Lima
This wonderful upscale restaurant has a prime spot in LarcoMar. It's run by second-generation Chinese restaurateurs using cherished family recipes…
Must-see restaurants in Peru
Ayacucho
Café La Miel spent years trying to make the Plaza de Armas a convivial place to eat. Now, it has competition, but with its chirpy atmosphere strangely…
Huaraz & the Cordilleras
The ambiance might be a bit wooden, but this doesn't stop the locally loved Terraza filling up at lunchtime for three-course S8 meals, or anything else on…
Huaraz
This upscale pollería (restaurant specializing in roast chicken) is the ultimate budget refueling stop. Not only is the chicken perfect, but you get five…
Huaraz & the Cordilleras
This excellent restaurant grills Angus beef on its outdoor parrilla (grill) alongside cuy (guinea pig) and other meats. Outdoor tables are arranged around…
Mordisco's Cevichería & Seafood
Huaraz
Seafood tends to get short shrift in high-altitude Huaraz, but you can indulge in a little vicarious coastal living in this dark little fish restaurant…
Arequipa
All the essential components of a great cafe – food, setting, service, ambience – come together at Crepísimo, located inside Arequipa's French cultural…
Huaraz & the Cordilleras
Surrounded by gardens, just off the main highway at the north end of town, Alpamayo is a pleasant touristic restaurant, complete with a garden gazebo,…
Trujillo
This simple family-run affair pulls a crowd for its traditional local desserts, including mazamorra (made from boiled purple corn with dried fruits),…
Iquitos
On the corner of the Plaza de Armas, this clean, chirpy and brightly lit joint is known locally as gringolandia (gringo land).Two walls are open to the…
Lima
With views of the Pacific Ocean, Mirasol offers fresh seafood and creole dishes in a comfortable, casually elegant atmosphere. Situated nearly half way up…
North Coast
At first glance this flash corner place near the Plaza Bolognesi looks like just a posh bakery, but up on the mezzanine it serves some of the best gourmet…
Huaraz & the Cordilleras
A solid option, especially for trucha al ajo (garlic trout) and trout sudado (in sauce), this place has rickety tables around a tiny courtyard and a…
Huaraz & the Cordilleras
Garden-style restaurant right next to Monterrey's hot springs designed – one imagines – to attract bathers. The orientation of the place is similar to…
Cuzco
This Cuzco classic has been in business for over half a century and its courtyard patio is a score on a sunny day. The chalkboard menu features the…
Amazon Basin
Keeping the flame burning for good machine coffee and tantalizing cakes in Oxapampa is this 2nd-floor plaza-fronting gem. It serves simple, tasty lunches…
Cuzco & the Sacred Valley
Worth the short taxi ride (it’s behind the stadium), Villa Venecia is Abancay’s most noteworthy restaurant. Serving up every local food imaginable, it’s…
Lima
With an Amazonian bent, chef Pedro Miguel Schiaffino’s seasonal menu features deftly prepared delicacies such as crisp, seared cuy (guinea pig) and…
Lima
If you’re looking for traditional Peruvian dishes such as pastel de choclo (a savory corn casserole with layers of meat and cheese) or lomo saltado (stir…
Huacachina
The menu might have been ripped off from anywhere else on the banana-pancake trail, but the cafe restaurant at the front of the hostel of the same name…
Lima
Serving seafood, fried rice as light and fresh as it gets, and sizzling meats that come on steaming platters, Wa Lok is among the best chifas (Chinese…
Cuzco
Baking Cuzco's best multiseed and sourdough loaves (gold on a multiday trek), wonderful carrot cake and other baked goods including vegan treats, this is…
Huaraz & the Cordilleras
Easy to miss in Carhuaz is this uncharacteristically modern restaurant that opened in 2016, serving Peruvian food with a few Asian and European twists. A…
Lima
A country mile from the tourist traps, this hip cantina and cevichería in La Victoria serves six heavenly versions of marinated fish with metal cups of…
Arequipa
Easily the best budget set lunches in Arequipa. Traditional Peruvian dishes, like causa limeña de pollo (chicken, avocado and potato stack) are served…
Lima
A jolly light-blue exterior invites you inside to gaze at Ana Avellana’s sweet and savory creations. A dense flourless chocolate cake or luscious Borgoña…
Arequipa
Like fish? Like intimate, secret-garden settings? Then grab a taxi (or walk) out to the pleasant Yanahuara district for the ultimate in ceviches or…
Cañón Del Colca
There are buffets galore catering to captive tour-group diners but this large restaurant on a corner of the Plaza de Armas stands out for the freshness of…
Cuzco
A cozy alpine cafe serving healthy fare that's consistently good, some of it provided from the small farm of the German owner. In addition to wonderful…
Huaraz
An easy excuse to get sugared, this modern den of decadence, billed as a ‘sofa-cafe,’ is really more of an upscale dessert diner. You can get sugar-drunk…
Arequipa
This small and to-the-point place serves only the best ceviche (raw seafood marinated in lime juice) and nothing else. Pull up a chair at a rickety table…
Amazon Basin
This place gets the gong for being the best of Pucallpa’s chifas (Chinese restaurants). Choosing where to sit in the roomy interior can be a challenge…
Lima
This open 2nd-floor market houses more than a dozen restaurant stands attracting a mostly millennial crowd for cheap, informal dining. It's a hit,…
Cuzco
With all-organic food and a bright farmhouse feel, Green’s Organic oozes health. Inventive salads with options like roasted fennel, goat cheese, beets and…
Arequipa
This locally famous restaurant has maze-like gardens, live folklórica and criollo (an upbeat coastal style) music, and does traditional Peruvian fare well…
Puno
It’s hard to imagine that just a couple blocks from Puno’s busy tourist street there is a large beer-garden-style restaurant. Yet here it is, with kid’s…
Cuzco
With a cozy, cavernous ambience of low-lit adobe, dark tables and bright turquoise walls, this chic eatery offers meat (steak, alpaca or chicken) and fish…
North Coast
A little bit out of the town center, this popular place is well worth the S2 mototaxi ride. Packed with hungry diners daily, it serves up heaping plates…
Cuzco
This love child of a Peruvian-British couple is a low-key cafe serving well-crafted Peruvian fusion dishes, plus pub burgers and oversized salads…
Puno
Highly recommended for its yummy sandwiches, big plates of meat and piled-high vegetables, this cozy spot is warmed by the pizza oven in the corner. It…
