Top Oaxaca City Desserts & Sweets

Wander around the beautiful city of Oaxaca and discover its art on this guided half-day tour. Learn about the ancestral techniques used by the artists in Oaxaca as well as about the artists themselves. Visit murals, studios, and galleries and participate in a printing at a local art studio that you’ll be able to take home as a souvenir.

Our tour is planned by a team of gastronomy lovers. The team developed a complete platform where what we are looking for is that any lover of food and unique culinary experiences enjoy the culinary heritage of Mexico to the fullest. We planned this experience with two years of research, if you take this experience you will meet people who preserve the gastronomic culture of Oaxaca, the vendors always offer us a unique experience of living the flavors in an incomparable way, because the producers themselves will talk to us and share with us of his wisdom.

Do you like cacao? of course you do :) If you are curious about trying many different cacao recipes and learn the process of the chocolate making, this experience is for you! Starting from Oaxaca centro with a chocolate tasting and chocolate making experience. You will learn the secret about the sacred brevage from the raw seed to your cup. Cinnamon, cardamom, chili, traditional, dark,etc.. try them all, choose your favorite and make it with local experts Ervit and Rut. We will then drive up into the mountains of the Sierra Norte to explore the fabric of the indispensable "Molinillo", wooden whisk handmade by family of the Sierra Norte and hike to the mountain top for some stunning views. The hike is moderate, about 3 hours total through the pine trees leading us to the pic at 3200m (10500feet). We will enjoy flora and fauna of the cloud forest habitat and take time to drink our homemade hot chocolate in front of this beautiful panorama of pine trees mountains over the Sierra norte.

Foodies know that every meal is precious when traveling, so don't risk wasting time on a bad meal. Walk and eat your way around Oaxaca on this small-group tour. Sample a plethora of different local dishes at markets and street food stalls, starting at Templo de Santo Domingo de Guzman. Learn about Oaxacan culture through its food, and get a close-up look at a side of the city many travelers miss.

Oaxacan food is nationally and internationally recognized. The markets of Oaxaca are the best option to taste the true traditional food! This tour will give you the best introduction to Oaxacan cuisine. You will be able to understand everything that happens in the markets and clarify your doubts while you explore the flavors and smells of Oaxacan cuisine from the most traditional places.

This tour was built around one simple idea: the best way to understand a culture is to taste it. Not in a restaurant — at the source. You'll pull quesillo from a dairy vat with your own hands, drink tejate from the same clay bowl the Zapotecs used a thousand years ago, and sit beside a baker in a market town as she explains why the bread only tastes right when it's baked in clay. Every stop is a tasting, every tasting has a story, and every story connects you to a part of Oaxaca that most visitors never see. No ruins, no museums — just food, people, and the living traditions behind one of Mexico's greatest culinary cultures. All tastings included.

If you really want to go beyond the restaurants and really taste Oaxaca, this tour is for you. We leave the city to visit Native towns where indigenous families & traditional cooks still prepare food the old-fasioned way! Grinding corn by hand, cooking over the wood fire and usuing clay pots and comales. You will taste dishes prepared specially for you, learn about Ancestral cooking techniques, hear stories behind each recipe and see how food, identity & daily life are deeply connected in this communities. By choosing this Tour, you also support local markets, indigenous cooks and local families who preserve Oaxaca´s culinary heritage. A genuine Oaxacan Cultural & Gastronomic inmersion - Fully private and all-inclusive