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Mexican Cooking Class: Authentic Home Recipes
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729 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!
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:
24 hours
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…
- 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
- Guidance from a professional chef
- Delicious lunch included
- Selection of beverages
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- 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…
- 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’…
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.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Monise
Feb 7, 2025
Mercabo is worth the $ & time. You will he a good time cooking - Had such a great time with Carolina. I'm so full I needed a nap. I learned so much with making Adobo Sauce & Al Pastor, As well as, Carnitas. I thought I knew how to make salsa & guacamole but now I can make it great. Had a great day with Mercabo!
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Tjd64
Feb 5, 2025
Great people, great food - Everyone is incredibly friendly. I learn something new every time we go. This is our favorite Cabo activity! Highly recommended.
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Rodneyn970
Feb 4, 2025
Cooking in Cabos - Loved the market shopping to pick up our ingredients for our cooking lesson and seeing the tortillas being made. It was fun making our own margarita mix and then our own masterpiece margaritas. Made our food creations even better!
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Bsbore
Feb 4, 2025
Amazing experience - This experience was excellent, Issi was an amazing chef and took us to the markets for ingredients and to his home for a wonderful meal. Totally would book this again, well worth the money and time, we had a great time and learned so much.
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Ccylev
Feb 3, 2025
Incredibly entertaining and delicious hands-on cooking experience - My husband and I did this activity for our anniversary and I can't say enough about how fun this is! All the positive reviews I read here built up quite an expectation and we were not disappointed at all. Chef Issa and Chef Carolina were our delightful hosts for this experience, but we got to meet more of their family throughout the day, including their mother. When I saw pictures online of the matching aprons participants wear, I worried it was some kind of corporate chain thing, but in the end I felt really good about supporting a family who put together a winning combination of learning, cooking, eating, and fun for guests. We were there on a tamale day, but the other dishes also sounded great.
It is a very long activity, but it never felt that way to us. Everything was well-paced. It never felt slow and we never got hungry. After our tour around town to get ingredients (including an unexpected stop at a fantastic bakery next to the produce store), the first order of business was everyone helping to hand squeeze 200 limes for our margaritas. The tip on how to cut the limes to get the most juice out fastest is something I'll use at home for sure! Issa taught us how to mix our own margaritas right away, showing us how to alter it to our own tastes. Then, the alcohol and ingredients were kept out the whole time so we could keep practicing over the next hours. So, open bar margaritas!
The cooking tasks were simple enough that everyone could participate as much or as little as they wanted. Along the way to tamales, we also made pico de gallo and two different kinds of guacamole, so there was a lot of snacking along the way.
In the end, we not only had a huge meal with two different kinds of tamales we made. There was also mashed potatoes, salsas, and the guac/pico de gallo. We were so full. It was the only meal we ate that day and it was plenty.
There was a tequila tasting at the end that I wasn't expecting, but we didn't feel pressured to buy any. Churros were also served during that with chocolate sauce or condensed milk.
A nice touch was that a live drummer/singer playing with pre-recorded music tracks provided mellow or festive music throughout the day as the mood of the group called for it. It wasn't too loud or obtrusive. Mainly calm bossa nova at first and then more energetic later as more alcohol was had by the group.
They gave us a link to all the recipes we used that day and more. I can't wait to try them out at home.
I'd like to mention something to rebut a negative review I saw on TripAdvisor. Someone claimed that they were pressured into giving a 5 star review. That was not my experience at all. In fact, I didn't leave one there because I had so much to say, I didn't want to sit around typing on my phone. I'm at home in the U.S. giving this review of my own free will and will gladly tell everyone that this is a great activity to do!!
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Isabel_f
Feb 1, 2025
Highly recommend taking... - Highly recommend taking this class!! Chef Issi makes the whole experience fun, and the food you'll learn to make is delicious.
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James
Feb 1, 2025
Great day - We really had the best time shopping and cooking. The live music was a great touch, and the food was all really good. It’s a super way to immerse yourself in Cabo.
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Elizabeth
Jan 31, 2025
Fun outing for everyone! - Carolina is a natural teacher. She explained everything we were doing in great detail. The markets we shopped at were a lot of fun. I wish we would have bought two packs of tortillas when we had the chance. The paella and tacos we made were really good. Of course the home made margaritas added to the flavor. There were other couples there who had done this same event multiple times because there is a new menu each time (and Carolina shares the recipes). We will be back.
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S6773tjstevet
Jan 30, 2025
This was great - This was a great trip. Carolina was born to be this kind of teacher tacos guac and margaritas were the best. We will definitely do this again
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Davidzs5216iz
Jan 30, 2025
Can’t miss experience - Fantastic experience: can’t recommend highly enough. From the moment we were greeted by Chef Issi, we were blown away. The shopping experience at small local food stores, his explanation of everything, hands-on instruction on making margaritas and cooking a full-course, delicious food, free-flowing conversation, right in his family home! Our best experience so far of getting away from the tourist mode and experiencing local culture. First time for my wife and I, but in the dozens of repeat trips for our hosts here in Cabo San Lucas, they say they have NEVER been disappointed with Cookin’ Cabo.
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