Gia's Italian Kitchen's Podcast
Remember how you used to have Sunday dinners with family? Let's talk about Italian food and everything around it. From interviews with experts to my cooking episodes to little recipes to travel tips...my podcast starts to bring us back to those Sunday dinner memories.
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Making Pasta at Kingston Yard
Get ready, Cedar Rapids — we’re turning up the heat at Kingston Yard this summer! Join me on Sunday, June 14 at 2pm for a live, on stage pasta making experience that’s fun, flavorful, and totally unforgettable. VIP tickets are on stage with me!
Get your tickets here (https://giasitaliankitchen.biz/shop/ols/categories/special-events)
I’ll be rolling, shaping, tossing, and saucing fresh pasta right before your eyes — sharing chef secrets, Italian cooking tips, and the kind of kitchen magic that makes homemade pasta absolutely irresistible. Whether you’re a foodie, a home cook, or just someone who loves a great local event, this is your chance to experience Gia’s Italian Kitchen live.
Want to be HANDS ON? Get the VIP experience up on stage with me! Limited VIP tickets available! Get them NOW!
🎉 What to Expect • A high energy, interactive cooking demo • Fresh pasta made from scratch — right on stage • Tips you can use at home the same night • Laughs, stories, and Italian kitchen vibes • A delicious, community driven experience at Kingston Yard
📍 Where: Kingston Yard, Cedar Rapids (145 – 3rd St SW)
📅 When: Sunday, June 14 at 2pm CST
🎟️ Tickets: Limited seating — grab yours early (https://giasitaliankitchen.biz/shop/ols/categories/special-events)
VIRUTAL ATTENDANCE - we do have an option to attend virtually, for a reduced ticket price. A video link will be sent after purchase.
Come hungry for inspiration, flavor, and a whole lot of fun. Let’s make some pasta together, Cedar Rapids — see you at Kingston Yard!
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Hey, this is Kelly. I don't know if you've seen my social media posts. I am so excited. So a friend introduced me to Kingston Yard. So downtown Cedar Rapids, Eastern Iowa, if you are listening from afar. But we have this amazing campus downtown in between Big Grove Brewery and Pickle Palace, this pickleball place that's like a bar, restaurant. They have a rooftop, of course, pickleball courts. But in between there is this big, beautiful campus with a grassy area.
A New Downtown Venue Discovery
SPEAKER_00They put movies on, they put football games on, this huge screen that's on a stage. So guess what I'm doing? I'm gonna make homemade pasta on stage at Kingston Yard Sunday, June 14th. So there are lots of options for tickets. If you're listening from afar, there is a virtual option for a very inexpensive ticket so that you can watch and do the pasta making at home. That's gonna be super cool. Even better, if you are in Eastern Iowa, you should come down to Cedar Rapids and come sit with me. Let's make pasta live. So 2 p.m. Sunday, June 14th.
Live Pasta Class Date And Time
SPEAKER_00We're gonna do two different kinds of tickets. So there's general admission where you can bring your own chair, sit in the grass, relax, chill out. Um, of course, the Big Grove and
Ticket Options And Seating Details
SPEAKER_00the Pickle Palace have food and drinks so you can get whatever you want there and bring it into the grass. There will be limited seating for both of these, um, not the online, but for both of the live tickets. So um get those now. It was gonna be so fun. Grab like a group of friends, a girls' afternoon, grab your kids, make it a family event, grab your parents, bring them down. It's gonna be so fun. So the VIP experience is gonna be you're on stage with me. So you're actually gonna get the hands-on experience of making the pasta with me and eating the pasta and creating um a sauce to make a dish out of the homemade pasta. So that's gonna be super cool. So we'll have multiple stations up on stage to give for the VIP tickets. Um, if you are in the GA, everyone is gonna get a little nugget of of a snack. So um you will all it won't be a meal, but everyone will get a little tasting of something if you're not on stage. But if you
VIP On-Stage Pasta Experience
SPEAKER_00are, you're getting that plate of pasta. So grab those tickets. It's at Gia's Italian Kitchen. My website. You can go to the special events page or to my shop and find the different kinds of tickets. I'll put the links down in the notes. Um so I hope that you are super excited and please spread the word. Spread this episode or go find the social media link and like and share and comment on those. And we're gonna see you on Sunday, June 14th, downtown Cedar Rapids. Let's get cooking.