La Anticuchería

Address: Tarapacá 217, Miraflores
Phone: 444-9090
Web page:
Description:

This is a small restaurant located behind the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (ICPNA) in a quiet area of Miraflores, at walking distance from the Main Plaza of Miraflores. It is part of the Tradición Morena chain and is decorated in an old traditional and rustic hacienda style. The service is very friendly and the ambience is kind of intimate.

It mainly serves anticuchos, rachi (tripe), chinchulines (guts), mollejitas (gizzards), and tamales, but you can also get some grilled steaks. As a refreshment you can get chicha morada and order picarones, arroz con leche and mazamorra morada as dessert.

Credit cards are welcome.

Price Range: Inexpensive to moderate.

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La Casa de los Anticuchos

Address: Enrique Palacios 1292-A, Urb. Santa Cruz, Miraflores
Phone: 241-8229, 241-3674
Web page: casadelosanticuchos.galeon.com
Description:

Small but comfortable restaurant located in a Miraflores street famous for its anticuchos streetcarts. They offer anticuchos (beef heart skewers), pancita (grilled tripe), choncholí (grilled guts), mollejitas (grilled chicken gizzards) and grilled meat. They also have some dishes which are a mix of the previous ones. For dessert you can order picarones (kind of doughnuts covered with syrup), mazamorra morada (a dessert made of purple corn) or arroz con leche (prepared with rice, milk, sugar, raisins and cinnamon).
Price Range: Inexpensive
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Grima Anticuchos

Address: Corner of Enrique Palacios and 27 de Noviembre, Miraflores
Phone:
99849-3137 , 99420-3835
Web page:
Description:
Grima Anticuchos is also known as La Esquina de la Grimanesa (The Corner of Grimanesa) because of Grimanesa Vargas Araujo, the lady who prepares really good anticuchos in this street corner for more than 30 years. She only offers anticuchos, which are served with potatoes, and choclo (boiled corn). You can find her every night from 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm but Sundays. There is no delivery service but you can call to order in advance. Only cash is accepted.
Price Range: Inexpensive
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Tradicional

Address: Av. Rivera Navarrete 2632, Urb. San Eugenio, Lince
Phone: 421-1593
Web page:
Description:
This is a small restaurant located in a quiet area of Lince (close to Alhambra Casino), two blocks away from Av. Javier Prado Este. They offer anticuchos (beef heart skewers), mollejitas (grilled gizzards), rachi (grilled tripe), steaks and grilled burguers. They also have picarones (kind of doughnuts covered with syrup) for dessert and chicha morada (a refreshment made of purple corn and pineapple).

Price Range: Inexpensive
Peruvian Restaurants

La Tranquera

Address: Av. José Pardo 285, Miraflores
Phone: 447-5111, 445-4523
Web page: www.restaurantelatranquera.com
Description:
Located block and a half from the main plaza of Miraflores, this is an elegant and comfortable restaurant. They are especialized on grilled meats, offering Argentinian and American beef as well as lamb, pork, cabrito (tender goat), rabbit and cuy (guinea pig). They also offer anticuchos (beef heart skewers), chinchulines (guts), sausage, morcilla (black pudding or blood sausage), kidneys, and BBQ ribs. Other non grilled dishes include soups, creams, carpaccios, steaks, lomo saltado, tacu tacu, shrimp, fish and seafood. The bar has nice drinks and a good variety of wines. A parrillada para dos (grill for two) is quite good and actually kind of big for two, besides you can choose among wine, sangría or soda to drink.
Price Range: Moderate to expensive
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Las Canastas

Address:
Av. Aviación 5150, Ovalo Higuereta, Surco
Flora Tristán 682, La Molina
Av. Angamos Oeste 599, Miraflores
Av. La Marina 2167, San Miguel
Eduardo de Habich 159, Habich, San Martín de Porres
Carlos Izaguirre 285, Royal Plaza, Los Olivos
Phone: 518-3000 (Delivery for all locations)
273-3210 (Ovalo Higuereta)
348-3558 (La Molina)
518-3000 (Miraflores)
482-0605 (Habich)
521-4010 (Royal Plaza)
Web page: http://www.lascanastas.com/
Description: This chain of pollerias started in Habich and from there it expanded to other places in Lima. They offer an excellent pollo a la brasa (rotisserie chicken), as well as anticuchos and other grilled dishes. The restaurants are very comfortable and have a very fine service.
Price Range: Moderate
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Puro Corazón

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), and you can have picarones (kind of doughnuts covered with syrup) for dessert. Price Range: Inexpensive
Peruvian Restaurants

Tradición Morena

Address: Av. Benavides 2392, Miraflores
Phone: 273-6666
Web page: www.tradicionmorena.com
Description: This restaurant is decorated in a traditional coast style, ressembling an old traditional hacienda from Ica . They offer criollo dishes, specially from the coast of Ica and Southern Lima (with African influence), like carapulcra, carapulcra chinchana, mancha pecho, sopa seca, pancita (tripe), chinchulines (guts) and anticuchos. They also offer traditional criollo desserts like arroz con leche, mazamorra morada, arroz zambito and picarones, as well as chicha morada as a refreshing drink.
Price Range: Moderate

Doña Julia

Address: Jr. Huiracocha 1300, Jesús María
Phone: 330-6550
Web page:
Description: This is a popular and traditional resturant founded more than 40 years ago. They offer anticuchos, rachi (grilled tripe), mollejitas (grilled chicken gizzards) and other grilled dishes, picarones (kind of doughnuts covered with syrup) and chicha morada (a local refreshment made of purple corn). They open from 2:00 pm till midnight. Credit cards are welcome.
Price Range: Inexpensive

El Tío Mario

Address: Jr. Zepita 214, Barranco
Phone: 477-0301, 373-0293
Web page:
Description: This popular restaurant is located just one block away from the main plaza of Barranco at the entrance to the Puente de los Suspiros. They offer very good anticuchos (beef heart skewers) in a comfortable place, although it could be kind of cold during winter. You can also get mollejitas (grilled chicken gizzards) and some other grilled dishes, picarones (kind of doughnuts cover with syrup) and chicha morada (a refreshment made with purple corn). They usually open after 5 pm and only cash is accepted.
Price Range: Inexpensive

La Norteña

Address:
Jr. Intisuyo 193, Maranga, San Miguel
Av. Mariano Cornejo 1006 and 1012, Breña
Phone:
562-3326 (San Miguel)
330-7855 (Breña)
Web page:
Description: This restaurant is popular among locals. It has two locations in the middle class districts of San Miguel and Pueblo Libre. They offer anticuchos, rachi (grilled tripe) and mollejitas (grilled chicken gizzards). For dessert you can have picarones (kind of doughnuts covered with syrup). They open in the evening and are open till very late in the night. Only cash is accepted.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Pit´s

Address: Av. Comandante Espinar 511, Miraflores
Phone: 445-5222
Web page:
Description: This is a small restaurant located a few blocks from Ovalo Gutierrez in Miraflores. Their specialties are anticuchos (beef heart skewers) and chicken skewers but they also offer burgers, chicken sandwiches and salchipapas (hotdog fried in slices and french fries covered with different sauces). They have delivery service and are open from 10:00 am to 6:00 am everyday but Sundays.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Pepe´s

Address:
Av. Petit Thouars 5428, Miraflores
Av. Las Artes Norte 428, San Borja
Phone:
445-2225, 242-2390 (Petit Thouars)
224-3765 (Las Artes Norte)
Web page:
Description: In the corner of Av. Petit Thouars and Gral. Pershing, a few blocks away from the main plaza of Miraflores, in an area of handicraft markets, you will find this small restaurant where you can have anticuchos (beef heart skewers), grilled chicken or steaks, humitas and tamales, and drink chicha morada or even a pisco sour. It is a small and simple restaurant yet the taste of the food is very good.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Doña Pochita

Address: Av. Ignacio Merino 2316, Lince
Phone: 222-0008
Web page:
Description: For those really adventurous this could be all an experience. This place opens only during nights ( 7:00 pm till midnight) and is located next to Lobatón marketplace in Lince. They sell food in streetcarts and you will have to eat standing up or inside your car. It is very popular among locals. They offer anticuchos (beef heart skewers), brochetas de pollo (chicken skewers), rachi (tripe), corazoncitos (chicken hearts) and mollejitas (chicken gizzards). If you ask for the mixto you will get a mix of rachi, mollejitas, and corazoncitos, being this dish their specialty. If you ask for the mixto completo you get a mixto plus one anticucho. No credit cards accepted.
Price Range: Inexpensive

Pardo´s Chicken

Address:
Av. Dos de Mayo 1002, San Isidro
Av. Benavides 730, Miraflores
(see their web page for a list of all their locations)
Phone:
Teléf.: 422-0921, 422-3536 (San Isidro)
446-4790, 241-0215, 444-2126 (Miraflores)
Web page: www.pardoschicken.com.pe
Description: Very comfortable and modern chain of restaurants that serves one of the best pollo a la brasa (Peruvian rotisserie chicken) plus some other grill dishes, like anticuchos (beef heart skewers), mollejitas (chicken gizzards), grilled chicken and steaks. They have many locations in Lima and other cities like Chiclayo and Piura, and also outside the country in Santiago de Chile and New York. Delivery service is available.
Price Range: Moderate