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Best Restaurants in Lima: Top Dining Spots for Every Taste
Lima is a food lover’s paradise, offering an incredible variety of dining experiences that cater to every palate. From Peruvian Criolla to fresh and flavorful ceviche, this guide will introduce you to the best restaurants in Lima.
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The Best Restaurant in Quality-Price relation
Resturante Javier
Website | Address: Bajada de Baños 408, Barranco
Located just few blocks from the Main Park of Barranco, the restaurant offers the most traditional dishes of Peru like ceviche, lomo saltado, ají de gallina; besides a large variety of beers and pisco-based drinks.
Also from the Terrace you have an amazing view to the Pacific Ocean. With no doubts, the Best Price – Quality relation a restaurant can offer.
The Best Peruvian Creole Food Restaurants
What is Peruvian Creole Food or ‘Comida Criolla’?
‘Criollo’ was a term used to refer to something with Spanish origin, but born in the Americas. So Peruvian Creole food is the result of indigenous, European and African influences during the colonial period (16th-19th century).
Panchita
Website | Address: Calle 2 de mayo 298, Miraflores
Panchita is one of the favorite restaurants for locals and tourists. The restaurant offers you traditional dishes like anticuchos (Peruvian grilled beef heart), tacu tacu (rice mixed with cooked seasoned beans) and desserts such as picarones (Peruvian donuts).
Isolina
Website | Address: Av. San Martín 101, Barranco
Located in Barranco, Isolina has an early 20th-century tavern style and included in the List of Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants by The Restaurant magazine.
Within the great variety that Isolina’s menu offers, we recommend you to try: Aji de Gallina and the Lomo Saltado.
The Best Peruvian Seafood or Ceviche Restaurants
Punto Azul
Website | Address: Calle San Martín 595, Miraflores
Located in Miraflores, besides the lunch schedule, they also open for dinner time (7pm to 11pm). If you want to try more options than the classic ceviche, we recommend you to try the Peruvian Causa, a kind of mashed potato cake filled with shrimps, tuna, octopus, among other delicacies of the sea.
Canta Rana
Instagram | Address: Génova 101, Barranco
Located in Barranco. Besides the classic Ceviche, another ‘Must Try dish’ for you is Arroz con Mariscos (Peruvian Version of Paella) and the options of Tiradito (fish in sashimi Style and very similar to Carpaccio)
The Best Nikkei Restaurants in Lima
What is Nikkei Cuisine?
The Japanese people who arrived to Peru brought a variety of cooking techniques and mixed them with traditional ingredients from Peru, that is how Nikkei cuisine was born.
Tomo
Instagram | Address: Francisco de Paula Camino 290, Miraflores
Located in the heart of Miraflores. Come everyday to enjoy the variety of sashimi, sushi and makis. A cozy and unique space to enjoy with some friends.
Osaka
Website | Address: Av. Pardo y Aliaga 660, San Isidro
This restaurant opened more than 10 years ago in Lima and since then has a long career. Osaka also is the first Nikkei Peruvian Restaurant that began with the internationalization by opening restaurants in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Quito, Bogotá, Miami and in 2022 in London.
The Best Chifa Restaurants in Lima
What is Chifa?
The term chifa comes from the Chinese ‘chi’ and ‘fan’ which means ‘eat’ ‘rice’ and refers to Chinese people in Lima inviting to eat at their restaurants. Chifa is the Peruvian food that was influenced by Chinese onion, soy sauce, ginger root and other Chinese ingredients.
Chifa Amistad
Instagram | Address: Av. José Pardo 170, Miraflores
Only one step away from the Kennedy Park, and offering the option of enjoying the meal in the same lounge or you also have the option for delivery if you are in the area. A nice menu in English for foreigners is available too. We recommend you to try Lomo Saltado and Arroz chaufa with chicken.
Chifa (Chung Yion) Unión
Tripadvisor | Address: Av. Jirón Unión 126, Barranco
With a tradition of almost 100 years in the same location and keeping the same design since they opened. The perfect place where Chinese ingredients are mixed with the Peruvian flavor. Dishes like lomo saltado, Pollo con Durazno (chicken with peach) and Chaufa de Mariscos (Fried rice with Seafood) are waiting for you.
Vegetarian and Vegan restaurants in Lima
Many of the restaurants included in the List of The Best restaurants in Lima offer vegetarian and vegan options.
However, if you are looking for more variety, here we leave you some options, perfect for people like you.
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