13 Oaxaca City Cooking Classes Worth Booking

1.Flavors of Oaxaca: Cooking Class with No Set Menu and Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 333 reviews · 4 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $75Our pick

Join Casa Crespo in Oaxaca City for a 4.5-hour market visit and hands-on cooking class. With Oscar or Emily guiding in English or Spanish, you may prepare mole, tortillas, soup, tacos, dessert, and more, with drinks served during the meal.

“Very fun few hours! There were 6 of us in the class. Oscar was a good teacher but very no nonsense and not too approachable. I was a bit disappointed that considering how much food we made, we were only served tiny portions and I left still hungry. Worth doing though!”

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2.Traditional Oaxaqueña Cooking with Grandma’s Recipes

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 260 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $90Top rated

Meet Chef Adhey Andrade and her husband Enrique for a three-hour, hands-on Oaxacan cooking class near central Oaxaca. You’ll make salsas, chileajo con verduras, chile rellenos, fruit, and hot chocolate, then share the meal with the family. Transport and ingredients are included.

“Fabulous warm hosts, perfect organisation, such a homely comfortable environment, delicious food and great fun.”

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3.The Real Traditional Oaxaca culinary Cooking experience

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 251 reviews · 5 hours (approx.) · from $100

Spend about five hours cooking at Quinta Brava in Santa Cruz Xoxocotlan with Miguel, Jose, and their team. Visit a local market, gather garden ingredients, taste several moles, shape nixtamalized-corn tortillas, and prepare a full Oaxacan meal in a wood-fired ranch kitchen.

“Great experience, would recommend 100%. Chef was amazing, super hands on and knowledgeable about Oaxacan cooking methods. Welcomed us into his beautiful home and courtyard where we enjoyed many beautiful dishes we all enjoyed together. He even went as far as making sure we made our flight home on time and will remember the experience for many years to come.”

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4.Oaxacan Vegetarian Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 235 reviews · 4 hours (approx.) · from $70

Walk through Oaxaca’s Merced neighborhood with Chef Victor or a member of his team, shop for fresh ingredients, taste local foods, then prepare mole, tortillas, salads, and other vegetarian dishes in a traditional kitchen. The class is taught in English and ends with a shared meal.

“An absolute must-do experience. Cannot recommend enough. Amazing food and the class leader was exceptional.”

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5.Traditional Cooking Class with Minerva Lopez

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 197 reviews · 6 hours (approx.) · from $119

Start at Oaxaca’s Mercado de Abastos with chef Minerva Lopez, then cook in her garden kitchen with English translator Amy. Choose mole, corn dishes, tamales, or a seasonal menu, and finish with your meal, fruit drinks, snacks, and mezcal.

“Great experiences learning how to make mole. We shopped for chiles etc in market. I love visiting markets. We went to her beautiful home and made the mole following her instruction from scratch . Our group of 4 included my wife , Ben and Brian made the mole and loved how it taste. We had a salute to drinking a shot of Mezcal. It was truly a memorable experience and loved the hands on instructions from Minerva Lopez and translation from Amy. I highly recommend this cooking class.”

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6.Oaxaca: Oaxacan Mole Workshop with a Traditional Cook

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 158 reviews · 3.5 hours · from $64Best value

Walk from Oaxaca’s Zócalo to a local market, shop for ingredients, then cook mole, tortillas, quesadillas, salsa, and dessert in a small Foodlab kitchen. Guides including Victor Ramirez and Quetzalli teach in English or Spanish, with mezcal for adults and fruit water for everyone.

“Thankyou so much for this experience, it was my first time cooking anything but the guides made the experience really easy. The food turned out really good and they explained everything in detail. Thanks again”

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7.Oaxaca: Vegetarian Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 139 reviews · 3.5 hours · from $70

Visit a local Oaxaca market with guides such as Victor, Quetzali, or Martin, choose seasonal ingredients, then prepare vegetarian mole, salsas, quesadillas, rice, salad, and dessert. The 3.5-hour class serves up fresh food, local stories, mezcal, and recipes in a group of up to four.

“This was a fun activity to learn how to make mole, vegetarían Oaxacan food and meet other international visitors. The walk through the market was also great!”

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8.Oaxaca: Traditional Oaxacan Cooking Class with Market Visit

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 80 reviews · 5.5 hours · from $133

Travel from Oaxaca to a local market with an English-speaking cook and driver, choose ingredients and a dish, then prepare mole, tamales, tortillas, soup, or other regional foods in a family home. Some visits also include textile workshops, mezcal, and traditional drinks.

“This was an authentic experience in the home of a lovely family. It was not a typical cooking class in a kitchen rather we were outdoors grilling and chopping vegetables and pressing tortillas. We made a soup as well as traditional mole and it was all delicious and a fun experience! We started with a market visit to select ingredients for the meal! My entire family enjoyed the experience!”

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9.Oaxaca de Juarez: Traditional Oaxacan Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 31 reviews · 5 hours · from $87

Meet Baldo at Santo Domingo Temple for a five-hour cooking class outside Oaxaca. With Sonia’s family team, you’ll shop from an organic garden, grind mole on a metate, shape tortillas, taste mezcal, and share a generous Oaxacan meal in English or Spanish.

“This was such a fantastic day out! The whole experience was so thought out and created such a fun and authentic day. The food was delish too ☺️”

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10.Oaxaca: Traditional Oaxacan Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 17 reviews · 5 hours · from $116

Meet Hector and Aurora downtown, shop for fresh ingredients at a local market, then ride 20 minutes to their village home. You will make chocolate, bread, tortillas, memelitas, tetelas, empanadas, sauces, and a traditional mole in a small group of no more than six.

“It was an amazing experience!!! The chef was very fun. The entire time, the chef guided us and explained everything, but also let us experience the entire cooking process. 1000% recommend on taking the class.”

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11.Oaxaca: 10 Mexican Salsas Cooking Class with Taco Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 11 reviews · 2 hours · from $80

At Casa Crespo in Oaxaca, Chef Oscar Carrizosa guides you through 10 Mexican salsas, from salsa verde and molcajete salsa to Xnipec and Macha. You will compare chiles, prepare each recipe, then taste tacos with the finished salsas. English and Spanish instruction, drinks included.

“This was our second cooking class with Chef Oscar at Casa Crespo. (The first was a half-day cooking class two years ago.) Very fun time making the 10 different salsas. We (seven in our class) enjoyed them with multiple items prepared by the staff. Beer and mezcal included.”

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12.Oaxaca: Traditional Oaxacan Food Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 10 reviews · 5 hours · from $116

Join a small group of up to six for a five-hour Oaxacan cooking experience with Tita’s traditional recipes. Shop at Etla market, cook in a local home, and share memelas, mole, chocolate de agua, mezcal, and stories translated from Mixe into English.

“They were amazing and so informative! It was very laid back and ended up being a private tour with just the four of us. Highly recommend”

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13.Oaxaca: Cooking Class with No Set Menu &Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 7 reviews · 4.5 hours · from $80

Spend 4.5 hours with Oscar Carrizosa choosing traditional Oaxacan dishes, visiting a local market, and cooking them from scratch. You will dice, fry, season, grind, and eat the meal you make. English and Spanish instruction, drinks, vegetarian dishes, and gluten-free options are available.

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