Mediterranean fish cooking workshop with Irena Fonda

From beginner to master of seafood cooking

Do you want to learn everything about cooking fish and seafood? Get to know the little secrets of cooking the best seafood dishes in an environment closest to its origin. Literally. You will be preparing various fish and seafood dishes together in a four-hour workshop under the pine trees right by the sea.

Become a master of cooking seafood dishes

It all starts with quality and fresh ingredients. And where could fish and seafood be fresher than directly by the sea? Irena Fonda knows well how to recognise the fresh gifts of the sea and how to cook them in the best way. As a biologist, she will also be able to tell you some more about fish, especially about sea bass, to which they pay a lot of attention at their fish farm. Once you've learned the basics, you'll roll up your sleeves, learn how to properly clean and fillet a fish, and then spend four hours creating exquisite fish and seafood dishes. In a pleasant ambience under the pine trees by the sea, you will cook fish soup, carpaccio, sashimi and raw fish tartare, an appetiser made from smoked sea bass, mussels or other seasonal warm appetisers and fish dishes the Fonda way.

This experience will inspire you to prepare seafood dishes. Your next garden party will have the aroma of delicious seafood, olive oil and be filled with memories from the Fonda Fish Garden!

What to expect from the experience:

• Welcome with a snack and a glass of excellent Malvasia wine and refreshing water with herbs.
• Presentation of the Fonda Fish Farm and an introduction to the preparation of seafood – how to recognise and buy truly fresh fish and how to prepare it.
• Cleaning and filleting fish and preparing excellent fish soup.
• Different ways of preparing raw sea bass – differences between carpaccio, sashimi and tartare.
• Preparation of appetisers from smoked sea bass
• Preparing mussels or another seasonal warm appetiser the Fonda way.

• Seafood feast after the workshop: preparation of Piran sea bass fillet in škartoc (paper bag), and dessert at the end.

Schedule: every Thursday at 5 p.m. and every Sunday at 11 a.m. in English

Location: Fonda Fish Garden, Seča 142, 6320 Portorož

Price: EUR 150/person (for 4 or more persons) or EUR 600 for groups of 1-4 people

The price includes:

• cooking workshop
• all accessories and ingredients,
• four-course seafood feast,
• surprise dessert,
• unlimited quantity of water with or without herbs,

• recipes for the dishes prepared at the cooking workshop

More about the experience

A Mediterranean workshop that enables you to master the cooking of seafood dishes

Join the Mediterranean cooking workshop of Irena Fonda, at which you will gain knowledge and skills in cooking seafood dishes and enjoy the culinary art right by the sea.

Back to all experiences