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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

Some wine tours can feel hurried and impersonal but this small-group tour offers an intimate experience in one of the smallest wine cellars in the Montefalco area. Try seven different wines, accompanied by plates of cheese, ham, bruschetta, and chocolate, while chatting with your guide and learn about Umbrian wine-making, in a relaxed setting.