Eat.Drink.Cook.Mexico. // Wine Tasting in Valle de Guadalupe

Join us for a full day of eating and drinking in Baja California’s wine country. Our small group provides a social and light-hearted way to savor the best experiences offered in Valle de Guadalupe. We’ll start the day off visiting a few of Valle's top wineries where we'll have our tastings. After we have had our fill of Baja wines we'll head on over to our dear friend's restaurant where they'll have prepared us a spread for us to feast on. During our meal we'll have a chance to chat with the owners and Executive chef. More INFO.

Oaxaca // National Geographic

We are so excited to see that Oaxaca was named number 2 in National Geographic's article "100 Places That Will Change Your Life".  They're not kidding, Oaxaca is seriously magical. 

Claudio Limon

We may be a wee bit obsessed with artist Claudio Limon's works. The pink Otomi mural he recently did for Hotel Matilda in San Miguel is leaving us swooning over his whimsical Mexican pop-art style. Check out some of our favorite insta pics of the hotel and a handful of his illustrations. See more of his works here and here!

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Valle de Guadalupe // Wine Tasting

Looking for a fun day trip? We have come up with the perfect getaway for those of you interested in visiting Baja's Valle de Guadalupe. Get your passports out and leave your luggage at home, we are going on a daycation!

Join us for a full day of eating and drinking in Baja California’s wine country. Our small group provides a social and light-hearted way to savor the best experiences offered in Valle de Guadalupe. We’ll start the day off visiting a few of the smaller, more intimate boutique wineries where we'll have our tastings. After we have had our fill of Baja wines we'll head on over to our dear friend's restaurant where they'll have prepared us a spread for us to feast on. During our meal we'll have a chance to chat with the owners and Executive chef.

Ticket price includes your round trip transportation to/from San Diego, wine tasting at a few of our favorite boutique wineries, lunch at one of Valle's top restaurants. 

Time: 9:30 am - 7:30 pm in San Diego
Location: We will email you once tickets are purchased to let you know where we will meet up.

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Good Eats & Wine Tasting in Valle de Guadalupe

Join us for a full day of eating and drinking in Baja California’s wine country. Our small group provides a social and light-hearted way to savor the best experiences offered in Valle de Guadalupe. We’ll start the day off with a quick taco stop at one of our favorite locations in Tijuana so that you can have a little something yummy in your belly for the drive! Once in Valle we will visit a few of the smaller, more intimate boutique wineries where we'll have our tastings. After we have had our fill of Baja wines we'll head on over to our dear friend's restaurant where they'll have prepared us a gorgeous meal.  During our meal we'll have a chance to chat with the owners and Executive chef.

Ticket price includes your round trip transportation to/from San Diego (we cross in the van - not walking), 1 taco stop, wine tasting at a few of our favorite boutique wineries, and an early dinner at one of Valle's top restaurants. You'll be hosted by father-daughter duo Elexia and Andres de la Parra.

Check out our other trips that we have coming up!

Eat.Drink.Cook.Mexico.

Have you heard?! We are now curating Culinary Tours to Mexico, Eat.Drink.Cook.Mexico. Currently we have 5 trips planned to Oaxaca in 2016 - January, March, 2 in July and October/November for Day of the Dead. What can you expect? Lots of delicious food and beautifully handcrafted folk art. We take cooking classes, tour the markets (lots of sampling), dine at Oaxaca's top restaurants, meet & greet with the chefs, visit the sites and shop!! And, our service is top-notch. Our groups are kept to a maximum of 14 people, including my husband and myself, to ensure a personalized experience. 

Check out what we have planned for January 7th-14th.

Travelers will experience hands-on cooking classes using sustainable, locally sourced ingredients, special dinners at some of Oaxaca’s top restaurants, tours of its vibrant markets and visit the art studios of some of Oaxaca's most popular artisans. We’ve hand-picked each location, dined at each restaurant, and taken every class to ensure its quality – we do our research! Depending on our tour dates, itineraries will vary depending on different seasons and holidays within the region. 

Inclusions

Accommodations: You’ll stay at one of Oaxaca’s top-rated hotels located in the heart of the “Centro Historico” - just two blocks from Santo Domingo and 3 blocks from the Zocalo.

Transportation: All transportation is covered to take you to and from your scheduled cooking classes, shopping day-trip, and airport transfers while in Oaxaca. You will fly into Oaxaca where you will be greeted by your driver and taken directly to the hotel where we will be waiting for you with welcome drinks!! 

Cooking Classes: Chefs will take you to the local markets, teach you how to shop for the best local ingredients, show you the way around a traditional Oaxacan kitchen, and share their culinary secrets and recipes with you. Just a few items on the menu are various types of mole, tamales, salsa, stuffed flor de calabaza, arroz con leche and lots more!

Market Excursions: Soak in the enchanting atmosphere of Oaxaca’s popular markets. With a wide array of traditional Mexican crafts, household items, leather goods, native textiles, ceramics and more food than you can imagine, you will be immersed in a world of colors, flavors and textures.

Meals: 7 Breakfasts / 5 Lunches (Beer and Mezcal Included) / 5 Dinners at Oaxaca’s top restaurants (2 drinks included)

Happy Hours: We will enjoy some tasty cocktails at our 2 favorite rooftop bars with the best views of Santo Domingo.

Tastings: 1 Agua de Chocolate (BEST Mexican hot chocolate) and chocolate tasting, multiple Artisanal Mezcal tastings where you’ll learn about the process, categories and the proper way to sip, and a delicious sampling of all natural, freshly made ice cream and paletas.

Folk Art Shopping with Artisans: We'll venture out to the surrounding villages where you’ll be invited into the workshops of various artisans.

Huevos Motuleños

Meet my all time favorite breakfast.  Two years ago the Señor and I were on vacay in Isla Mujeres when we were introduced to Huevos Motuleños. Huevos Motuleños are the perfect combination of sweet and savory. You get a nice kick of spice from the chile serrano, salty goodness from the ham and sweet deliciousness from the plantains. When you combine all of these ingredients you are left with magic.

For two years now we have been reminiscing about our breakfast on that island off the Yucatan Peninsula. The breakfast that changed our lives. Okay, maybe not our lives, but it was amazing. We decided it was time to recreate that one fine dish. We pulled a recipe from Mexico: The Cookbook  and put our own spin on it. 

1. Instead of making the sauce from scratch we used El Pato tomato sauce (2 small cans of the salsa de chile fresco and 1 small can of the salsa de tomate con jalapeños). If you want your dish more spicy you can add another can of the salsa de tomate con jalapeños or add chopped chile serrano as a garnish.

2. We  switched out the ham for some Polish Kielbasa.  

So how was our version of Huevos Motuleños? Wonderful. For now it will satisfy our tastebuds until we can return once more to Isla Mujeres.  Provecho!!

Eat Mexico: Book Signing and Tasting!

Come join us to meet Lesley Téllez - author, food blogger and owner of Eat Mexico - a culinary tour operated in Mexico City that focuses exclusively on street food, markets and fondas. We'll have tasty treats from her new cookbook for you to taste and delicious Mexican cocktails for you to sample as you meet and greet with the author!

About the Book: EAT MEXICO is much more than a culinary travelogue. Lesley dishes out solid, practical Mexican cooking advice, offering tips on what makes a great salsa, how to nixtamalize your own corn, how to properly fold tamales and tlacoyos, how to make an extraordinary pot of beans, and even how to line a basket for tacos de canasta.

This book will be savored for years by anyone who enjoys the rush and excitement of the big city, and likes to use food as a lens to explore a foreign culture.

About the Author: Lesley Téllez is a writer, home cook and culinary guide living in New York City. In 2010 she co-founded the tourism company Eat Mexico, which offers street food and market tours in Mexico City and Puebla. She still runs Eat Mexico today, with frequent trips to Mexico's Distrito Federal.
Praise

“Reading through Lesley’s evocative Eat Mexico I could smell the crisping chicharrón, the pots of herbaceous green mole, the toasty corn masa crisping on the comal. This is a delicious work of tender, first-hand exploration…you’ll be immediately drawn into a world of honest, irresistible flavors.”

—Rick Bayless

DATE: June 25th, 2015
TIME: 6-8pm
COST: $5 Entry fee or free with purchase of book

Oaxaca Travel Package

Join us this summer as we eat, drink and cook our way through Oaxaca! We'll be staying 8 days and 7 nights (Aug. 4-11) in a new boutique hotel located on a pedestrian-only street just a few blocks from Santo Domingo and the Zocalo. We'll learn to make tamales, moles, tortillas and many more Oaxacan specialties in the 4 cooking classes we have scheduled. We'll be working with a variety of food specialists, including a restaurant chef, a cookbook author and host of a 13-part PBS series on Oaxacan cooking, cuisine instructors and traditional cooks. We'll tour the top Oaxacan food markets, pick out our ingredients for the day's lesson and cook Oaxacan style. You'll grind your own ingredients in molcajetes and metates, make tortillas by hand and cook in clay pots over wood fed stoves.  In the evenings we'll dine at our favorite restaurants where we've set up special tasting menus - the best of each menu!  Contact us if you would like more info!