Mexico City: Chef-Led Home Cooking Class & San Cosme Market

Highlights

• Cook in a real Mexican home with a formally trained local host
• Handpick ingredients at Mercado San Cosme, a local favorite in San Rafael
• Master 3 salsa techniques: fried, fresh, and tatemada
• Press your own corn tortillas by hand from scratch
• Enjoy a small group experience with a vegetarian-friendly menu

Description

Learn Mexican home cooking from a host trained at Claustro de Sor Juana who grew up cooking beside her grandmother, this isn't a restaurant demo, it's her kitchen.

Your morning starts at Mercado San Cosme in Colonia San Rafael, one of Mexico City's most authentic neighborhood markets. Together you'll walk the aisles and choose the ingredients you'll cook with, learning what locals actually buy and why.

From there, you'll head to your host's home to get hands-on. You'll press fresh corn tortillas by hand and prepare three salsas that summarize centuries of Mexican gastronomy, one fried, one fresh, and one tatemada (fire-roasted).

Each uses a different technique, so you leave understanding the 'why' behind the flavor, not just the recipe. When the cooking is done, you sit down to eat what you made: quesadillas with your handmade tortillas and salsas, served with agua de Jamaica.

The menu is vegetarian-friendly and can be adapted to any dietary restriction, just let your host know in advance.You'll leave with three recipes you can actually recreate at home, and the kind of sazón that only comes from cooking alongside a Mexican family.

Groups are capped at 10 for a genuinely personal experience.

ITINERARY

• Meet at Mercado San Cosme, Gather under the main entrance sign of the market.
• Market walk & ingredient shopping, Explore Mercado San Cosme with your host and select fresh ingredients together.
• Walk to the host's home, Short walk from the market to the private kitchen.
• Handmade tortillas workshop, Learn to press fresh corn tortillas from scratch.
• 3-salsa cooking session, Prepare a fried salsa, a fresh pico de gallo (host's version), and a tatemada salsa, each with a different technique.
• Sit-down meal, Enjoy quesadillas with your tortillas and salsas, paired with agua de Jamaica.
• Wrap-up, Receive the 3 recipes to recreate at home.
• Experience ends at the original meeting point.

Includes

• Local host / guide (trained at Claustro de Sor Juana)
• Market visit and ingredient shopping
• Hands-on cooking session in a private home
• All cooking equipment
• Meal: quesadillas, handmade tortillas, 3 salsas
• Agua de Jamaica
• 3 recipes to take home

Excludes

• Hotel pickup and drop-off
• Transport to/from the meeting point
• Gratuities

Important Information

• Maximum 10 travelers per experience
• Not wheelchair accessible
• Stroller accessible
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation nearby
• Vegetarian menu; other dietary restrictions can be accommodated, please notify at booking
• Experience runs in Spanish and English
• Duration: approx. 2 hours 30 minutes
• GOOD FOR:
• Foodies & culinary travelers
• Couples
• Families with children
• Solo travelers
• Culture seekers
• First-time visitors to Mexico City

Easy cancellation

Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund