El Rinconcito Arequipeño

Address: Bernardo Alcedo 514, Lince
Phone: 471-6484
Web page: www.elrinconcitoarequipeno.com
Description:
This more than 30 years old restaurant offers a great variety of traditional Arequipenian dishes. It is not a fancy restaurant but the food is good and the dishes are loyal to the Arequipenian tradition. It is located in the heart of Lince, a middle-class district in Lima.

They have ocopa (a delicious spicy sauce prepared with yellow chili pepper, cheese, huacatay and peanuts, served on top of boiled yellow potatoes and decorated with lettuce, boiled eggs and olives), rocoto relleno (stuffed hot chili pepper), different sarzas (an spicy onion salad with shellfish or pig/lamb feet) like sarza de tolinas, sarza de lapas and sarza de patitas, soups like caldo blanco, chaque de tripas (a thick soup with meat, tripe, potatoes, ají panca and vegetables), chairo and adobo (spicy stew of pork marinated in chicha de jora, ají panca, garlic and cumin, slowly cooked with onions, cinnamon and white pepper and then served with bread to be soaked in it), and main course dishes like malaya frita, costillar de cordero (fried lamb ribs), cuy chactao (fried guinea pig), and many other dishes. The camarón (shrimp) dishes, in their different forms, are really good. Finally, refresh yourself with Arequipenian chicha de jora (prepared with purple corn).
Price Range: Moderate

La Chura

Address: Av. Canadá 801, Santa Catalina, La Victoria
Phone: 265-6056
Web page:
Description:
This small restaurant is located in the middle-low class district of La Victoria, in a somewhat crowded and noisy area. They offer traditional Arequipenian dishes like sarzas (onion salads with lamb or pig feet, criadillas -beef testicles- and tolinas), cuy chactado (fried guinea pig), malaya frita, rocoto relleno (stuffed hot chili pepper) and soups like chaque de tripas (a thick soup with meat, tripe, potatoes, ají panca and vegetables). They offer a good chicha de jora and Arequipenian sodas (Energina and Kola Escocesa) as refreshments.
Price Range: Inexpensive to moderate
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Rinconcito del Sur

Address: Francisco Lazo 2055, Lince
Phone: 472-2780, 373-2002
Web page:
Description:
This three of four decades old restaurant used to be a very small restaurant but it was recently expanded and remodeled. It offers traditional dishes from Arequipa like sarzas (onion salads with lamb or pig feet, or even shellfish), cuy chactado (fried guinea pig), malaya frita, rocoto relleno (stuffed hot chili pepper) and soups like chaque de tripas (a thick soup with meat, tripe, potatoes, ají panca and vegetables). They also offer chicha de jora as a refreshment, but even though it is an Arequipenian restaurant, their chicha de jora is Northern style, i.e. it is made from yellow corn instead of purple corn (dried and ground germinated purple corn called guiñapo).
Price Range: Inexpensive
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Club Departamental Arequipa

Address: Av. República de Chile 190, Jesús María
Phone: 433-2320, 433-8715
Web page: www.clubarequipa.net/comidas.htm
Description:
This restaurant is located on the second floor of Club Departamental Arequipa, in an old republican style mansion very close to downtown.
It is not a fancy restaurant and it offers traditional Arequipenian dishes like rocoto relleno (stuffed hot chili pepper), adobo (spicy stew of pork marinated in chicha de jora, ají panca, garlic and cumin, slowly cooked with onions, cinnamon and white pepper and then served with bread to be soaked in it), sarzas (onion salads with lamb or pig feet), cuy chactado (deep fried guinea pig), among other dishes, as well as regional sodas.
Price Range: Inexpensive
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La Salteñita Boliviana

Address:
Av. Faustino Sánchez Carrión (formerly Av. Pershing) 1059 Tienda 17, Jesús María, Lima
Centro Comercial La Fontana Tienda 51, Av. Javier Prado Este 5250, La Molina, Lima
Av. Trinidad Morán K-1-B, León XIII, Cayma, Arequipa
Moral 212-A, Cercado, Arequipa
Jr. Antonio Raymondi G-4, Urb. Sta. Mónica, Cusco
San Bernardo 188, Cercado, Cusco
Phone:
358-8187 (Lima)
272667 (Arequipa)
248655 (Cusco)
Web page:
Description: Chain of very small restaurants that only sells salteñas (a baked type of empanada) and sodas. Although salteñas are original from Bolivia, they are very popular in Arequipa and that is why this restaurant sells salteñas together with sodas from Arequipa like Energina. Salteñas stuffing is extremely juicy so you have to be careful when eating in order for not spilling your clothes.
Price Range: Inexpensive
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Delicias Arequipeñas

Address: Av. De las Artes Norte 442, San Borja
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, 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 Arequipenian sodas like Energina and Kola Escocesa.

On Saturdays, they offer adobo, a spicy stew of pork marinated in chicha de jora, ají panca (paprika), 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, spices, fruits, beer, liquours, and many others.

They offer delivery service. Visa credit cards are welcome.

Price Range: Inexpensive

El Sillar

Address: Jr. Atahuallpa 229, Miraflores
Phone: 446-2727
Web page:
Description: Small restaurant with a very simple and sober decoration located a few blocks from the main plaza of Miraflores. During week days you can find menú económico or menú ejecutivo which include a selection of entrees and main courses from which you choose your lunch for a fixed inexpensive price. Drinks are included as well as a queso helado dessert (kind of ice cream of frozen milk, coconut, cinnamon and vanilla). Among the dishes offered in these menús you can find some traditional Arequipenian dishes but also some other criollo dishes.
You can also order a la carte traditional Arequipenian dishes like sarzas (onion salads with lamb or pig feet), cuy chactado and malaya frita but it is only on weekends when you can order some of their Arequipenian specialties like rocoto relleno (stuffed hot chili pepper) or adobo (a spicy stew of pork marinated in chicha de jora, ají panca, garlic and cumin, and then slowly cooked with onions, cinnamon and white pepper) which is served with bread.
Price Range: Inexpensive for the menús, moderate if a la carte

El Rocoto

Address: Av. Aviación 4907, Higuereta, Surco
Phone: 448-3040
Web page: www.elrocoto.com.pe
Description: Very good restaurant decorated with Arequipenian motifs. It has evolved from the roots of picantería arequipeña to offer Arequipa style, criollo and international dishes. The lunch buffet with traditional dishes is very good. They offer delivery service.
Price Range: Moderate

La Estrellita del Sur

Address:
Jr. Pedro Conde 413, Lince
Jr. Pedro Conde 480, Lince
Phone:
440-0362, 422-6869
421-6306, 221-7941
Web page: http://www.laestrellitadelsur.com/
Description: The closest experience to an old traditional style picantería arequipeña (traditional middle-low class restaurant of Arequipa) you can find in Lima. Try the sarzas (onion salads with lamb or pig feet, cow udder, testis, head, machas or tolinas - Southern coast shellfish), chaque de tripas, malaya frita, rocoto relleno (stuffed hot chili pepper) or adobo (a spicy stew of pork marinated in chicha de jora, ají panca, garlic and cumin, and then slowly cooked with onions, cinnamon and white pepper) which served with bread is an experience to remember. You can refresh yourself with chicha de jora (slightly fermented purple germinated corn beer). For dessert you can order queso helado (kind of ice cream of frozen milk, coconut, cinnamon and vanilla). Finish your meal with a shot of anisado (strong anise-flavored liquor) on the house. The two locations are very close each other, one belonging to the father and the other to his son.
Price Range: Inexpensive

El Mistiano

Address:
Av. Canadá 4089, San Luis
Av. Canadá 1079, La Victoria
Phone:
434-4079 (San Luis)
472-4076 (La Victoria)
Web page:
Description: They serve traditional Arequipenian dishes like chaque de tripas, rachi de panza, rocoto relleno (stuffed hot peppers) and sarzas (onion salads with lamb or pig feet), as well as criollo and seafood dishes.
Price Range: Moderate

La Chaucalla

Address: Enrique Palacios 420, Miraflores
Phone: 446-7966, 471-6396
Web page:
Description: Located a few blocks from the main plaza of Miraflores, this restaurant serves traditional Arequipenian dishes. Try the buffet on weekends and get a nice sample of different sarzas (onion salads with feet, head, etc.), stews and other traditional dishes.
Price Range: Moderate