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Mexican Cooking Class: Authentic Dishes with Lucía
5.0
81 Ratings
Ciudad de México
Immerse yourself in Mexican culture and cuisine with a gastronomic historian in Mexico City. Cook authentic dishes, learn cooking tips, and indulge in traditional flavors!
Immerse yourself in Mexican culture and cuisine with a gastronomic historian in Mexico City. Cook authentic dishes, learn cooking tips, and indulge in traditional flavors!
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Mexico City - This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Learn to cook authentic Mexican dishes with Lucía in this Mexico City cooking class. Lucía can cook a wide variety of Mexican dishes, from traditional family recipes passed down through generations of home cooks, to modern dishes…
- Mexico City - This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Learn to cook authentic Mexican dishes with Lucía in this Mexico City cooking class. Lucía can cook a wide variety of Mexican dishes, from traditional family recipes passed down through generations of home cooks, to modern dishes using fresh, local ingredients. Cook together with Lucía and learn some of her favorite cooking tips and techniques. Note that Lucía can offer both a hands-on cooking class or a cooking demonstration in which you will watch Lucía prepare the dishes. Please specify what you prefer at the time of booking.
What's Included
- Private cooking class with host Lucia, including a meal
- All taxes, fees, and handling charges included
- Enjoy both lunch and dinner
- Gratuities are taken care of
- Selection of alcoholic beverages
- Private cooking class with host Lucia, including a meal
- All taxes, fees, and handling charges included
- Enjoy both lunch and dinner
- Gratuities are taken care of
- Selection of alcoholic beverages
What's Not Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Meal Options
- Nopalitos soup in bean broth, lima soup, tortilla soup, aztec soup
- Albondigas en salsa de chile chipotle meco, - chiles en nogada, encacahuatado with chicken
- Pork in verdolagas
- Mexican white rice, red rice, or black rice with platano macho
- Dulce de guayaba, dulce de mamey, flan de cajeta, or gollorias
- Coffee or tea
- Nopalitos soup in bean broth, lima soup, tortilla soup, aztec soup
- Albondigas en salsa de chile chipotle meco, - chiles en nogada, encacahuatado with chicken
- Pork in verdolagas
- Mexican white rice, red rice, or black rice with platano macho
- Dulce de guayaba, dulce de mamey, flan de cajeta, or gollorias
- Coffee or tea
Additional Information
During this experience, you will cook authentic Mexican dishes with your host Lucía in her spacious home kitchen and learn some of her favorite cooking tips and techniques! Lucía can cook a wide variety of Mexican dishes, from traditional family recipes passed down through generations of home cooks, to modern dishes using fresh, local ingredients.
Your…
During this experience, you will cook authentic Mexican dishes with your host Lucía in her spacious home kitchen and learn some of her favorite cooking tips and techniques! Lucía can cook a wide variety of Mexican dishes, from traditional family recipes passed down through generations of home cooks, to modern dishes using fresh, local ingredients.
Your menu will be based on the season and might include dishes like potato leek soup, albondigas en salsa de chile chipotle mecos (meatballs in a smoked chili sauce), sopa de nopalitos (cactus paddles in bean broth), fideo soup (Mexican noodle soup), traditional moles (savory meat dishes cooked in spice and chili sauce) and chile en nogada (stuffed poblano chilies, smothered in creamy walnut sauce).
Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to experience Mexican culture and cuisine firsthand!
- Menu may vary depending on the season
- If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Private, personalized experience
- Please note, this is not a commercial cooking class, rather this experience is a visit into a Mexico City home to meet a local who is an expert cook, and share Mexican culture and cuisine together.
Location
Santo Desierto
Lucia home is in San Angel. She lives on Santo Desierto which is off Calz. Desierto de los Leones. Please check the 'Before you go' section on your voucher for the exact address, the above only offers neighbourhood details, and not the exact address. That can be found upon booking confirmation.
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.
Customer Ratings
5.0
(81 Ratings)
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C7860ackens
Apr 22, 2025
The Best Cooking Experience in Mexico City - What a wonderful wonderful experience. Lucia is not only a wonderful chef but she is a true historian of gastronomy. Even more important was that she is a lovely human being. We came as patrons and left as friends. Her home was beautiful and the setting for our meal was in a gorgeous garden patio. The cooking for the various courses was very fun and the food itself was awesome. Lucia is very good at tailoring the meal to the client's tastes. She send the recipes for everything. We have done other classes in the City. But if you only can do one cooking class in Mexico City this is the one to choose.
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L6018ttcalebs
Apr 18, 2025
Best part of our trip! - This experience was one of the highlights of our time in Mexico City!
Being hosted in a private home made for a restful change of pace from the busy streets and typical tourist / travel energy. The energy was similar to making an unplanned visit to a distant relative, and because it is leading up to dinner time, everyone congregates in the kitchen and joins in the cooking process. It was lovely. We asked questions and learned about our host, traditional ingredients and preparation methods, and regional food traditions all while we cooked. I had never attempted to make most of the dishes we prepared, and the alchemy of watching and tasting these simple ingredients combined into fresh salsa verde, red mole, etc. was magical and some of the best flavors we experienced on our trip.
While eating in the beautiful back garden, we had more opportunities to ask questions and learn about Mexican food culture and our host's specialty in Mexican gastronomical history. Some of the information she shared regarding indigenous Mexican people's relationship with food gave us an interesting context for viewing many of the artifacts and symbols we encountered at museums and historical sites over the next few days of our trip. It was a great learning experience.
Recommendations / Tips:
*If possible, schedule your class early in your trip. The information you'll glean about places to see and food to eat while in the area could help you plan the rest of your trip.
*Plan a little extra time to get there. Traffic was much worse than we expected because schools were letting out.
*It is a lovely gated neighborhood. We learned after the fact, it is common practice in Mexico to leave a form of ID with the guard when entering and pick it up when departing. We didn't realize this. You may want to bring a photocopy of your driver's license for this purpose.
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Ken_s
Apr 17, 2025
A Wonderful Experience - It is a wonderful experience. Lucia is more than a great chef. She is an historian of how food has changed with the various cultures who have inhabited Mexico. Her home where she conducts her class is very lovely. And the setting to eat the cooked meal is beautiful. And the most important thing is that she tries very hard to make everything perfect from start to finish. We left as friends.
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Torisummer
Apr 8, 2025
Perfect and authentic cooking experience in CDMX - Lucia is an absolute gem! Her knowledge of Mesoamerican cuisine is unparalleled, and her home provided an idyllic setting for our post-class al fresco lunch. I highly recommend her to anyone seeking a culinary and cultural experience like no other. It was a highlight of our trip and I know it will be of yours as well!
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833avnip
Apr 2, 2025
Amazing food, beautiful views - My partner and I had the best time with Lucia! There was a slight hiccup in the booking, however, Lucia was so professional and organized, she was able to still accommodate us despite the last minute change. We were so impressed and appreciative of her flexibility. The food was amazing the views from her garden is dreamy. I highly recommend this experience to anyone that wants an authentic cooking experience in Mexico City.
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670mayanks
Apr 1, 2025
An incredible worthwhile experience! - My friend and I had the most amazing time with Lucia. She showed us around her local market, pointing out ingredients and answering any questions we had. We then went to her home where she taught us how to make a 3 course meal with some ingredients and methods that we had never heard of. She was lovely throughout, teaching us so many new things, giving us recommendations for the rest of our time during our trip and making us feel at home. She sent us the recipes for the food we made and I can't wait to take my knowledge back home and make some exciting Mexican food. Thank you so much Lucia!
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Jimw908
Mar 31, 2025
Wonderful time with Lucia and Eva! - We had been looking for cooking classes while we were planning a 6-day trip to Mexico City and after reading reviews of several options we settled on a class with Lucia and are we ever glad we did! We arrived at her beautiful home and were pleasantly pleased that we were the only ones in the class.
It was a very hands-on afternoon making a sope appetizer with black bean sauce, chorizo and 2 different salsas that was one of the best bites of food our entire week in CDMX! That was followed by stuffed poblano peppers served on rice and a dessert of sweet guava with a syrupy sauce - excellent meal!
Everything for this outing went very smoothly and we can't commend Lucia highly enough for her warmth and friendliness as well as her instruction and help when we were getting off track ;) Her helper Eva was a delight as well making our food look a lot more authentic than when we did it ourselves.
Thanks so much to both of them for a memorable afternoon!
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Nolahal
Mar 30, 2025
A Perfect Afternoon - My family and I spent a perfect afternoon with Lucia, learning practical tips to master Mexican cooking. We learned how we might serve the food at a dinner party, as well as how it might be eaten at a restaurant. In fact, this is just how we felt, old friends invited to share a meal. The cooking lesson itself involved preparing appetizers, a main course, and a desert; in this case, quesadillas with three salsas, a chicken mole with Mexican rice, and guavas in syrup. Along the way, we learned that, while making a good mole involves two pans and a blender, with proper preparation and sequencing of cooking, it all comes together rather quickly. We also discovered that home-made tortillas are very easy to make. Lucia has an admirable teaching style, personalizing and adapting her instruction for each of our family members. We all felt we took away something important. Additionally, the recipes were emailed to us immediately after the lesson, with the promise that she would be available to help cook them when we returned to our own kitchens. All in all, we were very impressed with the experience she provided and would definitely book another lesson.
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Ashleigh_m
Mar 27, 2025
Great food, Wonderful host - We had such a wonderful experience in Lucia’s beautiful home! She created a special menu for us and everything was phenomenal. Definitely some of the best food we have had in CDMX! We look forward to trying to recreate it at home. If you enjoy cooking, I definitely recommend this experience with Lucia!
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H8220bufatimas
Mar 23, 2025
Great experience! - Great culinary experience! Lucia took into consideration our dietary restrictions and was very accommodating. Her home was beautiful and the market tour was a plus. Great class for beginners/intermediate cooks. For more experienced cooks, I recommend being specific in the intake form to highlight what things you want to cook and/or what your culinary interests are to have a more tailored and fulfilling experience.
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