Top Lima Mixology Classes

Instead of just dining out at restaurants, personalize your Peruvian culinary experience with a cooking and cocktail-making class held in a local chef's home. Master the art of making tartare and ceviche so you can impress people back home, and taste up to 17 different pisco flavors to create the classic national cocktail.

Master the professional techniques for creating the perfect ceviche, pisco sour, and other Peruvian classics during a small-group cooking class led by a former star chef at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Under the careful guidance of your expert instructor, you’ll prepare a traditional 3-course meal. Possible dishes include lomo saltado, aji de gallina, and shrimp causa.

Get hands-on experience preparing some of Peru’s most iconic dishes and shopping at a local market during this Lima cooking class. First stop by the market to pick out fresh meat and produce, discovering the incredible diversity of ingredients in Peruvian cuisine. Then head to the kitchen choosing to prepare a choice of fish, chicken, beef or vegetarian dish like ‘Ceviche’ learning the necessary steps in fun, relaxed atmosphere. Your cooking excursion also includes round-trip hotel transport (for most areas of Lima), professional chef instructor, snacks and either lunch or dinner.

This hands-on culinary adventure is led by a professional chef. Learn to make beloved traditional dishes including lomo saltado (sauteed beef and vegetables on rice with French fries), causa Limeña (a terrine of seasoned mashed potato and other fillings), and chicha morada (a corn-based non-alcoholic beverage) in a relaxed atmosphere using traditional pots and techniques. Finally, enjoy the lunch or dinner that you helped create!

Taste the delicious diversity of Peru’s thriving cacao industry during this 2-hour chocolate-making workshop at Lima’s ChocoMuseo. Learn about every step of the chocolate-making process, including roasting the beans, removing the husk, grinding the nibs and refining the paste in a ‘melangeur.’ You’ll then get to create your very own chocolate with your choice of ingredients, leaving with a delicious handmade dessert. This chocolate-making workshop includes all necessary ingredients, a chocolate drink tasting and a handmade chocolate souvenir.

Prepare two classic Peruvian menu items—a Pisco sour and ceviche—at a Peruvian cooking class in the Miraflores neighborhood of Lima. You’ll learn the secrets behind balancing the simple ingredients of a Pisco sour and achieving ceviche’s super-fresh flavor; it’s a fun, hands-on activity that you can recreate in your home kitchen.

The coastal waters off Lima are ideal for surfing, but mastering the waves can be tough. On this surfing course—aimed at learners of all ages—take to the surf with your guide and practise paddling and popping on your board. With all equipment included, and specially adapted learning surfboards to practise on, splash through the waves and improve your skills in the surf. Classes run throughout the day.

With the company of your tour guide, you will learn why Peruvian food is recognized as one of the best in the world; They will recognize the ideal products to prepare two typical dishes and an alcoholic beverage made from the Peruvian grape distillate called pisco, which are our flagship products and that will make this experience in front of the Pacific Ocean unique and unforgettable.

Savor two of Peru’s most iconic culinary specialties during this 2-hour cooking lesson making ceviche and a Pisco Sour cocktail in the home of a famous Peruvian chef. Head to Lima’s high-end Miraflores neighborhood, where you’ll meet the award-winning Peruvian chef Hector Aguilar Valle, who will lead your cooking session hosted in the outdoor kitchen garden of his home. Learn all the right ingredients and techniques to make the perfect Pisco Sour and the tastiest ceviche during your session, then consume your handiwork at the conclusion of class. You’ll also recipe a recipe e-book when you leave to help continue your culinary training.

Learn to dance salsa and bachata in Peru with this private dance class in Lima. Total beginners can learn the basics while more advanced dancers can refine their skills with one hour of one-on-one instruction. The class can be tailored for groups of up to 10 people and can meet at a location convenient to the student.

Learn to make a classic Peruvian cocktail during this mixology class at Hotel B, in Lima’s stylish Barranco neighborhood. Not only will you have a chance to mix drinks alongside a skilled bartender, you’ll experience a century-old mansion that’s now a luxury hotel. Each cocktail you make will be paired with delicious snack.

Learn to prepare a mouth-watering three-course meal of Peruvian specialties from a former Michelin-starred chef during this 3.5-hour cooking class in Lima. Step into the private home of this award-winning cook as you get personalized instruction on how to prepare three different courses of delicious Peruvian food. To top it off, you’ll learn to make the iconic Peruvian drink, the Pisco Sour and enjoy some seasonal fruit. It’s a fun, intimate way to get a sense of Peruvian culture and food directly from one of the country’s top culinary experts. You’ll also leave the class with an e-recipe book to help continue your culinary training.

Prepare an authentic Peruvian meal from scratch with this small-group Lima cooking class. Begin with a market tour and fruit tasting that introduces you to a wide variety of fresh ingredients—including 35 different fruits—and then head to the kitchen to cook a 4-course meal under the careful instruction from your guide. At the end of the class, enjoy your meal with a Pisco sour.