Crafts & Cuisine
Oaxaca

Dive into the vibrant artistic and gastronomic heritage of Oaxaca on an incredible day of tradition, culture, sensory delights, flavor and Mezcal.

This experience is curated to bring you ‘straight to the source’ ; an exceptional blend of the home-made, artistic and artisanal variety of crafts representative of the cultural heritage of Oaxaca. Including visits to family-owned and run pottery studios, world famous artists who have pioneered the creation and popularity of Alebrijes, lunch in a hill-top restaurant full of Zapotec soul and a Mezcal distillery that has pioneered the production of this artisanal alcohol.

Oaxaca is rightly famed for its culture and art. This tour encapsulates the hand-built, home-made ethos and access to art and crafts that embodies the state and the people of this wonderful region. The locations we visit are all family run enterprises of different size, scale and prosperity, all of them hand-picked by us for providing excellence in their skill, employment for their extended families & wider community and responsibility in their approach to environmental practices. 

We begin with visits to families producing Pottery of the many varieties of color the region produces, where you will gain an insight not only into the raw ingredients and techniques used, but also the different motivations that inspire this work and the demand from the markets that shape their production. 

Then, you are in for a true feast for the senses, the Alebrijes studio that inspired worldwide exhibitions and the creators of the Disney movie ‘Coco’. We will be guided through each stage of production, beginning with sourcing the timber & pigments from nature, to the intricate painting of the finished sculpture.

Lunch is a delight, with a magnificent spread of local cuisine on offer and cooked to perfection. Here you can savor moles, memelas and frijoles and other typical regional dishes served in a beautifully curated authentic atmosphere.

After which we proceed to the distillery of one of Oaxaca’s pioneering producers of Mezcal. Not only does it stand out for the quality of liquor that is produced, the whole production is based around an organic and sustainable production method. This ingrained respect for both the land and the plants being used is a safeguard for not only quality but also emblematic of resistance to the overwhelming pressure on small producers to industrialize production to meet demand, or sell out to large corporations.