Where: Cucina Mauro Kitchen Cafe, 76 Densley Avenue, Unit 3 (facing Sheffield St on east side of building), Toronto (near Keele St and Lawrence Ave)

When: Saturday November 21, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

What: Hands-On Cooking Class

Cost: $95 per person (plus HST)

Veneto is one of Italy’s most iconic regions. While it is instantly associated with the canals and gondolas of the city of Venice, its cuisine also deserves recognition. We will start the class by preparing several of the region’s most common “cichetti”, Italy’s version of tapas. These small cocktail style bites are popular in the bars of Venice and will give you inspiration for what to serve at your next party. We will prepare one of the most famous: baccala mantecato, whipped salted cod, widely considered to be Venice’s signature bite. We will then move on to hand make one of Veneto’s most traditional pastas: Casunziei. Stuffed pastas are very common in Northern Italy, and Casunziei, half-moon shaped ravioli filled with beet and ricotta, are Veneto’s version. We wil cook these and enjoy with the sauce that they are traditional served with: butter and poppy seeds. We will finish off by preparing Italy’s most well known dessert: Tiramisu, which is widely believed to have been invented in the Venetian city of Treviso.

Your instructor for the evening will be Chef Luigi Pangoni, who is a native from the City of Venice in Veneto. After working in his family’s restaurant since his teens, and then taking the reins to run it, Luigi moved to Canada in 2016. Before joining Cucina Mauro in 2023, Luigi was Chef de Cuisine at Trattoria Nervosa in Toronto’s Yorkville district.

We will greet you with light antipasti to tide you over until dinner is served.

All supplies and equipment included. You only need to show up with a smile!

Questions? Email at contact@cucinamauro.com