events &
workshops
We have lots of exciting events happening here this spring in La Cantina.
In February we were joined by resident Venetian, Adriana Zanchi, for Cicchetti night on Giovedi Grasso (Fat Thursday) - to celebrate the start of Carnevale which was heaps of fun - we’ll do again next year so watch out for that.
Pasta workshops on March 20th, 21st, 30th March (Mother’s Day) and April 4th, with more to be added for April & May.
On Friday 28 March Thom is cooking up a 3 course Ferrara menu inspired by his recent trip.
April 18th Simona will create a wonderful Campanian Good Friday meal, 4 courses for £45pp
And on May 23rd a special night with our resident American Aaryn and Simona. £45pp
We hope to see some of you here!
Good Friday Dinner
Come and spend Good Friday evening with us & Dispaccio Wines here at La Cantina. A very important day in Italy where families come together to eat and celebrate, Simona will cook a 4 course Easter dinner featuring dishes from her home town.
Think dishes like:
Antipasto of savoury pie stuffed with eggs, cured meats and cheeses from the village with pickled broccoli rabe
Agnello & piselli - Lamb, pea and potato stew
Cannelloni con asparagi e ricotta - Fresh baked pasta filled with asparagus, ricotta and fennel sausage
Pastiera Napoletana - Eaten at Easter time in Napoli, a ricotta, grain and orange blossom tart
Join us & Paolo from Dispaccio who'll be pouring wines from Canlibero & Cantina Disordine in Campania.
To book your tickets please send us an email at reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £45pp, not including drinks or service
Please note
Seating is on stools either on a sharing table, or at the bar.
Italian-American Night
A special night with Simona and Aaryn, our resident American, who will team up in May for an Italian-American feast. Inspired by our recent trip to New Orleans, where we visited the city’s iconic Italian resturant Irene’s, the menu will feature classic Italian-American dishes, like muffaletta, penne alla vodka, chicken parmigiana, & American sized canoli.
We'll be pouring our favourite wines from Italian winemakers in the US, so if you like your spaghetti served with a pile of meatballs, come join us at La Cantina for a night of Italian-American cooking you won’t want to miss!
To book your tickets please send us an email at reservations@bottegacaruso.com.
Tickets are £45pp, not including drinks or service
Please note
Seating is on stools either on a sharing table, or at the bar.
Vegetarian and gluten free can be catered for, but we’ll need to know in advance.
LOW MARGATE
Our second LOW Margate, a town wide celebration of Low intervention wine, music and our wonderful venues.
Tickets available here
Pasta Workshop
Come and spend the evening with us in our shop La Cantina learning how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included and what you make you can take home with you.
The wine bar will be open.
Send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com to book your table.
Tickets are £60
Please note that bookings through Eventbrite will incur their admin charges, but you can pay us direct - just pop us an email and we can arrange a bank transfer, or pop in and buy the ticket in our shop.
Mother’s Day Pasta Class
Come and spend the morning with us in our shop La Cantina learning how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included and what you make you can take home with you.
The wine bar will be open.
Send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Please note that bookings through Eventbrite will incur their admin charges, but you can pay us direct - just pop us an email and we can arrange a bank transfer, or pop in and buy the ticket in our shop.
Feast of Ferrara
Back in January Thom came back from Ferrara with stories of spiced ravioli and sweet meat pies. On Friday March 28th we’ll celebrate the unique food of Ferrara with a wonderful 3 course menu inspired by that trip.
The menu will feature Culatello di Zibello con Pinzini (cured ham served with “little pinches” of dough), Pasticcio Ferrarese (traditional pie of truffled macaroni and rich meat ragu in sweet pastry), and Salame di Cioccolato (meat-loving Ferrara’s answer to dessert - a terrine of dark chocolate and biscuits, rolled to resemble salami!).
To book your tickets please send us an email at reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £35, not including drinks or service
Please note
Seating is on stools either on a sharing table, or at the bar.
Vegetarians can be catered for but we’ll need to know in advance.
Pasta Workshop
Come and spend the evening with us in our shop La Cantina learning how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included and what you make you can take home with you.
The wine bar will be open.
Book your tickets here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Please note that bookings through Eventbrite will incur their admin charges, but you can pay us direct - just pop us an email and we can arrange a bank transfer, or pop in and buy the ticket in our shop.
Filled pasta workshop
Spend the morning here at our Cantina learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different sahpes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75
Please note that bookings through Eventbrite will incur their admin charges, but you can pay us direct - just pop us an email and we can arrange a bank transfer, or pop in and buy the ticket in our shop.
Giovedi Grasso alla Cantina
Our dear friend Adriana Zanchi hails from Burano, a charming little island in the Venetian Lagoon. Join us at La Cantina to celebrate 'Giovedi Grasso’ - Fat Thursday, the last Thursday before Lent that is celebrated in Italy every year.
We’ll be serving lots of delicious ciccetti, (Venetian snacks) throughout the evening, drinking wonderful wine from The Veneto and dressing up in our finest for Carnevale!
Pop in anytime from 6pm!
Please note
Seating is on stools either on a sharing table, or at the bar.
Pasta Workshop
Come and spend the morning with us in our shop La Cantina learning how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included and what you make you can take home with you.
The wine bar will be open.
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Please note that bookings through Eventbrite will incur their admin charges, but you can pay us direct - just pop us an email and we can arrange a bank transfer, or pop in and buy the ticket in our shop.
Pasta Workshop
Come and spend the evening with us in our shop La Cantina learning how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included and what you make you can take home with you.
The wine bar will be open.
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Please note that bookings through Eventbrite will incur their admin charges, but you can pay us direct - just pop us an email and we can arrange a bank transfer, or pop in and buy the ticket in our shop.
Pasta Workshop
Come and spend the evening with us in our shop La Cantina learning how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included and what you make you can take home with you.
The wine bar will be open.
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Please note that bookings through Eventbrite will incur their admin charges, but you can pay us direct - just pop us an email and we can arrange a bank transfer, or pop in and buy the ticket in our shop.
Sant’Antuono Abate
A beautiful day and tradition back home is that of Sant’Antuono Abate on the 17th January. We make Lavanelle, a type of pasta made with just flour and water, cut into thick strips, and with this we make and eat a delicious chickpea & chilli broth. We light a fire, perhaps a little like Bonfire night here in the Uk.
This Friday evening we will make pasta together, and a broth, and then sit and eat together and wish for health & prosperity in the New Year.
All equipment and ingredients are included and drinks will be available.
Book here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com to book a ticket.
Tickets are £50
Filled pasta workshop
Join us for a a fun filled Thursday morning learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different shapes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Click here to buy your ticket, or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75
Please note that bookings through Eventbrite will incur their admin charges, but you can pay us direct - just pop us an email and we can arrange a bank transfer, or pop in and buy the ticket in our shop.
New Year’s Eve at bottega
Come and join us for our annual New Year’s Eve feast! 4 courses of Southern Italian classics, beginning with a glass of bubbly at 7pm.
Antipasti
A selection of meats, cheeses, pickles
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Lenticchie e cotechino
Lentil and sausage stew
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Lasagna
Slow cooked beef & pork lasagna
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Tiramisu
made with espresso & rum
The 4 course menu will be £65pp, plus drinks and service.
Please email us on reservations@bottegacaruso.com to book your spot.
Please note:
The evening starts at 7pm and will finish up at around 10pm.
There will be a couple of large tables.
We’ll need to know any dietary requirements beforehand.
There will be a £25pp charge for no shows or late cancellation (within 48 hours).
Bottega caruso x tutto wines campanian christmas
We’re super happy and excited for this special evening. Simona is going to cook a special 5 course feast of Campanian Christmas dishes, and Damiano from Tutto Wines is coming down to pour lots of Cantina Giardino’s new cuvees.
Cardone Beneventano
Chicken and cardoon broth with meatballs
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Insalata di rinforzo
Salt cod, cauliflower & olive salad
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Spaghetti alle vongole
Fresh pasta with clams
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Coscetta di pollo ripiena con pancetta e castagne
Chicken leg stuffed with pancetta & chestnuts
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Semifreddo al torroncino
Strega chocolate and nougat semifreddo
The 5 course menu will be £49.50pp, plus drinks and service.
Please email us on reservations@bottegacaruso.com to book your spot.
Please note:
Seating is on stools either on a sharing table, or at the bar.
Vegetarian and gluten free can be catered for, but we’ll need to know in advance.
Filled pasta workshop
Join us for a a fun filled Friday evening learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different shapes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Drinks will be available to buy from the bar.
Click here to buy your ticket, or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75
Christmas pickling workshop with thom eagle
Join acclaimed author, fermentaion guru, and Bottega chef Thom Eagle, (and his glamorous assistant Harry) for a pickling & fermention class here in our Cantina at 18.30 on Thursday 28th November.
We’ll make a jar or two of Piccalilli, a Red Cabbage & Apple Kraut, and some sweet pickled grapes, all ready for your Christmas day spread.
Wines and other drinks will be available to buy and drink too..
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £50, bring your own jars, or buy them here.
Beajolais nouveau supper
To help enjoy Beaujolais nouveau, on Thursday November 21st we’re cooking a three course menu in La Cantina. Pigs head terrine, coq au vin with fresh tagliatelle, and tarte tatin. We’ll have plenty of lovely wine, including some nouveau, some cru, and some Italian carbonic maceration wines too.
Book your tickets here.
Tickets are £29.50, not including drinks or service
Please note:
Seating is on stools either on a sharing table, or at the bar.
Vegetarian and gluten free can be catered for, but we’ll need to know in advance.
Pasta Workshop
Come and spend the evening with us in our shop La Cantina learning how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included and what you make you can take home with you.
Our wine bar will be open and food and wines available.
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Filled pasta workshop
Join us for a a fun filled Thursday morning learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different shapes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Click here to buy your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75
Pasta Workshop
Come and spend the morning with us in our shop La Cantina learning how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
A Pickle party book launch with thom eagle
Join us in our wine bar La Cantina to celebrate the launch of our very own Thom Eagl’s latest book: ‘The Philosophy of Pickles and Fermented Foods’, as part of the British Library’s ‘Philosophy of’ series. There will be a conversation with Thom lead by the Margate Bookshop, pickle themed snacks and drinks, and an opportunity to buy the book and get it signed!
Book your tickets here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are free, but very limited!
summer fermentation workshop with Thom Eagle
Join acclaimed author, fermentation guru, and Bottega chef Thom Eagle, (and his glamorous assistant Harry) for a summer fermentation workshop here in our Cantina at 18.30 on Thursday 27th June.
We’ll make some kraut, kimchi and summer pickles, and talk all things fermentation!
Drinks will be available from the bar too.
Book your tickets here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £55, bring your own jars, or buy them here.
Filled pasta workshop
Join us for a a fun filled Friday evening learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different shapes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Drinks will be available to purchase.
Click here to buy your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75
Pasta workshop
Come and learn how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Our wine bar will be open to buy drinks if you wish.
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Filled pasta workshop
Join us for a a fun filled Friday evening learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different shapes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Drinks will be available to purchase.
Click here to buy your ticket or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75
Spring preserve workshop with thom eagle
Join acclaimed author, fermentaion guru, and Bottega chef Thom Eagle, (and his glamorous assistant Harry) for a spring preserve workshop here in our Cantina at 18.30 on Friday April 26th.
We’ll make a wild garlic kimchi as well as a couple of other seasonal preserves.
Drinks will be available from the bar too.
Book your tickets here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £55, bring your own jars, or buy them here.
Filled pasta workshop
Join us for a a fun filled Friday evening learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different shapes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Drinks will be available to purchase.
Click here to buy your ticket or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75
Pasta workshop
Come and learn how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Our wine bar will be open to buy drinks if you wish.
Book your ticket here or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Filled pasta workshop
Join us for a a fun filled Friday evening learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different shapes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Drinks will be available to purchase.
Click here to buy your ticket or send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75
pasta workshop
Come and learn how to make fresh pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, and how to make tagliatelle, pappardelle, cavatelli and more so can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
Our wine bar will be open to buy drinks if you wish.
To book your ticket, please send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £60
Filled pasta workshop
Spend the morning here at our Cantina learning how to make fresh filled pasta. We’ll teach you how to make the dough, filling, and a bunch of different sahpes so you can go on and impress your family & friends :)
All equipment and ingredients are included.
What you make you can take home with you.
To book your ticket, please send an email to reservations@bottegacaruso.com
Tickets are £75