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Oaxaca Night Food Tour: Culinary Backstreets
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Oaxaca de Juárez
This afternoon-to-evening tour offers an exploration of Oaxaca’s backstreets during a culinary transition, allowing participants to savor some of the city’s finest nighttime food venues. Additionally, it provides insight into their significant contribution to sustaining Oaxaca’s civic life.
This afternoon-to-evening tour offers an exploration of Oaxaca’s backstreets during a culinary transition, allowing participants to savor some of the city’s finest nighttime food venues. Additionally, it provides insight into their significant contribution to sustaining Oaxaca’s civic life.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Mercado 20 de Noviembre - Oaxaca’s culinary scene is a delightful blend of two worlds, both equally appetizing. In the morning, a vibrant array of eateries and vendors open up, ready to kickstart the day for Oaxacans. As evening approaches, a new wave of stalls and vendors emerge, ensuring the city’s culinary festivities continue. Locals will tell…
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Mercado 20 de Noviembre - Oaxaca’s culinary scene is a delightful blend of two worlds, both equally appetizing. In the morning, a vibrant array of eateries and vendors open up, ready to kickstart the day for Oaxacans. As evening approaches, a new wave of stalls and vendors emerge, ensuring the city’s culinary festivities continue. Locals will tell you: the true flavors of the city come alive at night.
On this afternoon-to-evening tour, participants will explore this culinary transition, savoring some of the city’s finest nighttime food spots while understanding their vital role in Oaxaca’s community life. The journey includes strolling through historic neighborhoods and public spaces, offering a glimpse of a side of the city that few visitors experience, day or night. - Oaxaca - The adventure begins in Oaxaca’s historic center, just as the night food stalls start to appear and a fresh set of aromas fills the air. The first stop is a vendor outside one of Oaxaca’s main markets, serving tortas and tostadas to homeward-bound workers since 1930. Joining the after-work crowd, participants will taste their renowned and hearty creations. The tour continues to a new family-run restaurant, now a neighborhood favorite, dedicated to one of Oaxaca’s essential ingredients: beans, served from large clay pots. Here, a sampler of their comforting dishes, which creatively honor traditional Oaxacan cuisine, will be enjoyed. The exploration proceeds to a small shop run by a local woman passionate about cacao and chocolate, where her artisanal creations will be sampled.
- Iglesia del Carmen Alto - As the tour progresses through the neighborhood, another iconic streetside business will be visited. This family-run stand has been selling tortillas stuffed with chicken and mole since 1965. Now managed by the fourth generation, it is a strategic stop for evening shift workers, hungry locals, and those looking to fuel up before a night out.
- Museo Belber Jimenez - Energized, the group will join locals in a nearby park to enjoy one of the most traditional and satisfying Oaxacan street foods, corn in a cup, perfect for a leisurely stroll. With cup in hand, the night parade continues to encounter the heavyweight of Oaxacan late-night meals, the tlayuda, a large, thin, and crisp tortilla topped with various ingredients. Just as the taco is to Mexico City, the tlayuda is to Oaxaca – affordable, filling, and endlessly customizable. A visit to a local favorite, selling them since 1952, is included. To conclude, traditional Oaxacan sweets from a stand in a church courtyard will be tasted, followed by a mezcal tasting led by a young master distiller, one of the few women crafting this agave spirit. It’s a perfect conclusion to an evening filled with the guardians of Oaxacan culinary traditions and their nocturnal endeavors.
What's Included
- Licensed Guide
- Dinner
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Snacks
- Bottled water
- Licensed Guide
- Dinner
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Snacks
- Bottled water
What's Not Included
- Private transportation
- Private transportation
Location
Flores Magón 209
Flores Magón
Meeting Point and Maps:
In front of La Casa de Mezcal
Flores Magón # 209, OAX_RE_BENITO JUAREZ, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax., Mexico
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.
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