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Valentina Harris Winter Italian Lunch & Shopping Event

with Valentina Harris

£72
Wednesday 12th
February 2025
11:30-14:00
(2hrs)
Divertimenti
Knightsbridge

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Come and join Valentina Harris, for a Chef's Table experience at Divertimenti, where Valentina will cook you all a fabulous 3 course lunch and entertain you with her culinary tales and pass on lots of useful cooking tips. 

The session will consist of 1.5 hours of cooking and eating in a Chef's Table format followed by 30 minutes of shopping and chatting with Valentina.

The recipes are perfect for entertaining and packed with tips and tricks on how to get ahead when having friends and family over for an Italian style lunch - getting the very best out of your ingredients and a menu packed with delicious flavours. 

After lunch with a glass of wine, you will have the opportunity to browse around the store with your special 10% discount and with Valentina to advise you and show you around her favourite parts of the store. 

Divertimenti really is a very special place, and is the only London cookery school where the cooking action takes place right in the heart of the shop itself. This gorgeous emporium of all things cookery first opened in 1963 and has always been like an Aladdin's cave for keen cooks, packed to the rafters with everything from the most beautiful tea towels to the very best range of knives, and everything in between.

We will welcome you with tea or coffee and a home made pastry before you settle down to watch, listen, ask questions and just enjoy Valentina's cooking.

Valentina has chosen the menu to celebrate Italian food at the end of winter season, when we all need a little bit of an indulgent lift as we look forward to spring! Valentina is looking forward to welcoming you.

Menu: 
  • Arancini with Mushrooms and Parmesan (gf breadcrumbs)
  • Winter Parmigiana (cauliflower/pumpkin/mozzarella/onion/tomato sauce/Parmigiano Reggiano) 
  • Flour-free Chocolate Espresso Cake with Mascarpone Cream and Blueberries

What's included:

  • Refreshments on arrival and available throughout the class
  • A recipe pack for you to take home with all of Valentina's menu included 
  • 10% discount on purchases made in store on the day of your class, including cookery classes. Excludes books, food, electrical items, gift vouchers and sale items.

You will be learning in a beautifully designed kitchen which provides a warm welcoming environment that can accommodate everything from group cookery classes to intimate chef’s tables, with the versatility to suit everyone.

Our partners have been chosen with great care, as all our equipment must stand up to the day-to-day rigours of our cookery school – much like a professional kitchen, that you can enjoy using whilst creating your own amazing dishes in class to give you the best possible experience when cooking with us.

Our classes and outstanding range of teachers will help you hone your gastronomic skills, even if you are a complete novice or a dab hand in the kitchen. We love highlighting new upcoming food trends and championing the rising stars within the culinary world.

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Divertimenti does everything it can to reduce the risk of any students consuming an allergen that could cause and allergic reaction.

Please call the school to discuss any severe food allergies prior to booking a class online, we must speak to you before you visit the school if you have a severe allergy or severe dietary intolerance.

We will become as flexible as possible, where we can to remove a specific ingredient from a student’s recipe we will but we are unable to remove that ingredient for every student attending.

We handle all types of ingredients in the kitchen at Divertimenti and we are not able to completely allergen free environment, our kitchen is multi-purpose therefore this makes our kitchen unsuitable for those with life- threatening allergies, in such cases as these we would suggest getting in touch with the team to arrange a private lesson in your own home with one of our chefs. Please contact us for more information

In the unlikely event you are unable to the class you have booked for and need to cancel your booking, for a full refund we will require your cancellation via email no less than 7 days.

Once we have received your cancellation, we will arrange a booking onto an alternative class date or a full refund, sadly we are unable to make changes to bookings or offer a refund with less than 7 days of the date of your class but we are happy to switch the names on the booking so a family member or friend can take the place.

Divertimenti reserves the right to cancel any demonstration or class or substitute another presenter at any time, in the unfortunate event that a ‘Personality’ present or chef cannot attend a session you will be offered the choice of an appropriate alternative or a full refund.

Attendees must be aged over 18 to attend an adult class - we have a list of suitable young adult and teenage classes suitable for under 18’s – they must be accompanied by an adult.



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