Village Cooking Class & Bread Making with local Lunch in a family Olive Grove in Messinia

Indulge yourselves with a one of kind Greek village cooking class and an olive grove as your backdrop!
Attend an authentic cooking class in an olive grove and combine it with a unique bread making experience. Find out all the culinary secrets from a Greek mum who will share with you age-old recipes!

A memorable, private and personalized experience exclusively for you and your beloved ones, because,

once booked for the day no other guests are added in the experience!

Where

You will visit a family olive grove located in a small village 50km (31 mi) from Kalamata in Messinia region, Peloponnese, towards Pylos coastal town, just 10' away from Costa Navarino resort.

When

April - October, Monday to Sunday, excluding Greek official holidays.

The Culinary Experience

Join us for 3 hour cooking class experience and feast on a mouthwatering full traditional lunch among olive trees!

Part 1: Arrival at the grove - Warm welcome 

Visit a beautiful family olive grove of a small village, located in the west of Messinia, just 10 minutes away from Costa Navarino Bay and Nestor’s Palace. It is the ideal backdrop to unravel the history, tradition and ancient myths of this historical place.

The owners will welcome you with homemade local delicacies while they will narrate you the whole story behind their efforts.

Part 2: Bread making in a Wood-Fired Oven

Make your own bread from scratch along with a Greek mum and bake it in a traditional wooden fired oven. Smell the unbeatable aroma of the freshly baked bread and enjoy it with your lunch! There is also the possibility, instead of bread to make another Greek pastry delicacy like a Greek seasonal pita (pie)!

Part 3: Village Cooking class

During a wonderful cooking class, a Greek mum will show you how to make Greek appetizers and seasonal food like gemista (stuffed tomatoes and peppers with rice and fresh herbs), tyropita (cheese pie), lamb or pork cooked in the stone fired oven, Greek salad or other seasonal recipes using the freshest of ingredients.

Of course as you may already know, there are plenty food choices also for vegetarians and vegans in the Mediterranean and Greek cuisine so not to worry about; you can pick your own fresh seasonal vegetables directly from the vegetable garden of the estate!

The mum will tell you stories about how, in the olden days, they used to make the hilopites (Greek egg pasta) and trachana (Greek fermented milk pasta) only during summer, to last them all through the winter months.

Part 4: Full homemade traditional lunch

Food is finally ready! Enjoy a full, homemade, mouthwatering lunch with everything you made during the Cooking class and feel proud for yourself and your efforts accompanied with a lots of Greek wine! 

Who can resist to a Greek, seasonal homemade and local food made with the best and the freshest ingredients?

Extra Experiences (upon request)

Depending on availability, you may also choose to participate in extra experiences upon request.

Olive oil tasting experience (45’)

Enjoy an exciting olive oil tasting experience while your delicious food is being baked in the wood-fired oven! 

Table Olive-Making Workshop (depending on season)

In this 45' family friendly workshop, a Greek mum will show you how to make the famous Kalamata table olives, step by step.

Are you a travel agency or company and looking for a trusted, local partner?

Do you wish to build a mutual, fruitful collaboration and would like to provide one of a kind gastronomic experiences or team building events?

You can contact us and organize it for you in the best way possible! 

Tips

To make your visit even more memorable, here are some tips:

• Wear comfortable shoes and a hat as you’ll spend quite a bit of time outdoors.
• Notify us of any special dietary needs (e.g. vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, flexitarian etc.).
• Notify us of any allergies (e.g. food allergies, allergies to bees, etc.).

Pricing

• Small, only private experiences of 5-7 guests: 180,00€ / person
• Min of guests: 2- Max. 12.

Contact us to request a price:

• Max. of people: 12. For more than 12 people, please contact us.
• For transfer services or organize your transfer from Athens city or any other place in Peloponnese and join the Culinary experience.

We can also design and provide tailor-made tours and multi-day tours in the region of Peloponnese upon request.

Drop us a line at mamasflavours@gmail.com and together we’ll come up with a tailor-made gastronomic experience 

just for you!

Included in the price

• Cooking class, homemade full local lunch 
• Greek local delicacies, wine and drinks
• Local hosts / local chef throughout the experience
• All taxes   

Excluded from the price

• The Extra experiences may be provided upon request, depending on availability and at an extra charge
• Personal purchases from the owner's small shop (optional)
• Transfer services may be provided upon request and at an extra charge
• Tips & gratuities (optional)

Additional Info

• The culinary experience is provided upon request and depending on availability. In case there is no availability for the day you are interested, the experience can be offered the next available date or choose another similar available experience after coordination.
• Transportation is needed to visit the olive grove which is located 1 hour away from Kalamata and 20' away from Pylos. Please inform us if you have your own vehicle. In other case, we can arrange it with our partners at an extra cost.
• Availability: April - October, from Monday to Sunday and on 15th August, excluding Holy Friday - Easter Tuesday and on Greek official holidays.
• A guided tour in the archaeological site of Nestor’s Palace can be arranged, upon request and at an extra charge depending on availability.
• Meeting point and time: In front of the Port Authority Offices in Kalamata at 09:00 a.m. 
• Languages: English, German & Greek. Other languages can be provided at an extra charge.
• Family friendly.
• Wheelchair accessible 80%.

Bookings & payment

• Bookings: In order to organize your experience in the best way, ideally the booking and the full payment should be made the latest 2 days before.
• For booking less than 2 days or last minute requests, please contact us via email to check availability.
• When the booking and the transaction are completed, the experience is officially confirmed by Mama's flavours through email.
• All payments can be made through our booking engine, bank transfer (you can contact us via email for this option) or Paypal.
• Cash is not accepted.

Cancellation Policy

• Mama’s flavours reserves the right to postpone the Culinary experience due to bad weather. If it is postponed, no refund is given but, the experience is conducted the next available date after coordination.
• For cancellations from our guests, there is no refund regardless the cancellation status but, you may choose a next available date.
• All sales final.

Mama's flavours philosophy

Our scope is to provide our guests - travelers a high quality personalized and authentic local experience that goes above and beyond their expectations. For this reason, we prefer to organize only private experiences to couples, friends and families. This applies also for larger groups for e.g. a group of friends or a team building events. 

When you, our guest, book one or more of our gastronomic experiences, the day is dedicated to you, your friends and your beloved ones. Once booked for the day no other guests are added. With this way, we enjoy an amazing day together and at the end we say until next time as friends!

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