CULINARY TOURS
Italy, especially Veneto, is not only a historical but also a culinary destination waiting to be explored. Famous for it's rich gastronomic delights, Veneto has struck just the right balance between the Mediterranean cuisine and the Alpine one, where you can enjoy gourmet food and wine like never before.
Our tour will take you through the gastronomic variety offered by Veneto and Italy. The Chef at the Villa Pace Park Hotel Bolognese, famous for it's restaurant, will give you private hands-on cooking lessons in his own kitchen. Each lesson will teach you how to prepare a typical traditional menu – starters, first courses, second courses, vegetables and desserts. All this accompanied by the finest local wines.
We will take you to the typical 'trattoria' and 'osteria' – traditional family run restaurants – where you can discover more gastronomic delights. Not to forget those little markets and grocery shops with an old-world charm.
There's a lot to see, learn and enjoy through our Culinary Tours.
In these Culinary Tours the focus is on introducing you, the traveller, to the varied gastronomic delights of Italy, famous for it’s cuisine world-wide. You can taste the various regional specialities, learn to prepare these delicious but simple dishes, visit typical grocery stores and markets and learn about everything from the basic ingredients to herbs. The culinary lessons will take place from 3-6 in the afternoon.
- Day 1: The first day has a light schedule as you wouldn’t want to exert yourself after a transatlantic flight. Arriving at the Park hotel Bolognese – Villa Pace, you will have time to settle in and enjoy the delicacies that the Chef has prepared for your lunch. In the afternoon you will be taken on a visit of Treviso criss-crossed by the River Sile and it’s tributaries and encircled by a 16th century wall. Treviso is a charming town with beautiful buildings and suggestive nooks and crannies that was mentioned even by Dante
- Day 2: Today’s trip is to Conegliano, a scenic town at the foothills of the Dolomites. In the morning you will visit a local wine cellar famous for it’s Prosecco, Merlot, Cabernet and Grappa. A guided visit of the wine cellar plus an opportunity to ask all that you want to know from the owners will be followed by a tasting of the in-house produce. Then on to lunch in a typical trattoria – a family run restaurant – which serves authentic Italian cuisine. In the afternoon you will have your first culinary lesson with the reputed Chef of the Hotel Bolognese. After an introduction to the menu that you will be preparing, he will give you a step by step demonstration which you can easily follow. While you cut, chop, simmer and sautč, the Chef will entertain you with interesting background information about the dishes and the ingredients. At the end of it all, you can literally taste your efforts and realise that Italian cuisine is not so difficult to prepare after all
- Day 3: breakfast and departure
Package rate Euro 330 per person, single supplement Euro 40 per day. Min. 8 persons,drinks not included, service and VAT 10% included. booking Culinary Tour
