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Gabys Restaurant Mexican Cooking Classes is a great vacation event to experience hands on! Come and cook with our celebrity Chef Julio Castillón at one of the best locations in Puerto Vallarta! Our cooking classes take place in a large outdoor rooftop kitchen, where you can enjoy the stunning view of Guadalupe Church and Banderas Bay while learning to create delicious Mexican cuisine.
After the cooking class, you’ll have the opportunity to savor the delicious dishes you’ve created while taking in the breathtaking view from the rooftop. It’s a truly unforgettable experience that combines the beauty of Puerto Vallarta with the art of Mexican cooking.
Don’t miss this chance to cook with our celebrity Chef Julio Castillón in one of the best locations in Puerto Vallarta. Join us for a culinary adventure like no other!
About the Chef and Cooking Class instructor
Originally from Puerto Vallarta, Julio Cesar Castillón Pérez was born in a practically all culinary surrounding along with the founding of the then, Gaby´s, a Mexican fast food, in 1989. “It was a time in which downtown Vallarta was full of life and all the government offices, banks and stores were concentrated in the center of the city, thus, in its first stage, this Mexican fast food was becoming famous even offering the traditional three course meal like many small restaurants called “fonditas” did.”
For many years, he took professional courses on Italian, French and Mexican cuisine, bakery, administration and cost among others. He also been the assistant to re known chefs and worked in like La Palapa.
Julio is a young dynamic chef with clear ideas a with a high sense if responsibility, he has been a fundamental part in the transformation of Gaby’s restaurant in its new stage in the past nine years.
For him, it is an honor to cook Mexican food, he has taken different specialities that include the development of recipes with pre-Hispanic techniques. “Now, at the restaurant, we have taken the challenge if being the local spoke person of Mexican gastronomy in Puerto Vallarta, that is the reason why I want to continue putting all my efforts to represent it and make it transcend in my city and region”.
