The 5 Best Cooking Classes

1.Budapest Cooking Class & Market Tour with Local Guide & Wines

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 553 reviews · 4 hours (approx.) · from $99Our pick

Start at Budapest’s Central Market Hall with guides such as Ben, Kinga, or Mesi, tasting pickles, salami, cheese, and pálinka before shopping for ingredients. Continue to a cozy Budapest-style kitchen for hands-on cooking, wine, and a shared Hungarian meal. Groups are advertised at no more than 12 people.

“Easy to find meeting spot, fun navigating through market to purchase ingredients, cooking instructions fun and engaging. Enjoyed our wonderful meal with strangers who became friends over this shopping, food preparation and dining experience!”

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2.Tsukiji Market Walking Tour & Sushi Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 122 reviews · 3 hours · from $96

Meet your English-speaking guide at Tsukiji Hongwanji Temple for about 70 minutes among the Outer Market stalls, then head to ABC Cooking Studio. In a group of up to six, prepare temari sushi, rolled sushi, tamagoyaki, and miso soup before eating your lunch and taking home digital recipes.

“We were very much looking forward to this market tour. To be able to shop and taste some freshly sourced Japanese seafood. It was exactly that. Lucy did an excellent job of taking us to the right spots and giving detailed explanations of the various stalls and products. We could have stayed there a lot longer. Lots to take in! The sushi class with Yukari was another tremendous experience. We made from scratch; Miso some, Japanese omelet, and rolled sushi and then had all of that as our lunch. Yukari was very patient and took the time to make this experience more than wonderful!”

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3.Cape Town: Bo-Kapp Walking Tour and Malay Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 105 reviews · 4 hours · from $68Best value

Walk Bo-Kaap with local guides such as Faldela, Gadija, or Ilyas, visit its mosque, museum, shops, and a spice store, then cook Cape Malay dishes in a local home. You will make samosas, curry, roti, salsa salad, and koesisters before sitting down to eat.

“It was incredible. Would absolutely recommend starting with the walking tour - Faldela is so knowledgeable and clearly well loved in the community. She’s funny, irreverent and just a good time to be around. The cooking class was great - got to actually make the samosas and roti - and everything was so organised and streamlined. The food tasted incredible and our dietaries were just so well accounted for. So glad we did this :)”

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4.Hungarian Cooking Class and Market Walk

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 91 reviews · from $98

Meet Emese, George, Kinga, or Marcell at Budapest’s Central Market Hall for tastings and a short cultural tour. Then walk to a nearby apartment for communal cooking, Hungarian wine, pálinka, family recipes, and a shared meal.

“loved the tour of the market before hand and bit of history. Made to feel very welcome in home where the cooking was and felt like it was exactly how it should be done, good food and good drinks. George was fantastic!”

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5.Naxos: Food Walking Tour & Cooking Class with Meal & Drinks

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 86 reviews · 4 - 5 hours · from $135

Spend 4 to 5 hours with a local guide such as Anastasia, walking through Naxos Town and its 13th-century castle, shopping for produce, tasting cheese and citron liqueur, then preparing Greek appetizers and salad with Ms Mimosa before sitting down to eat.

“A wonderful tour by Anastasia of Naxos town highlighting its rich history and introducing us to the island’s produce and specialty foods. The cheese shop offered us an excellent introduction to the array Naxian cheeses and Raki. The tour through the old town brought us to the restaurant where we made our lunch under the watchful eye of Mme Mimosa - all lots of fun and absolutely delicious! A great day in Naxos town!”

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