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Mexican Cooking Class: Authentic Home Recipes
5.0
683 Ratings
Cabo San Lucas
Embark on a culinary adventure in Cabo San Lucas with a Mexican cooking experience and market tour. Discover the vibrant flavors, aromas, and spices of Mexican cuisine while immersing yourself in the local culture and history. Perfect for cruise ship passengers!
Duration:
4 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Cabo San Lucas - Join Chef Issi and his kin at their culinary establishment in the heart of Cabo San Lucas. Embark on a guided excursion through various local spice and grocery markets in the downtown area, handpicking ingredients essential for the day’s cooking agenda. Chef Issi will impart insights into the region’s culinary traditions, as well as anecdotes about the local lifestyle and historical background.\nUpon gathering your provisions, you’ll be welcomed into the chef’s abode. Don your aprons and commence the hands-on preparation of an array of salsas and dishes that will culminate in a sumptuous Mexican banquet.\nMaster the art of crafting a Margarita, Cabo-style, and savor it alongside the fruits of your culinary endeavors.\nThis experience is steeped in the warmth of a Mexican family setting.\nOur kitchen prides itself on using only fresh ingredients and eschews pre-cooked fare, ensuring that our cooking classes are fully adaptable to vegetarian and vegan preferences, as well as gluten-free requirements.
What's Included
- Guidance from a professional chef
- Delicious lunch included
- Selection of beverages
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Meal Options
- MOLE POBLANO - On Monday this is our main dish, all made from scratch with more than 25 different ingredients to cook the king of the Mexican sauces
- Tamales - On Tuesday you will learn to prepare the dough, the leaves to wrap, and the stew within the tamales, just like Chef’s grandma.
- Beef Birria in red adobo sauce - On Wednesday you will enjoy the best and more tender beef tacos, you will learn top prepare the sauce to season (adobo) and the tortillas
- Sea Food and Paella - Thursday is for Baja style sea food and Paella
- Pork Tacos - Friday is for Al Pastor or Carnitas Tacos, Salsas and Tortillas
- Antojitos Mexicanos - On Saturday we will cook Mexican munchies: Gorditas, Sopes, enchiladas, Quesadillas and more.
- Home made corn Tortillas - Daily, in all classes of the week you will learn how to make your own tortillas at home
- Salsas and Guacamole - Everyday, all our classes will tech you how to make different types of guacamoles and salsa
- Margaritas (Cookin’ Cabo style) - Our own winner recipe for Margaritas, Salud !!
Additional Information
Post exploring the Local Markets for fresh ingredients, indulge in an immersive Cooking Experience where you get to discover the tastes, smells, herbs, and the lifestyles, traditions, and history of Mexico as well as its savory familial cooking. This Mexican culinary workshop is completely engaging and is crafted for the purpose of imparting ‘hands-on’ learning of authentic household recipes that are beloved and often prepared for family gatherings and friends. This is an excellent selection for cruise ship passengers.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Comfortable walking shoes are recommended
- Minimum numbers apply. There is a possibility of cancellation after confirmation if there is not enough passengers to meet requirements. In the event of this occurring, you will be offered an alternative date or full refund
- Please let us know if you have Allergies, Food Restrictions or Mobility issues.
Location
Mercabo Gourmet Street Food
Ignacio Zaragoza
Please ask your taxi driver to drop you off at "MERCABO GOURMET STREET FOOD RESTAURANT" on Calle Ignacio Zaragoza 121, between Niños Heroes and Lazaro Cardenas street (a few steps of "Estacionamiento Aramburo")
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(683 Ratings)
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Jacob
Sep 25, 2024
Awesome experience in downtown Cabo San Lucas - Excellent chef, excellent service. Recommend this to anyone visiting Cabo. Awesome experience overall. Will definitely come back for another lesson.
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Mousimy_m
Sep 22, 2024
A must excursion in Cabo! - Issa was great!! Loved the authenticity of the excursion. The local market tour was really neat! Would highly recommend
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Janet_l
Sep 17, 2024
A wonderful authentic Mexican experience from start to finish. - Everything was fantastic. This is a family owned business and it shows. The way that the tour is planned out, the shopping for ingredients, preparing the meal, making guacamole, salsa, margaritas, etc. was so much fun. Our group of four were seated with 6 other couples from all over the world. We had so much fun singing, dancing, cooking and at the end, we opted for tequila tasting, right on sight in their tasting room. I give this tour 5 stars. It will last about 4 hours but its worth it. I will do it again the next time I return to Cabo.
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Thomas_d
Sep 13, 2024
Great cooking experience with and awesome chef - Tropical storm Ileana descended on Cabo the day of our reservation and Issi kept us informed and in the end it was just my wife and I with our private chef in his home. Awesome experience with great food, drink and laughs.
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Jacob_b
Sep 12, 2024
Awesome experience - Me and my wife had an awesome time cooking with Issi and his staff! We are on our honeymoon and highly recommend doing this excursion. The margaritas and food were top notch. I recommend also doing the tequila tasting at the end.
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Anonymous
Sep 5, 2024
Wonderful experience - This was one of the best cooking classes. The recipes were clear and easy to follow.i would recommend this Coles’s. Great instructor as well as a chef.
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Danpo6224xv
Sep 5, 2024
Amazing experience with an amazing host - So glad we did this!! We met our host Chef Issi at a cute little restaurant in the downtown area. We visited 3 local markets to gather supplies then we were off to cook!!! After a quick lesson on how to make a proper margarita with fantastic tequila we were cooking!! We made several picos and guacamole’s for starters then filled and folded our own tamales. Turns out our best meal of the trip was our own homemade feast we prepared under Issi’s guidance. We would definitely do this again on a different day to learn his other dishes.
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Allison_w
Sep 4, 2024
Great experience - It was so fun! The meal we made was delicious. The chefs were awesome! The trip to the market to pick out fresh ingredients made the meal and margaritas more enjoyable!
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Danielbk9225da
Aug 19, 2024
The 1st thing on your to-do list when in Cabo!! - If you have one "must do" while visiting Cabo, this is it. My wife and I had so much fun! You'll start by shopping at local markets for the ingredients and spend the day learning how to cook proper Mexican fare. The staff were so friendly and knowledgeable and made it so fun for us. The food was also unbelievably good. Thanks to Carolina and the rest of the group for making our trip special.
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Daniel_b
Aug 16, 2024
Excellent - Amazing experience with Carolina today! Great people, great food and we learned some proper cooking techniques that I can’t wait to try at home.
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