Cooking Class in Authentic Etrim Village

Recommended by 91% of travelers

Bodrum, Turkey

6 hours (approx.)
Group discounts
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

Overview

Sample Menu

Starter

4-5 mezes for starter.

we show how you prepare mezes , Turkish starter like tapas.

Main

stuffed pepper , vegetable pie ,

prepare stuffed pepper and vegetable pie ,

What's Included

Local driver/guide
Bottled water
Coffee and/or Tea
Lunch
Soda/Pop
Air-conditioned vehicle

Alcoholic Beverages
Gratuities
Private transportation

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

Bodrum Tour - Boat Tours - Yacht Tours - Private Boat Tours
Umurca, Üçkuyular Cd. No:7 D:1b, 48400 Bodrum/Muğla, Türkiye
we can meeting with you in our office or cruise port. one day before we will send to you location by whatsapp. you can come by taxi or public transport

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Infant seats available
Most travelers can participate

Not wheelchair accessible
This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Featured review

Sasha_Z

This was an amazing experience, and I would recommend it to everyone. My family and I went together and it was absolutely incredible. We learned so much about Turkish culture and it was extremely interesting. You'll be able to cook authentic Turkish food, explore a small Turkish village, and learn all about the rich culture of Turkish carpets as well. The people who hosted us were extremely kind and knowledgeable, and working alongside them was an experience I'll never forget. Definitely put this on your To-Do List if you are in Bodrum!

Reviews

4.6

based on 23 reviews

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An authentic small village in Turkey

Courtney_S, Jun 2025

We enjoyed this little village! We helped cook food- grating carrots, stirring the pot, rolling cheese rolls. It was fun to do together as a family. We grated a lot of carrots, but then never ate anything with carrots, so not sure what they went to. We liked rolling the bread dough and baking it on the fire. We even got to meet Grandma a few houses down. A nice experience.

Wasn’t really cooking....

Anna_D, Aug 2024

Wasn’t really cooking. Was just helping in the kitchen. A little unorganized but friendly people around.

Response from Host, Feb 2025

turkish kitchen is very rich , and half day we try show to you just a few example. As you can appreciate, we do not have the opportunity to teach you Turkish cuisine in half a day. If you wish, you can become a real chef by attending our 6 or 9 month courses.

Great tour but translator/guide needs to stay

William_S, Jul 2024

It was a good experience that needs some work. We made a ton of the same food (about 100 dolma for 2 people). The process of it should be to make 25 not 100. It was just done with no English translation. They were not even able to tell us the ingredients. Although very nice, the guide left all the time and we were with people who were not able to discuss what we were doing and it was awkward. Someone in the kitchen was trying to teach me the way to roll bead and I would do wrong and she was not able to tell me how to fix or do properly. The food was amazing! Really amazing with a huge selection! This was a good experience. I would probably do it again, but some tweeks are needed to the process of the tour. The major change is that a translator or guide needs to be present the whole tour.

Excellent

Dilara_H, Jul 2024

Overall the whole experience was fabulous. The food was excellent and the people were lovely. My sister and I had a great time!

Impeccable, down to earth, heartwarming experience

Judy_L, May 2024

I was the only person signed up for this tour on a Friday. I guess this is because this tour is relatively new, but I assure you, it could be the most special tour you could take in Bodrum. I, myself am a huge foodie and passionate about cooking, therefore, this is the perfect tour for me to get to learn the Turkish traditional village cooking. On the day of the tour, I was greeted by tour guide Tony, he is fully fluent in English and gave me a very warm welcome. Unfortunately, during my visit to Bodrum, I was not very well physically due to seasonal allergies, but not only merely performing normal duties as a tour guide, Tony most certainly provided utmost care to make me feel comfortable during the tour. Tony would tell me stories about the city, the village and everything about Turkey the country itself. It was such a pleasure to have met Tony as well as all the lovely, welcoming people from Etrim village. From interaction with the chefs and carpet makers, there was never a moment I felt I was a foreigner to them, I was being treated as one of them despite the cultural differences. Tony is highly knowledgeable, more than qualified tour guide. Because of him, I will most certainly will return to Bordrum. If you want to leave Bodrum feeling your heart full and warm, you need to sign up to this tour!

Local flavor

Arianne_T, May 2024

Pick up was easy. We were driven to Etrim in a comfortable van and given a tour of the village, invited into the mosque (very different than the ones in the city!), visited some houses to see how people in the village previously and currently live. After our tour, we went to a restaurant of sorts and started rolling grape leaves. The lady who taught us didn't speak English and our guide who was also the interpreter flitted in and out and we could only communicate with her when he was around. We then also cut some pumpkin which we are told is used for a dessert. Afterwards we went into the kitchen and saw how they made some other things like bread (of various kinds) and they let us participate a bit by rolling the dough. After about 15-20 mins of that, we then went out into the outdoor restaurant and had a feast (though not the stuff we made). I could tell the grape leaves were not ours as I tended to make fatter ones than they did. Also the pumpkins did not make it on our menu. We ate family style with some other people who we had done the village tour with but then split off when we did the cooking but they did not sign up for that. The food was very good though and you could tell the freshness. It was a holiday so they seemed to be quite busy even though it was a weekday so I appreciated that they still had the cooking portion for us. Though the filling of the grape leaves was premade, they told us what was in it and I feel like I could try to replicate it at home with some help from google. All in all, I recommend this experience if you want something more from Bodrum than the beach resort life.

More of an Eating class than a Cooking class, which isn't necessarily a complaint, lol!

Amy_R, Apr 2024

It is a lovely setting with very friendly "teachers". We learned to roll grape leaves, and make Greek (not very sweet) halvah. We were provided really delicious small "plates" for lunch (with the offer of more!), which was great. We didn't actually cook very much or even see the start to finish of what we made. We cut a great squash- but didn't eat anything with grated squash. (We were given chances of squash in a sweet syrup, and we rolled a lot of dolmas, but we think we were probably given food already prepared, and not the stuff we actually made. Like I said, the food was absolutely delicious and the setting was relaxing, but as for a cooking class, don;t expect recipes or much hands on learning.