Everyday Essentials: Homemade Pizza & Gelato
This is a Hands-On Cooking Experience!
Summary:
Designed for the culinary enthusiast, whether you’re a seasoned cook or brand new to the kitchen, the everyday essentials series will teach you basic and advanced techniques to increase your culinary confidence and expand your everyday repertoire. With Chef’s tricks, tips and culinary quips you’ll learn basic knife skills and techniques from sautéing, braising, frying, poaching, baking, roasting, searing, emulsifying and more. And best of all, you’ll learn how to use fresh, seasonal ingredients to create simple yet delicious, and healthy meals everyday at home.
In this fun-focused class, your Italian chef extraordinaire will teach you the art of pizza and gelato making for the ultimate pizza party supreme! You’ll learn tips for perfecting pizza dough from scratch and secrets for making the best homemade Marinara sauce, plus ideas for using classic and innovative pizza toppings to create your own unique flavor combinations. Why settle for take out when you can treat your family and friends to scrumptious artisan pizzas fresh from your own oven!
After Chef walks you through the preparations your meal, you’ll don your apron, roll up your sleeves and get ready to work as a group to help cook each part of the meal at various stations around the kitchen by following recipes with the guidance of your Chef.
Please note that this is a community cooking experience and each guest may not necessarily cook their own complete meal. Once the cooking is complete, you will sit down and enjoy a family style meal presentation along with optional wine pairings.
All AWS cooking classes include an emphasis on wine, because that's who we are! If you would like to add wine to your experience, you can taste 32 different wines in our Enomatics (wine dispensing system) or you can order wine by the glass or bottle.
Sample Menu*

Homemade Pizza Dough
Homemade Marinara Sauce
Mighty Meaty Pizza
Pizza Margherita
Seasonal Gelato
*We will gladly accommodate food allergies with 72 hours advance notice. Please include your needs in the comments or email us at info@vinovenue.com.
Class will include:
- Hands-on cooking instruction by a professional Chef
- Cooking techniques and entertaining ideas
- Light nibbles to enjoy while cooking
- The meal you make paired with optional wines*
- Delicious and easy recipes to make for friends and family