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Cusco: San Pedro Market Cooking Class & Pisco Cocktails

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Duration4h 15m

GroupUp to 12

LanguagesEN

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San Pedro market flavors hands-on cooking and pisco mixing

You’ll start at Cusco’s San Pedro Market tasting local fruits before heading to a cozy kitchen to prepare three Peruvian dishes and two pisco cocktails with a local chef. Expect laughter over spilled drinks, hands-on lessons with fresh ingredients, and recipes you’ll want to try again—even if they never turn out quite the same.

4h 15m

Step-by-step itinerary

Visit San Pedro Market
Try exotic Peruvian fruits
Walk to cooking studio
Prepare 2 cocktails with Pisco and fruits
Cook ceviche, causa limeña, quinoa tamal
Enjoy Peruvian dessert

The Experience

We met right outside door number 1 at San Pedro Market—easy to spot, even if you’re half-awake from the altitude. Our guide, Lucía, waved us over with a mango in one hand and a grin that said she’d done this a hundred times. Inside, it was loud and bright—vendors calling out, piles of purple corn and potatoes I’d never seen before. Lucía sliced open something called lucuma for us to try. It tasted like caramel but somehow earthy? I probably made a weird face; she just laughed and handed me another fruit. I still think about that flavor sometimes.

After wandering through the market (and awkwardly trying my Spanish on an abuela selling herbs), we walked maybe ten minutes to their cooking studio—a creaky old house from the 1930s with blue shutters and that faint smell of wood smoke clinging to the walls. We washed up, tied on aprons, and got right into cocktail making. Pisco sour first—my lime squeezing skills need work apparently—but then we muddled fresh passionfruit from the market for round two. The kitchen was full of chatter; someone spilled pisco, which made everyone laugh harder than it should’ve.

Cooking cebiche was hands-on—lots of lime juice everywhere, cold fish against warm fingers, red onion stinging my eyes (I probably overdid it). The causa limeña was trickier than it looked; Lucía showed me how to layer everything so it didn’t collapse into a pile. By the time we sat down to eat together, there was this easy feeling in the room—like we’d known each other longer than two hours. They sent us home with recipes by email later but honestly I’m not sure I’ll ever get that tamal quite right back home.

What’s included

Your day includes all ingredients from San Pedro Market, hands-on instruction from a local chef in central Cusco, preparation of three Peruvian courses plus two cocktails (with bottled water), use of all kitchen equipment during your session, and digital recipes sent afterward so you can recreate everything back home—even if yours turns out a little messier like mine did.

Good to know

Stroller friendlyPublic transport nearby

Operated by Peruvian Cusco Flavors