Oaxaca · CACAO, CHOCOLATE & COFFEE TASTINGS
6 reviewed
Oaxacan chocolate is ground with almonds and cinnamon and drunk hot with water, and the coffee comes down from the Sierra. Here are the best tastings and mill visits: which let you grind your own blend, which pair cacao with mezcal, how long each sitting lasts, and what they cost.
Oaxaca street art, artist studios, and hands-on printmaking, then a guided cacao tasting with multiple varieties and drinks.
“In depth explanation of the political meanings + inspiration behind the murals which gave us more insight into Oaxacan culture.”
Small-group Oaxaca cacao tasting with 15–20 cocoa samples, traceability stories, cocoa toast, and a house drink in ~2 hours.
“I would recommend this experience to anyone. It was fantastic, and our whole family enjoyed it. We learned so much about chocolate and how different cacao varieties are prepared, and we got to try our hands at making chocolate. The founder is kind and taught us so much. Not to mention... it was so delicious!”
Make Oaxacan chocolate from cocoa bean to drink, using traditional tools and techniques, with tastings, custom sugar, and cocoa toast.
“Super fun and informative workshop. We learned a lot about cacao’s history and production. We sampled different beans with different styles of production, washed vs fermented, sampled different ground powders, and then roasted and ground our own cacao, which we made into hot chocolate. We got to keep the remainder of our ground chocolate as a delicious souvenir. We would highly recommend this workshop and would do it again. We did it with our two kids, 12 and 8, and they enjoyed it immensely. The staff were super friendly, knowledgeable, and accommodating.”
Learn Oaxacan-style chocolate by hand at Teolab, make your own bars, taste what you crafted, and take home 150g.
“Tomas is a passionate, warm, patient and generous resource who shared his knowledge of chocolate making in a memorable way”
A 1-hour Oaxaca cacao workshop where you taste multiple chocolate styles and make your own ancestral drink in a warm, traditional setting.
“Martin was an excellent guide unexplained everything very clearly. He was also very pleasant and patient with my Spanish.”
Hands-on Oaxacan chocolate making in Oaxaca City: toast cacao, grind chocolate bars, then cook mole and sip hot chocolate. Small group.
“What a fun and educational class this was!! We heated up cocoa beans and made actual chocolate to make hot chocolate and chocolate ice cream . We also learned how to make a simple mole with chocolate and it was all hands on with the instructor guiding us . At the end of the class we were served our mole sauce over chicken and the chocolate ice cream for dessert . Dinner was served on a rooftop patio with twinkling lights . It was a phenomenal experience and we 100% recommend taking this class !!!”
