4 Local Market Tours in Mexico Worth an Early Start

1.Cancun Street Food Tour with Food Stalls, Local Market and Murals

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 723 reviews · 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $64Our pick

Spend 3.5 hours with a local guide such as Adrian, Sasha, G, or Navarro, tasting tacos, tamales, salbutes, and handmade popsicles. Hotel pickup, drinks, an air-conditioned van, Mercado 23, and colorful Bonampak murals are included, with walking between food stops.

“The tour guide, Sasha was incredibly knowledgeable. We got a true sense of Mexican cuisine and the local market was great!”

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2.Flavors of Oaxaca: Cooking Class with No Set Menu and Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 333 reviews · 4 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $75

Meet Oscar or Emily at Casa Crespo in central Oaxaca for a market walk and hands-on cooking class. Your group helps choose the menu, prepares dishes such as mole, tortillas, soup, or tacos, and sits down to eat with drinks. Vegetarian and special-diet menus can be arranged.

“Very organized experience. The class flowed well. Oscar is a good teacher, and I definitely learned some things in the market tour and during the cooking.”

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3.Mexican Cooking Class with fresh Local Market ingredients selection and transpor

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 238 reviews · 4 hours (approx.) · from $79

Spend about four hours exploring Mercado 23 with a chef-guide, choosing fresh produce and seeing tortilla-making before cooking a Mexican meal. Guides such as Diego, G, Sasha, Angel, and Nassim lead small groups of up to 10. Hotel pickup, drinks, and one homemade margarita are included.

“Gib and Angel dod a wonderful job Lesson was fun and informative. Took my teen daughter. We had a great time!”

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4.Cancún: Cooking Class and Optional Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 127 reviews · 4 hours · from $78

Spend four hours learning Mexican cooking with guides such as Diego, Nassim, or G. Visit a local market if you add transport, choose ingredients, make tortillas, guacamole, enchiladas, sopes, quesadillas, and enjoy a four-course meal with a margarita.

“Diego was amazing, very skilled, knowledgeable and communicated very well. We enjoyed going round the markets and cooking authentic Mexican dishes, which I’m now going to cook back home in the uk. We’ve even got the recipes - 100% would recommend!”

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