Hands on
A Salzburg cooking class on this site costs $67 for 90 minutes of apple strudel and Salzburger Nockerl with a chef, rated 4.9 across 568 reviews, or $95 for a two-hour dinner class with pretzel-making and a live concert, 4.8 across 74 reviews. Two more listings are hands-on without being cooking lessons: a two-hour chocolate workshop where you make ten Mozartkugeln and take them home, $73, and a 90-minute Stiegl brewery tour with three tastings, $28. Four listings in all, and each lists Free cancellation. The meeting point is on each listing.
Quick answer
The short answer. For a Salzburg cooking class in the plain sense, book the $67 apple strudel and Salzburger Nockerl class: 568 reviews at 4.9, the most reviews and the highest rating of the four. If you want the class to be your dinner, the $95 dinner class has you eat what you cooked while a concert plays. For something to carry home, the $73 workshop sends you off with ten wrapped Mozartkugeln and the recipe. The $28 brewery tour is the lowest price here, and it is a tour with tastings, not a lesson.
The two classes
One is 90 minutes of baking; the other is a class, a dinner and a concert.
The apple strudel and Salzburger Nockerl class at $67 is 90 minutes of baking. The listing describes hands-on cooking of sweet dishes of Austria and Salzburg: you cook on your own while an experienced chef guides you. The name gives the two dishes, apple strudel and Salzburger Nockerl. It is rated 4.9 across 568 reviews; no listing under $100 on this site is rated higher.
The dinner cooking class with pretzel-making and music at $95 runs two hours. The listing describes a traditional Austrian cooking class and a dining experience in one: you prepare culinary classics, then eat what you made while a live concert plays. Pretzel-making is in the name. It is rated 4.8 across 74 reviews, the smallest review base of the four, so the 4.8 rests on fewer opinions than the strudel class has.
The difference between them is $28 and half an hour. The cheaper one is a baking lesson. The other one is an evening: a class, a dinner and a concert on one ticket.
Hands-on, but not a lesson
Ten chocolates to take home, or three beers to taste on site.
The chocolate workshop at $73 is two hours in the city. You make ten Mozartkugeln from scratch: shape them, dip them, decorate them. All ten go home with you, wrapped, together with the original recipe. It is rated 4.8 across 105 reviews. If the question is what to bring back from Salzburg, this is the listing that answers it with something you made.
The Stiegl brewery tour with beer tasting at $28 is 90 minutes with a guide through a family-run brewery on the waterfront. The listing counts more than 530 years of beer history, a museum visit, a bottling line that fills 90,000 bottles an hour, and three Stiegl beers to taste. It is rated 4.7 across 368 reviews. You watch and taste; you do not brew. Check the listing for the minimum age.
Book direct
The two classes first, then the chocolate workshop and the brewery tour. Prices and ratings as the listings show them.
★ 4.9 · 568 reviews
★ 4.8 · 74 reviews
★ 4.8 · 105 reviews
★ 4.7 · 368 reviews
Every trip, current fare
Cheapest first, from $28 to $95.
| Tour | Length | Price | What you get | Cost per hour | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salzburg: Stiegl Brewery Tour with Beer Tasting | 90 min | $28 | Brewery tour with three beer tastings | $18.67 | 4.7 · 368 |
| Salzburg: Apple Strudel & Salzburger Nockerl Class | 90 min | $67 | Bake apple strudel and Salzburger Nockerl | $44.67 | 4.9 · 568 |
| Salzburg: Chocolate Workshop to Make 10 Mozartkugeln | 2 h | $73 | Make ten Mozartkugeln to take home | $36.50 | 4.8 · 105 |
| Salzburg: Dinner Cooking Class with Pretzel-Making & Music | 2 h | $95 | Cooking class with dinner and concert | $47.50 | 4.8 · 74 |
Which one, if…
Worked out from the four listings above, not from taste.
The apple strudel and Salzburger Nockerl class at $67, 90 minutes with a chef guiding you. 4.9 across 568 reviews.
The dinner cooking class with pretzel-making and music at $95: two hours, and you eat what you prepared while a concert plays. 4.8 across 74 reviews.
The chocolate workshop at $73: ten Mozartkugeln made by you, wrapped to take home, with the recipe. 4.8 across 105 reviews.
The brewery tour at $28 is the lowest price of the four and lasts an hour and a half, with three tastings. 4.7 across 368 reviews.
The strudel class again: 568 reviews against 368 for the brewery, 105 for the workshop and 74 for the dinner class.
A Mozart concert with a candlelight dinner is $95, 4.7 across 996 reviews, the same price as the dinner class. The concert page compares the dinner concerts.
The honest comparison
On the ratings, yes. The four listings sit between 4.7 and 4.9, and the one with the most reviews is also the one rated highest: the strudel class, 4.9 across 568 reviews at $67.
For scale against the rest of the site: $67 is more than a two-hour Old Town walk with a licensed guide at $39 and less than the four-hour Original Sound of Music Tour at $84. A Salzburg cooking class is 90 minutes or two hours indoors with your hands busy; it does not replace seeing the city, and it fits beside a walk on the same day by length alone.
What the figures here do not tell you: the size of the group, the starting times, and whether the price changes for children. Those lines are on each listing. All 35 tours, these four included, are set out by price on the price page.
Travelling with children? Two marionette shows, The Magic Flute at $37 and The Sound of Music at $54, sit next to the chocolate workshop as family evenings.
Marionette tickets→Common questions
The apple strudel and Salzburger Nockerl class is $67 for 90 minutes. The dinner cooking class with pretzel-making and a live concert is $95 for two hours. The chocolate workshop is $73 and the brewery tour with tastings $28.
The strudel and Nockerl class lasts 90 minutes; the dinner class with pretzel-making lasts two hours. The Mozartkugeln workshop is two hours and the brewery tour 90 minutes. Starting times are on each listing.
The name gives the two dishes: apple strudel and Salzburger Nockerl. The listing describes hands-on cooking of sweet dishes of Austria and Salzburg, where you cook on your own with an experienced chef guiding you. 4.9 across 568 reviews, $67.
The dinner is what you cook. The listing describes a traditional Austrian cooking class and dining experience: you prepare culinary classics and eat them while a live concert plays. It is $95 for two hours, rated 4.8 across 74 reviews. For drinks, check the inclusions line on the listing.
Yes. The listing says you make ten Mozartkugeln from scratch, shaping, dipping and decorating them, and take home all ten wrapped chocolates along with the original recipe. The workshop is $73 for two hours, rated 4.8 across 105 reviews.
A guided tour of the family-run brewery on the waterfront, a museum visit, a look at a bottling line that fills 90,000 bottles an hour, and three Stiegl beers to taste. It is $28 for 90 minutes, rated 4.7 across 368 reviews.
From these listings: the chocolate workshop at $73 and the strudel class at $67 are hands-on, and the marionette staging of The Sound of Music at $54 is described as right for the whole family. Age limits are not in the figures here, so check each listing.
Each of the four listings on this page lists Free cancellation. Read the cancellation line on the listing for the deadline before you pay.
Go deeper
The original tour, the Hallstatt combination and the marionette show.
Day tripsHallstatt, the salt mine, Berchtesgaden and Königssee.
HallstattThe half-day tour, the combination tour and private day trips.
Salt mineThe Hallein Salt Mine trip and where else a mine is an option.
PrivatePrivate walks in town and private day trips.
Walking toursOld Town walks with a guide, shared and private.
