Best cooking tour in La Fortuna - The best around and the food was amazing! The friendliest people around Warner and Melania hosted our tour and the experience was memorable.

One of the best parts of our trip - One of the absolute best things we did in Costa Rica. We got to walk through the farm, see the flora and fauna, and then come back to cook a great dinner with Melania who guided us through everything. Would highly recommend this during your time in La Fortuna!

Great experience - Very friendly staff delivering a great local experience. We made ceviche and empanadas and had a walk through the local garden

Family friendly, great bonding over food and culture - Kevin was our tour guide and was great! He took fun videos for us, showed us around the farm, interpreted well for the cook who was Spanish speaking. I think the food was amazing, I’ve never had ceviche made with fish (shrimp and crab), but really liked it and over the next couple days my son and I already remade a couple of recipes from what they taught us!

Something different for dinner - We loved walking through the garden seeing the plants our food came from. Overall it was a fun experience

truly farm to table - absolutely incredible experience, amazing hosts that answered every question. Could not recommend that more. melanie and G were so entertaining.

Kevin and Maria were very nice and the experience was amazing and 🤩 - They were ready and greeted us even though we were early. Kevin took us on a tour through the garden. We got to see little birdies and piglets and we tasted many plants. When it was time to cook we got to make a three piece meal with delicious secret salsa. They let us take leftovers and overall it was very worthwhile

Wonderful class, amazing food, great value! Highly recommend! - We had a wonderful experience at the farm to table class and highly recommend it! After a tour of the farm and making and sampling our own sugar cane juice, we made ceviche, empanadas, and patacones with Chef Melania and Werner. The recipes were simple and easy/fun to make, but the food turned out SO GOOD and we definitely plan to make all 3 again at home soon. We also spent time chatting about Costa Rica and the native tribes, and got to practice our Spanish. Note that Spanish is not required to take the class as Werner is there to translate everything. The class was a great value and a lot of fun, and we highly recommend it to anyone looking to learn more about local food and culture in Costa Rica.

Don’t waste your time and money with this. - Don’t do this. It’s a waste of time and money. There is no actual learning, the ingredients are very low quality, the tour leader seems somewhat bored and going through the motions of a canned experience. And the insistence on washing your dishes rather than at least making it optional feels unpleasant. Would strongly discourage anyone from doing this.

Cooking class, without cooking, learning, or eating. - If you can invest the $45 that this activity costs in another of the many options that La Fortuna offers, do it. The only thing that is “cooked” is a ceviche that is almost done except for cutting the peppers. The second course is empanadas, if you can call them that, that pre-made greasy dough that I could barely take more than one bite. A disappointment of a tour.