Restaurant
1. Central
Virgilio Martínez and Pía León's tasting-menu restaurant in Barranco, named the world's best restaurant in 2023, built around ingredients from Peru's coast, Andes and Amazon.
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2. MIL Centro
Virgilio Martínez's restaurant and research centre beside the Moray terraces, serving a lunch tasting menu of Andean ingredients at around 3,600 metres.
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3. Maido
Mitsuharu Tsumura's Nikkei restaurant in Miraflores, ranked first on The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2025, serving a 12-course tasting menu that blends Peru and Japan.
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4. Mauka by Pía León
Chef Pía León's restaurant inside Palacio Nazarenas, celebrating Peru's farmers and landscapes with native grains, trout, alpaca and Sacred Valley herbs.
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5. Chicha por Gastón Acurio
Gastón Acurio's Cusco restaurant on Plaza Regocijo, reinterpreting regional dishes such as adobo, trout ceviche and alpaca, with an open kitchen and pisco bar.
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6. Kjolle
Pía León's own restaurant in Barranco, opened in 2018 and ranked second in Latin America in 2025, known for bold, colourful cooking with native Peruvian ingredients.
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7. Astrid y Gastón
The restaurant that launched Gastón Acurio and Astrid Gutsche in 1994, now in the historic Casa Moreyra hacienda in San Isidro, serving contemporary Peruvian cooking.
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8. Cicciolina
A long-running upstairs restaurant and tapas bar in the historic centre, known for Mediterranean-Andean cooking, handmade pasta and its own café and bakery.
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9. LIMO Peruano Nikkei
A Nikkei restaurant in a colonial house on the Plaza de Armas, pairing Japanese technique with Peruvian seafood and Andean ingredients, with balcony tables.
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10. Mayta
Jaime Pesaque's flagship restaurant on Avenida La Mar in Miraflores, serving refined contemporary Peruvian cooking à la carte and as the ten-course Mayta Experience.
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11. El Mercado
Rafael Osterling's lunch-only seafood restaurant in Miraflores, with a courtyard dining room, a cocktail bar and a menu of ceviches, scallops and octopus.
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12. Pachapapa
A San Blas restaurant facing the San Blas church, serving traditional Cusco and Andean dishes in a colonial patio, open daily from noon.
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13. Isolina Taberna Peruana
José del Castillo's Barranco taberna, opened in 2015 in honour of his mother, serving generous sharing plates of old-fashioned Lima home cooking.
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14. Morena Peruvian Kitchen
A bright Peruvian restaurant just off the Plaza de Armas, known for anticuchos, causitas, a quinoa lomo saltado and fresh limeade with lemongrass.
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15. La Rosa Náutica
A Victorian-style restaurant on a pier at the Costa Verde below Miraflores, open since 1983 and known for seafood based on the day's catch and sunset views.
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16. MAP Café
A fine-dining restaurant inside the Museo de Arte Precolombino, serving creative Peruvian cooking inspired by ancestral art for lunch and dinner every day.
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17. Chifa Titi
A family-run chifa with more than 60 years of history that began near Lima's Barrio Chino and now serves Chinese-Peruvian cooking on Javier Prado in San Isidro.
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18. Green Point
A fully vegan restaurant in San Blas, founded by chef Fabricio Durand, serving Peruvian-inspired plates, brunch, a Cusco-style grill and a daily set menu.
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19. Cusqueñísima Picantería
A traditional Cusco picantería in the residential Magisterio district, popular with local families for lunchtime dishes such as chupe de pera and rocoto relleno.
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20. El Chinito
A Lima sandwich institution founded in 1960, best known for its pan con chicharrón, with its central branch on Jirón Carabaya a few steps from the Plaza Mayor.
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