Paella & Sangria Class with Tapas and Market Visit
Overview
This is the first cooking workshop ever created in Alicante, founded in 2022 by local hospitality professionals.
Unlike other classes, we make the Central Market a key part of the experience. You’ll explore its colourful stalls, meet local vendors, and learn about the flavours and traditions that shape Spanish cuisine.
Then, step into our real working kitchen inside a local restaurant — not a tourist set-up, but a place where locals actually eat. Guided by our professional chef and host, you’ll prepare your paella from scratch, including the broth and salmorreta, the traditional sofrito base.
Choose your flavour — seafood, meat, or vegetarian — and enjoy your homemade paella, sangria, and local appetisers in a relaxed atmosphere shared with travellers and locals alike.
This is Alicante’s most authentic gourmet experience, created by locals who truly love their city, its markets, and its food. Real professionals, real products, real local flavour.
What's Included
- Tapas tasting with local appetisers during the workshop
- Learn how to cook homemade sangria and enjoy it with your meal
- Recipes to take home, so you can recreate the dishes
- An authentic venue: a real working restaurant, not a tourist set-up
- Preparation of the traditional broth and salmorreta (sofrito base) from scratch
- All ingredients, equipment, and aprons provided
- Hands-on paella cooking class led by a professional local chef and host
- Guided visit to Alicante’s Mercado Central, where you’ll buy fresh local ingredients
Meeting Location
Plaza 25 de Mayo
03004 Alicante, Spain
Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
What To Expect
Discover Alicante through its most authentic flavours!
Your culinary adventure begins at the Mercado Central, where your local guide will lead you through vibrant stalls filled with fresh produce. Meet the vendors, learn about Mediterranean ingredients, and choose the essentials for your paella.
Then, step into our real working kitchen inside a local restaurant — not a tourist set-up, but a place where locals eat. Guided by our professional chef and host, you’ll cook paella from scratch: from preparing the broth and salmorreta (the sofrito base) to balancing the perfect flavours.
While your paella simmers, enjoy traditional tapas and make your own fresh sangria. Choose your paella style — seafood, meat, or vegetarian — and experience how locals cook, eat, and share food together.
Finally, sit down to enjoy your homemade paella, sangria, and tapas in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. This is the true taste of Alicante — authentic, local and unforgettable.
Hosted by the original cooking workshop in Alicante, led by passionate hospitality professionals who love to share their city’s flavours.
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Minimum age requirement for alcohol consumption is 18 years of age
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travelers
- Operated by a business
Frequently Asked Questions
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Activity code: C-390938P1
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Frequently Asked Questions (6)
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- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (CEST).
- This tour requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
- Tapas tasting with local appetisers during the workshop.
- Learn how to cook homemade sangria and enjoy it with your meal.
- Recipes to take home, so you can recreate the dishes.
- An authentic venue: a real working restaurant, not a tourist set-up.
- Preparation of the traditional broth and salmorreta (sofrito base) from scratch.
- All ingredients, equipment, and aprons provided.
- Hands-on paella cooking class led by a professional local chef and host.
- Guided visit to Alicante’s Mercado Central, where you’ll buy fresh local ingredients.
There is no minimum age for this tour, so bring your wee one along for an adventure. This tour requires at least one adult to accompany children..
Apr 2025If a date or time is not listed on the calendar, it’s sold out or unavailable for another reason. Support cannot assist further if a date or time is not on the calendar.
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Apr 2025Accessibility information for the Paella & Sangria Class with Tapas and Market Visit is as follows:
- Wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Paella & Sangria Class with Tapas and Market Visit will be included in your confirmation email from Cool Destinations. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!
Mar 2024What's Included
- Tapas tasting with local appetisers during the workshop
- Learn how to cook homemade sangria and enjoy it with your meal
- Recipes to take home, so you can recreate the dishes
- An authentic venue: a real working restaurant, not a tourist set-up
- Preparation of the traditional broth and salmorreta (sofrito base) from scratch
- All ingredients, equipment, and aprons provided
- Hands-on paella cooking class led by a professional local chef and host
- Guided visit to Alicante’s Mercado Central, where you’ll buy fresh local ingredients
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Minimum age requirement for alcohol consumption is 18 years of age
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 16 travelers
- Operated by a business
