Best Food Tours in Oaxaca

The Mezcal Journey is a 6-hour day trip from Centro at 11am to Mitla and Matatlan, with an agave-field walk, an artisan distillery process tour.

A Chef's Tour Oaxaca is an evening 6:30pm-10:30pm walk for up to 8 guests with 14-plus tastings: campechano tacos, lechon, tlayudas, garnachas.

Culinary Backstreets Earth Corn and Fire is a 5.5-hour walk across Mercado de La Merced and Mercado 20 de Noviembre with a comal tortilla demo and a mole.

Culinary Backstreets The Late Shift is a 5-hour afternoon-into-evening crawl through 9-12 stops including a tortas counter open since 1930, a tlayuda vendor.

Secret Food Tours Oaxaca runs a 3 to 3.5-hour walking crawl across Mercado 20 de Noviembre, Mercado Benito Juarez and the Zocalo, with 10 stops for mole.

Oaxaca Eats Classic Centro Food Tour is a 4-hour walking crawl in Centro with about 15 tastings across 4 venues, ending on a mezcal flight.

Oaxaca by Locals runs a Centro market crawl with a local guide, hitting Mercado 20 de Noviembre, the chocolate block and a small mezcaleria for a final.

Oaxaca Street Food Tour walks the Zocalo, Pasillo de Humo and tlayuda stands, run by a women-owned business committed to local and fair-trade vendor sourcing.