Top Sorrento Food & Drink

Eat your way around Sorrento, the sun-splashed city near the Amalfi Coast on this small-group guided food tour. Stroll the streets of charming Sorrento with your guide, stopping at family-run restaurants, delis, and markets to indulge in an array of local edible delights. Eat everything from homemade gnocchi to buffalo mozzarella to prosciutto and gelato. And then wash it all down with locally made beer, wine, and limoncello. Participants on this small-group tour are limited to just 12, ensuring you receive plenty of personalized attention from the guide.

Get a true taste for southern Italy on this 5-hour culinary experience from Sorrento. Led by a local guide, travel to a pizzeria, cheese factory, and family-run farm for tastings of their top products, including homemade bread, lemonade, and extra virgin olive oil. Learn the secrets behind Italian family recipes and try your hand at pizza making, Neapolitan style. Top it all off with coffee, dessert, and a limoncello digestivo before returning to your original departure point in Sorrento.

Experience - and taste - the Italian farm to table process on a three-hour food tour. Convenient transportation takes you from your Sorrento hotel to a fourth-generation farm. Explore the olive and lemon groves, before observing about the wine, oil, and honey making making processes. After a generous sampling of the farm’s products (including its limoncello), your visit concludes with a filling lunch and dessert.

Learn the secrets of traditional Italian pizza making with an authentic “"pizzaiolo" during a pizza making session in the Sorrento hills. You’ll learn how to select the best ingredients and then be guided through the entire pizza making process from start to wood-firing finish. You’ll taste your own creation as well as sampling slices from a variety of different pizzas and enjoying a libation or two.

Make every minute count in Sorrento with this walking tour that covers the city’s attractions plus stops to taste local street food in just a few hours. Meet up with your guide in the heart of town for a sightseeing stroll through the main squares and historic lanes and past the cathedral, Cloister of Saint Francis, and other highlights. Break up your walk with stops to sample gelato, pastries, and other goodies.

Learn how to prepare classic Italian dishes in a local family kitchen overlooking the Sorrentine coastline. Join your host and instructor to pick up tips and techniques for turning out flawless eggplant parmesan, fresh gnocchi in tomato sauce, and tiramisù during an informal, hands-on lesson. Cap off your lesson by feasting on what you’ve prepared during an al fresco meal on the scenic terrace.

Learn to prepare traditional Italian dishes from a professional chef in a four-hour cooking class. Choose from two convenient start times, depending on your schedule. Prepare fresh pasta, a main course, and dessert during the hands-on culinary experience. With the help of your teacher, you can easily follow along step by step.  Finally, enjoy your three-course creation with complimentary prosecco, wine, or limoncello.

There are plenty of bus tours from Sorrento and beyond to the Amalfi Coast, but few tours take advantage of the coast’s marvelous—and traffic-free—waters. This semi-independent tour takes you to Amalfi and Positano by boat, stopping at a fjord, the Li Galli Islands, and swimming spots along the way. It’s a nearly full-day tour, so free time spent in Amalfi and Positano is a planned part of the itinerary.

Spend three delicious hours learning how to cook Italian cuisine in Sorrento. Led by an experienced chef, this cooking class provides instruction on making dishes such as handmade gnocchi, meatballs, eggplant parmesan and tiramisu. When you're finished, enjoy your creations. Wine is included. Select from three menu categories when booking: fish, meat or vegetarian.

Discover the true heartbeat of Sorrento by stepping off the largely beaten tourist path for a few hours. Immensely popular, this food tour offers a truly unique and authentic insight in to delicious local fare and everyday life in Sorrento. Strolling through a residential area accompanied by a knowledgeable host, you will be introduced to time-honoured restaurants. Savouring generous portions of several dishes, you will have the added bonus of learning a little about the traditions behind each one. All dishes are locally sourced and utilise only seasonal produce, and while what's on the 'menu' may vary, traditional foods such as 'parmigiana di melanzane' are accompanied by acclaimed local wine. Homemade desserts from family recipes and of course limoncello bring this lovely 'famiglia Italiana’ style culinary experience to a satisfactory close.

Immerse yourself in the art of Italian pizza-making during this cooking class in Sorrento. Learn from your chef/guides, pros at rolling and tossing dough and picking out the freshest ingredients. Have fun learning the techniques, tasting olive oil and limoncello, and finally sitting down to feast on the pizzas you made.

Discover the parts of Capri that many visitors miss on this small-group, full-day tour. Embarking from the port of Sorrento, travel across the blue waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea in style. Upon arrival, head to the island’s hidden coves and beaches, visit the Blue Grotto and Faraglioni, and spend the day snorkeling (all equipment is included). Later, have time at your leisure to explore the town of Capri.

Experience both the destructive and creative might of Mt. Vesuvius with this combined experience that pairs a hike to the crater’s edge with a relaxing winery lunch. Begin your day with drop-off at the trailhead and a trail excursion to the top of the volcano to take in wide views over the Bay of Naples. Then head to a winery set on the mountain slopes for a tour and tasting lunch.

Learn how to make pasta in the true Italian way at Chez Barone Cooking School. Located in a villa, this cooking class introduces you to Sorrentine and Neapolitan cuisine. After you've helped to prepare the meal, sit down to enjoy your creations with a wine tasting. Booking in advance ensures you won't miss out on a sold-out experience.

Take home a souvenir from Sorrento in the form of new Italian cooking skills. This 3-hour cooking class is a great way to discover the taste of Italy and the Mediterranean. Learn from the instructor how to make Amalfi Coast classic dishes and then sit down and enjoy the feast you just prepared complete with a glass of local wine, some limoncello or a soft drink. Upgrade the tour to include a transfer to and from Sorrento.

Immerse yourself in the wine-making traditions of the Campania region with this 3-hour wine tasting experience in the historic Casale Villarena Old Cellar. Sample local wines as well as cheeses and learn about pairing Italian wine with cheese.

Take a gelato-making class at the famous Gelateria David School in Sorrento. Discover the ingredients and techniques that go into making the delicious and creamy ice cream. Make your own production of gelato with the owner of the shop and get an official certificate of attendance after your class. Leave with your favorite flavor from the gelateria window and newfound knowledge about gelato.

Prebook this Capri Island tour from Sorrento, and avoid the stress of last-minute planning. This tour combines a guided aspect with independent exploring, so you can get the most out of your trip. First, wander the island of Capri at your own pace, and then cruise the surrounding waters, taking in views of the area’s highlights including the famous grottos. Plus, you will have the option to upgrade your day with a trip to the Blue Grotto.

Discover the famous beauty of one of Italy’s most iconic shorelines with this full-day tour of the Amalfi Coast from Sorrento. Travel in an air-conditioned mini-coach along spectacular coastal roads, stopping to visit the region’s three most popular and beautiful villages—Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello. With tips from your knowledgeable guide, enjoy leisure time in each town to stroll narrow cobblestone streets and shop for unique handmade goods.

The Enogastronomic Bike Tour that we propose will allow you to find unknown and uncontaminated corners of our land, away from mass tourism, overlooking landscapes that are worth a lifetime, cycling immersed in scents and colors, for a journey that aims to combine art, history and nature to the pleasure of slow moving and traveling.

Combine a trip to the UNESCO-listed ruins of Pompeii with a walk up to the crater of Mt. Vesuvius. The group day trip includes round-trip transportation, plus tours of each site. After a relaxed stroll around the archaeological site at the ancient city of Pompeii, take a short hike up to the rim of the volcano to meet a mountain guide and peer into the crater’s rim.

See a perspective on the Amalfi Coast that most visitors miss—and bypass the crowds—on a full-day boat tour of the coastline. Following pickup from your Sorrento accommodation, transfer to your vessel and set sail: with just a small group for company, enjoy an intimate sightseeing experience. Admire the one-of-a-kind views before disembarking at Positano and Amalfi, where you have free time to explore independently. A light lunch is also served on board.

Hop on a traditional wooden boat in Sorrento and set sail in the Gulf of Naples to the island of Capri. Explore the famed Blue Grotto and the Gardens of Augustus (at own expense), and learn about the history of the place on the boat ride over from your skipper. This small-group tour is limited to just 12 participants, ensuring you'll have plenty attention from your guide.

Enjoy a 3-hour cooking lesson in Sorrento, studying the secrets of making delicious Italian and Neapolitan cuisine with a professional chef as your instructor. Create four lunch dishes including an appetizer, pasta dish, vegetable or meat dish, and dessert. Your lesson takes place in a well-equipped kitchen located in a stunning location on the Amalfi coast. Your small group is limited to 10 people to ensure plenty of personalized attention from the instructor.