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The Heritage Spice House Experience
One visit, six parts. A museum of everyday objects, the ancestral kitchen, the living gardens, the volcanic grinding stone, the tasting table — and the spice route that brought all of it to this island.
It runs in one continuous thread
Nothing here is a separate ticket or a separate room you queue for. You arrive, and someone from the family walks you through it in order — objects first, then the garden, then the stone, then the food that the stone made. The whole thing takes about an hour and a half, or thirty minutes if you are only passing.
Everything you will see and do
Heritage Museum
One room of ordinary objects kept for three generations — the charcoal iron, the brass scales, the kerosene lanterns — and what they tell you about how Mauritian families actually lived.
Traditional Spice Grinding
The ross cari is volcanic stone and a heavy roller. We show you the movement, then step back. Everybody grinds, and what you grind goes into what you taste.
Living Gardens
The spice nursery, the vegetable alley, the plants that were also the medicine cabinet, and the cane at the edge of the property that explains the rest of it.
Mauritian Food Tasting
Traditional dishes cooked with the masala ground that morning, eaten the way Mauritian families eat — sitting down together, small bowls, everything shared.
Mauritius & the Spice Route
Why an island with no native spices became a spice island. The sea road, the plants that were smuggled here, and the four migrations that filled the Mauritian spice cupboard.
Mauritian Cooking Class
The evening version, by reservation. You grind, you cook a full Mauritian meal with us, and then we all sit down and eat it together.
Come and see it for yourself
Open Thursday to Tuesday, 08:30 to 18:00, last entry 17:00. Daytime visits begin at 09:00, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00 and 17:00 — book to hold your place, or join the next one. The cooking class must be arranged in advance. Full detail on the visit page.
Come and see it today
MUR 200
Museum, grinding demonstration, herbal tea and the boutique.
MUR 375
Museum, ancestral kitchen, spice garden, hand-grinding and tastings. Children MUR 200.
Thu – Tue
Last entry 17:00. Free onsite parking at the gate.
Visits begin at 09:00, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00 and 17:00, every day except Wednesday. Book to hold your place and we will be expecting you — or simply turn up and join the next one. Full detail on the visit page.