Private Hunting Of Truffle And Mushrooms With Chef Luigi Gandola In Bellagio

Truffle Hunting & Pasta Making with Luigi

This wonderful experience was one of the best tours in Italy! Everything from Truffle hunting in the woods with Shallot and Luigi - to learning about the farm to table 5 star cooking - to learning how to make pasta with truffles was enjoyable! Luigi was an excellent host with amazing skills & personality to delight & savor the best of Bellagio. Highly recommend!!!

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Such a personal and unique experience

This was an absolutely memorable experience. Big thank you to Luigi and his wonderful partner Camille who were so attentive with our group of four. Big thank Roberto and his son, Luca, for making us feel so at home (literally) for the truffle hunting portion. We loved seeing Sherlock find all of those truffles! Our tour started at 10AM and began with a tour of the Salice Blu herb garden, followed by guided Pasta making with Luigi. We then took a big van to Roberto and Luca's house where we met their pack of lovable Goldens. After some intense truffle hunting on the steep hills of their family's property, we absconded back to Salice Blue with 7 truffles. There we had a four course lunch with wine pairing which was unbelievably good. The whole day was not something that we will ever forget - a genuinely personal and unique experience and entirely worth it. One of our group members got motion sick on the Italian switchbacks, and they were very understanding and helped get them home while the rest of the group was able to continue with lunch.

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Awful communication, terrible experience, AVOID at all costs.

My husband and I booked the truffle hunting with Luigi Gandola, and the entire experience was a huge disappointment. Leading up to the event, Luigi had very poor communication and took weeks to respond to messages. We had to send him 3-4 messages before getting a response. Our event was supposed to start at 10AM. On the day of the event at 9AM, he messaged us, "Are you available at 3PM instead?" and we said no, since we had other plans. He then said "I can only do 3PM. See you at 3PM." We had to involve Tripadvisor customer support to get a refund, since we weren't able to make the time and he was refusing to refund us. It's clear that Luigi overextends himself, double books, and is very bad at managing his own schedule. I would stay away from this experience and the restaurant.

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Unique, authentic experience!

This was such a fun day. My husband Jakub and I were picked up in Bellagio by Chef Luigi. He brought us up to his sister and brother in law's home. There we met them, his niece, and all four of their dogs! We then headed up the hill with the main truffle dog: Sherlock, and his daughter Rosa, who was in training. It was a workout! You go into the woods and up some pretty steep hills. You'll want sneakers and appropriate clothing. If you're looking for a thorough education on truffle hunting, this isn't it. This is a real family, with their family dogs, taking you under their wing and throughout their property. It's so intimate, unique, and unlike anything we've done. It was very cool watching Sherlock hunt and dig up the truffles. They had to be grabbed out of his mouth before he could eat them, haha. We ended up finding a ton of truffles! Then, we were driven down to the Ristorante Salice Blu, where we joined a cooking class already in progress. From there we got to make pasta and ragu before sitting down to an amazing dinner that featured our truffles. Chef Luigi is a character. He's hilarious and passionate. He will tease you throughout the day. When you're cooking, it's in his open, active restaurant. You really get a peek into what this restaurant kitchen is like. His wife Camilla runs the restaurant with him. She is so sweet, knowledgable and a joy to chat with. His Mom was also in the kitchen helping with some of our more helpless pasta makers. It's a real family affair, and the restaurant is their family legacy. Chef Luigi and his entire family really take you into their lives for the day. It's such a unique and personal experience. This is all without mentioning that the food was amaaaaaazing. It's a lot of food, and you can have seconds. (Which of course, we did.) Also, I'm still thinking about the rosemary limoncello they make themselves.

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We had a wonderful time...

We had a wonderful time with Chef Luigi family , great hospitality, very inviting and kind family . We enjoyed all the meal courses that shef prepared for us , very tasty and delicious, we highly recommend them .

Response from the operator: Hello!! Thank you so much for visit our experience see you next time!!

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