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Yucatan Taste: Gastronomic adventure in Merida through Cooking Class and Market Visit
4.9
212 Ratings
Mérida
Embark on a gastronomic adventure in Merida! Explore the market, try local delicacies, and discover traditional recipes in a cooking class. Savor the flavors of Yucatan and immerse yourself in the vibrant local culture.
Embark on a gastronomic adventure in Merida! Explore the market, try local delicacies, and discover traditional recipes in a cooking class. Savor the flavors of Yucatan and immerse yourself in the vibrant local culture.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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C. 56 522 - Immerse yourself in the local culture! This tour will take you to the local market where
you’ll discover amazing traditional dishes, youâll get to taste delicious local fruits and
you’ll learn about the customs and traditions of Yucatan. After buying all your supplies you’ll take an exciting bus ride to the local home where your host and guide will guide you step by step to cook a traditional menu.
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C. 56 522 - Immerse yourself in the local culture! This tour will take you to the local market where
you’ll discover amazing traditional dishes, youâll get to taste delicious local fruits and
you’ll learn about the customs and traditions of Yucatan. After buying all your supplies you’ll take an exciting bus ride to the local home where your host and guide will guide you step by step to cook a traditional menu.
What's Included
- Local guide
- Bus ride to the host house
- Uber ride back to the meeting point
- Lunch
- Food tasting
- Beverages
- Local guide
- Bus ride to the host house
- Uber ride back to the meeting point
- Lunch
- Food tasting
- Beverages
What's Not Included
- Items of personal nature
- Tips to the guide
- Pick-up
- Items of personal nature
- Tips to the guide
- Pick-up
Meal Options
- Sikil Pak & Empanadas or similar
- Papadzules or Pollo Pibil
- Coconut Cream
- Sikil Pak & Empanadas or similar
- Papadzules or Pollo Pibil
- Coconut Cream
Additional Information
Walk from the meeting point to the market to explore it with your guide, try some local fruits, cochinita pibil (pork cooked underground) and other samples while you are shopping all the ingredients for the class on the market.
Experience a local bus ride to your host house and enjoy the cooking class with her and your guide, learn cooking secrets and…
Walk from the meeting point to the market to explore it with your guide, try some local fruits, cochinita pibil (pork cooked underground) and other samples while you are shopping all the ingredients for the class on the market.
Experience a local bus ride to your host house and enjoy the cooking class with her and your guide, learn cooking secrets and enjoy lunch together and refresh with local beverages.
- Children under 5 years are free of charge
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Vegetarian and Vegan option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- A minimum of 2 Adults per booking is required
- Transportation is by public bus and Uber back to downtown
Location
Parque Manuel Cepeda Peraza
Calle 60
Entrance of Hotel Caribe. Inner corner of Hidalgo Park, Calle 59 entre Calle 60. Centro. 10 min. wait tolerance. Your Adventures Mexico guide will call the tour as no show after this lapse time.
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
4.9
(212 Ratings)
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Shannonm3491
Jan 15, 2025
Cannot recommend enough - This was even better than expected!! We especially appreciated the market tour, the friendly easy atmosphere at the host's house, and the flexibility around our dietary restrictions (vegan/vegetarian). The market tour was a highlight - we got so much more out of visiting the market with a guide (Luz!) who could identify the different fruits and spices, explain how each is used, and offer us so many tasty samples (fresh avocado with sour orange, beans with ground pepita, different spices & sauces, sweet yuca). We never would have known some of these treats existed without Luz. Then we traveled to a different part of Merida to the host's house, which was a cool opportunity to be in a more residential area, for the actual cooking class. We made a multi course meal and all sat down to eat together which was a great touch. Every dish was so so good. Cannot recommend enough.
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Eddievan
Jan 14, 2025
Great food and learning opportunity - We had a great time. We began with a short walk to the markets and then took a short collectivo ride to a local home for the cooking. The food all turned out delicious and it was a nice mix of information and doing some simple food prep. We really enjoyed the interaction and left very full of food.
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269demib
Jan 8, 2025
Unmissable Experience - It the most amazing experience! Diego is a great guide, he took us deep in the street market so we could taste the local ingredients at their best and freshest. The cooking part was amazing too! To learn to use the local and ancestral produce was very unique and fun! I would recommend this tour to anyone who visits Merida, but if you like cooking then it is a MUST! 100/100!
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Brandee_c
Jan 3, 2025
Amazing experience, come hungry! - This experience was amazing and I would recommend to come hungry! It starts with a taste of some local fruits, followed by a cochinita pibil taco and some horchata. The market tour continues ending with cooking in a lovely local’s home. The tour guide, the homeowner, and her family were wonderful.
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George_h
Dec 31, 2024
Great time! - Guides were wonderful. The home we went to was well equipped and clean. They ate and visited with us. We loved it.
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P1628kujodyw
Dec 28, 2024
A fun & satisying meal - We enjoyed trying some of the fruits in the market that were unfamiliar to us. We also enjoyed prepping our phenomenal meal. The family was well organized & they provided excellent teaching (& were generally joyous & a fun addition to the experience). It was so satisfying to eat it all (it was a LOT of delicious food)! Perhaps the history part of the tour (while walking to the market) could be cut, because the whole experience took longer than we expected (until 3:00!). And perhaps Diego can be a bit more aware of people in the back (who couldn’t often hear him when he explained things in the busy market). We had a lovely time.
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Robert
Dec 23, 2024
Delicious food. - Fabulous class. Laura Lopez was very knowledgeable and worked to accommodate my preferences. Dorcas was patient. Food was delicious and now I am sure I can make authentic empanadas.
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Brujo1983
Dec 1, 2024
So much fun at the market visit and cooking class! - We had an amazing time doing the market tour and cooking class! Our guide, Laura, was very friendly and helpful. The Lucas de Galvez Market was very vibrant, and it was so nice to have a local guide to help us navigate through it to find the ingredients. The cooking class was also fun for our entire family. Bertha was very warm and inviting, and made us feel like family in her home. Our kids loved learning how to cook Yucatecan. This experience was definitely a highlight of our trip, and I would 100% recommend it to anyone who is considering it!
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Tracyts872ua
Nov 27, 2024
Perfect - Great tour! Exactly as advertised. Our family of 4 and another couple made up our group. We used a mix of Spanish and English with Luz (our translator) and Mercedes (the chef) as we all wanted to practice our Spanish more, but were at different levels. The market tour left me wanting to return with more confidence. Vendors and other patrons at the market were very nice to our group and answered lots of questions. Great photo opportunities! The home had plenty of space for our group, great ventilation in the kitchen (necessary once the chiles were roasting on the stove), and we made delicious food. It was like learning from grandma! Luz also helped with lots of random questions about Merida and took photos for us while we cooked.
Our kids are already planning the empanadas and coconut creams they will make at home.
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Claesj364
Nov 17, 2024
A most memorable Cookingclass with Laura, a must to do in Merida! - Yesterday we had a very nice Cookingclass with Laura in Merida!
Its was so great to walk with her in the big Market first to buy all the things we needed for making a fourcourse lunch. Then bus to a private home where we met ”Mama” who was a superperson! There we prepared and ate our good lunch. We had all: 6 guest, Laura the perfect guide and ”Mama”, a most enjoyable and memorable moment together!
Dont miss this tour with Laura when you visit Merida. It takes 5 hours, time just passed very fast indeed!
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