Portofino (Cracco Portofino) is a food day trips in Genoa.
Editorially verified September 29, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Portofino has no station and little parking; the boat from Santa Margherita Ligure is the easiest way in, and the tasting menus run to 7 or 11 courses.
5 hours
Tour the vibrant local market and immerse yourself in a private cooking class in a local home with a certified home cook. Learn local recipes and taste everything you'...
4 hours
Join a Genoa cooking class to learn pesto, gnocchi, focaccia, and canestrelli, then enjoy your dishes with wine and finish with artisan gelato in the city center.
4 hours
Tour the vibrant local markets and immerse yourself in a private lunch or dinner in a local home with a certified home cook. Enjoy an exclusive cooking demo and taste ...
Montoggio, 14 km inland from Genoa, has Ristorante Roma, a Bib Gourmand house cooking house pesto, chestnut-flour lasagnette and its own garden produce.
TipRistorante Roma is closed on Thursdays according to its Michelin page; the chestnut-flour lasagnette with pesto are on the current menu.
Torriglia, in the upper Trebbia valley 20 km from Genoa, bakes the flower-shaped canestrelletto shortbread and holds a festival for it every June.
TipThe 12th Festival del Canestrelletto was on 7 June 2026; on festival day the village centre is pedestrianised and the producers hand out free tastings.
Recco, half an hour east of Genoa by train, is the home of focaccia col formaggio IGP; Manuelina, founded in 1885, still bakes it by its dining room.
TipThe Festa della Focaccia fills Recco in late May, when the Consorzio and the historic bakeries hand out tens of thousands of free portions.
Camogli, a fishing village on the west side of the Portofino peninsula, fries free fish for everyone in a record-size pan at its Sagra del Pesce each May.
TipIn 2026 the pan was blessed in Piazza Colombo at 09:45 on Sunday 10 May, with frying from 10:00 and a separate gluten-free fryer in Piazza Gaggini Ruta.