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The 10 Cooking Classes in Colombo That Repay the Drive

10 tours  ·  from $35 a head

The 10 best cooking classes in Colombo you can book right now, with the price, the running time and who each one suits. The first is first for a reason.

Colombo Cooking Class - Meeting Piumi and learning family food
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Colombo Cooking Class

1.Colombo Cooking Class

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 151 reviews · from $60Our pick

Cook 10 Sri Lankan dishes with Piumi in a private Colombo home class, then enjoy your meal. Lunch and dinner sessions include ingredients.

“Very interesting insight into Sri Lankan life and the important role food and cooking plays in daily life. Piumi is an excellent cook and teacher. I’m vegetarian and she showed me how to prepare and cook ten different vegetarian curries and the resulting lunch was delicious. Can very highly recommend this tour.”

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Market Tour and Hands-On Cooking Class Colombo - A welcome drink before the market walk
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Market Tour and Hands-On Cooking Class Colombo

2.Market Tour and Hands-On Cooking Class Colombo

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 140 reviews · from $80

Shop a Colombo market, cook five Sri Lankan dishes with Chef Nim, learn local table customs, and enjoy your homemade lunch or dinner.

“I had a great experience with going to the local market and cooking local dishes. Nim is a wonderful person. I learned so much about vegetables, fruits and all the spices and even about real and fake cinnamon :) and we talked about so much Read more”

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Cooking Class Sri Lanka with Locals - What happens at the local market
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Cooking Class Sri Lanka with Locals

3.Cooking Class Sri Lanka with Locals

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 101 reviews · from $40

Cook Sri Lankan dishes with Danuka, Anu, and family, shop a local market, and enjoy a four-hour Colombo home meal for $40.

“This is a wonderful cooking experience in a local Colombo home. It begins by visiting the outdoor market to select the produce and to sample some of the beautiful local fruits. We then went to Dhanuka’s family home. He and his wife were Read more”

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Colombo Cooking Experiance with Explore Market - The short ride from the market to the family kitchen
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Colombo Cooking Experiance with Explore Market

4.Colombo Cooking Experiance with Explore Market

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 33 reviews · 3.5 hours · from $35Best value

Cook Sri Lankan curry with Pradeep and Bobby, shop a Colombo market, eat at a local home, and enjoy Lion beer for $35.

“It was a really nice experience. The guides were really nice and gave us the best local cooking experience. I would really recommend doing the cooking experience!”

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Vegan Cooking Class Colombo with Market Tour - Inside the villa kitchen near Diyawanna Lake
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Vegan Cooking Class Colombo with Market Tour

5.Vegan Cooking Class Colombo with Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 9 reviews · from $80

Learn Sri Lankan vegan cooking, shop a local market, and cook with clay pots during this private five-hour Colombo experience.

“Indeed, everything made inside the kitchen is from scratch, from the sauces, paste, fillings, and appetizers. The chef keeps the class small enough to have your hands in every process. He has a good knowledge about what he is doing. TRead more”

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Authentic Sinhalese Cooking Class in Colombo with a Local Family - The Kirulapone market option by tuk tuk
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Authentic Sinhalese Cooking Class in Colombo with a Local Family

6.Authentic Sinhalese Cooking Class in Colombo with a Local Family

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 9 reviews · from $148

Cook three Sinhalese dishes with Shasikala and her family, shop at a Colombo market, and share a home meal in a private class.

“We had an amazing experience cooking with Shasi and her mum! They're both very kind, and both my mum and I agreed it was absolutely the best food we had in Sri Lanka. At the end Shasi also gave us some fresh herbs and ordered us tuk-tuk so we could be back home quickly and safely. Highly recommend!!!”

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3 hour cooking experience - At the stove: curries with meat, fish, and vegetables
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3 hour cooking experience

7.3 hour cooking experience

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 8 reviews · from $60

Learn Sri Lankan curries, rice, and sambols with Chef Mohara Dole in a private three-hour Colombo cooking class with recipes included.

“Mohara graciously welcomed us into her home and cooking studio. Her enthusiasm for sharing her knowledge and tips was infections. Over the next three hours, we enjoyed a hands-on cooking class where we cooked numerous types of meals (meat, fish and vegetable Read more”

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Cooking class in Srilanka - A three-hour lesson built around doing, not watching
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Cooking class in Srilanka

8.Cooking class in Srilanka

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 8 reviews · from $50

Cook 10 Sri Lankan dishes in clay pots during a private three-hour Colombo class with a chef, traditional desserts, and hands-on instruction.

“A real home, a real family, a really amazing meal. I met the entire family as we shared preparation and cooking duties for 10 (TEN) curries! If you have taken cooking classes in professional kitchens or air conditioned restaurants, prepare yourseRead more”

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Market Tour and Cooking Class from Colombo - Getting to Pettah by tuk tuk or car
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Market Tour and Cooking Class from Colombo

9.Market Tour and Cooking Class from Colombo

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews · from $120

Shop Pettah Market with a local chef, then cook Sri Lankan curry, fish, or meat in a private Colombo class.

“Piumi was amazing, we had a private cooking class in her home. Piumi was informative, engaging , fun. The food was exquisite, thoroughly enjoyed it and wield recommend. Thanks Piumi 😊😊😊”

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Colombo: Local Market Tour & Cooking Demo with Lunch - Choosing ingredients at a Sri Lankan market
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Colombo: Local Market Tour & Cooking Demo with Lunch

10.Local Market Tour & Cooking Demo with Lunch

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 3 reviews · 4 hours · from $55

Shop for Sri Lankan produce, cook with a Colombo family, and enjoy lunch in a countryside home during this four-hour food tour.

“I first thank you, Roman and Delrin Vanhoff, mother and daughter who demonstrated excellent Sri Lankan cuisines and taught me how to cook them. Opposed to my stereotypical idea about Sri Lankan food that may use lots of oil, it is very healthy and tasty. I had afternoon programme and could not stay long enough to eat and chat with them. But I truly thank them for their Sri Lankan hospitality. One advices for GetYourGuide, it would be nice if the host family and a tourist could communicate beforehand about the selection of the ingredients. It would be sad if the tourist is not able to some of the cuisines…”

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