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Midday Gastronomic Tour in the city Oaxaca de Juarez Mexico

Oaxaca City, Mexico

2 to 3 hours (approx.)
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

What's Included

Breakfast

Does not include tips or drinks in the smoke aisle

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

C. Macedonio Alcalá 806, RUTA INDEPENDENCIA, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax., Mexico
We’ll meet outside of “La cosecha” that is an Organic Market, there’s a park in front of the Market (Jardin Carbajal) we can meet there

End point

Mercado 20 de Noviembre
20 de Noviembre 512, OAX_RE_BENITO JUAREZ, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax., Mexico
Tour ends in the Plaza de la Danza located in downtown of the city

What To Expect

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Service animals allowed
Near public transportation
Infants must sit on laps

Not recommended for pregnant travelers
No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

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Featured review

Alissa_P

Great value for the price. Tour guide was very friendly and informative. Food seemed like an excellent representation of local cuisine. Tour was just a little under 3 hours, so it felt like the perfect length. Loved our tour.

Reviews

4.0

8 reviews

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Exactly what I was looking for!

Alanah_R, Mar 2024

This tour was delightful and exactly what I was looking for! Guiedanni is kind, knowledgeable, and prepared. Highly recommend! Even after seeing that negative review, I took a chance and was happily surprised! I think the negative experience was not with Guiedanni and seems to be with someone else that was having an off day. I wouldn't let it deter you from booking a fun and yummy tour.

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Thank you 😊 was a pleasure meeting you

Highly recommend!

Alissa_P, Mar 2024

Roll of the dice for a proper guide, would not recommend

Rebecca_L, Feb 2024

We booked the 4 hour gastronomy tour in English. There were so many things that went wrong that in a nutshell, I would not recommend rolling the dice with this tour. Below are the reasons why: First and foremost, our tour guide did not speak enough English to have a conversation or answer just about any questions we had. Our whole tour she would often repeat the few phrases she knows. “Do you have any questions?” or “What do you think?” I eventually stopped asking any questions, frustrated, because she wasn’t able to answer them. Thankfully, my boyfriend speaks Spanish as a second language and translated often for me. I had to ask her many times “In English?” She would often talk to my boyfriend in Spanish leaving him to translate. Second, it was apparent from the moment we met that she very lost and didn’t have a plan. We awkwardly stood for a few minutes in the meeting area, staring at each other, waiting for her to start the tour. We eventually started walking towards the market listed as the first stopping place. It never got any better as she took no initiative during the tour. We started at an organic market where she just kept looking around as if she had no plan and this was her first time, maybe filling in for someone(?). She went to talk to someone and was gone for a while. We sat down and when she came back we were served a drink. Before we even tried it, she asked if we wanted to go visit a stand in the market. This is when my boyfriend told her, in Spanish, that we were concerned she didn’t know what she was doing and that this was supposed to be in English. She told him in Spanish that she knew what she was doing and then asked us what we wanted to do. We expected more direction from her on what to try, where to go and expected her to tell us about the foods. I asked her about the salsas on the table and she just said it was green and tasted it and said it had chiles. Lastly, our tour lasted only 2.5 hours. We had 3 small dishes and a drink served at the first market, tasted crickets which we didn’t get to pick out, chocolate and moles at the second place and had smoked meats at the third. No tylaudas or tamales or anything that was necessarily from that region or what we had read about. It was extremely disappointing and frustrating to not have the experience we expected based off the many great reviews on this website and the description, mostly that the majority was not in English. I did contact Viator requesting a 50% refund. This would more than cover the cost of the food and the guide’s time of maybe 2 hours. I was immediately denied a refund and was told that she showed up. When I again shared the problems with communication, lack of structure and half the time of the tour, I was again declined and told that she said no because it was smoky and there were many people. Again, not reasons why I requested the partial refund. For anyone who may book this tour, she told us her name was Tonya (I think) but after the refund request I had a message from someone called ‘guidedanni2212’. After my 3rd communication with the Viator customer service I have not heard back from them. All in all, maybe I didn’t know enough about Viator but when booking these tours you could get anyone as a tour guide. This seems much like Uber where anyone can sign up to be a guide. I would be very hesitant to ever book through this site again because of this and their gross lack of customer service after a problem. Overall I felt this was a waste of our time and especially quite a bit of money.

Great intro to Oaxaca cuisine

John_R, Nov 2023

We loved finding places we could also go back to later, and getting tips on what was most local and authentic.

Great intro to Oaxaca!

Kate_F, Oct 2023

This tour was the perfect way to start our time in Oaxaca! Our guide was very knowledgeable, and we loved the personal stories she shared about Oaxaca's culture. This tour gave us a good understanding of all the markets in the centro area and gave us an opportunity to taste all the local delicacies, including crickets! We highly recommend this tour!

Good for the price

Masika_H, Jul 2023

Smoke alley, tasting the different types of mole, and hearing about the history of cheese and chocolate.

Best of Oaxaca food tour

Connie_C, Apr 2023

Our guide was Gaedanni and was one of the best tour guides we have ever had in our world travels. We would totally go on any tour she was part of. Our experience was great.