Mexico City: Ancestral cooking class with a local
From: $ 129
✅ Included in the Mexico City Insider Travel Pass
🌟 Best experience in a local home
💃🏼 Fun activity for groups
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Join our immersive cooking class in Mexico City, where you’ll experience the art of Mexican cuisine with a local chef. Begin by shopping for fresh ingredients at a local market, where you’ll meet the chef’s friends and suppliers.
Enjoy a brief tour of Chinatown before heading to the chef’s studio in downtown Mexico City. In this hands-on class, learn to make handmade corn tortillas, discover wild edible herbs, and delve into the world of Mexican vegetables.
Master the art of cooking Oaxacan tlayudas and preparing authentic Mexican salsas using a traditional molcajete. Using classic Mexican cookware, you’ll gain insights into ancestral Mexican dishes.
- Go to the chef’s kitchen studio in downtown Mexico City
- First, you will shop for ingredients at a local market
- In the market, you will meet the chef’s market friends
- Walk to Chinatown for a short tour
- Go to the chef’s studio in downtown Mexico City to start the cooking class
- Learn to make handmade corn tortilla
- Learn about wild edible herbs
- Learn about Mexican vegetables
- Cook Oaxacan tlayudas
- Learn to make Mexican salsas in a molcajete
- Use traditional Mexican cookware
- Learn about ancestral Mexican dishes
This ancestral cooking class in Mexico City is available all week except Sundays. Time slots are:
| Day | Time |
|---|---|
| Mondays | 4-10 PM |
| Tuesdays | 12-6 PM |
| Wednesdays | 9 AM – 3 PM |
| Thursdays | 9 AM – 3 PM |
| Fridays | 12-6 PM |
| Saturdays | 8:30 AM – 3 PM |
This is a small group tour where you will join other travelers (10 per group).
Booking this experience for your group? If yes, you are free to choose any time and date you prefer for a minimum of 8 participants.
✅ Professionally trained chef
✅ All ingredients for the cooking class
✅ Market tour
✅ Food: eat what you cook
✅ Drinks
✅ Digital recipe sent after the cooking class
✅ Vegan/vegetarian available upon request
✅ Travel Concierge for the duration of your trip in Mexico (up to 3 days)
✅ 10% discount code for your next experience (all tours worldwide)
❌ Transportation to the venue [open on Google maps]
❌ Tips for the chefs (not obliged but encouraged)
❌ Meals and activities not mentioned above
Experience Policy
The minimum age for this experience is 10 years old
Refund Policies
- 100% refund for Insider Travel Members
- 100% refund 5 days before the trip
- 16% IVA charge beyond 5 days
More cancellation options (traveler preferred)
- Keep the credit in your account and use it on any of our experiences worldwide
- Convert your credit to a gift card and send it to friends and family (applicable to all experiences worldwide)
- Both options above are credited 100% and are valid for use for 1 year
Meet your host
Diana
Diana studied culinary arts and food culture in the prestigious Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia del INAH (National School of Anthropology and History). She is a local in Mexico City and has been showing the ancestral way of cooking to travelers fro many years now. She is proud to present her Mexican roots through culinary and food.
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