Top Caribbean Coast Cooking Classes

Learn to cook traditional Colombian food during this half-day class in Cartagena. Shop at a local open-air market with your chef/instructor, who will guide you in selecting ingredients for the dishes. In a local family's kitchen, try your hand at making dishes such as empanadas, coconut rice and others; then feast on your work. Round-trip transportation from Cartagena hotels or a central downtown meeting point is included.

Learn to cook like a local, from a local, with a four-course cooking class. Your instructor will take you and your fellow classmates through the process of preparing two starters, an entree, and a dessert, equipping you with everything you need to prepare the same dishes at home. After you're done, you'll all sit down to dine on your creations together.

With the help of a local Chef you will discover Cartagena's flavours. In this workshop you will roll up your sleeves, put on an apron and cook. Joins us and discover the Chef inside you!

Learn how to prepare a traditional Colombian meal in Cartagena from a local chef during this cooking class. Before hitting the kitchen, visit the local market of Bazurto to explore the regional produce and to purchase ingredients for the meal. From there, you’ll head to a family home to prepare the Colombian dishes.

Savor the unexpected flavors of Cartagena during this 4-hour combination food tour and cooking class. Experience the explosion of exotic fruits, seafood, and local cuisine for sale at the city market during an optional excursion. Then head to a local home in the village of La Boquilla to prepare a mouthwatering meal with your hosts.

We will be in the kitchen of our family restaurant, which meant a lot to us. in the historic center of Cartagena, a kitchen with music, air conditioning, and we have decorated with photos of all the people who have visited us as a way to remember our friends all over the world. In this kitchen, not only is cooking, we also dance once when (our chefs also know how to dance a lot!)

On a city tour, you know five types of craft beer, made 100% in Barranquilla, with elements so unique and representative that they will give you an idea of why 'La Arenosa' is a land of river, music, dance and immigrants that came from the world to stay.

It is an experience to try the richest and most characteristic dishes of the Colombian Caribbean coast while you learn about its origin, history and the gastronomic influence of migrants from the world who came to our kitchen to stay.

We can honestly say, we are the only service of this kind in all of the region. We are your "one stop" source for local coffee grown in Colombias 3rd largest coffee region. Yes, you can purchase local coffee at many shops scattered about the city. We give you the chance to save a great deal of time and a chance to learn a great deal. Our host Guille comes from a family with a long heritage in Santa Marta. Not only is he personable, but he can provide you will all sorts of information that the average tour guide will not know. Our coffee tasting sessions are not a lecture about coffee. Our goal is to provide a great atmosphere and a relaxed setting to try some good coffee.....and to hear your thoughts as well.

In this coffee experience that awakes the senses, you will learn to appreciate and enjoy the particular attributes of specialty coffee through a delicious sensorial exploration. Through this experience you will get an introduction to the coffee production in Colombia, to the coffee crop and its processes, and you will get to do cupping of some of the best Colombian coffees. Your experience will also be complemented by the exploration and pairing with different Colombian honeys, which will turn this into a truly unique experience. This is a sensorial awakening where you will identify flavours and aromas.

Our signature cocktails are based on typical Colombian tropical fruit juices and will be combined with matching local liquors like aguardiente, rum, and Titan as well as vodka and gin. If you want to experience new flavours, this class is for you. We serve plantain and cassava snacks with homemade salsas with some of the cocktails, and also provide recipes for the snacks.

Our Casa Alegra has the Coworking service for all people who want to work, study and read from a different and attractive place while connected to respond to each commitment and stipulated term within their responsibility. You can also attend to your clients, do sessions and / or interviews achieving your day's goals, do networking and new business.

With the help of a native mom you will discover the most exotic local flavors. Learn about our life and how we prepare delicious delicacies

it is a fan way to know our gastronomy and learn to prepare our tropical caribbean food travellers will also know our customs.

Featured in The New York Times, Foodies presents "Arepas and Dancing," a danceable cooking class to learn how to prepare "arepa e' huevo" (or "empanada con huevo" as we, the cartageneros, call it), the most renowned snack in town and the queen of the "mesa de fritos" (fried goods table). It's an arepa prepared with yellow corn, similar to a sun, which can always be found on the fried tables of any corner and next the picó parties where people gather around champeta and salsa brava rhythms to celebrate our African roots with dance steps and cauldrons full of fried food. Join this tribute around some of the most popular cultural symbols of the city and leave room for another jewel of local cuisine that will fill your palate with sweetness while we teach you the steps to dance champeta. Get your hands ready to knead and your feet to dance champeta, the musical genre that Shakira made popular at Super Bowl 2020. Take note the playlist and recipes to relive our music and flavors at home.

A fascinating private culinary experience of Cartagena as you join a cooking class inspired by the diversity of flavors from the Caribbean coast of Colombia and its many cultures. You'll have the chance to immerse in Colombian cooking and learn about the aromas, recipes, ingredients, and local flavors that create delicious Colombian dishes. You will then enjoy a three-course lunch prepared by you and the group.

In this coffee experience that awakes the senses, you will learn to appreciate and enjoy the particular attributes of specialty coffee through a delicious sensorial exploration. Through this experience you will get an introduction to the coffee production in Colombia, to the coffee crop and its processes, and you will get to do cupping of some of the best Colombian coffees. This is a sensorial awakening where you will identify flavours and aromas.

We'll take a path through the Bazurto Market, having a great experience among locals and having the opportunity having a look of Cartagena's real gastronomy and culture interacting with the local community; you'll be able to touch and feel the fresh ingredients that you'll cook later. Then we'll head back to the restaurant where the cooking class will take place and you'll be welcome with a small breakfast before starting to cook your lunch. Once you complete the experience, you will receive the original receipt so you can do it back at home.