If you’re traveling to Andalusia, this private cooking experience is the perfect excuse to discover the beautiful area of Vejer de la Frontera and the coast of Cádiz, just over an hour and half drive South of Seville.

Your host will be Solfée, our English-speaking cooking instructor. With over 10 years as a professional chef, Solfée has a wide ranging experience of working in various cuisines, specializing in Contemporary Spanish cookery, French Nouvelle cuisine and Asian traditions. Between 2011 and 2014, she has been the head chef and creative director of the highly respected Los Quatro Gatos restaurant in Vejer de la Frontera. Living in picturesque countryside close to Vejer, it gives Solfée great pleasure to share her experience and vision of local cuisine from the comfort of her own rural kitchen.

You will start the day visiting with Solfée the popular food market of Barbate, a fishing town devoted to catching red tuna maintaining the sustainable and ancient Almadraba technique. You will be amazed with the unique atmosphere and the variety of foods, fish in particular, the freshest you can find!

On arrival to her kitchen feel at home, pour yourself a glass of wine and get ready to use seasonal ingredients brought from the market to prepare with Solfée  a delicious local menu, including recipes such as atún encebollao (tuna cooked with onions and wine), cazón en adobo (deep fried marinated fish), papas aliñás (potato salad), gazpacho or  local tapas… Relax and enjoy cooking and chatting with your local host in this beautiful rural setting, feel welcome to participate, ask, suggest… and take a bite of this or that while cooking.

When the food is ready, sit down and enjoy a mouth-watering lunch accompanied with fine Spanish wine and, if you have time, a nice sobremesa (after meal time for a second coffee, drink, chat…)!