Peru Taste

Panchita

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:38:00 +0000

Address: Av. Dos de Mayo 298, Miraflores
Phone: 242-5957
Web page:
Description:
Newest restaurant from Gaston Acurio, this time having anticuchos as the main protagonist of this new success story. This restaurant offers not only anticuchos, but also some other criollo Peruvian dishes and nice grilled meat.

As with all Gaston Acurio's restaurants, you can expect fine dishes, with great taste, good presentation and a nice ambience. How ever, you can also expect a big line unless you make reservations.

Price Range: Moderate to expensive

Pasta Sciutta

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:20:00 +0000

Address: Francisco Masías 2626 - 2632, Lince
Phone: 442-7273
Web page:
Description:
Small restaurant located in the border of San Isidro and Lince, a few blocks away from the Financial District of San Isidro.

They offer good and affordable pasta dishes like spaghetti, fetuccini, ravioli and other, prepared with their own home made pasta. The Fetuccini a La Napolitana is quite good and will fill you up (fetuccini with meat red sauce, covered with ham, grilled chicken breast and mozarella cheese gratin).

They also offer lunch combos but since they are located near the Financial District, it can get crowded at lunch time.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Miraflores

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:38:00 +0000

Address: Av. Ricardo Palma 322, Miraflores
Phone: 445-2347, 445-3793
Web page:
Description:

Old and traditional chifa located a few blocks from the main plaza of Miraflores. It has a very simple and old decoration but the food is quite decent. Taipá a la plancha as well as their arroz chaufa especial (fried rice with shrimps, duck and pork) are pretty good.

They have lunch and dinner combos (menus) that are great for everyday lunch or dinner if you work or live nearby. Beside, they offer delivery to surrounding areas.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Rinconcito de Tiabaya

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Address: Manuel Irribaren 962 (former San Miguel), Surquillo
Phone: 446-9628
Web page:
Description:
This 50 years old restaurant is located in the middle of a low/middle class area. It is not a fancy restaurant but one that can transport you back in time to a traditional Arequipenian picantería of mid 20th century.

They offer traditional Arequipenian dishes like adobo de chancho, rocoto relleno, malaya frita, sarza de patitas, caldo blanco, cuy chactado (fried guinea pig), among many other.

The surrounding area is probably not the safest to walk around so it is advisable to arrange safe transportation to be dropped and picked up.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Antica Pizzería

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:12:00 +0000

Address:
Av. 2 de Mayo 724, San Isidro
Av. Prolongación San Martín 201, Barranco
Av. Primavera 275, Chacarilla, San Borja
C.C. Sur Plaza Boulevard, Asia
Jr. Napo (half a block from the Main Plaza), Iquitos
Phone:
422-7939 (San Isidro)
247-3443 (Barranco)
372-2698 (San Borja)
794-2818 (Asia)
(65) 241988 (Iquitos)
Web page: www.anticapizzeria.com.pe
Description:
This restaurant has locations in a couple of upscale districts of Lima and in downtown Iquitos. They are decorated in a very rustic style with wood, logs, stone and old lamps and candles.

They offer several different kinds of excellent pizzas, all cooked in their wood-fired ovens. They also have many Italian dishes based on pasta and meat.
Price Range: Expensive

La Pagoda

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:23:00 +0000

Address: Av. Javier Prado Este 402, San Isidro
Phone: 421-8800, 421-0800 (Delivery)
Web page:
Description:

This chifa (Peruvian-Chinese restaurant) is located in a rather busy area of San Isidro, a the corner of Av. Javier Prado and Paseo Parodi. The restaurant has big comfortable dining rooms, as well as some small more private ones which are perfect for group meetings.

The food is good and you can find fried wantan (wonton), wantan soup, chaufa rice (a richer version of fried rice), kamlu wantan, tausi meat, taipa chicken, sauted noodles, among many other traditional chifa dishes.

This place is a good choice for every day lunch if working in the nearby area, so you can take advantage of their menus (lunch combos). You can also reserve a more private area and order a buffet for a group.
Price Range: Inexpensive to moderate

Rincón Chami

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:30:00 +0000

Address: Esperanza 174, Miraflores
Phone: 444-4511
Web page:
Description:
This restaurant is located in a small street less than a block away from Plaza Kennedy (the Main Plaza of Miraflores). It is not a big or fancy restaurant but it has been there for quite a long time with good food that it can be consider a classic. Since the street is not that crowded and noisy you can enjoy your food in the outside tables.

They serve traditional creole Peruvian dishes and desserts like lomo saltado (sauted beef), tacu tacu, carapulcra, papa a la huancaína, seco de cordero, ají de gallina and cebiche, among many other.

The service is fast and good, although sometimes not as friendly as you would like.
Price Range: Inexpensive to moderate

José Antonio

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:15:00 +0000

Address:

Bernardo Monteagudo 200, San Isidro

Av. La Floresta 124, San Borja

C.C. Sur Plaza Boulevard, Panamericana Sur Km 97.5, Asia
Phone:

264-3284, 264-0188 (San Isidro)

372-6782, 372-6868 (San Borja)
Web page: www.joseantonio.com.pe
Description:

Considered by many as the best and most renowned restaurant offering comida criolla (Peruvian creole food). It is beautifully decorated in rustic colonial splendor with paintings of the Cusco School. Ask for the Piqueo José Antonio and you will get a sample of several traditional appetizers like anticuchos (beef heart skewers), stuffed potato, crispy yucca, corn tamale, chicharrones de chancho (deep fried pork), corn, and fried sweet potato. The lomo saltado (sauted beef) and Lomo José Antonio (a steak with tacu tacu, fried egg and banana) are really good.

They also offer traditional fish and seafood dishes like cebiche, tiradito (kind of a cebiche but without onions, the fish cut in thin slices and covered with different sauces and creams), parihuela (spicy thick soup with fish, shellfish and crabs), arroz con mariscos (rice with shellfish) and causa (a dish that has two layers of spicy and sour mash potatoes and tuna fish, crab meat or some other kind of stuffing between them), among many other.

Don´t forget to order a Pisco Sour, they are quite good. Besides, they have a nice selection of wines and other drinks.
Price Range: Very expensive

L' Eau Vive

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:00:00 +0000

Address: Jr. Ucayali 370, Lima
Phone: 427-5612
Web page:
Description:

This restaurant is located in downtown Lima just in front of Torre Tagle Palace (Foreign Affairs Ministry or Cancillería). It is a restaurant with a couple of big dining rooms in an old nice building soberly decorated.

For lunch you can go for the menú, a lunch combo where you can order an entrée, a main course dish and dessert for a fixed price or if you prefer you can order a la carte.

The restaurant is managed ny French nuns and it is open from 12:30 to 3:00 pm for lunch and from 7:30 to 9:30 pm for dinner. At night during dinner there is a free show where the nuns sing Ave Maria. The restaurant is closed on Sundays and holidays.

They offer a variety of Peruvian, French and international dishes, usually from countries where the nuns come from.

Price Range: Inexpensive for the menú and moderate for a la carte

Poisis Mar

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:34:00 +0000

Address: Francisco Masias 580, San Isidro
Phone: 222-5740
Web page:
Description:
This restaurant is located in the heart of the financial district of San Isidro and is decorated in a very sober style.

It offers a good variety of seafood traditional dishes like different kinds of cebiche, tiradito (similar to cebiche but it has no onions, the fish is cut in thin slices instead of dices and it can be covered with different creams and sauces), jalea (deep fried shellfish on top of a fish filet and onions salad), arroz de mariscos (rice with shellfish) and many other fish dishes.

Since it is located in a business area, be sure to get early or it could be crowded at lunch time.
Price Range: Moderate

Señor Cuy

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:30:00 +0000

Address: Andrés Reyes 144, San Isidro
Phone: 441-6568
Web page:
Description:

This restaurant is located near the financial district of San Isidro and is decorated in a very sober style.

It is specialized on cuy (guinea pig) dishes. They offer cuy prepared in different traditional ways according to different regions in the country like Ayacucho, Ancash, Arequipa, Junín, Puno, Moquegua, Trujillo and other places.

This restaurant also serves criollo dishes and combos for lunch. You can enjoy your lunch with wine or chicha de jora.
Price Range: Inexpensive to moderate.

Pepito Pimienta

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:30:00 +0000

Address: Av. 2 de Mayo 441, San Isidro
Phone: 422-0413 (Delivery to nearby area)
Web page:
Description:

Small and sober restaurant located in a quiet area of San Isidro, close to an area of exclusive restaurants and Centro Empresarial (an area where many important companies have their headquartes).

It offers nice chicharrón (roasted pork), ham, sausage, burguer, chicken, turkey and many other sandwiches with a good variety of local sauces. You can enjoy your sandwich with coffee, chicha morada (a refreshment made of purple corn) or mayacuya juice.

The restaurant doesn't have an ad out on the street, so be careful not to miss it.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Pasquale Hnos.

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:30:00 +0000

Address:
Av. Comandante Espinar 651, Miraflores
Av. Benavídes 1715, Miraflores
Food Court of Larcomar, Malecon de la Reserva 610, Miraflores
Food Court of Saga Falabella, Las Begonias cuadra 7, San Isidro
Food Court of Jockey Plaza, Av. Javier Prado Este 4200, Surco
La Marina Open Plaza (former Feria del Pacífico), San Miguel
C.C. Sur plaza Boulevard, Asia
Phone:
243-3100 (Delivery)
447-6390 (Espinar, Miraflores)
242-1550 (Benavides, Miraflores)
Web page: www.pasqualehnos.com.pe
Description:
A new endeavor of Gastón Acurio (the most renown Peruvian chef). A very fancy and modern sanguchería (a place where you find sánguches - Peruvian sandwiches) with a fast food style service. You can find ham, pavo (turkey), pavo anticuchero (turkey marinated in a sauce usually used for heart skewers), pollo a la brasa (rotisserie chicken), pollo pachamanquero (pollo a la brasa with a special sauce), lomo saltado, among other sandwiches served with traditional sauces, creams and fried yucas or boiled potatoes.
To better enjoy your sandwich you can refresh yourself with chicha morada or a cremolada (snow cone).
Now they offer delivery service and credit cards are welcome.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Caplina

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:02:00 +0000

Address:
Radio Club Peruano, Los Ruiseñores 245, San Isidro
Club Terrazas, Costa Verde, Playa Makaha, Miraflores
General Mendiburu 793, Miraflores
Country Club de Villa, Chorrillos
Phone: 222-3992
Web page: www.caplina.com
Description:
Nice restaurants serving very good seafood and criollo dishes. They offer a good variety of traditional and innovative cebiches and tiraditos (similar to a cebiche but the fish is cut in thin and long slices and is served without onions and usually covered with diferent sauces or creams), as well as other dishes like arroz de mariscos (rice with shellfish), jaleas (fried seafood on top of an onions salad), chicharrones (deep fried seafood), causas, tacu tacu, among other. They also offer different seafood and meat grilled dishes (pulpito a la leña - grilled squid - is really good), as well as pastas and traditional criollo dishes.
Price Range: Moderate to expensive

Delicass

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:45:00 +0000

Address:
Miguel Dasso 131, San Isidro
Las Begonias 510, San Isidro
Primavera 654, Surco
La Plazuela, Jockey Plaza,
Phone:
440-5050 (Miguel Dasso)
421-1308 (Las Begonias)
372-5203 (Primavera)
Web page: www.delicass.com.pe
Description:
This is a bistro style restaurant, with locations in the upper class districts of San Isidro and Surco. It offers very nice ice creams in many different flavors, as well as drinks, fruit juices, coffee, sandwiches, rolls, pastas, pastries, empanadas, salads and many desserts.
Price Range: Moderate to expensive

La Choza Náutica

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:20:00 +0000

Address:

Av. Breña 204, 211 and 213, Breña

Jr. Zeus 809, Los Olivos

Av. Carlos Izaguirre 1430, Los Olivos

Phone:

423-8087 (Breña)

485-7198 (Los Olivos)
Web page: www.lachozanautica.com
Description:

This restaurant offers a good variety of cebiches and other seafood dishes like tiraditos, jalea, arroz con mariscos (rice with shellfish), among other. You can also order rondas, plates for 2, 3 or 4 people which include a mix of three or more dishes.

For drinking you can order lemonade, chicha morada or pisco sour.
Price Range: Moderate
Peruvian Restaurants

La Gran Fruta

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:51:00 +0000

Address:

Las Begonias 463, San Isidro

Reducto 1350, Miraflores

Cine Alcázar, Óvalo Gutiérrez, Miraflores

Mezanine Internacional, Aeropuerto Internacional Jorge Chávez
Phone:

422-0606, 422-8558 (San Isidro)

241-0949, 446-8639 (Miraflores)

222-0870, 222-0819 (Cine Alcázar)

517-1877 (Aeropuerto)
Web page: www.lagranfruta.com
Description:

This chain of small juguería (juice bar) and sanguchería (sandwich restaurant) offers you a great variety of delicious fresh fruit juices, as well as sandwiches, coffee, fruit salads and yogurt.

They use local exotic fruits like aguaje, camu camu, cocona, granadilla, chirimoya, mango, lúcuma, maracuya, guanábana, papaya, as well as other well known fruits like orange, pineapple, banana, lime, melon, strawberries, avocado, tangerine, and peach among other, alone or combined in different and delicious ways.

Remember to be prepared for one liter of fresh juice per order. They have delivery service to nearby areas.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Sonccollay

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:31:00 +0000

Address:
Av. Salaverry 2023, Jesús María, Lima (map)
Portal de San Agustín 149 Piso 2, Cercado, Arequipa
Phone:
265-4321 (Lima)
Web page: www.sonccollay.com
Description: This restaurant, located in front of Universidad del Pacifico, offers a new variety of cuisine, Pre Inka cuisine. It is a big old house that has been reconditioned to host the restaurant. You can actually watch the cooking process if you go to the inner yard.

They serve alpaca meat, potatoes, shrimps and other dishes cooked on woodfire and hot stones using Pre Inka condiments and herbs. Costillas de alpaca (alpaca ribs) and cancacho (marinated and roasted lamb) are excellent choices if you are a meat person.
Price Range: Expensive

Las 4 Estaciones

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:40:00 +0000

Address: Av. Las Artes Norte 456 , San Borja (map)
Phone:
224-3431
475-4765
Web page: www.las4estaciones.com.pe
Description:
This is a small restaurant located in the corner of Av. Aviacion and Av. Las Artes Norte. It is basically a long counter next to the sidewalk where you sit on barstools.

It offers a great variety of hamburguer, chicken and ham sandwiches and salads, as well as blended fruit juices.

If you are out late in the night, this is the place to go while almost everything else is closed. It has delivery service to nearby areas.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Delicias Arequipeñas

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Address: Av. De las Artes Norte 442, San Borja (map)
Phone: 223-2355
Web page:
Description:

This is a small restaurant and kind of a deli market and grocery store. Here you can find some traditional Arequipenian snacks like salteñas (they offer two kind of salteñas, directly brought from Arequipa and made in Lima), salchichas Alemana sandwiches (Arequipenian white sausage sandwiches) and white tamales. You can also get Arequipenian desserts like queso helado (kind of ice cream of frozen milk, coconut, cinnamon and vanilla), as well as papaya arequipeña (carica pubescens) juice and Arequipenian sodas like Energina and Kola Escocesa.

On Saturdays, they offer adobo, a spicy stew of pork marinated in non sweetened chicha de jora, ají panca (a not so hot red chili pepper used to prepare many dishes and sauces), garlic and cumin, and then slowly cooked with onions, cinnamon and white pepper, which is eaten soaking pieces of bread in it.

They sell a variety of Arequipenian products like bread, chicha de jora, butter, cheese, white sausage, chocolates, candies, chancaca, mermelades, spices, fruits, beer, liquours, and many others.

They offer delivery service to nearby locations. Visa credit cards are welcome.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Puro Corazón

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:43:00 +0000

Address: Parque Principal 155, San Miguel
Phone:
Web page:
Description:
This small restaurant is located in the Parque de la Media Luna (the district´s Main Plaza), which is on the fourth block of Avenida Bertolotto in San Miguel.

Their specialty is anticuchos, but they also serve rachi (tripe), pancita (another kind of tripe) and chinchulines (guts). You can have picarones (kind of doughnuts covered with syrup) for dessert and chicha morada as refreshment.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Edo Sushi Bar

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:30:00 +0000

Address:
Av. San Borja Sur 663, San Borja
Berlín 601, Miraflores
Av. Salaverry 3230, San Isidro
Phone:
225-0881 (San Borja)
243-2448 (Miraflores)
264-1487 (San Isidro)
Web page: www.edosushibar.com
Description: Very popular sushi bar with three locations in the upper class districts of San Isidro, Miraflores and San Borja. They are usually so be prepared to wait for a table. Try their Maki specialties, they are quite good, as well as their Pisco Sour.

They open Monday to Saturday from 12:30 to 3:30 pm and from 7:00 to 11:00 pm. Delivery service is offered nearby their locations.
Price Range: Expensive

Rodizio

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:45:00 +0000

Address:

Av. Angamos Este 478, Miraflores

Av. La Molina Cuadra 11, La Molina

Av. Elmer Faucett 2000, Bellavista, Callao

Av. Carlos Izaguirre 911, Los Olivos

Av. Matías Manzanilla 590, Ica
Phone:

445-4470 (Miraflores)

349-8084 (La Molina)

561-6241 (Bellavista)

522-0035 (Los Olivos)
Web page: http://www.rodizio.com.pe/
Description:

This is a chain of churrasquerías (Brazilian style BBQ). Meat is presented in swords from where they cut slices to serve you. It is an all you can eat buffet of grilled meat (beef, pork, lamb, chicken, sausage, ribs, black sausage, beef heart) and salad bar. It is probably not the finest meat in town but if you are a meat lover and you are more concerned about the quantity of meat you are going to eat at an affordable price then this is the right place for you.

The wine selection is not too big, you can only get some local and Chilean wines.

These have become very popular places so come early in order to get a table and be patient with the service. They open at noon for lunch time and at
Price Range: Moderate

Lyky's

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:20:00 +0000

Address:
Av. Petit Thouars 2498, Lince
Av. Aviación 2470, San Borja
Phone:
421-0396 (Lince)
475-3677 (San Borja)
Web page:
Description:
Small restaurants that offer pollo a la brasa (Peruvian rotisserie chicken) as well as chicharrones (roast pork) and chicharrón sandwiches, both of them having a touch of oriental flavor.

The sandwiches are good and you can order them with soda, coffee or fruit juice (blended fruits). The pollo a la brasa is a decent one.

The location on Petit Thouars has two adjacent areas, one for pollo a la brasa and the other for chicharrones, while the one on Aviación has only one area for both pollo a la brasa and chicharrones.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Moche

noreply@blogger.com (Peru Taste) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Address:

Av. Roosevelt 6445 (formerly Av. República de Panamá), Miraflores

Av. Próceres de la Independencia 679, Urb. Chacarilla de Otero, San Juan de Lurigancho

Av. La Mar 349, Óvalo Santa Anita, Ate Vitarte
Phone:

242-6955 (Miraflores)

376-9203 (San Juan de Lurigancho)
Web page:
Description:

This restaurant is located one block away from Casimiro Ulloa Hospital in Miraflores, between Av. 28 de Julio and Av. Benavides. Decorated in a very sober style, it is a house that was transformed in a restaurant.

They are specialized on Northern food, especifically food from Trujillo. They offer seafood dishes like cebiche and tiraditos, and Northen traditional dishes like arroz con pato (rice with duck, which you can order boneless), seco de cabrito (a goat stew served with beans, which can be ordered boneless) and shambar.
Price Range: Moderate
Peruvian Restaurants