Manuel Antonio Local Cooking Class with Botanical Garden Tour

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Manuel Antonio Local Cooking Class with Botanical Garden Tour

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Summary
Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
Where to Meet
Reviews
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Duration
3 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 15 guests
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Accessibility
Stroller Accessible
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Language
English
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Other
Wheelchair Accessible, Family-friendly, Pet-friendly
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Digital Ticket
Mobile or paper ticket accepted

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.

Meeting & Pickup

Pickup Point
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Pickup Details
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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Meeting Point

Chocolate Tour Manuel Antonio, Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica, CR

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End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

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

Reviews
4.8
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based on 17 reviews
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Amazing Class!
March 25, 2026

This cooking class was awesome! The food was delicious (especially the caramelized plantains) and Sergio was very friendly, making this experience unforgettable. We would highly recommend this clas...read more

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Highly Recommend
February 26, 2026

Our tour of the botanical garden was very interesting and educational. But the best part was the cooking class. Sergio made it not only helpful but also fun and entertaining. The meal was a great r...read more

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Best
January 17, 2026

Best esperienze with Sergio and Eli. The Casado was great and the view from the kitchen was amazing. Higly recommanded.

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So much fun!
January 12, 2025

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

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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