If you’ve never taken a hands-on pizza class before, it helps to know what actually happens once you walk through the door. Here’s the Pizza Class Florence experience, step by step.
You arrive at New Bridge Pizza Club, on Via dell’Oriuolo, a few minutes from the Duomo, and you’re welcomed into the pizzeria’s private room — not a generic teaching kitchen, but the same warm, lived-in space where New Bridge serves dinner every night. The first thing you receive is the New Bridge Welcome Kit, including a branded T-shirt you’ll wear for the rest of the class.
The class opens with Enzo and the spritz lesson: you’ll make and taste three of Italy’s most iconic spritz cocktails — Aperol, Hugo and Sarti — while enjoying a Neapolitan aperitivo built around the Cuoppo, Naples’ classic fried street food.
Then Antonio takes over for the heart of the experience: the pizza class itself. You’ll learn about flour, dough maturation, stretching technique and topping, and you’ll shape and top your own pizza by hand, guided step by step by a master pizzaiolo with over 35 years of experience. While your dough rests, Enzo leads a tasting of selected Tuscan wines.
Lunch is the payoff: you eat the pizza you made yourself, fresh from the oven. The experience closes on a sweet note, with fried coccoli, Nutella, powdered sugar and a glass of Moscato — made using the same dough you worked with earlier.
Before you leave, you get an official certificate with your pizza recipe printed on the back, and a souvenir photo of the day. Most guests say the two and a half hours go by faster than expected — not because it’s rushed, but because it doesn’t feel like a class in the usual sense. It feels like spending an afternoon in Antonio and Enzo’s home.
