Tanzania Cooking Class: Traditional Food Journey

Discover Tanzania’s culinary secrets with a market tour and cooking class. Shop, cook, and savor traditional dishes like Ugali and Pilau.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Arusha - Clients will first visit the central food market for a 30-minute tour before proceeding to the cooking lesson. This market is an excellent spot for travelers to immerse themselves in Tanzanian local life, offering a variety of local foods, mostly sourced from within the country, with a small percentage being imported. Visitors will have…
What's Included
  • Pickup and Drop-off at your hotel near the city center
  • Guided tour in the central food market and cooking class lesson
  • Experience cooking in a local Tanzanian kitchen
  • Cost of fresh market ingredients included
  • Use of local transport for market shopping
  • Enjoy meals prepared during the class for lunch or dinner
What's Not Included
  • Drinks (Water, Soda, or beer is not included) but on the way our guests can buy it.
  • Tips (Not must, but traveler can tips according to the satisfaction of the tour)
  • Spice from the market
Additional Information

Immerse yourself in the rich cultural experience of Tanzanian cuisine, starting from selecting fresh ingredients at the market to preparing a delicious meal that lets you savor the flavors like a local. Once you book, you will receive a confirmation via WhatsApp or email. On the day of the tour, our guide will pick you up from your hotel in Arusha city…

Location
Arusha
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Dreamer746584
Aug 24, 2025
Interesting and informative tour with a hearty lunch! - I scheduled this cooking class and market tour for myself as a solo female traveler and was so glad I did! I found most restaurants wouldn’t serve me ugali (they kept offering rice or French fries instead) so I was really happy to finally taste (and cook) ugali. The other dishes we prepared were healthy, flavorful, and utilized ingredients I don’t use at home. I found Israel to be a warm and competent guide, and the chef and driver were also great. Thank you, Israel, for a fun and informative tour!
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86edwinnt
Aug 19, 2025
Live like a local, 5 Star Experience. - Tanzania dish is must to try and eat and the best place you should do is only on this tour. You will feel as a local, everything is local from food market tour, kitchen and the food itself. What a tour from Naima and her friend Lameck. Take this tour for unforgettable experience of Tanzania.
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Alivinn2025
Aug 19, 2025
Extraordinary Local Experience - A beautiful moment we had with Songbirds Safaris, we booked cooking class and food market tour. We get more than we expected. Our guide and chef are really kind and very knowledgeable about local knowledge of culture, traditional and history and in the market we found the beautiful people who are polite and amazing. Highly recommend this tour with Lameck.
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Patricia_k
Aug 19, 2025
Great experience - This was an amazing tour. We chose it because it sounded interesting, and we needed something to do for a half day in the afternoon while we were in a Arusha, getting ready to go on Safari the next morning. It was not only interesting, it was very educational and fun. Talking with Isaac, Leroy, and Neema while we toured, shopped, and learned to prepare food was so informative. They were great conversationalists, and we learned so much about the lifestyle of the people in the town of Arusha, Tasmania.
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Camper09970865603
Aug 19, 2025
"Spices, Stories & Sizzling Pans" - The tour with our guide Israel was the highlight of our Arusha stay! His deep knowledge and humor made the market visit unforgettable. Cooking with Neema was a joy - simple ingredients but with rich flavors, and her heartfelt hospitality. Truly our favorite experience in the city.
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Guillaumetw1338vr
Aug 13, 2025
A beautiful and friendly culinary experience - Very good experience! We visited the market with Israel and had our cooking class with Deema before tasting the dishes we prepared. I highly recommend!
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Fabian
Aug 13, 2025
Local cooking experience - Great experience cooking traditional swahili food. Was really fun buying the ingredients on a small market and than cook them together. At the end you eat them together with the locals, like a little family. Sorry for making it to spicy, Israel! 😉
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910winniea
Aug 10, 2025
Wonderful Local experience - The experience is best, very local, the food market tour we went is very local and our Guide James and Max they told us a lot about the food market,the cooking class is great and super local experience. Don't hesitate to book this tour.
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Dells822
Aug 1, 2025
Excellent Experience - Our food tour and cooking class was excellent. We really enjoyed the casual and informal conversations with both our guide and teaching chef. I would absolutely recommend taking this tour. The food we made was great, too!
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Joannet537
Jul 26, 2025
Fantastic Experience in Arusha - If I could give this tour a 10 then I would….it wasn’t just good it was great!!! The large city market tour was one of the best I’ve done and how kind were all the people. Israel and Leroy toured us to every part for about 2 hours because we were having so much fun learning about the different foods and spices. We then met up with Neema the chef and went to another local market to shop for the food we were going to cook. Next on to the kitchen area where we started cooking. Neema involved us both with everything. Once we cooked it all we were able to all enjoy it together and it was delicious. We made typical dishes such as Banana Beef (Ndizi Nama), Ugali, Chapati and spinach. Don’t hesitate…take this tour!
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From $43
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).