10 Food & Drink in Antigua That You Shouldn't Miss

Take home the rich culture of Guatemala by learning how to prepare the local cuisine at Antigua's premier cooking school! Begin with a personalized, hands-on class with local chefs and then enjoy your meal in our beautiful dining room or patio. Spanish to English translators are provided, and complimentary wine, beer, or soda are served during the class.

The cooking classes at La Mesa are here to teach you the tools and techniques to prepare authentic Guatemalan cuisine. We offer both lunch and dinner time classes to suit every schedule, so take a break from all the sightseeing and participate in one of our fun and relaxing classes. Our experienced and approachable instructors create an entertaining learning environment and our small class sizes provide a very interactive and hands on experience.

Our tours and workshops welcome visitors to local communities around Antigua Guatemala and open up a world of adventure, immersion, and exchange while creating economic opportunities by supplementing family income. We offer workshops for creating your own burlap coffee bag, a huipil bag workshop, an iron sculpting workshop, a pepian cooking workshop, a woodworking workshop, a coffee cupping and brewing workshop, and our famous coffee tour. Our coffee tour gives an opportunity to to visit a coffee plantation and learn about the complete process from bean to cup. Our coffee tour gives you an oppertunity to spend time interacting directly with a Guatemalan coffee farmer. In our coffee cupping and brewing workshop, our coffee expert will first guide you through a practice of catacion (cupping), explaining how coffee quality is evaluated by professionals. Testing a variety of DLG coffees you will learn how to identify aromas and flavors with the help of the coffee taster’s flavor wheel.

Get to know the flavors and ingredients of traditional Guatemalan food with the original food tours of Guatemala. Since 2015, guests have enjoyed our authentic Guatemalan food experiences. We offer a variety of tours for every foodie explorer.

Niños de Guatemala is a nonprofit organization that offers a unique opportunity to get off the beaten tourist path and see first-hand cultural & adventure sights. Experience Antigua, Guatemala, a UNESCO world heritage site, as well as the abundant Guatemalan countryside. Our experiences consist of visiting local, non-touristic towns with activities such as worry-doll making, chicken bus tours, culinary tours, cultural and historic walking tours, coffee and chocolate tours, and volunteering for a day at the schools of the nonprofit. We also offer national tours to Tikal, Iximche, Lake Atitlán, and much more. Niños de Guatemala Tours is a social enterprise donating 100% of profits back to the education of over 500 children in Guatemala who could otherwise not go to school.

Antigua Coffee Tour is a tasty experience in Antigua. You learn all about the different coffee production areas, the basics of knowledge and how to enjoy your coffee in the best way at home. Learn from the professional baristas in our Coffee Tour how to make the perfect coffee and learn by side different brewing methods and everything about Guatemalan Coffee. With us you will visit the four best coffeehouses in Antigua and enjoy a great start in the day with the best coffees you find in Guatemala! Our goal with this tour is to help local-owned coffeehouses who provide their coffee from small hand-crafted farms to get the attention they deserve.

Antigua Foodie Tours, takes you on a culinary adventure in Antigua and beyond. Learn the history of some of the best places to eat local and international dishes accompanied with scrumptious samples. Speaking of scrumptious, taste the rainbow with our Tipsy Tour, where you taste exotic and local cocktails, that are sure to have you buzzing with excitement with every sip. Or venture out with us to a secluded black sand beach while enjoying dinner at sunset. All this and more with Antigua Foodie Tours.

Cuscun is a cooking school & a tour operator, focusing on authentic experiences in Antigua Guatemala, Jocotenango. With us, you can learn more about Guatemalan food, culture, traditions and everyday life. We offer custom made cooking classes, evening street food tours and off-the-grid tours around the city of Antigua. With us, you will taste the true and traditional flavors of Guatemala. We are locals. We support the locals.

The Ultimate Coffee Experience! Join our Coffee Crawl and learn the process of making coffee while exploring a farm with breathtaking views, go to the best coffee shops on the magical streets of Antigua Guatemala and learn how to make your own art latte, take a journey through our noses while experiencing the different smells of coffee, and finally enjoy a refreshing beer with notes of coffee.

Our tours are for those who want to get away from the tourist crowds and really connect with a city, with a local by their side. The experience can be as short as a couple of hours, or as long as a whole day, but in every case our Urban Adventures tours take travellers to interesting places to experience local culture and see what makes a place unique. Join us for the Best. Day. Ever.