Oaxaca City: Traditional Cooking Class & Family Meal with Mezcal

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Duration3h

GroupUp to 10

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You Cook in a Brick Stove, Then Eat Around the Table

You arrive at a home kitchen in Oaxaca City, learn to make traditional salsas, chile rellenos and other dishes on a wood-fired brasero, then sit down to eat what you cooked with your instructor and other participants. The class runs hands-on from start to finish, includes all ingredients and beverages, and transport to and from your hotel.

Step-by-step itinerary

Traditional Oaxaqueña cooking experience

Arrive and receive welcome with pan and hot chocolate
Learn to prepare perfect hot chocolate
Prepare salsas, appetizers, and traditional drinks
Cook main dish Chile Rellenos
Prepare and sample fresh fruit dessert
Share meal with stories, laughter, and mezcal

The Experience

"When you arrive, we start with pan and chocolate — the way my abuela taught me." That's how the class begins in Oaxaca City, in a home kitchen on a terrace, not a commercial studio. You're standing in front of a brasero, a traditional brick stove with open fire, and your instructor is already treating you like family. The hot chocolate isn't instant; you'll learn to make it the way it's been made here for generations, and then you move straight into the hands-on work — no lecture, no watching from the side.

The cooking class in Oaxaca unfolds in stages. You prepare salsa verde, salsa molcajete, and guacamole first — three components that anchor every traditional Oaxacan meal. Then comes chileajo con verduras, a dish of potatoes, carrots and green beans in a mild chile guajillo sauce that tastes nothing like what you'd expect. Chile rellenos follow, stuffed with chicken, vegetables, almonds and picadillo salsa, and everything can be made vegetarian or dairy-free if you need it. A fresh fruit plate rounds out the menu. You're not standing back; you're doing the work, your hands in the food, learning the rhythm and the small adjustments that make each dish work.

When the cooking is done — and it takes real time, real effort — you sit down together around the table. The meal is what you made. There's mezcal, there's beer, there's water. There are stories and laughter, the kind that happens when you've spent hours in a kitchen with someone who actually knows what they're doing and wants you to understand why it matters. Private transportation picks you up and brings you back, so you don't navigate the city on your own.

What’s included

Your experience includes private hotel pickup and drop-off, welcome chocolate and pan, preparation and tasting of salsa verde, salsa molcajete, guacamole, chileajo con verduras, chile rellenos, and fresh fruit dessert.
All ingredients are provided.
Beverages include water, beer, and mezcal, shared during the meal at the end of the class.

Good to know

Pets welcomePublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Chef Adhey Andrade

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to cook in an actual home kitchen with someone who learned these recipes from family, not from a culinary school — the informal setting and the shared meal afterward are what make it feel like you've been invited in, not enrolled in a class.