Costa Rican Cuisine: Market to Kitchen Experience

Discover Costa Rican flavors with a local host. Visit markets, pick exotic ingredients, and join a hands-on cooking class. Delicioso.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Banco Central de Costa Rica - During this immersive experience, you’ll not only indulge in the deliciousness of Costa Rican food but also gain insights into local agricultural products and other ingredients that define Costa Rica’s cuisine. Your Cooking tour begins along local roads towards the Farmers Market. There’s no better place to experience…
What's Included
  • Coffee Tasting, learn how to brew coffee the traditional way
  • Enjoy drinks like mojitos, delicious mango shot
  • Participate in a hands-on cooking lesson and learn to make traditional dishes
  • Fun for kids, teens, adults, and grandparents
  • Ceviche, Sweet Plantain Empanadas with cheese or beans, Picadillo and Patacones, Sweet Dessert
  • Taste the best tropical juices
What's Not Included
  • Everything that is not specified that is included
Additional Information

During this engaging experience, participants will not only savor the flavors of Costa Rican cuisine but also discover the local agricultural products and ingredients that characterize Costa Rica’s culinary scene. The Central Market, a historic 120-year-old building, is the perfect venue to explore typical Costa Rican food and beverages. Here,…

Location
Banco Central de Costa Rica
Calle 4
How to find the meeting point: look for Central Avenue and Street Four, right front of the Central bank there is a Monument looks like little people color green. Is aMonument named Monumento de los Presentes right by the monument.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Laura_b
Jan 28, 2026
Fun Experience - It takes 3 to 3 and a half hours. Lots of chopping involved. Could have had sharper knives. Food was good. Angel our guide was personable and informative!!
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Grace_h
Jan 26, 2026
We had Angel as our tour... - We had Angel as our tour guide! He was very knowledgeable in central market items, and as well as being able to explain things during the cooking session. The cooking portion is completed as a group since the dishes you’re making will be family style. This would be good if you had a party of your own for a more private experience or solo and be able to meet new friends.
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Emmanuelce4092br
Aug 8, 2025
Culinary immersion in San José thanks to Angel! - Excellent morning with Angel, after a visit to the local market we cooked empanadas, plantains, tiburon, guacamole... we learned a lot and we are feasted!!!
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Retire2venture
Jan 21, 2026
A fun afternoon with a feast at the end! - Our guide for the tour was Angel, very friendly and knowledgeable. He took us to central market to buy many of the ingredients for the cookery class, which was very interesting. The group then prepared a number of dishes under Angel's guidance including a delicious shark based taco dish, guacamole, pecidillo, plantain "tacos" etc which the group then thoroughly enjoyed eating. Angel was very attentive to all dietary needs. It was a fun three hours. However it could be improved if the guide improved his teaching skills. He tended to divide up the tasks among the group but didn't then give us an overview of the whole process and no recipe sheets. Recommended as a good introduction to Costa Rican cuisine.
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From $63
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).