Tostaduría Bisetti

Tostaduría Bisetti is the place in Barranco to drink coffee where it is roasted. The Bisetti coffee business dates back to 1958 and was set up to offer Peruvian and international customers a showcase of the best Peruvian beans. Beans are selected, evaluated and roasted every day by the company's own team of cuppers, roasters and professional baristas, and the café on Avenida Pedro de Osma roasts its own beans.

The coffee is all Peruvian. The café has long worked with beans from producing regions such as San Ignacio, Satipo and Villa Rica, so it is worth asking the baristas which origins are on offer and trying the same bean as an espresso and as a filter brew to taste the difference. If you enjoy what you drink, buy a bag of freshly roasted beans to take home; it makes a good, light souvenir.

The café is a spacious place, which makes it a comfortable stop to sit for a while rather than just grab a cup on the go. It suits coffee lovers, couples and anyone exploring Barranco on foot who wants a break between sights. The business can be contacted by WhatsApp on the number published on its website, and it is also active on Instagram and Facebook, which is the easiest way to check current opening times.

The location is very convenient. Avenida Pedro de Osma is Barranco's museum and restaurant avenue: the Museo Pedro de Osma, with its collection of colonial art, is a short walk along the same street, and the tasting-menu restaurants Central and Kjolle are at number 301. The Bridge of Sighs and the Bajada de Baños are also close by, so you can easily fit a coffee here into a walking tour of the district.

Barranco was a fashionable seaside resort in the 19th century and is now known as Lima's bohemian and artistic quarter, and a café stop is a natural part of an afternoon there. Plan on half an hour to an hour, longer if you want to talk coffee with the baristas, then continue to the museum or down towards the sea.