Top Mumbai Classes & Workshops - page 2

Some of these pickles and chutneys are easy to learn and replicate with ingredients that are locally available across the world. You get to learn a new skill and surprise your friends and relatives when you reach back home.

Experience a side of Mumbai that few visitors get the chance to see with this early-morning tour of the city. You'll wake up early in time to see a fish auction, a flower market, and a vegetable market set up all along both sides of a bridge, all before most people even crawl out of bed.

Enjoy a private cooking lesson in a local home in Powai, north Mumbai. Your host is Rachna, a dedicated foodie and home-cook. When she was 14 years old she learned to cook her first dish: Spanish omelet. It’s still one of her favorite dishes, aside from the recipes she learned from her mother. Rachna comes from Patna, in northern India, and swears by the aromatic flavors of their cuisine, which she replicates in her cooking by using home-ground spices. Cooking is a stress-buster for Rachna and she loves to be in the kitchen. Rachna will teach you to prepare authentic North Indian dishes in her kitchen. You'll learn some of her favorite recipes and then enjoy the meal together at her dining table.

Dig deeper into vegan Indian cuisine than possible from menus or cookbooks on this private Mumbai market tour and home-cooking experience. Explore a spice and produce market with a mother-and-daughter pair of local home cooks. Then, visit their apartment to watch a cooking demo and savor their favorite plant-based dishes, such as sweet potato chaat, lentils with brown rice, and kheer (rice pudding) with coconut milk.

With the help of your host, a local home cook, you will get a hands-on cooking experience and learn new techniques used in Indian cooking in an airconditioned kitchen. You can prepare and enjoy Vegetarian Street foods made hygienically at home like Samosas, Vada-Pav , Chaat , Mumbai Masala Sandwich , Dosa , Pav bhaji , Jalebi etc.(Options to be selected at the time of booking or atleast 48 hours before the activity) Vegans are welcome. Let us know in advance if you have any dietary restrictions.

Make the most of your time at shore and explore the bustling city of Mumbai. See the city’s key landmarks such as the Queen Victoria Terminus, Crawford Market, Malabar Hill, the Gateway of India, and the Taj Mahal Hotel. Learn about the history of Mumbai from ancient times to present-day as you explore the city in an air-contioned coach.

Set sail for Elephanta Island, known for its ancient Hindu and Buddhist cave temples, with your own private guide. You'll take a ferry out to the island from the Gateway of India, where you'll have time to explore the caves and learn about their significance with the help of your guide. Boat tickets are included and tour packages with and without hotel pick-up are available.

Rewind to Mumbai’s pre-colonial days on a private half-day tour of the Elephanta Caves. With a private guide, ride a ferry to Elephanta Island in Mumbai Harbor, and explore its UNESCO-listed caves and rock art, believed to date from the 500s. Explore the main Shiva Cave with its huge sculptures of Shiva and Hindu mythologies, and admire the smaller Buddhist caves as your guide shares their history. Ferry and entrance tickets at own expense and option to include a family lunch.

Kajal is the chef and she’s based in Mumbai. Coming from a traditional Indian family, she learned cooking these authentic recipes from her mother and her older sister. In 2017 she started food tours. In this cooking class, you’ll learn how to make a traditional paratha and masala tea. Indian tea also known as chai is milky & rich, deeply colored, very hot, and boldly flavourful with a need for sugar to offset the toasty bitterness. The Masala Tea (Chai) is delicious Indian milk tea made with a blend of spices such as ginger. Parathas are the highly popular unleavened flat-breads made with flour, salt, butter, and water and are eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner in India. As we are bringing this authentic experience to you from our small home in India, we hope you understand that we are not able to deliver professional-level videography, but will do our absolute best to bring you an incredible cooking experience and share our culture with you!