Mexico · Cooking

Mexican Cooking Class with fresh Local Market ingredients selection and transpor

4 Hours Pickup service provided in Puerto Morelos. to Drop-off service provided in Puerto Morelos. Easy pace

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The journey

Trip highlights

01 Visit a local market with your chef-guide to select fresh ingredients
02 Try authentic tamales during the market experience
03 Learn to prepare traditional Mexican dishes, dessert, and a margarita
04 Make your own hand-made tortillas and sopes
05 Use traditional kitchen tools like a molcajete, comal, and clay pots
06 Enjoy the 4-course meal you helped create with drinks included
07 Hotel pick-up and drop-off are included

Discover Mexican cuisine through a hands-on cooking class that begins with a visit to a local market in Cancun. Walk the market with your chef-guide, select fresh ingredients, and take in the colors, aromas, and everyday energy of the different food sections.

Back in the kitchen, learn to prepare several traditional Mexican dishes, a dessert, hand-made tortillas and sopes, plus the secret to a perfect margarita. You’ll use traditional tools such as the molcajete, comal, and clay pots before sitting down to enjoy the 4-course meal you helped create, accompanied by drinks.

With hotel pick-up and drop-off, chef-guide commentary, and all supplies included, this experience is a fun and flavorful way to take home new Mexican cooking skills from Cancun.

Discover Mexican cuisine through a hands-on cooking class that begins with a visit to a local market in Cancun.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 4 Hours

Tour type Shared

Activity level Easy

Accommodation Not included

Transport Not included

Wheelchair access No

Cities Cancun, Puerto Morelos

Languages English, French, Spanish

Day by day

The itinerary

Day 01

Hotel Pick Up

Air conditioned vehicle hotel pick-up and drop-off

Local Market Tour

Experience the local market with your chef-guide and pick up some fresh ingredients.
Try delicious authentic Tamales.
Cover your senses with colors, aromas, and sounds of the Cancun local markets’ activity.
Stroll around through the different food sections with their variety of herbs, vegetables, meat, and seafood.
Find piñata shops, tortillas Factory (from corn flour to table-ready), pottery, clothes, and some souvenirs.

Cooking Class and Feast

Learn how to cook several Mexican traditional dishes, a very tasty dessert & the secret for a perfect margarita with our Cancun Cooking Class.

Cook your own hand-made tortillas & sopes. Believe us, you haven’t tried a tortilla this flavorful.

Why is guacamole in Mexico different? Learn the secret for you to impress your friends back home.

During our Cancun Mexican Cooking Lesson and Local Market, you will use traditional kitchen tools like the molcajete (stone mortar), comal (flat griddle), and clay pots, and finish by enjoying the 4-course meal you helped to create, accompanied by drinks.

Hotel pick up and drop-off, insightful commentary from the chef-guide, recipe booklet, and all supplies are included!

Take home a souvenir from Cancun in the form of new Mexican cooking skills!

The route