4 Cooking Classes in Oaxaca to Build a Day Around

1.Flavors of Oaxaca: Cooking Class with No Set Menu and Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 333 reviews · 4 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $75Our pick

Market tour and hands-on Oaxaca cooking class in small groups. Choose dishes like mole negro, with drinks included. English or Spanish.

“100% worth doing, definitely exceeded my expectations. Our guide and translator was excellent, she took us on a great tour of a local market and the cooking part of the class was well organized and of course delicious. It was great fun meeting people from across the globe all wanting to take this class.”

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2.Traditional Oaxaqueña Cooking with Grandma’s Recipes

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 260 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $90Top rated

Learn traditional Oaxacan cooking with Chef Adhey Andrade, starting with bread and hot chocolate, then a 3-course hands-on meal with mezcal.

“You will learn traditional Oaxaca cooking with Adhey and her husband. It was a wonderful experience. Adhey was so warm and welcoming. I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. Highly recommend you taking this cooking class with Adhey”

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3.Vegetarian Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 139 reviews · 3.5 hours · from $70Best value

Oaxaca vegetarian cooking class with market shopping, hands-on mole and salad, dessert, wild mezcal tasting, then a shared meal in a small group.

“Viktor and Wendy were fantastic guides. Really enjoyable morning buying, cooking and eating some local traditional foods. Recommended.”

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4.Traditional Oaxacan Cooking Class with Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 80 reviews · 5.5 hours · from $133

Oaxaca market-to-kitchen cooking class where you shop with a chef, cook classic regional dishes, and eat with tortillas and Oaxacan drinks.

“We went to a family in Teotilan and the whole experience is very unique and wonderful. Edgar (our guide) and David (our driver) picked us up right on time and the car is very clean. We drove to Teotilan which took about 35 min and met with our cooking teacher Alicia. Then we gathered the ingredients from the market and made it back to the kitchen to start preparing a local dish. They accommodated the fact that I cannot take spicy food and still gave us a whole experience of preparing everything from scratch that is authentic here that I can safely eat. All the other ladies who work there…”

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