One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Giovanni will be happy to arrange your first Cooking lesson.
Giovanni
One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Giovanni will be happy to arrange your first Cooking lesson.
- Rate 80 US$
- Response 1h
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Students50+
Number of students Giovanni has accompanied since arriving at Superprof
Number of students Giovanni has accompanied since arriving at Superprof
80 US$/hr
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- Cooking
- Baking
- Traditional Cooking
- Healthy Cooking
- Italian Cooking
Award winning chef with many years of experience and owning his own catering brand. Traditional food, fine dining, Michelin star, luxury catering food background chef. Cooking lessons, catering events
- Cooking
- Baking
- Traditional Cooking
- Healthy Cooking
- Italian Cooking
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One of our best tutors. Quality profile, experience in their field, verified qualifications and a great response time. Giovanni will be happy to arrange your first Cooking lesson.
About Giovanni
Hello, my name is Giovanni, I am 36 years old and I come from Teramo, a beautiful city in the heart of Abruzzo region, Italy, where I grew up.
I started my career when I was a teenager in my homeland in five stars beach chalets and restaurants in the Adriatic coast, and twelve years ago I decided to move to London looking for a new step in my career, and live a new life experience abroad. What was supposed to be a 3 to 6 months experience transformed in 12 years of living and working in the city and hi-end hospitality.
My experience spans not only from luxury, fine dining and Michelin starred restaurants, but also in 5 stars hotels and busy venues (restaurants and fine dining banqueting only), such as the Italian Embassy in London for famous chef Danilo Cortellini, Social Eating House, Coda restaurant from Eric Chavot at the Royal Albert Hall, Social Eating House, 100 Wardour street, Advocate restaurant (private restaurant at Willis Tower Watson), Boulestin restaurant, Gastronhome and many more.
I also worked in extremely busy and iconic venues (VIP areas and fine dining restaurants only), such as Wembley stadium, Stamford bridge, The Emirates Stadium, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Royal Ascot restaurants during the Royal week, The Kia Oval stadium, the Hilton hotel, Berkeley hotel, The Shangri-La hotel @ The Shard, Sheraton Park Lane hotel, The Trafalgar hotel, The Connaught hotel.
I also have almost 6 years of experience as a catering business owner, focusing in the private hospitality sector, organising events for big and small numbers: artistic and tasting dining experiences, fine dining cooking demonstrations, birthdays and private parties but also many cooking lessons and preparation of daily meals for VIP, UHNW and working class individuals and families.
I had the honour of tutoring a real life princess and serve her Royal Family.
In 2025 I became an ambassador of Rhug Estate Organic Farm of Lord Newborough.
In December 2025 I have been among the three finalist of the prestigious "Talented Young Italian Awards" held at the Italian embassy in London, where I had the honour of meeting in person the Italian Ambassador Inigo Lambertini and the Cavalier Leonardo Simonelli-Santi.
In February 2026 my brand has been awarded "Best private chef business in London 2026" by Top 100 Business Awards, an international organisation that has reached its 5th edition and is actie globally.
I also collaborated with many cooking schools in London, Greater London area and prepared students for exams with culinary institutions such as The Cordon Bleu and Leight.
I specialise in Italian, Mediterranean, modern British and North European cuisine, but my knowledge includes influences from world food, because I travel the world tasting traditional and fine dining dishes and meeting with local suppliers, chefs and producers.
I also have experience working in pastry and can teach you how to make delicious desserts.
I have organised private events internationally in Scotland, Portugal and I met my mentor and one fo my favorite chefs Salvo Lo Castro ( previously chef of the Popes in the Vatican State) in person during my latest trip in New York.
I am so lucky to have a direct contact with him and can learn directly from one of the best chefs in the world, with three succesful cafes, one private catering business and a restaurant in Soho in the big apple.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if:
-you are passionate about food and you fancy to have a private chef preparing and serving fine dining style dishes at your home for you and your friends / partner;
-you want to hire a chef for a private event/party (wine tasting with food pairing experience available);
-you want to attend cooking lessons;
-you want me to cook for you and your family at your place so you don't have to spend time and effort in sourcing, preparing, cooking food and the clean up of the kitchen;
-you need consulting in menu planning, cost cutting, how to reduce food wastage, savoury and desserts dish creation and kitchen development.
My style is professional, but laid back and friendly and I love to connect with new food lovers in London that wish to improve their cooking skills or learn more about the wonderful world of professional traditional or fine dining hospitality.
I am really looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Chef Giovanni
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About the lesson
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Professionel
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
Once we agreed a date and time for the lesson, I will proceed in sending you the ingredients list and preparation instruction, so on the day you will be able to take a look at those while I teach you how do create delicious traditional, fine dining or Michelin star dishes, savory and sweet, anything you like!
I will arrive with my car and all the pro chef tools (aprons, chef whites, professional knives, tools if required, pasta machine, etc), so you can feel like you are in a restaurant.
However, the atmosphere won't be as stressful as it would be in a professional restaurant, but warm and friendly.
I come from central Italy and we are famous for being very laid back and I am a genuine extrovert person, that loves to meet new people, especially food lovers like myself.
During the lesson I will share with you the chef tips I have learned during decades of working in professional kitchen and give you more information about the ingredients and the history of the dishes we will cook together, if you wish.
You will have all the ingredients ready for the lesson and if you wish I can also suggest some of the best quality food you can find, that won't make a whole in your bank account and will be good not only for your palate, but also for your health.
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4.9 (49 reviews)
Perfect! Chef Giovanni promoted me into the Carbonara elite. His skills are undeniable, and my wife and I had such an enjoyable evening learning how to perfect this dish. Book him now, you won't regret it.
Perfect! Good fun and highly informative
Perfect! We had the pleasure of working with Giovanni as a food trainer for our staff, and the experience was absolutely outstanding. He trained our team across multiple dishes, breaking down each one with incredible clarity and attention to detail. Giovanni has a true gift for teaching — he doesn't just demonstrate techniques, he explains the reasoning behind every step, which made a huge difference to how our staff absorbed and retained the knowledge. He adapted his approach to suit different skill levels within the team, ensuring everyone felt included, confident, and supported throughout. His enthusiasm and passion for food were infectious, and our staff left every session feeling genuinely motivated and inspired. Since the training, we have seen a remarkable improvement in the quality, consistency, and confidence of our kitchen team. We cannot recommend Giovanni highly enough and would not hesitate to bring him back in the future.
Perfect! Chef Giovanni, has an infectious passion for food and helping new food business owners, how to make the best of the resources they have. I reached out to him to learn how to enter private catering industry and very soon he learned I want to climb step 7, when am still on step 1. He shared insights about the REALITY of competition, the invisible strategies local food businesses use to compete against me. He emphasised heavily on the importance staying loyal to my BRAND IDENTITY. After my 1st session with him, I sat down and went through the list products I offer and asked myself why there is Cupcakes & Brownies when I claim to specialise in Desserts, because during December 2025 all Christmas markets were asking me for Cupcakes and Brownies, I started adding them to my product range (Scarcity Mindset), what if nobody orders my desserts. I have told my website designer to remove them and instead focus on quality and scalability, when I get order for 60 cheese cakes instead of 20, I won't panic and my kitchen can cope. Chef Giovanni taught me, I have to be patient and take BABY STEPS. He taught to focus on winning the heart and palette of my local community, but creating more affordable desserts. I know this will be a game changer, because where I live it is middle-class working people. The price of my desserts are mainly for dentists, lawyers, self employed business owners, working class people can not afford to buy them. In the end I love Chef Giovanni, he is very authentic, humble and down to earth despite the fact he has reached the pinnacle point of his career and still excelling at his craft. For me its a privileged to have had the opportunity to meet him, God bless him.
Perfect! What a wonderful lesson. I learned to make a delicious tagliatelle with cream sauce. Giovanni gave excellent instructions throughout. I’ve already scheduled my next class with him.
Perfect! Excellent chef and brilliant entertainer. Would always recommend. Thank you Giovanni!!
Perfect! My son and I had wonderful couple of sessions with the charming, informative and talented Giovanni. Great communication before and during the sessions, calm and efficient. We had a blast. Thank you Giovanni!
Perfect! Very professional but also a warm and caring person, wouldn’t hesitate to recommend
Perfect! Giovanni was fantastic with my son and his friend! They cooked a three course meal from scratch and it was delicious!! My son (12) is dying to do it again! Great experience all around!!
Perfect! Fantastic! So friendly, warm, knowledgeable. Answered all my questions. Taught me all proper techniques. Would recommend.
Perfect! Had a fantastic class with Giovanni and my daughter learning how to make pasta! We learnt a lot!
- Friendly and polite clients :)Giovanni's response :
Perfect! Giovanni was an excellent and inspiring teacher. He taught our teenage boys to cook and they thoroughly enjoyed their lessons.
Perfect! Giovanni proactively prepped the session , arrived on time and deliver a great session with profesioism and charisma ! We are very happy with the session and surely recommand him highly / will work with him again !
Perfect! He was great with lessons for 17 very young kids ranging between 7 and 8 years old.
Well organisedPerfect! My great aunt is having lessons with Giovanni - she finds him warm, patient and an exceptional chef! She loved it.
Perfect! I recently took some cooking lessons with Chef Giovanni, and it was a fantastic experience! He really listened to what I wanted to work on and customized the lessons accordingly. I appreciated how he broke down each step and explained everything so well. Plus, he taught me the proper techniques, which made a huge difference in my cooking.
Chef Giovanni's patience and thoroughness made the whole learning process enjoyable and super helpful. If you want to improve your cooking skills with a knowledgeable and friendly chef, I highly recommend him!Perfect! Had a great online intro to preparing and cooking lemon sole - a fish that I'd never cooked before, but was recommended to me by a fishmonger. Giovanni was happy to tailor to the session to my needs: it included how to identify and acquire good fish, fillet it and number of different cooking methods/dishes. Despite the online format, I found the experience really helpful and inspiring. Nothing beats individualised guidance from an experienced chef and teacher like Giovanni!
Perfect! Giovani and I had a very enjoyable couple of days making pizzas. He has a very relaxing presence and we just pottered around making around doughs and testing them out in the pizza oven the next day. Very enjoyable to learn from a professional chef as a keen home cook
Perfect! Giovanni's knowledge, relationship building to know his customer and what they are trying to achieve from the lesson was first class.
Was fun and got exactly what needed.
ThanksPerfect! My first session with Giovanni couldn’t have gone any better ! As somebody with no cooking experience at all, I was really nervous about my first lesson. But Giovanni is really friendly, easygoing and professional, and I was amazed at how much he taught me in my first lesson ! He has great knowledge, showing me ways to make even basic dishes taste delightful ! I am looking forward to our next lesson !
Perfect! Great chef and wonderful teacher ! Was an absolute pleasure and would 100% book him again !!
Perfect! I had a great time learning several pasta dishes with Giovanni today! Giovanni is a very kind, generous and patient teacher and I had so much fun :)
Perfect! Very professional instructor, I cannot believe how much I learnt in just 2 sessions.
Perfect! Giovanni did an amazing job coaching me so I am able to return to professional kitchens. I want to really thank him for everything!
Perfect! Clearly a very talented chef, Giovanni was fantastic in teaching all my family how to make pasta. We learned not only how to prepare a delicious dinner, but also how to run an efficient kitchen! All delivered with a great sense of humour, a wonderful evening for us all.
Perfect! Giovanni is a very knowledgeable and patient mentor and his style for which he mentored me was very effective even tho we are a thousand miles away!! We practiced things from fine dining cooking techniques to making pasta by hand and I couldn’t be happier with the lessons. Giovanni is also a great person he really makes you feel comfortable about any problems that you may be having regarding cooking. 10 stars
- Jeff has a a lot of passion when it comes to food and cooking. He is a skilled chef and it's his will to improve even further. A very good student and a wonderful person.Giovanni's response :
It was a pleasure to have him as my student.
Perfect! Excellent Chef & teacher! I highly recommend Giovanni
He made the whole process very smooth, fun and easy for a beginner cookPerfect! Very professional - an excellent teacher and a very enjoyable session. My wife and friends were very impressed .
- Peter is a real gentlemen, polite and fun. We had a lot of fun cooking 3 dishes together mixing a cooking lesson with a preparation of dishes for a private dinner with his friends.Giovanni's response :
He learned many techniques and I am sure we'll be cooking together again soon!
Perfect! I am very happy with the cooking lessons with Giovanni, as I am learning tricks that don't appear in recipe books, and also gaining confidence in the kitchen.
He is very friendly and has a lot of patience!
I had few classes to learn the basics, and will continue until I am an expert chef!
100% recommended.Excellent! Slightly gathered confidence in cooking thanks to him.
Perfect! Very personable and knowledgeable. Was an excellent lesson. I would highly recommend.
Perfect! Giovanni is a great chef and teacher. We had a lot fun but sadly the COVID outbreak in London happened after our last session. Would love to work with Gio after comeback.
Perfect! I booked an online cooking lesson with Giovanni for my husband's birthday. From the moment of first messaging, all the way through to the follow up after the lesson, Giovanni's communication was fantastic! We had an introductory call in order for him to tailor our experience, in which he listened to everything. Then the planning came - loads of ideas, menus, then ingredients lists and even wine recommendations.
When it came to the lesson, Giovanni was so fun, encouraging and patient! We had a few internet connection issues, but nothing phased him. He spent time guiding each of us on what we were doing, giving little tips along the way. Once we'd finished our 3 hour session, he was so complimentary on what we'd achieved, showering with praise.
After, he followed up with screengrab pictures and messages to see how we got on.
I couldn't recommend him more, and will definitely be booking with him again! Thank you so much Giovanni :-)Perfect! I organised a virtual cooking session with Giovanni for my partner's birthday and we both had a great time. Giovanni was really easy to organise things with, tailoring the recipe to suit our tastes and the actual class was really fun! It worked absolutely perfectly doing it via a video call - and we both learned a new recipe to use in the future. Would highly recommend a class with Giovanni!
Perfect! It was a real pleasure to have Giovanni come over to my home and teach me how to cook. I've been trying to eat more healthy meals and Giovanni gave me the positivity and confidence along with the cooking skills to feel comfortable in making my favourite dishes like salmon, risotto, pad thai etc
He's genuine and super friendly! Considering I had very little knowledge on the basics, he's helped me tremendously. So give him a chance and you won't regret it!Perfect! I thought Giovanni was an excellent teacher. He was patient, informative and communicated really well. Most of all his passion and love of food came across and made the whole experience an absolute pleasure. I would have no hesitation in recommending Giovanni if you are interested in cookery lessons.
Perfect! Giovanni is as nice as gifted in cooking! It was a real pleasure to learn more about recipes with him :)
I highly recommend him as a super prof :)- Sophie was a perfect host: very polite, patient and and welcoming.Giovanni's response :
I did my best to make sure the cooking lesson gift for her husband was enjoyable and the food delicious, she also decided to help with the food preparation and she got really involved during the cooking.
Thank you so much again Sophie
Excellent! Giovanni is a really inspiring and professional tutor. He taught me Knife Skills and I can tell you that it was really excellent and I would highly recommend him. Thanks Giovanni.
Perfect! Giovanni has joined me for 3 days in a cooking half-term camp for children aged 3-8 years , he was the cooking instructor for around 9 to 12 children, which he managed to get all the children attention and involved them all in the food preparation . I am so happy with the result and feedback that i have received from the parents and children, they were all impressed with the fine dinning meals that the children have cooked with him . I totally reccomend Giovanni, not only he cooks the most delicious food, he is a professional chef, organised, committed to his work, always punctual and looked for perfection everyday in presenting the best cooking classes for the children, It was a pleasure working with Giovanni !
Excellent! Great cooking masterclass with Giovanni. very professional friendly and fun!
would definitely book again. highly recommended- Zara is a great studend, kind,warm, friendly and polite!Giovanni's response :
Teach to her was a real pleasure :)
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I couldn’t recommend Giovanni enough - he was extremely time giving and focussed to my objectives for the lesson - not just within the tutorial itself but beforehand and afterwards. Prior to the lesson, Giovanni put a lot of effort and genuine care into building a menu which was suitable to my goals and following the tutorial, he took a genuine interest in my opinion of the dishes created.
Within the tutorial itself, Giovanni was patient, friendly, engaging and full of fascinating tips and tricks which I will use from now on. I really enjoyed myself and will definitely cook with Giovanni again in the future.
Overall- I highly recommend. Very professional and well worth every penny spent.Very knowledgeable and a good Communicator.
We thoroughly enjoyed a two hour cooking course with Giovanni - he kept it all very light hearted and good fun.
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him to any of my friends or family!
C RobertsVery friendly professional lesson. Easy to communicate to arrange menu and list of ingredients to buy. Would definitely recommend Gio for private lessons. Thank you
Giovanni spent the morning cooking with my son and his friend, both teenage boys have Adhd and are hard to engage. Giovanni was patient, informative, they learnt so much, and were rewarded with a really delicious meal at lunch which they had all prepared together. My son is looking forward to his next lesson and I highly recommend Giovanni who makes the cooking really fun and engaging. TC.
Giovanni taught me knife skills and i was so inspired by his expertise. He is patient, creative and professional. I highly recommend him.
It has been a pleasure to have Giovanni in our home. He has taught me many cooking techniques, concepts and as well where to source the best ingredients to use. I have enjoyed having lessons with Giovanni and cooking a number of special dishes together. He is always helpful (even after our lesson), professional and clearly explains everything. I would not hesitate to recommend Giovanni as a trustworthy, responsible and knowledgeable tutor!
Giovanni is so nice and a great chef,. He has cooked with my children’s and I many times, and also with my friends. He’s always so personable, polite, patient and good fun. The food we cook with him is delicious. It simply blows you away with the flavours!
I know Giovanni very well and he's a really good chef. He's also very reliable and he loves his job, this is why I know he's the best tutor you can have. He knows many tricks you can use to make perfect dishes, I strongly recommend his cooking lessons to all of you.
Giovanni is a great experienced cook.
I worked with him in couple of top UK Venues. It was real fun to cooperate with him. Definitely recomended.View more recommendations
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Rates
Rate
- 80 US$
Pack prices
- 5h: 375 US$
- 10h: 697 US$
online
- US$60/h
Details
- Travel expenses included up until 60 minutes drive from the chef's office/home. Above 60 minutes there will be a £15 additional charge for travel time and petrol expenses.
- The price per hour does not include grocery costs. Ingredients will have to be purchased by the client and are considered on top. The chef is happy to suggest high quality ingredients that won't make a hole in your bank account
- Congestion charge and any other tunnel/tall charge will have to be paid on top
- Parking must be provided/paid for the chef
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