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Lima: Peruvian Cooking Class & Surquillo Market Tour

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Duration4h

GroupUp to 14

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PickupAt your hotel

Cook Peruvian Food in Lima After Shopping the Market Where Locals Buy

You visit Surquillo Market with a professional chef to buy fresh ingredients, then head to a kitchen studio in Miraflores where you cook a starter and main course under hands-on instruction. The class accommodates beef, chicken, fish, or vegetarian options, includes all meals and transport, and runs about four to five hours from hotel pickup to finish.

Step-by-step itinerary

Pick up by tour guide and driver
Visit Surquillo Market Number 2
Learn about Peruvian ingredients
Purchase fresh ingredients
Travel to kitchen studio in Miraflores
Participate in hands-on cooking class

The Experience

The morning light hits the stalls at Surquillo Market Number 2 and vendors are already calling out prices—tomatoes, ceviche fish, purple potatoes stacked in pyramids, fruits you've never seen before. Your guide and chef arrive, and the real work starts: you're not walking through as a tourist, you're shopping like someone who actually cooks dinner that night. You pick out the exact ingredients for the dish you chose—beef, chicken, or fish—and the chef explains what makes each one right for what you're about to make. It's maybe an hour of this, moving through the noise and the color, learning which vendor sells the best of what you need.

Then you head to the kitchen studio in Miraflores, a short drive away. This isn't a demonstration where you watch someone else cook. You're at the counter with your hands in it—chopping, seasoning, tasting, adjusting. The chef guides you through the techniques, shows you how Peruvian cooks actually do it, and the whole thing stays loose and practical, not stiff. You make a starter and a main course, and by the time you sit down to eat what you made, you understand why those ingredients mattered and how the flavors fit together. If you're vegetarian or vegan, the kitchen adapts everything without fuss—just let them know when you book.

The whole experience runs around four to five hours from pickup to the last bite. Your guide handles the transport, the chef handles the instruction, and you leave knowing how to make at least one real Peruvian dish at home. The profits from the class go to Reciprocity NGO, a nonprofit partner working in Lima's lower-income communities, so the money you spend does something beyond the meal itself.

What’s included

Your day includes hotel pickup and return transport in an air-conditioned vehicle, a guided tour of Surquillo Market Number 2 with your chef, all fresh ingredients purchased at the market, hands-on cooking instruction from a professional chef in the Miraflores kitchen studio, and the complete meal you prepare—starter and main course. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free adaptations are available with advance notice.

Good to know

Easy physical levelInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by HAKU TOURS

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to learn how to cook one real Peruvian dish and understand where the ingredients come from, without spending the day in a classroom or a tourist-heavy cooking school—the market stop is what makes it feel like actual cooking, not a performance.