Irene was a great chef and teacher as well. Learned a lot and enjoyed the experience. Hope we can recreate the recipes back home. Highly recommended.

Irene our pasta instructor was awesome! I learned how to make bolognase, and 3 different kinds of pasta. She was so helpful and funny. Her husband Marco was great also. You need to sign up for this class!

Irene and her family were amazing to work with. Her recipes are simple in the best way and I’m so excited to try them on my own. This is a must try if you’ve never been.

Great fun evening.. was 7 in our class and think they all enjoyed it.. took the number 25 bus from the centre of Bologna to Lincoln, short walk from bus stop..

This was so much fun. We went with our friends and their children. Irene is a delivery and very friendly and accommodating. We all had the best time! One of our trip highlights.

Irene was excellent, she was authentic but was able to explain things well in English. Her family were friendly and the food was fantastic.

This was a very sweet experience - a family home and a simple lesson on making pasta - if you are happy to step into the world of a local family this is for you. Irene was very warm and explained everything well. She was a great communicator and shared her grandmother’s recipes with us. The place is not straightforward to find it’s tucked away in an apartment building but we found it eventually !

Irene was an amazing host and provided an incredibly authentic experience for our last day in Italy. The food we made was amazing and the recipes we learnt we will remember forever. Thank you Irene for a great experience!

We loved this experience! We got a hands on experience making the ragu & pasta & we learnt about the Bologna tradition cooking. There were a couple of other guests on the experience who misread there instructions on how to arrive & they were rude about it & ended up leaving which for us was a bonus because it ment the people who were on the experience were there to enjoy it...& it ment more pasta for us to eat! Both were very welcoming into there home & blessed us with so much espresso, food & wine. Would definitely recommend doing to anyone!

Me and my 2 children (aged 11 and 13) really enjoyed the cooking class with Irene. She was an attentive and very friendly host with a passion for food and first class English. The class is held in her family flat with family life going on around you but to us this only made the experience more interesting as you got a feel for how a Bolognese family live. To fully enjoy the experience you must get in the kitchen and help with the cooking of the dishes and not just prepare the pasta. Be prepared to ask lots of questions which Irene is only too happy to answer. We had a great time and my children are itching to put the lessons we learnt into practice. Thanks again Irene.

How could we put this into words? Irene was such a welcoming and generous host and we felt so comfortable in her kitchen. The food was the best that we’ve tasted on our holiday, and we’re sure this is down to such a fantastic teacher. We learnt so much about the history of Bologna and its cuisine, more than any museum or guide book! If you’re looking for a truly authentic and unique experience, look no further!

We learned absolutely nothing about Italian Cooking, Bolognese or otherwise. Most of the fillings were pre-made, and we only finished assembling the items. We were not involved with assembling or cooking the end dishes.

We had a fantastic evening learning how to make pasta in Irene’s home. There were 5 of us - myself and my husband from Scotland, a woman from Australia and a mother and daughter from the US. Irene was very entertaining and educational. We made 3 types of pasta that she then cooked and we enjoyed with wine. Dessert was offered but we were too full! Highly recommend to anyone coming to Bologna. We were staying at the Best Western Tower Hotel which is only 20 minutes walk away. If you’re staying in the city centre, she can call you a taxi when you’re leaving.

Where do I even start??? From beginning to end, this was a nightmare. We waited at the meeting place. No one came to get us. Finally, my husband called. We were told to enter the run-down apartment that we were standing in front of. The class took place in their very cluttered, dirty apartment. The food we made was nasty. The woman does not know how to cook. The woman's husband and son participated. The son had a terrible temper. He would get mad, throw down his utensils, and storm off into his bedroom. When we needed to wash our hands, we were told to use the family's personal bathroom. There was a dirty towel hanging to dry your hands. The class was supposed to be a three-course meal with wine and dessert. It was not. When we finished the class, the family just disappeared into another room and left us alone in the kitchen. We finally got up and left. This entire experience was a nightmare. The class was way too expensive for what we received. This woman has no business conducting a class.

Fantastic cooking class. We were lucky enough to be the only people in the class so it was almost a private lesson! We made three different types of pasta which was then cooked by Irene and her husband. All absolutely delicious! It is a distance outside of the town centre but it was nice to see that side of the city. Something we probably wouldn’t have done otherwise. Many different ways you can get there too. We chose to cycle! The class itself was conducted in Irene’s apartment and her family were present. She made us feel very welcome. We have received the instructions for how to re-create the dishes at home. This was done by scanning a QR code whilst we were there… so no excuses not to practise now!