Join our Cooking Classes as “Guest Student”

Here is your chance to cannonball into the region’s wine, extra virgin olive oil, food, culture and history.

During our various week-long courses we accept two guest students per meal for both lunch and dinner. Check Cooking Class Calendar for dates. These openings are only for cooking, pasta making, wine- tasting, etc. (thus, not for bicycling, harvesting olives class)

  • You will be in Puglia and can only free up half of a day
  • You are curious about taking a longer class and want to audit to see if we are a good fit
  • You are open to new experiences
  • People that love Italian food and wine are your favourite people

Taken from TripAdvisor

  • ‘If you have the opportunity to experience Silvestro’s thoughtful and informative class, snap it up in a heartbeat! It was the highlight of our trip’!
  • ‘If you are interested in authentic food from the Salento region of Italy, Sivestro is your teacher. Highly educated in the food, wine, and olive oils of the area, widely read and published, he will cook with you, answer all your questions, and sit down to eat with you in his centuries old home in the heart of Lecce’.
  • ‘Informative, educational, and tons of fun! There is no need to look anywhere else for a great local cooking experience in Puglia’.

Logistics at Glance for Guest Students:

Length of course:

Lunch: from 10:00 until about about 16:00 (with pasta making, cooking, wine and feast)

Dinner: From 18:00 until about 23:00 (with cooking, wine and feast but no pasta making)

Taught in: English

Cost: 195 Euro per person

When: During our various week-long courses. There are no guest student places for short classes.

Size: There is only space for 2 students per meal. Write us.

Perquisite: None.

Parking: Via Adua (see map below). Parking isn’t an issue for week-long students, who are already sleeping in Lecce for the week

Meeting point: Under the column in Piazza Sant Oronzo. See map below.

The Awaiting Table Cooking School Map

Walking: You’ll need to walk about 3,000 steps but if standing to make pasta or to cook is an issue, we do have stools.

Diet restrictions: We can offer gluten free pasta. Alert us when booking

Q: Can we predict the menù?
A: No. With the numerous national holidays, we often need to move around the menù. If you need to know the menù in advance we suggest you book one of our shorter, themed classes.

Q: I’m a celiac. Can you offer this course with gluten free pasta?
A: Yes, we can serve you gluten-free pasta. We only produce regular pasta though.

Q: I want to make pasta but we can only come to the evening session
A: We only produce pasta in the mornings, usually two shapes, one for lunch, one for dinner

Q: Can we come for the lunch session during your bicycle weeks?
A: We bicycle in the day time, then only cook at night. During bicycle courses we only allow guest students for the evening cooking and feasting, not the bicycle element. If you want to bicycle with us, you’ll need to come for the entire class. We’d love to have you with us.

Q: Who teaches this class?
A: Our owner- Dottor Silvestro Silvestori- has been teaching the food, wine and olive oil of the Puglia to students from 59 countries for the last 23 years. He is a sommelier of wine (AIS), a sommelier of extra virgin olive oil (FIS) and has been a professional wine writer for magazines since 2010. He also lectures on behalf of the region of Puglia and teaches university classes in Italy each year

Q: How big is this class?
A: 10 is full

Q: Can we take away some of your extra virgin after class?
A: Few things would make us happier. We are proud of our oil.

Q: Where do we meet? Where is the school?
A: We always, always meet under the column in Piazza Sant Oronzo. It’s a busy square with English-speak pharmacies, 11 bank machines/ATMs and many caffès.

Q: What are the biggest surprises about this course?
A: That all of our courses are in a private home, with unlimited wine and that you’ll make friends from all ove the world. That parking often takes longer than many non- Europeans seem to think.

  • Send email to join our Cooking Courses as Guest Student
  • To our calendar of cooking and wine classes in Puglia
  • To the homepage of our cooking school in Lecce, Italy

Join our Cooking Classes as “Guest Student”

Here is your chance to cannonball into the region’s wine, extra virgin olive oil, food, culture and history.

During our various week-long courses we accept two guest students per meal for both lunch and dinner. Check Cooking Class Calendar for dates. These openings are only for cooking, pasta making, wine- tasting, etc. (thus, not for bicycling, harvesting olives class)

  • You will be in Puglia and can only free up half of a day
  • You are curious about taking a longer class and want to audit to see if we are a good fit
  • You are open to new experiences
  • People that love Italian food and wine are your favourite people

Logistics at Glance for Guest Students:

Length of course:

Lunch: from 10:00 until about about 16:00 (with pasta making, cooking, wine and feast)

Dinner: From 18:00 until about 23:00 (with cooking, wine and feast but no pasta making)

Taught in: English

Cost: 195 Euro per person

When: During our various week-long courses. There are no guest student places for short classes.

Size: There is only space for 2 students per meal. Write us.

Perquisite: None.

Parking: Via Adua (see map below). Parking isn’t an issue for week-long students, who are already sleeping in Lecce for the week

Meeting point: Under the column in Piazza Sant Oronzo. See map below.

The Awaiting Table Cooking School Map

Walking: You’ll need to walk about 3,000 steps but if standing to make pasta or to cook is an issue, we do have stools.

Diet restrictions: We can offer gluten free pasta. Alert us when booking

Taken from TripAdvisor

  • ‘If you have the opportunity to experience Silvestro’s thoughtful and informative class, snap it up in a heartbeat! It was the highlight of our trip’!
  • ‘If you are interested in authentic food from the Salento region of Italy, Sivestro is your teacher. Highly educated in the food, wine, and olive oils of the area, widely read and published, he will cook with you, answer all your questions, and sit down to eat with you in his centuries old home in the heart of Lecce’.
  • ‘Informative, educational, and tons of fun! There is no need to look anywhere else for a great local cooking experience in Puglia’.

Q: Can we predict the menù?
A: No. With the numerous national holidays, we often need to move around the menù. If you need to know the menù in advance we suggest you book one of our shorter, themed classes.

Q: I’m a celiac. Can you offer this course with gluten free pasta?
A: Yes, we can serve you gluten-free pasta. We only produce regular pasta though.

Q: I want to make pasta but we can only come to the evening session
A: We only produce pasta in the mornings, usually two shapes, one for lunch, one for dinner

Q: Can we come for the lunch session during your bicycle weeks?
A: We bicycle in the day time, then only cook at night. During bicycle courses we only allow guest students for the evening cooking and feasting, not the bicycle element. If you want to bicycle with us, you’ll need to come for the entire class. We’d love to have you with us.

Q: Who teaches this class?
A: Our owner- Dottor Silvestro Silvestori- has been teaching the food, wine and olive oil of the Puglia to students from 59 countries for the last 23 years. He is a sommelier of wine (AIS), a sommelier of extra virgin olive oil (FIS) and has been a professional wine writer for magazines since 2010. He also lectures on behalf of the region of Puglia and teaches university classes in Italy each year

Q: How big is this class?
A: 10 is full

Q: Can we take away some of your extra virgin after class?
A: Few things would make us happier. We are proud of our oil.

Q: Where do we meet? Where is the school?
A: We always, always meet under the column in Piazza Sant Oronzo. It’s a busy square with English-speak pharmacies, 11 bank machines/ATMs and many caffès.

Q: What are the biggest surprises about this course?
A: That all of our courses are in a private home, with unlimited wine and that you’ll make friends from all ove the world. That parking often takes longer than many non- Europeans seem to think.

  • Send email to join our Cooking Courses as Guest Student
  • To our calendar of cooking and wine classes in Puglia
  • To the homepage of our cooking school in Lecce, Italy