Corfu, a beautiful Greek island, providing enormous opportunities for recreational vacations, is also one of the world's renowned cook travel destinations. Its numerous restaurants and taverns serve the authentic Greek cuisine, distinguished for its simplicity, originality and great combo of tastes and flavors. One of the dining facilities to be visited first is the Invisible Kitchen Corfu, where you can both experience the traditional Greek food and learn how to cook it.
The Invisible Kitchen serves both the international and authentic Greek food in its modern variations. Its extensive range of menus is based on the customers' most specific requirements, and the restaurant caters for dinners, wedding parties, wedding buffets and cocktail parties. Each menu is based on a specific occasion. Meals are offered in an enormous variety of textures, colors and flavors. Try here a herb roast chicken and Greek style roasted potato wedges; Corfiot "giant" butter beans in a piquant tomato sauce and a cucumber, melon, cherry tomato and mint salad; a Greek yoghurt and honey cake with a raisins and lemon syrup and shredded cabbage with mustard seeds and coconut. The best thing about the Invisible Kitchen is that here you can not only eat all those Greek delicacies, but also first prepare them and then eat.
Two culinary experts, Ben Philo and Claudia Pollinger, run the Invisible Kitchen and offer visitors to explore the mysteries of the Greek cuisine via their hands-on and informal culinary classes. Cooking in a professional kitchen, participants become acquainted with the unique Venetian heritage of Corfu, while learning the techniques for the preparation of fresh fish and meat, knife skills, grilling, baking and other essentials. Certainly, the owners share their extensive and inspiring menus with their guests.
The Invisible Kitchen culinary course includes many things to bring joy and comfort to your home kitchen. You can learn how to make Greek bread and coffee, the renowned Melon, cucumber, cherry tomato and mint salad, Roasted potatoes with lemon and oregano and the Squid salad with celery, olives and parsley. The courses also contains a demonstration and practice in preparing and filleting fish, cleaning squid, cooking ideal fish, boning lamb and chicken and prepare them on barbecue. Each day's cooking is finished with lunch, where a group will enjoy the fruits of their labor and experience the sorts of the best local wines.
The Invisible Kitchen culinary classes also comprise a trip to a vibrant and busy daily fish and vegetable market in Corfu Town, a tasting of local and other Greek wines in a specialist "cava" and lunch in Ben and Claudia's favorite taverna. One of the excursion highlights is a visit to Old Perithia, the most famous mountain village in Corfu, which was abandoned forty years ago and is gently decaying back into the rocks from which it was built. There is a splendid restaurant nearby, specializing in fresh feta, local lamb and regional wine. The Corfu Kitchen is a five-day cookery course, available in May and October. Prices start at five hundred and fifty of their currency per person for the course alone or from seven hundred and ninety five per person, including accommodation, excursions and a car rental.