Private Home-Cooked tour in Lima

Make your way to the Miraflores neighborhood in the afternoon, and meet your guide to begin your Peruvian cooking experience.

First, head to a local food market and rub shoulders with locals as you browse fresh produce. As you explore with your guide, gain insight into the fruits, spices, and vegetables important to traditional Andean cuisine and make any purchases you wish (own expense).

Next, hop aboard a public bus and head to a local home in the nearby Chorrillos neighborhood for your cooking class where you meet your hosts.

Under careful guidance from your host, chop, slice, and dice fresh, local ingredients and prepare a traditional ceviche. Discover recipes handed down through the generations.

Shake up a traditional pisco sour cocktail and enjoy your food among your fellow chefs.

Your Lima cooking class experience ends at your host’s home in Chorrillos.

• Visit a food market with your guide to see local, fresh ingredients
• Learn to prepare a pisco sour cocktail and enjoy your food with your hosts
• Includes public bus travel from Miraflores to Chorrillos

Peruvian cuisine incorporates ingredients from the surrounding land and sea, using recipes handed down through the generations. On this Lima cooking class, delve into the world of Andean cookery and enjoy an immersive experience away from the tourist trail. Browse fresh ingredients in the bustling food markets with your guide, and prepare delicious dishes the traditional way with your hosts in a local family home.

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
NOTE: Due to Peruvian tax regulations, you must bring your original passport and Andean immigration card along with you on the tour. If you do not have these, you will be charged a tax of USD 15.
This is a child-friendly tour. Children between the ages of 6 and 11 inclusively are permitted on this tour at the rate as same as adults. Children under the age of 6 are permitted to join this tour free of charge. Please inform us at the time of booking if you’ll be bringing a child under the age of 6.
Not wheelchair accessible
Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps
Local Impact: How you will help the local community by joining this tour: By joining this tour you are heping to preserve traditional Peruvian recipes going back four generations. In addition, the supplies that we use come directly from local producers at regional markets.
Your tour is also helping to support the small businesses and food stakeholders involved in keeping traditional Peruvian cuisine alive.
By joining this tour you are also supporting the local mother and daughter who teach the cooking class. By teaching the class, they are able to improve the economy of their family, giving them the opportunity to empower themselves as women.
Effective Sept 1, 2021, travellers 18+ must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Children 6-17 must present a negative COVID-19 test (PCR or lateral flow) conducted maximum 72 hours prior, proof of recovery dated up to 9 months or proof of vaccination. View full policy at urbanadventures.com/vaccine.
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travelers