Eataly Beverly Hills Pasta Class Benefits Children's Hospital Los Angeles

At 10250 Santa Monica Blvd in the heart of Beverly Hills, Eataly's La Scuola cooking school closed out March with a Sunday afternoon that was equal parts culinary education and pediatric fundraiser. The "Pasta Traditions from the North" class, held March 29 at 4:00 PM, directed 20% of every ticket sale to Children's Hospital Los Angeles through Make March Matter, now in its 11th consecutive year.

That 20% commitment is not a rounding error. Eataly signed on to the campaign's 125th Anniversary Club, a designation reserved for partners pledging to raise $12,500 or more in honor of CHLA's milestone year. The class on Santa Monica Boulevard was one of Eataly's direct levers for hitting that threshold, alongside other La Scuola public sessions scheduled across March.

Make March Matter has mobilized more than 90 Southern California businesses in 2026, collectively building on a campaign that has raised more than $14 million for the hospital since its 2016 launch. The scale matters: CHLA is one of the country's leading pediatric research and treatment centers, and the March model keeps the fundraising grounded in everyday consumer choices rather than gala-season checkwriting.

For the pasta crowd, the draw extended beyond the donation receipts. The class zeroed in on northern Italian technique, specifically the egg-based sfoglia tradition rooted in Emilia-Romagna. Where southern Italian pasta typically relies on semolina and water, the northern approach calls for soft wheat "00" flour worked together with whole eggs into a supple, golden dough that is then stretched to near-translucent thinness with a rolling pin or mattarello. From that single sheet come tagliatelle, pappardelle, and garganelli, shapes whose wide, porous surfaces are engineered to hold the butter- and cream-forward sauces that define the Po Valley table. It is a technique replicable at home with nothing more than a wooden board, a long rolling pin, and patience, and La Scuola's Scuola Chef walked attendees through each stage before sending them to the pasta board themselves.

Registration was required and the class was open to the public, making it accessible to hobbyist home cooks and seasoned pasta-makers alike. Eataly's model of running charitable programming through La Scuola has proved durable precisely because the format delivers genuine skill transfer: attendees leave with a recipe, a practiced technique, and, this March, the knowledge that their ticket price helped keep one of Los Angeles's most critical children's hospitals funded.