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Harvest, cook, and enjoy lunch at centuries-old farmhouse

Get your hands dirty in a true farm-to-table experience at my 200-year-old farmhouse near Taormina. You’ll harvest organic produce, learn traditional cooking techniques, and savor the meal you’ve prepared. • Select ingredients from the estate’s vegetable garden and educational farm before enjoying a traditional breakfast with granita and brioche. I’ll discuss growing processes and Sicilian gastronomy along the way. • I’ll guide you through the preparation of our meal, including bread made with ancient grains, a traditional appetizer, a fresh pasta dish, and a main course of fish or meat. • Time to eat! Enjoy the lunch we’ve created, paired with exquisite local wines, on the outdoor patio (or indoors, depending on weather conditions). You’ll leave with lifelong skills and cherished memories, as well as a gift to help you continue your Sicilian food adventure: access to my recipes and six months of my free online culinary assistance.

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Make authentic arancino with a chef in a Taormina villa

Join me for a hands-on culinary adventure in a historic Taormina villa. You’ll learn to make Sicily’s iconic arancino, savor a delicious lunch, and take home digital recipes. • Start with a traditional breakfast of granita and brioche while I explain the importance of arancino in Sicilian cuisine. • Step into the kitchen and learn essential techniques like chopping, boiling, frying, and crafting perfect fillings and sauces using seasonal and sustainable ingredients from my farm. • Enjoy a delightful lunch in the citrus grove—or indoors if the weather isn’t favorable—paired with selected local wines. You’ll get my personal insights into Sicilian culture and cuisine—along with a digital recipe booklet, and six months of expert support to help you recreate these dishes at home.

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Savor the legacy of Sicilian wine in Taormina

Join me, a certified sommelier and Taormina native, for a tasting of three ethically produced wines, each chosen to showcase the region’s unique terroir. Each wine is paired with a locally sourced dish that elevates flavors yet stays true to Sicily’s roots. • Meet me at Siclishh for an introduction and overview of the experience and the philosophy behind ethical winemaking. • Try your first wine, Marsala, paired with a dish to complement its rich complexity. • Discover the bold red Pachino from Val di Noto, served with an innovative take on local cuisine. • And lastly, taste the volcanic intensity of Mount Etna’s Volcanic Wines, paired with a seasonal dish that complements its minerality. At the end, you’ll leave with a souvenir bottle cooler and have experienced the special alchemy that is sparked when wine and food come together in perfect harmony.

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4.94 out of 5 average rating, 161 reviews

Cooking Class with Seaview & Taormina's market with Mimmo

Meet up with the Chef Mimmo Siciliano in the historical center of Taormina and visit the local market. Taste various fresh vegetable products, cheese sold by local sellers. Choose the dishes you would like to cook with the Chef, based on the fresh and seasonal ingredients you will find at the market. Transfer to the Restaurant "Ahoy Bistrò Siciliano" in Giardini Naxos (included in the price), 15 minutes from the market, facing the sea and the Bay of Naxos and Taormina. Start your experience with a wine tasting with focaccia, cold cuts, and local Sicilian cheese. After wearing the apron, you will prepare 3 traditional Sicilian dishes: an appetizer, a fish dish and six different types of fresh pasta homemade by you. And then you will sit at the table to enjoy a real typical Sicilian lunch, a few meters from the beach and the sea, with a final tasting of small traditional Sicilian Cannoli accompanied by a glass of Limoncello. At the end of the experience, customers will be taken back to the meeting point.

4.95 out of 5 average rating, 405 reviews

Etna Excursion from Taormina

We'll discover the unique nature and the geology of the Mt. Etna visiting the volcano up to the extinct craters at 2000 meters. On board of our vehicle scenic driving from the beach level up to the extinct craters, following an itinerary off the beaten road, with the visit of the most important point of interest along the way up. We will complete our experince with a guided and easy trekking around the extinct craters, to understand this human friendly volcano, enjoying an almost lunar landscape. Other things to note All guests can contact us after the booking, to inform us about the address and name of their BB/Accommodation, in Taormina and Giardini Naxos area. FREE PICK-UP included, directly at the accommodation, if it is along the way, different, we will try to pick you up at the closer meeting point to your address.

4.78 out of 5 average rating, 202 reviews

Snorkeling tour experience in Isola Bella Taormina

If you are passionate about the sea and curious to discover the beautiful seabed of the Nature Reserve of Isola Bella always with the greatest respect for nature , join me in this "Snorkel experience". We will guide you and reveal all the riches of the sea on 3 different places: the Isola Bella, the Blue Cave and the Cap of Taormina. Numerous archaeological discoveries have been found in this region, such as bronze vases and several ceramic objects. The visibility of the funds range from 10-15 meters and the sun rays filter through caves and ravines, offering you intense play of light and color in crystal clear waters... You can find many colourful fishes, bright red sea stars and colourful algae. Upon arrival, we will provide you with complete equipment consisting of a wetsuit, a pair of fins, a mask and a snorkel. We will ship directly from the center, on a zodiac, specially designed for snorkeling. We picked these protected sites for their stunning beauty!

5 out of 5 average rating, 163 reviews

Discovering Etna with a local guide

A full immersion in the highest active volcano in Europe, which for millennia has fascinated philosophers, artists, scientists and travelers from all over the world. During the experience, crossing Etna villages with their characteristic black "basalt" color and the luxuriant Etna countryside, we will reach the starting point of our trekking route. It will be surprising to walk through dense forests of birch, pine or beech, and then suddenly cross what the locals know as "Sciara", the desolately fascinating volcanic desert. We will admire all the beauty and contradictions of this ever-changing volcano: between extinct craters, now barren and now luxuriant landscapes, with a "heroic" flora that has adapted to extreme conditions. During about 2½h-4h trekking route, we will discover several kinds of volcanic formations and we will have a picnic in the woods during which I will offer you a glass of Etna wine. It will be an authentic experience, during which I will tell you about our "Muntagna", from the perspective of those who have always lived it from its slopes. I will tell you about geological history, flora and fauna. I will also tell you about my land from a historical, anthropological, linguistic and enogastronomic point of view. But above all I will try to convey the visceral bond that has existed for three millennia between the volcanic earth and its people

4.88 out of 5 average rating, 269 reviews

Small Group Etna Countryside Food & Wine Tour

Start this wonderful culinary tour at 10am, with a pick up from your accommodation by a native authorized local guide/driver with Mercedes Minivan . Small group (Maximum 8 Guests) is guaranteed. You will continue your trip driving through quaint Sicilian Villages, admiring local and authentic lava-stone houses, listen charming stories about Sicilian culture, tradition and food. Here You enjoy views on the best Etna vineyards surrounded by frames of lava stones. You will stop at the first venue, an antique family running winery, where You will be welcomed by the owner with a glass of wine. Have a guided visit of cellars (optional) and start the wine and cold appetizers tasting. Tasting will include: glasses of Etna wine, locally produced cheeses, salami, olives, sun-dried tomatoes. The second stop will be in a antique and unique restaurant/farmhouse. Here you continue your food and wine tour that include the following samples: glasses of local Etna wines, ricotta cheese with marmalade, grilled mushrooms, grilled sweet pepper, vegetable omelette, fried cheese and pasta with seasonal local products and dessert. Drop off in Your Accommodation. Other things to note: Please inform us about Your accommodation for Pick You up and drop off. Thank You NOTE: THIS IS AN EXAMPLE MENU' THAT CAN VARY DAY BY DAY ACCORDING TO AVAILABILITY

4.94 out of 5 average rating, 376 reviews

Cannolo Making Class in Taormina

Our chef will teach you how to prepare the crispy shell that you will knead with your own hands, how to fry the dough and how to prepare the delicious cream to fill it. At the end of the course you will taste the real Sicilian cannolo, prepared by you as true Sicilian pastry chefs. Please note: this cooking course is a group course. If you are a large group or team o if you would like a personal lesson or would like an evening course please contact us privately by e-mail

4.9 out of 5 average rating, 410 reviews

Sicilian Cooking Class with with visit to local market

With the Sicilian Cooking Class, you will learn various recipes for preparing a typical Sicilian meal. Our chef will take you to the local market to buy fresh fish and other seasonal products to cook. Back in our restaurant, the magic will begin. You will learn how to prepare traditional Sicilian dishes such as meat, fish, fresh pasta and Sicilian macaroni. You will have a lot of fun and then eat everything you have prepared. Please note: this cooking course is a group course. If you are a large group or team o if you would like a personal lesson or would like an evening course please contact us privately by e-mail

4.95 out of 5 average rating, 281 reviews

Etna Urban Winery - Walk and tasting with food pairings

Etna Urban Winery You will get a full experience of an urban vinery on the slopes of Mount Etna! The tour is divided in 3 different moments: Vineyard Walk The tour will start with our warm welcome and a walk across urban vineyards nestled between Catania and Etna. Its a unique urban trekking with rare dry-stone made buildings and walls from the 19th century, and an oak wood representing what it once was the large forest just above Catania, now all reclaimed by the expanding city. If you come with children I will give them their own treasure map . Bring comfortable closed- toes shoes, tennis are perfect! Palmento Visit Back from the field, you will discover our 18th century Palmento (traditional Sicilian winery), that is among the largest and best preserved in the area, still equipped with its large chestnut wood barrels and the grape pressing machine dating 1790. A rare jewel to be seen! Here you will also hear of some old family stories Wine Tasting Journey The tour will finish with a tasting experience on today's Etna culinary landscape. You will taste wines from 4 different wineries around the vulcano, each wine paired with a gourmet bite prepared by our resident chef Leonardo, to finish your day relaxing in our courtyard or the garden looking at the Etna Shuttle from/to central Catania available with an extra fee and upon request

4.88 out of 5 average rating, 115 reviews

Local cuisine re evented by Chef Trina dog lover Seafront

Moving To Letojanni in January 2025 seafront cooking class (YOU CAN DRIVE YOUR OWN CAR.) only a short drive from Taormina DUE TO A Bad experience in the past with a guest i am obliged to take dog lover only. Cria and Cannolo are gorgeous friendly border collie, friendly loved by all the guests who loves taking pictures with her. I am sorry i have to mention this but i dont have the choice. The Cooking class start at 11.30 to 15.00 till March. from April at 17.30 I offer to my guests traditional cuisine with my own touch using fresh ingredients grown on the local farm. No chemical, no frozen, no tin. From January 2025 les Saveurs Trina Cria cooking class is taking place on a large terrace with the seafront as panorama Gourmet food All recipes and many more in my book a passport guide on Sicily, proud to say LES SAVEURS TRINA CRIA & CANNOLO gourmet Recipes unveal stories is out now. You can also book as a private dinner for your family, your love one I offer a relaxing experience, fun, make new friends and learn cooking simple delicious recipes easy to make at home proud mummy of two fur babies, cria the border collie and Cannolo found on the street

4.93 out of 5 average rating, 109 reviews

Small Group Godfather Vs Mafia Tour & Pasta Lunch

I will meet you at 10.00 AM in the lobby of Your accommodation in Taormina, Giardini Naxos or Letojanni. After 20 minutes driving with 8 seats air-conditioned Mercedes minivan you will reach Forza D’Agrò, a real and authentic small Sicilian village. Take a Walking tour of the old town and visit the places where The Godfather movie was played. After a Walking tour of the village with explanation of Sicilian authentic culture and way of leaving You will drive towards Savoca, the second Sicilian small village where the movie was played. The famous Bar Vitelli where Michael Corleone met the father of his future wife Apollonia. Then (optional) walk 5 minutes to reach Saint Lucy Church where they got married. While taking the Walking tour Your Guide will introduce you the real history of Sicilian Mafia, how it grows up and spread very fast all around Italy. After the Walking tour you will stop in a nice elegant food venue. Here you will be served a typical Home-Made Sicilian Plate of Pasta and a Glass of red wine while enjoying authentic panoramic view. Return expected at 15

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