Mexican Cooking: Market Tour & Home Class

Embark on a private market tour in Mexico City with culinary expert Lucía. Explore Mercado San Angel and learn about local ingredients before heading to Lucía’s home for a cooking class. Discover authentic Mexican dishes and cooking techniques in a spacious kitchen. Book now!

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Mercado Melchor Muzquiz, Av. Revolución - This is a wonderful chance to visit a local’s home and immerse yourself in traditional culture and cuisine. Meet Lucía at Mercado San Angel, a lively covered market brimming with everything needed to create a traditional meal at home. During this Mexico City market tour, Lucía will introduce you to the…
What's Included
  • Private market tour and cooking class with your host Lucia
  • All taxes, fees and handling charges
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Homecooked Mexican meal
  • Gratuities
What's Not Included
  • 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, or veracruzana fish
  • Pork in verdolagas
  • Mexican white rice, red rice, or black rice with platano macho
  • Sweet dessert of dulce de guayaba, dulce de mamey, flan de cajeta, or gollorias
  • Coffee or tea
Additional Information

Meet Lucía, a culinary expert, at Mercado San Angel, a bustling covered market filled with everything you need to make a traditional Mexican meal at home. Lucía will teach you about the local products on offer - from farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, to dried chilies and spices, to flowers and handicrafts.
After exploring the market together you will…

Location
Mercado Melchor Muzquiz, Av. Revolución
For the market tour, please meet Lucía at the principal entrance to the Mercado San Angel [Mercado Melchor Muzquiz]. Address: 01000 Avenida Revolución, entre Dr. Elguero y Melchor, Muzquiz, San Ángel, 01000 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Dw_abbott
Apr 29, 2025
A Day, Meal and New Friend - My friend and I had a wonderful day with Lucia. Starting in the market we learned her love of food and history. She shared great stories and information on the items she planned to have us cook with. We arrived at her beautiful home to prepare our meal. The prep was fun and we continued the conversation. By the time we sat down for our 3 course meal over looking her yard, we were hungry and proud of what we had accomplished. Lucia joined us and we talk more about travel and other parts of Mexico I look forward to visiting. She was an amazing host and teacher.
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Slowmohs
Mar 30, 2025
Great experience! Enjoy the sites of the market with an accompanying history lesson! Lucia provided a fun time for all! - This was time well spent for our small group! Lucia was knowledgable and courteous! We enjoyed the tasty treats, the market visit, and the exciting time cooking in the kitchen! Highly recommend this experience in the beautiful and historical San Angel neighborhood.
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Naba_d
Mar 25, 2025
A Lovely Time with Delicious Food! - I booked this cooking class experience with two other friends, and we had such a great time! We started the tour at an outdoor market, where we met Lucia. She gave us a tour of the market, stopping to show us different fruits and vegetables that are common in Mexican cuisine. Afterwards, we hopped in Lucia’s car and headed to her beautiful home. The views from her backyard were stunning, and it made the experience that much better! Since my group was vegetarian + pescatarian, Lucia accommodated us and curated a menu that we would enjoy. Everything that we made and ate was delicious (authentic quesadillas, arroz con leche (per our request), and the most delicious chile rellenos)! Lucia answered all of our questions and was a very good host. After we finished cooking, we headed to her backyard to enjoy our food. It was amazing! Hearing her knowledge of food and gastronomy was a great experience. She also gave us tips on what we should see in CDMX and answered questions we had about local culture, which was nice. Definitely recommend this experience!
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Laila
Mar 23, 2025
Fantastic food and hospitality - Lucia is a wonderful hostess, cook, and teacher. She met us at the Mercado, showed us around and allowed us to sample various foods. She offered two options for the meal and we chose the almond mole. She was very organized and managed to give us all several jobs and keep track of everything. Our kids are 10 and 12 and she had them chopping, saute, making fresh quesadillas and sopes, and making flan. If you have kids the activity works better if they are more mature as it is a couple hours of cooking. We had a wonderful time and enjoyed a fantastic meal on her patio enjoying the lovely garden and view. The meal was generous: chicken mole with rice, sopes with beans and chorizo, quesadillas with zuchinni blossom or fermentes corn, salsas, caramel flan. We made everything! Thank you Lucia! We loved getting to know you!
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Kristinekk7314qx
Mar 15, 2025
Highlight of our trip! ! - It was truly the highlight of our trip! Strongly recommend this tour to everyone who loves food and enjoy cooking or want to learn about the cuisine in Mexico! It was our first time in Mexico/mexico city and we booked this tour since both my partner and I love food. We have a restaurant in Tokyo and we were really looking forward to getting an introduction and learning about the cuisine and the culture etc. Lucia welcomed us warmly and both walking around the market with her and her cooking class were both incredible/exciting/inspiring experiences. She even altered some of the cooking class menu and shared many ideas with us when we talked about our restaurant business after we met up, which we were so grateful for since I didn't mention any of that background info when we were booking. (Recommend communicating any request or background etc in advance via message) Thank you so much again for the amazing day, Lucia! :)
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Jamessm6913pk
Mar 13, 2025
Wonderful experience! - Lucía was amazing! Delicious food and great fun! (And she helped us with a minor family emergency - completely above and beyond the call of duty). We have already recommended her to other friends and family traveling to México soon.
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Bengelball
Feb 18, 2025
Delicious food, wonderful local interaction - We had a wonderful experience cooking with Lucia! She was so welcoming, warm and generous, and had delicious recipes for us to make. We are all still dreaming about the sopes and the different salsas, as well as the green mole! I'd HIGHLY recommend this class. Thank you Lucia for such a wonderful way to spend the day in CDMX!
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Sara
Feb 12, 2025
Wonderful culinary experience! - Lucia was warm and personable, and a patient teacher. We enjoyed our tour of the market, and we found her advice and instruction to be very helpful. It was a pleasure to spend time in her beautiful home and eat the delicious meal we prepared together. Overall, a fantastic experience!
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Adrienne
Jan 22, 2025
The cooking class with Lucia was the highlight of our trip to Mexico City! - Cooking with Lucia was the highlight of our week in Mexico City! She is a fabulous host! Her beautiful kitchen was a total pleasure to be in and having lunch together on her terrace was pure delight! She has Beautiful home and made us feel welcome in every way! The food was absolutely delicious and her instructions were easy to follow. Lucia is simply The very best! Don’t lose a chance to have a wonderful learning experience and a relaxing fun day in a beautiful part of Mexico City!
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637fadiaz
May 5, 2025
Very good place will lack greater hygiene especially in the bathrooms - It has food for all tastes and very good quality, you can order from each place according to your desire, the attention of all the renters is very good and looking to improve, it is a very good place for any age.
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From $134
up to 13 guests
2 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).