Cooking Experience in Beautiful Garden Near Rethymno: Learn Authentic Cretan Dishes
4.5
11 Ratings
Pigi

You will learn how to cook all the delicious Cretan dishes like a local.
And you will do this in a beautiful garden only minutes away of Rethymno

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Euphoria Homes - Step by Step to an unforgettable experience

The wood oven is hot and waiting!
We will meet at a village close to the city of Rethymno - the village of Pigi. A beautiful spacious garden will be the scenery for our cooking class. As we get to know each other you will have the chance to visit our vegetable and herbs garden or enjoy the swimming pool (bring your swimming suit!).

Now it’s time for you to cook!
As soon as you feel ready for work our host will dress you with your apron and will guide you through each of the recipes that you are going to learn. Home-made cheese, ntakos, tzatziki, staffed vegetables, greek salad and much more all cooked to local level perfection by you.

Enjoy your creations
After preparing all the dishes, lunch follows; we will use a traditional wood-fired oven for cooking our dishes and we will taste everything we have prepared outdoors, in an idyllic setting with a glass of raki and local wine. Let’s savor the wonderful Cretan flavors of traditional cuisine!

What's Included
  • Lots of raki and laughter :)
  • All taxes, fees and handling charges
  • All ingredients for your meal
  • Use of apron & cooking utensils
  • Cooking Lesson & Full lunch (vegetarian options included)
  • English or French speaking guide
What's Not Included
  • Extra charge if you need a transfer from Rethymno to the meeting point
Meal Options
  • Dakos or Koukouvagia - Tomatoes, xinomyzithra (cheese).or a mixture of feta anthotyros and flavoured with oregano.
  • Bread - Create your own bread… the wooden oven awaits
  • Gemista - Juicy, healthy and bursting with fresh and vibrant colors and flavours! Gemista is a traditional recipe for Greek stuffed vegetables
  • Mizithropitakia - They are prepared with sweet mizithra cheese and served with honey
  • Chicken with red sauce - Chicken with red sauce and potatoes
  • tzatziki - Tzatziki is a traditional Greek garlic, yogurt and cucumber sauce, that is known and loved around the world.
Location
Euphoria Homes
Eparchiaki Odos Platanon-Moni Arkadiou
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Daniel_a
Oct 21, 2023
A wonderful evening - A wonderful evening that will be remembered. Michael was an excellent guide, translator and sous-chef. Reveka showed us how to cook delicious Cretan style food. The small group size of six made it seem like we were at home. Highly recommended.
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Erikenglund65
Sep 13, 2023
Best way learn about real Creete. - This was a perfect way of not only learn about the Greece food. But also to know à lot about Creete. Under very nice circumstanses in a garden inside Creete. The hospitalet were super!
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Eric
Jun 27, 2023
Delicious and authentic! - We had a fantastic night here enjoying some authentic cuisine. Everything we ate and helped prepare was exceptional - such great flavors! Venue was exactly as we hoped - nice outdoor space in a typical garden home. Host was amazing. We’re VERY glad we did this.
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Michele_h
Jul 15, 2022
Magical garden and lovely hosts - We described her home as a magical place. They thought of every detail and we felt very lucky to be learning from such a wonderful cook! Highly recommend - this was the highlight of our trip to Crete.
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Meredith
Jul 12, 2021
Put on your Crete Bucket List - Wow! What an incredible experience. Our guide was so knowledgeable, fun, and passionate about Crete culture. I felt as if he knew everyone in Greece and he made the experience feel so personal. 100% would recommend to anyone in Crete! From the food, the conversations, to the overall experience, we couldn’t have asked for anything more!
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Finbar
Oct 4, 2022
Delightful - a lovely evening with about 6 other guests and a charming and friendly host learning how to make local delicacies.. we had a really good time. it MIGHT have been a little better ( bit only a tiny bit) if the group was slight smaller and there could have a been a drop more wine offered. but that are fine points. this was a lovely way to spend a holiday evening. heartily recommended
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Q2515hzjessicas
Sep 14, 2022
It was like sitting around a table of friends! Great food and company! - We were picked up from our hotel by our fabulous guide who was hugely knowledgeable and easy to get along with. We arrived at the gorgeous home and garden of Mr and Mrs Androniki who were fantastic hosts! We were joined by two other couples so was a small group but this was fabulous! The food was lovely as was the company and ambience. Only thing for us is we were expecting to do a little more of our own cooking. Most of this was precooked or prepared by our hosts and we stirred or stuffed bits here and there but it was still a fabulous evening and I would recommend.
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Bjwin
Sep 25, 2023
Good experience and learning. - The experience was wonderful however for the cost paid we expected at least better Wine and wine while preparing. If you go take your own wi e because the first batch is good but then it goes way down after that.
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