Passionate about food? Want to learn a few new ideas and tips from the professionals?

Cooking Courses from 115 Euros/Day

Lecce, Ostuni, Martina Franca & Bari

The Puglia Chef Academy is a leading cookery school network where we teach classic and creative cooking in a professional but informal environment. We created an exclusive and inclusive cookery programme for food lovers. Set up by some of Puglia’s most passionate chefs, the programme provides an up close and personal experience with the creation and eating of fine food using familiar and peculiar ingredients…



People love to eat together! There may be nothing more social in the world than food..

Day Courses


Looking to WOW your friends and family with some amazing new dishes? Our one day part demonstration/part hands on cookery course offering the opportunity to master some wonderful seasonal dishes to add to your repetoire.  Selection of starters, main courses and desserts covered, recipes for all supplied.

One-day course tuition

Morning and afternoon tea break

Informal lunch in the cookery school

Course certificate 

Prices: from EUR 85 per person. Special B&B rate from EUR 70 pps. Check in 10:00 am. Class starts: 10:30 am and ends: 4:00 pm. Pick up from your hotel in Lecce or Ostuni. 40 Euros extra for pick up from Bari.

Winetastings from 45 Euros per person. We will drive you to some award winning wineries or we will organize a nice evening by your pool...

Spaces subject to availability. Minimum 2 partecipants, maximum size 8.

To make a reservation please call us on 340.7678256, send us an email, or pop into our office in Ostuni, c/o Green Italy Tours, piazza Italia 35 (viale Pola)

La “Puglia Chef Academy” e’ il network del "food" pugliese che intende promuovere uno sviluppo verde della nostra regione attraverso lo sfruttamento dei “giacimenti enogastronomici” .


For some of us, eating great food is a big priority in life. But when one is talking about a visit to Italy food will probably be one of the things you will be most excited about. The truth is that you can find excellent food throughout Italy but, even in this culinary heaven, there are destinations that are particularly famous among foodie travelers. If you’d like to really send your tastebuds into orbit, you’ll include Puglia on your next trip to Italy. Puglia features an acclaimed array of talented young masterchefs endlessly challenging to create and innovate new flavours...we aim at connecting them with the international community of Italian food lovers...Our Brand, Puglia Chef is a premium brand that provides food lovers with great recipes, tips and videos from the very best chefs in Italy.  The chefs we work with are the chefs who cook in their restaurants on a daily basis and whose food is distinctive and cooked with love. We like to promote young creative chefs cooking in Italy, regardless of their nationality. This diversity makes the culinary scene in Italy so interesting.