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Oaxaca Cooking Class

Join Chef Heidi and Mexican local guide Kari on a co-created culinary journey through Mexico, where cuisine is more than food—it is living cultural heritage.

With cooking classes, market tours, and visits to cultural monuments, this tour is designed for you to experience the wonderful regional cuisines and cultural traditions of central Mexico.

From Mexico City’s vibrant food vendors and cultural monuments to Cholula’s traditional food workshops and Oaxaca’s rich gastromony and architecture, our thoughtfully curated tour invites you to explore Mexico through its cuisine.

Tlayuda in a Oaxaca Market

Mexico Culinary Tour

February 27-March 8, 2027

$5,000 CD

All prices in CAD, limited to 14 people per tour

Itinerary Overview

Mexico City — two cooking classes, one workshop, Teotihuacán, museums, local eateries, traditional boat ride and city tours
Tlaxcala and Puebla — hands-on tamale workshop, community seed bank, markets, food tasting, and city tours
Oaxaca — two cooking classes, food markets and eateries, city tour, and forest community visit.
Price — based on two sharing and minimum of 10 passengers
Single Supplement — $700
Reservation — $600 non-refundable deposit
Details & Registration

Tacos are just the beginning! Mexican Cuisine is as diverse and complex as the country itself, informed by its history, climate, and people. On this tour, we will deep dive into tortillas, tamales, moles, chocolate, barbacoa, tacos, traditional growing methods and cooking techniques! We will eat, learn, laugh, and relax.

Designed for travellers who love to learn, cook, taste, and share, this culinary-focused journey offers a delicious and deeply rewarding way to experience Mexico.

We will start our exploration in Mexico City, which is equally famous for its cultural monuments as its vivid street life. We will experience both with a hands-on culinary workshop, guided food tastings, a sunrise boat ride, and tours of both Teotihuacán and the National Museum of Anthropology.

Next, we head south to Cholula, stopping at Tlaxcala on the way for a hands-on tamale and tortilla workshop with a local community, including a visit to the community seed bank. A trip to Puebla, with its baroque architechure and famous moles, will follow the next day.

Moving south to Oaxaca, famous for its rich gastronomic traditions, we will continue our deep dive into Mexican cuisine with two cooking classes, a market tour, and a visit to the cloud forest community of Sierra Norte.

The tour will allow plenty of time for relaxing, shopping, and exploration along with our culinary and cultural adventures.

Not Included

International airfare, travel insurance, personal expenses, and meals not mentioned in the itinerary.

Heidi’s Chinatown Tour is personal, informative and inspiring. I felt like I had been on a micro-holiday. Afterwards, I went straight back to the shops to gather some supplies to feed my refreshed enthusiasm for Asian cooking.
Samantha Allix Victoria, BC