Choosing between the Premium Experience and the Private VIP Experience is one of the most common questions we get before booking a Pizza Class Florence. Both include the same core journey — pizza making with Antonio, spritz with Enzo, Tuscan wine tasting and lunch — but the format changes who you share the room with, and how the pace feels.

The Premium Experience is a shared group class, hosted in New Bridge Pizza Club’s private room together with other guests, up to a maximum of 16 people. It’s the natural choice if you’re traveling as a couple, a family, or a small group of friends and don’t mind meeting other travelers — many guests say the shared table is actually one of their favorite parts, since it turns a cooking class into a small social occasion in the middle of a trip to Florence.

The Private VIP Experience, on the other hand, is reserved exclusively for your group. Antonio and Enzo dedicate the entire two and a half hours only to you, with no outside guests in the room. The pace can be slower or faster depending on what your group prefers, questions get more one-on-one attention, and the whole experience feels closer to being hosted at a friend’s home than attending a class. It’s the better fit for special occasions — anniversaries, honeymoons, birthdays — or for corporate groups who want full privacy for a team-building afternoon.

Price-wise, the Private VIP Experience costs more per person, reflecting the exclusivity and the undivided attention from both owners. If budget is a factor and you’re comfortable sharing the room with a handful of other travelers, the Premium Experience delivers the same core content — pizza, spritz, wine, lunch, dessert, welcome kit and certificate — at a lower price point.

Whichever format you choose, both are led directly by Antonio, master pizzaiolo with over 35 years of experience, and Enzo, sommelier and bartender — the two owners of New Bridge Pizza Club, not generic staff.

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Florence is full of cooking classes built for tourists, but few actually bring you into the real tradition of Neapolitan pizza. If you’re looking for a pizza making class in central Florence that goes beyond “knead and go,” here’s what you should expect — and what makes the Pizza Class Florence experience different.

A master pizzaiolo, not a seasonal entertainer. The difference between an average class and an authentic experience comes down to who’s teaching it. At Pizza Class Florence, the class is led by Antonio, a Neapolitan master pizzaiolo with over 35 years of experience, together with his brother Enzo, sommelier and bartender. They’re not instructors hired for the tourist season — they are the owners of New Bridge Pizza Club, the pizzeria where the class actually takes place.

What you really learn. A good pizza class doesn’t just have you flatten a disc of dough. It covers flour types, fermentation, proofing, stretching technique and baking — the fundamentals that separate an ordinary pizza from a true Neapolitan one. In the Pizza Class Florence experience, these steps are explained at a relaxed pace, in a group of up to 16 people, or in a private version reserved just for your group.

Not just pizza. The experience also includes a spritz class with Enzo — Aperol, Hugo and Sarti Spritz — paired with a Neapolitan aperitivo featuring the classic Cuoppo, a tasting of selected Tuscan wines, and of course lunch with the pizza you made yourself. It ends with fried coccoli, Nutella and a glass of sweet Moscato.

Where it happens. Everything takes place in the private room of New Bridge Pizza Club, at Via dell’Oriuolo 26/R, a few minutes’ walk from Florence’s Duomo — easy to reach whether you’re staying in the historic center or coming in from outside the city.

Who it’s for. Pizza Class Florence suits couples, families, groups of friends, solo travelers looking to meet people, and corporate teams looking for a different kind of team-building activity. Gluten Free, Lactose Free, Vegan and Halal versions are available on request.

If you’re looking for the best pizza making class in central Florence, the difference is clear from the very first minute: not a generic class, but a real Neapolitan experience told by the people who live it every day.

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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.

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