in his family-owned restaurant.
The program:
- Your culinary adventure begins at 10:00 when Chef Luigi himself picks you up from your hotel lobby in Bellagio, post office or ferry gate, and regales you with tales from his kitchen on the ride over to his family’s restaurant. Once at the restaurant, relax for a moment with a cup of coffee or cappuccino with the chef and then you dress on the apron and explore the herb garden behind the restaurant.
- The hands-on cooking lesson begins at 10:30 and focuses on creating homemade pasta fresca, packed with fresh day ingredients, as well as risotto, tagliatelle, gnocchi and a dessert. After enjoying your lunch on the terrace, weather permitting, chef Luigi will also send you off with a home-made bottle of olive oil, an apron, a diploma of participation, as well as a recipe book, focused on typical dishes of the region.
- Your class ends at 14:30 when Chef Luigi returns you to Bellagio town or your Bellagio hotel with the private van of the restaurant with all of your culinary souvenirs.
Half day program (10:00 – 15:00) includes: English-speaking chef, cooking lesson, lunch with wine or other drinks, apron, diploma, a bottle of oil and a recipes book, transfers from and to the ferry gate or your hotel in Bellagio.
