Manuel Antonio Local Cooking Class with Botanical Garden Tour

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3 hours
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1 - 15 guests
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English
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Explore a vibrant botanical garden, discover vanilla and cacao plantations, and learn Costa Rican cooking with locals. Embrace culinary culture with a hands-on cooking class and garden tour.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

This is more than a cooking class, we will show you a large botanical garden, a vanilla plantation, a cacao plantation, sugarcane mill and of course the cooking class with the locals. We will start with a lovely short hike is out properly to learn about the ingredients and history of our culinary culture with special focus on the medical herbs garden.


We then continue to our local home where we will explain step by step the cutting, dressing, mixing and cooking techniques used in Costa Rica to make delicious meals.

Sample Menu

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Local Casado
Casado a delicious local meal, children and vegan friendly

What You Get

Sugarcane mill
Lunch
Botanical Gardens
Gratuities

Good To Know

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Specialized infant seats are available
  • Service animals allowed
  • Wheelchair accessible

What You’ll Experience

Our cooking class will take you on a culinary trip, where you will be capable of learning the local cuisine techniques and combination of native ingredients and flavors finishing with an amazing lunch. As part of this experience we will take you to our 3 acres of Botanical Gardens surrounding our kitchen and show you and teach you about all sorts of local plants including cacao, madicinal plants and vanilla plantation.

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Please Indicate hotel name to coordinate the pick up location. We are located about 10 minutes from Quepos / Manuel Antonio near the Tenis Club in QUEPOS.
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Chocolate Tour Manuel Antonio, Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica, CR

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This experience ends at the meeting point.

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All bookings are final. Once the host confirms the experience, cancellations by the guest will incur a 100% charge.

What People Are Saying
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So much fun!
January 12, 2025
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Local flavours. We were picked up from our hotel, turned out we got a private tour as no one else had booked that day. I loved that. Upon arrival, we got to go pick ingredients ourselves. We got to...read more

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Recommended with Sergio!
June 24, 2024
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The cooking class was awesome and very enjoyable. Sergio was a great guide and cooking instructor as well as just an overall fun guy to talk with while cooking. The class was easy enough for anyon...read more

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local cooking class
May 29, 2024
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Great experience! Highly recommend. We enjoyed everything about the cooking class. Both Sergio & Eli were super kind, with a great sense of humor and friendly disposition. We enjoy the meal,...read more

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Great activity to experience true Costa Rican cuisine
May 07, 2024
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Wonderful cooking class for authentic Costa Rican food! Any level of cooking experience would be acceptable. Our guide Sergio was funny, knowledgeable, and friendly. I would recommend this to anyon...read more

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Fun, but not a cooking class
April 15, 2024
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This was an OK experience, but I would not call it a cooking class. All we did as participants was chop vegetables and shape tortillas, but none of us actually cooked anything. They would tell us w...read more

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