Products of La Bottega Toscana

Delicatessen gifts in the shop
La Bottega Toscana is our label for our Italian delicatessen creations, gift articles and our shop. For over 25 years we have been offering Italian delicatessen specialities in gift baskets and pottery in our shop. We can put together gifts to order, even in larger quantities, or directly on site in the shop. Our wine sales with wines from Italy include white wine, rosé, red wine, prosecco and spirits.
Baking and pizza courses
We also offer baking and pizza courses for hobby cooks and restaurateurs. Various pizza ovens, wood-fired ovens, baking houses, gas pizza ovens and professional electric pizza ovens are available for testing. The courses take place in presence in our show kitchen (where permitted) and also online. There is a "Basic" pizza course, a "Neapolitan Pizza" pizza course and individual pizza courses as a company event, to train a kitchen team or for a birthday with friends.
Pizza oven exhibition
In our pizza oven exhibition we show various pizza oven models of different manufacturers for private households on 400 m². Some of these ovens can be assembled by the customer as a kit or delivered pre-assembled. All of them can be integrated into outdoor kitchens, some are mobile pizza ovens that can be variably positioned on the terrace or balcony. A visit to our exhibition by appointment with personal advice will help you decide on an oven.
AVPN course dates:
Voucher course 2020/2021 "Date by arrangement"
Individual pizza course
Book an individual pizza course for your company, your private celebration or as a single participant. We will arrange individueal courses as requested. Professional pizzaiolo Filippo Licciardo, who is also a member of the German Pizza National Team, leads entertainingly and informatively through the 4 hour workshop. You cook in our Schow kitchen or in our tower with a special ambience in original Italian pizza ovens with gas and wood lighting.In this seminar, the different types of pizzas such as Neapolitan, Pizza Classica or Pizza Romagna or Pizza al metro are produced and the special features of these classics are taught. They cook and bake with various types of flour, prepare dough and process them. Filippo Licciardo explains the different basic ingredients of the pizza dough in detail and thus creates an understanding of the different types of dough production. Various kneading techniques are also discussed and tested. A professional immersion kneader from Bernardi is used - the result will surprise you.The seminar includes drinks, cooking apron and certificate of completion. 5-15 people can participate. On request, we will make you an offer and arrange an appointment with you. You will have a lot of fun and take home some new insights about pizza baking. Give us a call now!
Streetfood:
Gutschein Italian Streetfood
Creative pizza ideas
Italian street food is pizza to go, as a snack or simply something completely different from a restaurant. Italian Streetfood, that's joie de vivre, creativity in baking and an Italian attitude to life.
Our chef Filippo Licciardo is Italian, a chef and restaurateur with a passion. In the course, you will make a classic pizza dough together and then process it further into new, creative and unusual creations. You'll bake a foccaccia that you can enjoy with your loved ones in the evening, plus pizza calzoni, pizza sticks and a dessert in pizza dough. Fili is bubbling over with ideas, is close to the trends of the gastronomic scene and will infect you with his enthusiasm.
The course is aimed at anyone who has a desire for creative cooking and baking, who is looking for input and enthusiasm for new projects involving pizza, and who is up for an authentic course.
Product package included
A few days before the course, we will send you a product package that includes the following (shipping only in Germany or to Austria):
1kg Italian pizza flour
1 tomato sauce
1 small olive oil
The details
The course lasts 3 hours from 11 am till 2pm. All hobby cooks can take part.
All you need is a digital device with internet. The pizza course takes place via Zoom.
An ingredient list can be downloaded here so that you can bake and cook live.
Pizza course Napoli:
Online-Kurs Napoli
Neapolitan Pizza with Filippo Licciardo
Online course!
Napoli at home - bring the real Neapolitan pizza home!
It is something very special, the real Neapolitan pizza. It is a world cultural heritage, made according to ancient tradition, a real craft. Only the best chefs can prepare it perfectly. One of them is Filippo Licciardo. He is a member of the German national pizza team and has already participated in world championships. In this course, he shows us how to make it properly, the Neapolitan pizza.
The course starts with a brief overview of the types of flour used for Neapolitan pizza. The ingredients are precisely defined, their proportions to each other are fixed. Next, it's about the technique. How do I spread the pizza so that it is already round, not too small or too large? And what other ingredients belong on the original Neapolitan pizza? Fili answers all these detailed questions. It continues with the cooking time, the temperature of the oven and the special role that tomatoes and basil play. The specifications of the AVPN, the Associatione Vera Pizza Napoletana, for the perfect Neapolitan pizza. 450 degrees is a keyword that plays a major role in every case.
Our courses are about one thing above all: the passion for pizza!
With Filippo, we have a true master of his craft. He has learned the craft of pizza baking from scratch and passes this knowledge on to the participants with wit and charm. It's not about stubbornly following a recipe, but about feeling for the dough, the product you want to make. Pizza is more than food, it is Fili's life. This passion for cooking, for the ingredients, for striving for the best pizza is what Fili passes on in the courses. Our participants are all completely enthusiastic about his first online pizza course with us, "Pizza Classica". Now it's time for the next round with the "Pizza Napoletana" pizza course.
The course is aimed at advanced hobby cooks who already have experience and a certain feeling for pizza - and ideally also with a wood-burning oven.
The courses are from 12 am till 2 pm.
Pizza course Napoli:
Voucher Pizza Course Napoli
Neapolitan Pizza with Filippo Licciardo
Online course!
Napoli at home - bring the real Neapolitan pizza home!
It is something very special, the real Neapolitan pizza. It is a world cultural heritage, made according to ancient tradition, a real craft. Only the best chefs can prepare it perfectly. One of them is Filippo Licciardo. He is a member of the German national pizza team and has already participated in world championships. In this course, he shows us how to make it properly, the Neapolitan pizza.
The course starts with a brief overview of the types of flour used for Neapolitan pizza. The ingredients are precisely defined, their proportions to each other are fixed. Next, it's about the technique. How do I spread the pizza so that it is already round, not too small or too large? And what other ingredients belong on the original Neapolitan pizza? Fili answers all these detailed questions. It continues with the cooking time, the temperature of the oven and the special role that tomatoes and basil play. The specifications of the AVPN, the Associatione Vera Pizza Napoletana, for the perfect Neapolitan pizza. 450 degrees is a keyword that plays a major role in every case.
Our courses are about one thing above all: the passion for pizza!
With Filippo, we have a true master of his craft. He has learned the craft of pizza baking from scratch and passes this knowledge on to the participants with wit and charm. It's not about stubbornly following a recipe, but about feeling for the dough, the product you want to make. Pizza is more than food, it is Fili's life. This passion for cooking, for the ingredients, for striving for the best pizza is what Fili passes on in the courses. Our participants are all completely enthusiastic about his first online pizza course with us, "Pizza Classica". Now it's time for the next round with the "Pizza Napoletana" pizza course.
The course is aimed at advanced hobby cooks who already have experience and a certain feeling for pizza - and ideally also with a wood-burning oven.
The courses are from 12 am till 2 pm.
Duration Pizza Course Individual:
1 Day = 6 hours
Personalised cooking course not only for gastronomes
You are a gastronome and would like to deepen or expand your knowledge? Are you a passionate amateur chef who would like to improve your skills? Do you have questions about dough, fermentation or would you like to optimally prepare specialities in your oven? Perhaps you have questions about your gastronomic concept.
We offer you the solution: Our professional chef Filippo Licciardo will do a personalised online training with you, tailored exactly to your questions. He is Italian and a passionate chef. There is no question about pizza or True Italian Food that he cannot answer. Fili is a member of the German national pizza team and an absolute expert on pizza, especially Pizza Neapoletana, as it is prepared according to the strict rules of the AVPN.
The six-hour course takes place via Zoom directly from our tower. We have set up a studio there for our online training courses. A Valoriani Verace Napoletana with gas and wood firing is there as standard. However, individual stoves can also be added, such as an electric Izzo Forni, for example. The details of the course and the dates are arranged individually.
The course can be held in German, Italian.
As soon as the pandemic has subsided, the course will also be bookable on site.