Mexican Market Tour: Salsa Making & Local Cuisine

Explore Mexico City’s markets, learn history, and cook authentic dishes. Visit murals, choose your salsa ingredients, and enjoy a family-run eatery.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Catedral Metropolitana de la Ciudad de Mexico - We’ll have a quick look at the inside of the Metropolitan Cathedral to see the interesting things and more
  • Museo del Templo Mayor - We do not enter the museum of Templo Mayor, but we will stop at the site for a brief explanation
  • Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso - We will pass this historical Jesuit university
  • Zocalo - We will meet at Zocalo and learn about it before heading over to our first market for briefing
  • Mercado de Jamaica - You’ll experience the largest flower market in Mexico city and have your cooking lesson with a local family.
What's Included
  • Brief tour of Mexico City’s Historical Downtown
  • Salsa making lesson
  • Visit to two local markets
  • Local, bilingual guide (EN/SPA)
  • Ingredients to make your Mexican salsa
  • Subway tickets
  • Lunch
  • Breakfast
  • Snacks
  • Tea and coffee
  • Carbonated beverages
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic Beverages
  • Bottled water
  • Any other food/snacks not listed on the tour
  • Tips/gratuities
  • Souvenirs
Additional Information

Explore authentic Mexican markets as a local and try your hand at making traditional salsa! In this tour, you’ll see 2 markets and you’ll also get to try different traditional Mexican dishes like quesadillas, atole, coctel de frutas, mole, huaraches and more. We will embark on brief walking tour of Centro Historico, where you will learn about the early years of Tenochtitlan and some facts about what we call CDMX today. The first market we’ll visit is a local spot where you’ll get to appreciate murals from the 30s and eat a morning snack. Afterwards, we’ll travel by subway to Jamaica market where you will marvel at the diversity of its flowers and try a traditional quesadilla. You’ll pick the ingredients for your salsa- completely to your taste. Your salsa making lesson will take place in a family-run eatery that has been there for generations and your teacher will be a family member. In the end, you will get to eat your creation in their establishment and rest before going back.

  • The total duration includes the travel time from one place to another.
Location
Café De Tacuba
Calle de Tacuba
We'll meet outside Cafe de Tacuba.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Anu_v
Aug 20, 2024
Fabulous - Loved everything on this tour. Walking in the streets and shopping for ingredients for salsa and then making and eating it too with Napoletas tacos. Just yummy. Sharon was awesome. Perfect English speaking guide.
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Q4877kxolivias
Jul 21, 2024
Incredible experience!! - Incredible experience! From start to finish, Mena was enthusiastic, knowledgable, and overall the best guide. We got to visit markets we'd never have come across otherwise, learn the history of each and behind some of the beautiful art within those markets, and have the best salsa we'd ever made! The salsa cooking lesson was so much fun and, of course, delicious. Thanks for this experience, Mena. I would encourage anyone considering this experience to go ahead and book :)
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Nicolesr5770hj
Jul 1, 2024
Great tour with Mena!! - Mena is an incredible guide. We had such a fantastic time exploring authentic ingredients and ended off the tour eating an incredible meal. Would highly recommend!!
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T4741gmlarsk
Jun 22, 2024
Yummie salsas - The Market was wonderful with all it's colours, nice people and the great food. Learned a lot about the different sorts of chilis and the making of an delicious Salsa.
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Onegirlsf
Jun 20, 2024
Loved making the salsa - Seeing 2 markets so different from one another was great. The food was really authentic and I absolutely loved learning how to make proper mexican salsa. I will definitely makes these salsas at home too. Don't eat before you go as there is so much food!
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588teoc
Jun 20, 2024
Excellent and authentic - Great tour for authentic Mexican food with terrific veggie and vegetarian meals. Loved the how to make your own salsa demonstration. Two thumbs up, highly recommend!
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Maria
Jun 19, 2024
A must for real mexican food aficionados - I had a great time and the salsa lesson was super fun! Jimena is a mega friendly and joyful person. I highly recommend this tour to everyone who enjoys good food.
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