Learn to cook Brazilian recipes, then eat!

Half-day cooking classes at 5pm on Mon, Wed and 11am on Sat.

Learn to cook Brazilian recipes, then eat!

Explore Brazilian flavors in a half-day cooking class

Learn a mix of Brazil´s favorite recipes in one fun cooking class. Discover exotic ingredients, techniques and flavors you can use in your dinner parties.
+ 100% Hands on.
+ English spoken.
+ Located in Copacabana.
+ Food and drinks included.
+ Bring a camera and friends!
+ Tasty recipes with ingredients you can find world-wide!

Option 1

Seafood Moqueca class

Learn fish (or veggie) moqueca
White garlic rice,
Banana tosted farofa,
Flambeed sausage w onions
Grilled white cheese with pepper jam
Lime and Passionfruit caipis
Batida de Coco (cononut alcoholic drink)

This unforgetable and sensory class and dinner costs only US$75 per person, and includes all foods and drinks!

Everyone recommends us!

Option 2

Feijoada class

Learn pork and bean feijoada, Brazil’s most famous meal
White garlic rice,
Banana tosted farofa,
Seared garlic kale with orange slices
Flambeed sausage w onions
Grilled white cheese with pepper jam
Lime and Passion-fruit caipis
Batida de Coco (cononut alcoholic drink)

This unforgetable and sensory class and dinner costs only US$75 per person, and includes all foods and drinks!

Steps to book a class:

Look for available date on calendar on this page.
Pay 25% deposit via the button below with credit card or Paypal.
Wait for our email confirmation.
Show up to class with camera and appetite!

Pay deposit to book your class

Choose a date for your class here

Simone is the quintessential Brazilian!

All chefs are crazy. Anyone with a lucid mind wouldn’t spend all day in a hot kitchen dealing with demanding clients, moody waiters, reviewers and tight deadlines.

What makes Simone different is that she is side-bustingly funny! Students burst caipirinhas while cracking up to one of her jokes. What`s more, she is the quintessential Carioca. Fun, smart, savvy, friendly and slick (malandra)!

She is also a master at group-dynamics, where she can make strangers into friends within an hour.

Her cooking class should be scheduled for your first day in Rio.

What you will learn about Rio culture, about Cariocas and about exploring Rio will illuminate the rest of your trip with a brighter light, maybe even X-ray vision. You`ll go from a visiting tourist to a sociologist, and that`s way more fun.

So book a class with us for your first day in Rio. We`ve never been asked for a refund due to even an “average” experience in her class, so we are extremely happy to offer refunds. We’ve had people (whom we had to reschedule due to last minute “life” problems in Simone`s schedule) ask for a refund, which of course we honor, as it is only fair.

Go ahead, you won`t regret it.

– Cristiano Nogueira, co-founder of Cook in Rio

P.S. You`ll learn lots, plus your first meal will be amazing, not just because of the Brazilian flavors, but because you made it.