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Local Culinary Experience in the Algarve

Highlights

Experience the exciting Faro market
Learn how to make the traditional dish of Cataplana
Enjoy a delicious meal that you yourself have prepared!

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What you'll do

Experience this traditional cooking class and visit to a local market in the Algarve - not one to be missed!

For this amazing culinary experience, you will visit the local market with a chef, and choose the best ingredients for the traditional Portuguese dish which you will learn how to make during your hands on cooking class!

The dish of the day is Cataplana – a delicious Portuguese fish stew. You will learn how to prepare and cook the ingredients and the chef will share some of their skills and recipe secrets in a relaxed environment.

Once the meal is prepared you will be able to enjoy your delicious lunch!

What's included

Included

All ingredients and equipment
A lesson by a traditional chef

A delicious lunch!

Your local host

Pedro Urgel

Born and raised in the delightful city of Porto, apart from a two year stint living in Scotland in my younger days, I have lived in Portugal all my life. When I was around 35, myself and a couple of my travelling friends (one of which is my brother), decided to set up our company. We set out scouting Portugal, visiting the places no one visits, meeting people, exploring landscapes discovering all these authentic towns. We know the country like the back of our hands, so when you go on one of our experiences you get an experts insight and learn so much more than you would visiting alone.

Born and raised in the delightful city of Porto, apart from a two year stint living in Scotland in my younger days, I have lived in Portugal all my life. When I was around 35, myself and a couple of my travelling friends (one of which is my brother), decided to set up our company. We set out scouting Portugal, visiting the places no one visits, meeting people, exploring landscapes discovering all these authentic towns. We know the country like the back of our hands, so when you go on one of our experiences you get an experts insight and learn so much more than you would visiting alone.

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Sustainability Efforts

What Sustainability Efforts are we Taking?

At Not in the Guidebooks we’re committed to empowering the local communities in Costa Rica. We work closely with the local people and their businesses to make sure that they receive a fair percentage of the money you spend on your holiday there. By partnering with local guides and suppliers, we’re able to create meaningful, authentic experiences that directly benefit the people who call this incredible country home.

Location

You’ll meet at Faro Market, a famous food market in the Algarve.

Faro, the capital of the Algarve, is called the ‘gateway to the Algarve’. It is a beautiful and historic city with many impressive buildings and monuments, such as the neoclassical ‘Arco da Vila’, on the site of a gate that was once part of the original Moorish city walls. The monumental archway leads to the old town, with its traditional cobbled streets, a beautiful site to visit in the Algarve.

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