Top Perugia Food & Drink

Meet the locals as you taste your way around Perugia’s historic center on this 4-hour tour. With a foodie guide, you’ll enjoy ten tastings of classic Umbrian foods plus wine and beer tastings from one-of-a-kind restaurants, charming cafes and shops as you walk in the footsteps of ancient Etruscans, Roman emperors, noble families and Renaissance painters. You’ll enjoy enough food for breakfast and a hearty lunch including pastries, cheeses and cured meats, olive oils, fresh truffle pasta, chocolates, gelato and more! Highlights: • 4-Hour Food & Wine Walking Tour of Perugia with a local foodie guide • Discover Perugia’s history + taste foods with an ancient history • Enjoy 10+ samples of regional food, and discover where the locals go • Meet the restaurant owners, chefs and shop keepers and hear their stories and passion • Visit one of Italy’s Top 100 artisan gelaterias

Learn the secrets behind finding and cooking truffles with this full-day class in Umbria. Follow a truffle hunter through the woods where a trained dog will sniff out black truffles. After the truffle hunt, make tagliatelle from scratch during a cooking class. A leisurely lunch featuring the black truffles is included.

Explore the Perugina Chocolate Factory with this half-day food-focused experience in Perugia. Join a local guide for a tour of the chocolate laboratory and sample several products during a tasting. Continue the culinary excursion with a light lunch at a typical food shop in Perugia for an introduction to the flavors of Umbria.

Head to the Umbrian countryside for a day of fresh Italian food and cooking at an organic agriturismo (farm stay). Taking place at Il Fontanaro, the experience includes a tasting of the farm’s award-winning olive oil and wine, a tour of the cellars, and a fresh pasta cooking class -- created with ingredients that you pick yourself from the garden. Bring your towel and bathing suit for a cool-down dip in the pool after the class ends.

Learn the secrets of authentic Italian cuisine during this hands-on cooking class just 10 minutes from central Assisi. Create fresh pasta, pizza, and more alongside a professional local chef, and then enjoy your meal with a selection of fine Umbrian wines.

Learn about the traditional cooking of Umbria with this half-day class. Led by an English-speaking teacher, the class includes cooking a five-course meal from scratch. After the lesson, feast on what you prepared alongside the estate’s red wine. A recipe book is included for replicating the dishes at home.

Indulge your senses during this 3-hour tasting tour in Montefalco. Visit a winery in the Sagrantino region and stroll through the old vineyards and olive groves. Tour the wine cellars where some of Umbria’s best wines are produced before sampling a number of wines and olive oils. Then sit down to a delicious Umbrian lunch complete with local cheeses, cured meats, and dessert.

If you’re looking for a uniquely romantic surprise, this treetop table for two is ideal. Sit down for a private dinner on a platform built high in the branches of a tree on a farm estate outside Todi as the sun sets over the bucolic Umbrian countryside. Sample three courses featuring the farm’s organic produce and paired with local wines, all served by your hosts via zip line.

Do you spend a few weeks in central Italy in a rented a villa and are you looking for authentic experiences?Our experts - only Italian professional chefs - reveal the basics and tricks of Italian cuisine. With us you not only learn to cook a complete traditional Italian menu, but you will spend a fantastic evening comfortably at your villa, with your friends or family. COOKSAPP guarantees a selection of professional CHEFs as a result of a long process and training. Monitoring their work. Guarantee of the level of menus. We guarantee - through strict quality control - the protection of our guests and the healthiness and genuineness of our dishes.Awards for Boccione Catering:Trip Advisor: certificate of excellence 2012, '13, '14.Elected among the best 100 restaurants in Umbria.Italian Championship of the Italian Academy of Pizza.

You will learn to make pasta, and some fantastic Italian dishes with fun. I'm specialized in using produce that is organic, locally grown.I want to provide you an organic and sustainable experience. I provide guests the best selections of organic food and we only cook with extra virgin organic olive oil. On request I can make also glueen free class or kids cooking class.  Menu: two kind of pasta hand made, an italian dessert siders, wines olive oil and wine tasting and farm visit. My philosophy from the beginning has been to serve whole natural foods that are minimally processed. Where ever possible we produce our items in house 

Travel through the green fields and vineyards of Umbria on a trekking bike, without the inhibition of glassed-in tour bus windows. You can focus on the scenery as your guide leads the way through Bevagna and listen to commentary on the area's medieval history. Visit an organic winery for a tasting and settle down for a provided picnic lunch in a scenic spot.

Experience the gorgeous countryside of Umbria on a full-day bike tour that features a lunch stop at an agriturismo farm. Pedal past vineyards, olive orchards, and picturesque villages with an engaging guide who shares live commentary about this region of Italy. Take a well-deserved break for a multi-course lunch at an agriturismo farm, with the option to swim in their pool in warm weather.

Travel deep into the vines through spectacular Assisi Valley in a carriage pulled by two magnificent horses. Experience a wine tour and tastings at a bio winery. Relaxed peace while learning the biological philosophy of the vineyards. A unique experience combining the rural life of the past, with modern bio consciousness based on the production of the highest quality food in full respect of the local natural resources. At the end, a delicious tasting * of biological wines and cold cuts.

Unforgettable jeep safari through one of the most panoramic vineyard in Montefalco, one of the best tour for discover Umbria among shady paths and beautiful valleys. Appointment at winery starting tour and food and wine tasting  All products that you will taste are hande-made!

The ENOSAFARI is much more than the traditional visit to the Cellar. We can see every aspect of production up close and understand all the secrets of Sagrantino di Montefalco. The program includes: company presentation and immediately by jeep for the tour of the vineyards surrounding the company (20-30min). walk through the barrels of our family-run winery (20-30min) tasting of 5 WINE paired with Umbrian productions (1h00min): Montefalco DOC Grechetto and Rosato IGT Umbria are accompanied by a selection of fresh and aged cheeses, while typical Umbrian cured meats are paired with our Montefalco DOC Rosso and Sagrantino DOCG, the protagonist of the tasting. It closes with the meditation wine par excellence: Sagrantino DOC Passito with the inevitable Tozzetti di Carolina

Sagrantino, Sangiovese, Grechetto, Trebbiano Spoletino, Drupeggio, Verdello, Malvasia, Ciliegiolo: discover the indigenous grape varieties and the wines of Umbria guided by a Certified Sommelier! • Half Day Wine class designed for those who are interested in learning about Umbrian wines, the tasting techniques and food/wine pairing. • Class is conducted in English by Alessandra, Certified Sommelier English Speaking and held at our beautiful countryhome surrounded by olive groves in Todi, Umbria .

The most fun, authentic and practical way to learn how to cook a delicious Italian first course: handmade pasta! A memorable cooking class in the beautiful Umbria region famous for its irresistible flavours: organic vegetables, fabulous cold cuts (, tasty cheeses and delicious handmade pasta. (duration 4 hours). Welcomed and guided by a local chef at your complete disposal ... it's more like a meeting with friends than a traditional cooking class.

Experience an exclusive class about Traditional Italian Cooking with Raffaella Bucefalo the chef Author of the Cookbook "Sprinkle with flour: Shapes of Italian Pasta". The class will be an exclusive journey in the world of the Italian cuisine. Experience includes: • A live online class for you and your loved ones • List of the ingredients, kitchen tools and copies of the recipes we sent in advance to your home • Making delicious tree courses Italian meal with a private chef • Bring a little of Italy in your home!

Immerse yourself in Perugia’s culinary culture with this cooking class. You will first visit a local market to pick up ingredients, which you'll take back the home of your local host. Here, you will learn how to cook a four-course meal, which you’ll then eat with local wines.

Your day in Perugia is just winding down, the sun's about to set... It's time for an Aperitivo. This glamorous Italian tradition is loved all over the world, and this is your chance to learn how to prepare it for yourself, the perfect souvenir.  Preparing the perfect aperitivo is an art; you will learn how to prepare a selection of five elegant nibbles to pair with with a refreshing glass of fizz, ideal for sharing with friends in the early evening. Your aperitivo will be a bite-size representation of its local culture, using typical regional ingredients and local wines, such as a sparkling prosecco or a light red. This experience is held by Cesarine: Italy’s oldest network of 1000+ home cooks all over the country in more than 500 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Immerse yourself in a private pasta and tiramisu-making class in a welcoming home, learn the secrets of the region's most famous pasta dishes and tiramisu and taste the fruit of your labour for lunch or dinner accompanied by local wines. During this private lesson, you will learn how to prepare 2 pasta recipes and the tiramisu dessert from scratch. Your Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of these iconic recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test and amaze your friends and family once home with an Italian meal! This experience is suitable for families with children of all ages. Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

We’ll first take a visit to the olive oil museum, where is the precious material of the museum and its countless virtues. Only a few steps away from this fascinating museum, and we are faced with 5000 years of history narrated through archaeological finds and documents that document the role of wine in Mediterranean civilization. And if it is true that we are enjoying a wine tasting and brunch in a prestigious winery, in which Torgiano wines and olive oils will be the undisputed protagonists. Travel deep into the vines through spectacular Assisi Valley in a carriage pulled by two magnificent horses. Experience a wine tour and tastings at a bio winery. Relaxed peace while learning the biological philosophy of the vineyards.

Truffle hunting in Umbria is an old age tradition. Umbria produces the highest number of black truffles in Italy, whose quality is famous throughout the world. Truffles are an integral part of Umbrian cuisine and culture. That of the truffle hunter, intelligent observation, waiting and great satisfaction. We will take advantage of his guidebook, assisted by an incomparable four-legged scout, to learn the secrets of this noble tuber, through a naturalistic path of great beauty. And for those who still have some questions at the end of the hunt? Do not worry, the experience can only dissolve any doubt! Requirements: suitable for everyone. Duration: 2 hours Departure at 10 a.m. Certificate of completion included !!

Let the expertise of an Italian chef come to you during a cooking class at your private villa or a[artment in Perugia. As well as taking care of purchasing all ingredients and cleaning up afterwards, a private guide ensures you benefit from both undivided attention and insider knowledge.