Choose a Cusco market experience
A Cusco market visit can be an introduction to regional ingredients, a guided tasting experience or the beginning of a cooking class. San Pedro is the shared setting of the three selected options, but the activities differ. The tasting tour includes 14 Andean flavours and a guide. The two cooking experiences combine a market visit with instruction from a professional chef and the ingredients for the class.
Choose the tasting walk if sampling is the point of your outing. Choose a class if you want cooking to take up part of your time. One class specifies three dishes, two cocktails and Picarones tasting; the other includes Chicha Morada and water alongside the market walk and cooking. Neither the market setting nor a food photograph should decide your menu for you: use the actual inclusions to choose.
Market tours and cooking
Choose the tasting walk to sample Andean flavours, or a cooking class to prepare food with a chef.
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San Pedro market and cooking class
- All the ingredients
- Chicha Morada drink
- Walking tour of San Pedro Market
Cook with a professional chef after a market walk.
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Market tour and cooking class
- Market tour
- 2 cocktails
- Picarones tasting
Prepare three dishes with a professional chef.
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Andean flavours and market walk
- 14 authentic Andean flavors
- Visit to San Pedro Market
- Official tour guide
Meet local hosts during a guided walk through Cusco.
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Try 14 Andean flavours with a guide, cook three dishes with cocktails, or choose a market walk and chef-led class with Chicha Morada.
San Pedro Market: location and visiting hours
San Pedro is a food market near the centre, opposite San Pedro railway station. Regional food products and handicrafts share the market setting. The published tourism information gives an approximate walk of 8 minutes from Plaza de Armas, useful as a location guide rather than a timetable for your own arrival. Allow time to find the particular address where your activity begins.
Published visiting hours are Monday to Saturday, 06:00 to 18:00, and Sunday, 06:00 to 16:00. These describe the market visit, while your booked class or walk has its own start time. Arrange the day around that reservation rather than treating the market's closing hour as the meeting time. Our historic-centre walking tours suit a separate outing focused on streets and architecture.
Guided tastings around the market
The 4-hour tasting experience combines 14 Andean flavours, San Pedro Market, interaction with local hosts, city sightseeing and an official guide. It is the option to choose when you want a guided introduction built around trying food. The tasting count describes this particular activity; it does not apply to every market tour or cooking course.
Its starting address is Cascaparo 154, and hotel pickup and drop-off are excluded. Plan your route to that address independently. Since tasting is the activity, leave room in your day for it instead of squeezing it between tightly timed meals. For other types of guided outings, the Cusco tours overview compares city visits, food experiences and trips outside the city.
Cusco cooking classes with a market visit
The class with three dishes lasts 250 minutes. A professional chef, ingredients, a market tour, two cocktails, Picarones tasting and water are included. It starts at Mercado Central de San Pedro, Cascaparo s/n. This is a useful choice if the stated combination of cooking, cocktails and a separate sweet tasting is what interests you. The number of dishes gives a clearer picture of the class than a broad food-tour label.
The other class lasts 4 hours and starts at the San Pedro market meeting address, Thupaq Amaru 477. It includes a walking tour of the market, a cooking class with a professional chef, all ingredients, Chicha Morada and water. Hotel pickup and drop-off are excluded. Choose this option for its combination of market explanation and cooking, without borrowing the three-dish or cocktail inclusions from the other class.
Food preferences and dietary requirements deserve a specific conversation before you choose an activity. Ask about the planned dishes and any adjustments you need, rather than expecting every course to follow the same menu. The included ingredients cover the class itself; separate purchases you decide to make during a market visit are a different part of your spending.
Meeting points instead of hotel pickup
All three selected activities give a market-area meeting point. The addresses differ even though they share San Pedro as their setting. Keep the address and reservation time together, and make the journey from your accommodation part of your plan. The centre and San Blas accommodation guide helps put that journey in the context of the rest of your stay.
For a day that combines food with independent sightseeing, give each activity its own space. Plaza de Armas, Qorikancha and the craft streets of San Blas offer different reasons to explore, while the food experience has its own meeting arrangements. A class is a substantial scheduled activity, not simply a stop you can add whenever you happen to reach the market.
Questions about market tours and classes
Which option includes 14 tastings?
The 4-hour guided food walk includes 14 Andean flavours and a visit to San Pedro. It is a tasting experience rather than one of the two chef-led classes.
Do both classes include cocktails?
The 250-minute class includes two cocktails, three dishes and Picarones tasting. The 4-hour class instead lists Chicha Morada and water with its cooking and market programme.
Where do the food activities start?
The tasting tour starts at Cascaparo 154. The class with cocktails meets at Mercado Central de San Pedro, Cascaparo s/n; the other class uses Thupaq Amaru 477. Use the address for your selected activity.