Guided food tours in Oaxaca worth your time, with operators we’d actually book.
Guided food tours in Oaxaca worth your time and money. operators we would actually book.
Route: Classic Centro walking tour: 4 tasting locations and 15+ tastings across about one mile in Centro, mezcal flight included
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.
Route: Earth, Corn and Fire: Tasting the Roots of Oaxacan Cuisine. Mercado de La Merced and Mercado 20 de Noviembre, comal tortilla making, family-run mole meal
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 meal at a family-run market kitchen. Max 7 guests, runs Monday to Saturday at 10am.
Route: The Late Shift: Tasting Oaxaca by Night. Long-running tortas/tostadas stand, clay-pot beans counter, tlayuda vendor running since 1952, mezcal tasting with a master distiller
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 since 1952 and a mezcal tasting with a master distiller. Runs Monday to Saturday at 4pm.
Route: Centro classic crawl: markets, tamales, mole, chocolate row, mezcaleria
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 flight.
Route: Centro street food crawl: tlayudas, tamales, memelas, mezcal, tejate
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.
Route: Oaxaca Food Tour: campechano tacos, lechon, tlayudas, garnachas, tamales with mole, esquites con chapulines, mezcal at a local bodega
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, tamales with mole, esquites con chapulines and a mezcal flight at a local bodega.
Route: Mezcalera Route: Mitla and Matatlan agave-field walk, artisan distillery process tour, unlimited mezcal tasting, traditional Oaxacan meal at a local restaurant
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, unlimited tasting and a traditional Oaxacan meal at a local restaurant.
Route: Centro Oaxaca: Mercado 20 de Noviembre and Mercado Benito Juarez plus Zocalo, with mole negro, mole rojo, chapulines, quesillo, shaved ice and a pre-Hispanic cocoa drink
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 negro, mole rojo, chapulines, quesillo and a pre-Hispanic cocoa drink. Max 10 guests.
TableJourney covers 8 editor-picked food tours in Oaxaca, with what each shows you and how much to budget.