Paros Cooking Class: Full Meal or Meal with Wine

At $140 per person, the full meal class is the Paros cooking class with more reviews: 126, rated 4.9. It runs for 4 hours, and the listing pitches it at visitors who want the island’s food traditions but have no time for a long course.

Local chefs and food experts lead it, in English. You cook hands-on with fresh ingredients and traditional techniques, guided step by step through a complete Greek meal, from appetizers to a homemade dessert. Along the way you hear the stories behind the dishes and what gives Parian food its flavour.

Then you sit down and eat what you made, with local wine. You leave with Parian recipes to cook again at home. The listing does not print a fixed menu, so if one dish matters to you, ask before you book.

Two practical notes from the listing: pickup is available, with the options shown when you check dates, and the class is marked wheelchair accessible. The description does not name the kitchen or the meeting point.

The second Paros cooking class costs $152 per person for 3.5 hours, rated 4.9 from 80 reviews. Your hosts have taught at the public culinary school for chefs and run a traditional restaurant on the island, and they teach in English and Greek. The listing spells out the menu, course by course:

• Tasting. Olive oil with a platter of local cheeses made by the island’s farmers, homemade olives and souma from a local distillery.
• Appetizers. Tzatziki, keftedakia and a traditional Greek salad.
• One main, your choice. Stuffed seasonal vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, aubergine), moussaka, pasticcio, or fresh fish of the day.
• Dessert. Greek halva or baklava.

Homemade local wine is poured through the meal. Classes run by appointment and need at least two people, so a solo traveller should check dates first. Larger groups can ask for a class of their own.

Book the full meal class. If you take one Paros cooking class, make it the $140 per person class: the lower price, more reviews, pickup options and recipes to take home.

Want to know the menu in advance? The $152 per person class names its dishes, lets you choose the main and opens with a tasting. Book it for two or more.

Our top pick, the full-day trip to Antiparos with lunch at $213 per person, is the most booked on this site with 652 reviews. It gives you 7 hours of swim stops, with grilled fish or chicken souvlaki and a Greek salad for lunch at Despotiko. Compare it with the other boats in our full list of boat trips.