Mate Circle and Empanada Making in Buenos Aires
4.7
111 Ratings
Buenos Aires

Immerse yourself in the culinary delights of Buenos Aires with our cooking class. Learn to make traditional empanadas and alfajores while experiencing the vibrant local culture.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Balcarce 1023 - Hi, I’m from bsasmio turismo, a tour guide specializing in the city of Buenos Aires, and I look forward to getting you to know the typical Porteño culture, customs and meals. I also dance tango and connect both worlds very well.
    I’ll teach you how to make empanadas and Alfajores with dulce de leche, and prepare a typical mate. I can’t wait to meet you!
What's Included
  • Lunch
  • Tea and coffee
Meal Options
  • Empanadas - Empanadas is a typical everyday, anytime, dish from agentina. It is stuffed dough, put in the hoven or fried. Meat, ham and cheese, vegetables…
  • Alfajores de maicena - The alfajor is a typical pastry from argentina, many types exist, we make them with corn starch and the unavoidable dulce de leche.
Additional Information

You will learn how to prepare and host a mate circle “como la gente” as local people do it. Learn how to close the empanadas with the different techniques of “repulgue”. You can prepare everything yourself or watch us do it, at your preference. And while we prepare and eat everything you will be able to talk about the local culture with a certified…

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Location
Av. Paseo Colón 1355
Avenida Paseo Colón
Please ring the bell.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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(111 Ratings)
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Marylou_g
Aug 24, 2025
Fun Cooking Class - Before our cooking class started, our host talked about mate and served us some in a cup with a straw. We got to talk to the other participants from all around the world. When our cooking class started, the hosts taught us how to make dough for empanadas and alfajores from scratch. Then we chopped vegetables for the empanadas. We rolled out the dough for empanadas and filled them and the hosts taught us how to seal it like a braid. We used round cookie cutters to cut the dough for the alfajores. This was a very enjoyable and fun class and we got to see a family home in Buenos Aires.
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Wytana_t
Aug 7, 2025
She was great with our 6... - She was great with our 6 year old granddaughter helping her make mache, empanadas, and cookies. She had a lot of patience. Four of us spoke English and 2 Spanish and was able to effectively communicate with us all. We had a great time!
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254charityd
Jul 31, 2025
Would definitely recommend! - I loved this experience! Very personalized and down to earth. I felt like I was in a local's home cooking one of their standard weekly meals.
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Elenanv7378at
Jul 24, 2025
- It was so interesting to dip our hands into empanadas and alfajores! We gained so much appreciation for how hard it is to seal up an empanada. We won’t take them for granted any more. A highlight of our trip to Buenos Aires.
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Liz_b
Jul 22, 2025
Wonderful experience - Great experience. Loved it. The hostess was very sweet and knowledgeable. She took us step by step and explained everything very well. It was a comfortable atmosphere.
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Gersonr612
Jul 17, 2025
Cooking Empanadas & Alfarjores with our entire family. - It was a great experience for the entire family. We took our kids and our mothers. Highly recommend it when you visit Buenos Aires.
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738natachag
Jun 21, 2025
It was like cooking at an Argentinian friend's home - The hosts were knowledgeable, friendly and made us feel right at home. The class was a fun and informative way to learn recipes and techniques.
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Wwzzz1990
Aug 20, 2025
Nice afternoon experience - Very nice old traditional house, fun experience. Mate was very nice. Group was fun and host was knowledgeable?............
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Eric_g
Jul 22, 2025
OK experience - Nice effort but it wasn’t the best organized event. The other issue that bothered us was that we did not hear (or were not informed) that there is an extra charge for red wine which we acccepted to drink out of politeness.
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Jenn_b
Jul 3, 2025
Cancelled but did not tell us - We took an Uber to the address given in the description. When we got there we were told it was cancelled. No reason no notice. We walked a bit to take a taxi since we didn’t have WiFi and could not take our pre arranged uber to go home. Never the less this ended up costing about 20 bucks and over an hour of my time. Btw still when I got back to WiFi this was still not cancelled! Hoping to get at least the money I paid for this but I won’t get back my wasted time on a vacation and my 20 bucks! Do not recommend. No customer service and this is not close if you are staying in town near the Obelisk.
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