Lima Ceviche-Making Cooking Class with Pisco Sour

Your Experience

Explore Lima's gastronomy in a guided food tour with ceviche preparation, Pisco Sour class, and tastings of classic Peruvian dishes and drinks.

Getting started

Begin your Lima gastronomic tour with ceviche, pisco, and pollito a la brasa by meeting your host at the designated starting point for a brief introduction to the experience. After a short overview of the dishes and drinks you will prepare and taste, you move into the cooking and tasting area. From here, the gastronomic tour unfolds course by course.

What to expect

Lima gastronomic experience

This experience focuses on Peru's key culinary products, combining a guided tasting with a hands-on element. You follow a course-style progression that moves from traditional drinks and snacks to main dishes, desserts, and a dedicated spirits class.

Features

• Start by exploring the history, preparation, and tasting of key Peruvian products, with explanations that connect each ingredient to local techniques and traditions. This sets the context for everything you prepare and taste during the tour.
• Join a ceviche preparation session with a professional chef, then taste your freshly made ceviche alongside a Pollito a la Brasa tasting that showcases Peru's signature rotisserie chicken.
• Take part in a complete Pisco Sour class featuring 5 flavors, where you learn how each variation is built and then sample the different profiles one by one.
• Taste classic Peruvian drinks such as chicha morada and Inka Kola, followed by a sampling of traditional chicha de jora so you can compare non-fermented and fermented corn-based preparations.
• Prepare and taste typical dishes and desserts using local techniques, including causa limeña and suspiro a la limeña, as well as arroz con leche and mazamorra morada served together for contrast in flavor and texture.
• Continue with a street-snack style segment that includes picarones and churros franciscanos tasting, allowing you to experience two distinct fried sweets popular in Lima.
• Join a chocolate tasting class focused on local varieties, where you examine flavor differences and learn how cacao fits into Peru's broader gastronomic identity.
• Conclude the experience by discovering a secret local drink and two local-only foods, which are presented without prior detail so that this final tasting remains a surprise within the tour.

Highlights

• Get to know Peruvian flavors as you hear stories and then taste secret local-only dishes and enjoy a house drink you will not expect.
• Meet your professional chef, hear an overview of the class, then roll up your sleeves and prepare ceviche side by side as the session begins.
• Follow a complete Pisco Sour lesson with five versions, then sample Peru's hallmark drinks, including chicha morada, Inka Kola, and chicha de jora.
• Build out the menu as you plate causa limeña and taste pollito a la brasa, then finish with desserts, picarones, churros franciscanos, and chocolate.