Top Guerrero Cooking Classes

It was amazing! We got to spend the day in their beautiful home and felt like guests invited to dinner. The food was amazing the host and their family were so welcoming. And I can't wait to make tamales for my family

The host Carlos and Elsa are so welcoming. The class started with a walk in the market and learning about the ingredients. The class took place in their lovely home. Very hands on experience. Everyone got to participate in all the dishes making. Their house is beautiful and the star fruit tree in their backyard has the most fresh star fruit.

City tour was great! Our guides were super friendly and knowledgeable. Cooking experience was great. Food was tasty and the chef was great with his directions. You should consider handing out recipe cards for the dishes that we prepared for keepsakes and so that we can prepare once we get home. Also, at the price point at least one or two beverages should be included.

Rudy and Mario made the tour an unforgettable experience! I did the tour with my best friend and we both loved it. It was amazing! 10/10 will recommend it to all my friends!

The tour with Mario and Rudy was super nice. We have seen a lot of Acapulco and could learn to love it through the excellent guidance. The market was super interesting and especially the village at the end of the tour was magical. Especially nice was cooking there together with the local people and playing with the children. Throughout the tour, Rudy kept telling us very interesting things about life in Acapulco which gave us the chance to get a good and better impression of the city. Being there by Marios also made us feel safer (although we felt safe anyway because all people were always super nice to us). All in all, I can really recommend the tour to anyone and we really enjoyed it.

The tour with Rudy and Mario was an absolute highlight of our 2 day stay in Acapulco. Rudy’s remarks on the history of Acapulco and Mexico, the drive to different neighborhoods of the city - to the poorer and wealthier neighborhoods of the city - the very special viewpoints over the bay, all this brought us much closer to Acapulco and opened our eyes to the special beauty of this city. These impressions were supported by a detailed tour of the Acapulcos market, a place we would not have found without Rudy and Mario. Finally, we drove further south to a fishing village located at the junction of a lagoon and the Pacific Ocean. There we prepared a guacamole together with the villagers and learned how to bake tortillas. To put it in three words: We loved it! I would also like to point out, in particular, that we felt safe at all times - in the very busy market as well as on the street and in the fishing village. We all (my husband, our three children, our daughter-in-law and I) can highly recommend Rudy and Mario's tour!

This was a wonderful experience! The hosts, Carlos and Elena are warm-hearted, joyful people that share their knowledge and culture with care and patience. They field all questions and create an authentic learning and engaging experience for everyone. I have memories and skills that I will revisit many times.

Easy pickup at and return to hotel, very interesting trip to municipal market, and a lovely home to get instructions and hands on experience to make classic Mexican food. I have nothing but positives for Carlos and Elsa's offering. Great value!!

Excellent tour- loved the market experience, our guide Mario, and wonderful Chef Daniel at the restaurant. The offer to take photos for us throughout the tour and then email them to us by the tour company was also really nice and allowed us to just enjoy the experience.

We were so lucky to have Mario as our guide for this experience again! He was our guide a few days earlier for the Acapulco day tour. This was a wonderful experience walking through the central market and tasting special local dishes, then learning from Chef Daniel at his restaurant, where we cooked an appetizer and two main dishes. We really enjoyed this tour and are so appreciative that the tour company had Mario take photos for us throughout the tour, then sent them to us in an email with video and photo links, so that we could fully immerse ourselves in the experience. Another A++ experience.

This tour was AMAZING! We toured with Mario and Jesus and we felt well taken care of! The tour was safe, secure, and we learned so much about Acapulco - they really know their information! They took us all over the city, we were able to get great pictures overlooking the city, they helped translate/ speak with the vendors at the market which was really helpful as non-Spanish speakers. The cooking demonstration was really fun and the food was DELISIOUS! Highly recommend this tour and we were able to get a great video/ pictures of our tour afterwards.

As I booked the trip on Pezole Thursday the regular restaurant that offer the cooking was not available and Rudi and team came up with a alternative itinerary for the day that included baby turtles a crocodile farm and a view if a very different Acapulco.My guide Jose Mario picked me up and we first popped in at the supermarket to buy a few ingredients and then headed South along the condominium strip. Leaving the big developments behind we turned into a small road and stopped at the turtle hatchery where I had the chance to release two babies from the day's hatch. After this we headed further south to the Crocodile sanctuary where a very enthusiastic Rizio spent an hour showing me around the crocodile enclosures and mangrove forrest Heading even further south we finally ended in Barra Vieja and my cooking lesson with Patti from La Charrita. It does not come more authentic Mexican than cooking Pescado a la Talla and tortillas over the open fire. The best food I had the whole trip - even if I made it Patti's secret sauce and mentoring certainly made the magic.Jose Mario was an amazingly informative and friendly guide who managed to show me a very unique Acapulco. If you can convince somebody to do this off-the-beaten track trip with you - jump at the chance it is a once in a lifetime experience.

Carlos and Elsa were wonderful hosts. The day started with Carlos picking us up at our Airbnb and taking us through one of the local markets where we grabbed a few last-minute ingredients and got a glimpse of everyday life in Zihuatanejo.From there we went to Elsa and Carlos’s home where Elsa walked us through making several traditional dishes including sopes, tamales, chili rellenos, enchiladas and taquitos, along with fresh salsas and guacamole. Everything was hands-on and relaxed, and Elsa was a great teacher.Make sure you come hungry because there is a lot of food by the end. It was a really fun day and a great way to experience authentic Mexican cooking. Highly recommend this experience if you’re visiting Zihuatanejo.

Carlos and Elsa are wonderful hosts! The walk through the market was fun and informative. Carlos explained interesting foods and culture.Elsa and her daughter were a joy to cook with! I love to cook, so the explanations and tips they gave were great. Elsa even gave me some helpful hints when I told her about an event I'm hosting this fall.Whether you love to cook or just want to have fun, this class is a blast. And my husband now knows hot to make guacamole!

We had a fantastic time in this cooking class. Elsa and Carlos are fantastic hosts, and Elsa and her daughter were great at taking us through each dish we made and the how to prepare each ingredient in each dish. I would definitely recommend this when visiting Zihuatanejo or Ixtapa.

Amazing experience, perfect balance of participating in the cooking while the hosts (Elsa and her family) did the heavy lifting. You make a lot of food, so come hungry! It was nicely spaced so that you eat a mini brunch shortly after arriving so you get hungry again for the subsequent big lunch. The market tour was cool to experience the local shopping routines and see all the vendors. Plan for the entire experience to take half of your day, we finished around 1:30pm.