Top Mexico City Cooking Classes

Rather than just returning home with memories of Mexican food, learn to cook local dishes yourself during a cooking class that includes cocktails. Ideal for first-time visitors seeking a hands-on cultural experience, this class promises to equip you with the skills needed to create classic Mexican dishes while providing insight into the culture of Mexico’s capital.

Learn to prepare classic Mexican dishes alongside a professional chef with this cooking class in Mexico City's Roma Norte neighborhood. Shop for ingredients at a local market, and then head to a private cooking studio to prepare your 4-course menu with appetizers, mains, and dessert. This tour also includes a tasting of aqua fresca and your choice of alcoholic beverage to complement your meal.

Enjoy a traditional Mexican meal with a local couple who is passionate about entertaining new friends. Make yourself at home as you sip on a welcome drink, then help prepare a handful of Mexican dishes such as picadillo tostadas, enmoladas, flautas, or tacos. When prep time is over, sit down to a lovely meal with your hosts and learn more about the local culture.

Master the art of preparing authentic Mexican salsa during an immersive cooking class. Lead by resident cooks, the class is a great opportunity to experience the local culinary culture with Mexico City natives. Begin with a visit to the bustling Tacuba Market to collect fresh ingredients for your sauces. With the help of your epicurean host, learn how to prepare raw, fried, boiled, and roasted salsas.

Fly in a hot air balloon over one of the most spectacular places in Mexico, the Teotihuacán Valley, and enjoy one of the most impressive hot air balloon experiences in the world just 45 minutes from Mexico City. Volare is the hot air balloon rides company with more experience in Mexico. Includes - 30 to 50 minutes flight in shared balloon* - Coffee break service - Breakfast - Honor toast and diploma - Round transportation from Mexico City (optional)** Duration of the experience: 5 hours (includes transportation) Notes * The flight duration is subject to weather conditions. ** Included in the options with round trip transportation from Mexico City. If you don’t need the transportation service from Mexico City select the no transportation option.

Save by booking two popular Mexico City tours with this Super Saver featuring some of Mexico City’s best sites. Discover the colonial beauty of Coyoacán, stroll through North America's oldest university and gain insight into Frida Kahlo’s life and artwork at her former home of Casa Azul. Then, drift through the waterways of Xochimilco, a UNESCO site, and enjoy snacks aboard a ‘trajinera’ boat. You’ll come away with unique experiences and knowledge of Aztec history and colonial architecture.

Explore Teotihuacán with a private guide on this excursion to the famous archaeological site. You'll travel from your Mexico City hotel by private vehicle, arriving early enough to avoid the midday crowds. You will tour the area with a certified guide, who will tell you everything there is to know about Mayan history. After your visit, you will be able to try local drinks such as tequila and mescal before returning to Mexico City.

Peruse 2 of Mexico City's top street markets during this 5-hour cultural and salsa making experience. Navigate the bustling markets packed with goods like exotic flowers, traditional piñatas, super hot tamales, taco lesson and taste, food history, and 'magic' love potions with your guide, who will give you the inside scoop on the best places to find whatever you're after. With tasty samples along the way, you'll finish your tour with panza llena, corazon contento: a fully tummy and a happy heart. On this tour, you will learn about the socio-political history of Mexico, support independent market vendors, and experience real connections by meeting with a local family.

Hit three top historical attractions on this full-day guided tour from Mexico City: Tlatelolco, the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Teotihuacan. See where the main market of the Aztec empire once stood in Tlatelolco. At the Shrine of Guadalupe, one of the most popular Catholic pilgrimage sites in the world, see a cloak with an image of the Lady Virgin on display. Stroll through the archaeological ruins of Teotihuacan, known as the City of the Gods, and climb the Sun and Moon pyramids for fantastic views.

Visit two of Mexico City's most important attractions, the National Museum of Anthropology and Chapultepec Castle, in just a few hours on this half-day tour. An informative guide takes you to the National Museum of Anthropology, which houses the largest collection of traditional Mexican art in the world. Then, discover the Chapultepec Castle’s 12 halls filled with royal artifacts and learn about its origins as a retreat for Aztec rulers.

Take an authentic, private cooking class in the colonial neighborhood of San Ángel. Step into the home kitchen of Lucía, a talented cook with a graduate degree in Mexican culinary history. With Lucía’s guiding hand, use fresh, local ingredients to prepare a seasonal menu of dishes like chiles en nogada (meat-filled poblano chilis in a walnut cream sauce) and traditional moles (savory meat dishes cooked in spice and chili sauce). Enjoy your meal in Lucía’s lovely home garden.

Nuanced and complex, Mexican sauces define the cuisine and add a punch to any dish. This tour teaches you to distinguish amongst favorite: cook and taste 10 different sauces paired with street food tacos and appetizers and learn the secret ingredients behind each. Then, see the fresh ingredients that make each sauce so good on a walking tour of a local market.

Master the art of one of Mexico’s most famous dishes during a cooking class that teaches you to make traditional tacos. As well as learning to cook under the guidance of a Mexican chef, you’ll explore a local market and see stalls that many first-time visitors miss out on. As well as including all food, this experience includes your choice of alcoholic and soft drinks, and comes with printed recipe cards to take back home.

You'll be guided by our expert, award-winning mixologists, and will learn about the origin and production process of our spirits, as well as intimate stories of our travels and explorations. Discover the secrets behind-the-scenes of an exclusive Mexican bar! The entire Experience takes place in our beautiful, purpose-designed, appointment-only venue, Salón Rosario, in the charismatic and central neighbourhood of la Colonia Roma Norte. Feel free to come dressed as you like, we don't have a dress code :)

Discover the secrets to preparing fresh, authentic Mexican cuisine during a small-group cooking class in Mexico City. With the help of your expert instructor, you’ll learn and apply the traditions and techniques that go into each dish. The multi-course meal may include sopes, cactus salad, chilaquiles rojos, or potatoes with chorizo. Please note that the menu can be adapted to accommodate vegetarians. Afterward, you'll feel ready to prepare classic Mexican food for friends back home.

Take a few hours to learn the ins and outs of traditional Mexican cuisine—an experience often missed by visitors to Mexico City. The tour begins at a local market, where your guide navigates the crowds and shouting vendors for you. After learning about seasonal ingredients, follow your guide back to their home for an intimate cooking lesson and round out the day with a freshly-prepared meal.

Prepare a traditional meal alongside an experienced cook during a private cooking class in Mexico City’s historic Coyoacan neighborhood. Learn the basics of using local ingredients creating the flavors of the home kitchen, then sit down to share a meal as your host tells stories about cooking and eating in a Mexican home.

Enjoy a private and authentic cooking class in a local home with host Martha who lived abroad for 35 years in 11 countries and took cooking courses in each of these countries to learn a new cuisine and develop new cooking skills. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Your cooking class will take place in a local home kitchen where Martha will teach you how to make 2-3 traditional Spanish dishes from their family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your hosts' Mexican home. • Cooking lesson in a local home • Introduction to Mexico's culture and cuisine • 100% private activity • Experience Mexican hospitality in a residential neighborhood • Vegetarian options available • If you choose the market tour grade option, your experience will include a visit to the local market where your host will introduce you to her favored vendors and together you will purchase a few ingredients for your cooking class

Enjoy a private and authentic cooking class in a local home with host Theresa who is originally from Jamaica and moved to Mexico City in 2013. This is a perfect experience for anyone looking to connect with local culture over food. Your cooking class will take place in a local home kitchen where Theresa will teach you how to make 2-3 traditional Jamaican dishes from their family recipes. After cooking, you will enjoy your meal together in your hosts' apartment. • Private cooking class with a local • Introduction to Jamaica's culture and cuisine • 100% private activity • Experience Jamaiacan hospitality in a Mexico City • Vegetarian and gluten free options available

Jose and Luis are a couple who were born and raised in Mexico City, and have a shared passion for food, cooking and entertaining. Over the years, they have enjoyed sharing their table with family, friends and strangers, by nurturing them with their food and stories. In this experience, you will walk through the market with your hosts and stop at their favorite stalls to meet the vendors, learn more about their produce and buy ingredients for your cooking class thereafter. Then you will don your aprons and learn to cook garnachas, molcajete salsa and sopa conde. After you cook, share the meal you helped prepare..

Learn how to make Mexican food and spend time in a local home with this private experience. Your host and instructor, Margarita, will show you how to make two or three traditional dishes, with vegetarian and gluten-free options available for those with special diets. Once you're done, you'll sit down to feast on your creations.

Discover authentic Mexican gastronomy and live a unique culinary experience with us! We invite you to immerse yourself in the flavors and textures of Mexican cuisine at the hands of our expert chefs. Learn to prepare an exquisite 3-course menu that includes tortilla soup, guacamole and cochinita pibil, emblematic dishes that are part of our rich culinary tradition.

Deepen your love of Mexican cuisine with this market tour and cooking lesson. Join your hosts, Alex and Ale, at the San Juan Market. Check out classic ingredients like dried chiles and rare finds like wild boar. Head to your hosts’ home kitchen to prepare one or two delicious dishes, like chicken wrapped in corn tortillas and covered in mole. Enjoy conversation with your hosts over a delightful home-cooked meal.