La Tienda de la Carreta

Address: Av. Rivera Navarrete 722, San Isidro
Phone: 422-2690
Web page:
Description: This restaurant is located right in the heart of the financial district of San Isidro, next door of its fancy big brother La Carreta. The whole building (including La Carreta) is decorated in colonial hacienda style. They have sandwiches, empanadas and some other appetizers that you can eat there or take to go. For lunch you can order pasta or grilled meat or chicken among some other dishes at a reasonable price. This is a popular place for people in nearby buildings and offices so it can get crowded at lunch time, specially on Fridays, so be sure to get early.
Price Range: Inexpensive to moderate
Peruvian Restaurants

El Hornero

Address:
Malecón Almirante Miguel Grau 983, Chorrillos
Francisco Masías 505, San Isidro
Phone:
251-8109, 467-1721 (Chorrillos)
222-2610 (San Isidro)
Web page:
Description:
One of their locations is in the seafront of Chorrillos so you have a nice view, especially if you are seated on the second floor, while you enjoy the sea breeze. This was an old traditional house which is now decorated in a rustic style with lots of wooden barrels. The service is very good and friendly. They have a second location in San Isidro, pretty close to the financial district.

The food is very good and quite generous. Here you can have an individual BBQ with plenty of meat for two people. This BBQ brings delicious and juicy beef and it also comes with chicken, pork, anticuchos (beef heart skewers), sausage , morcilla (black sausage) and some other things like kidney and chinchulines (guts). The BBQ comes with warm rolls and butter, a fresh salad and French fries.
Since there is no cork fee you can bring your favorite wine or order one from the good selection they have.
Price Range: Moderate to expensive
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
Peruvian Restaurants

Roky´s

Address: José de La Torre Ugarte 178, Lince (see their web page for their multiple locations)
Phone:
421-5034 (Lince)
613-5000, 9826-3309 (Delivery)
Web page: www.rokys.com
Description: This is the newest restaurant of this chain of pollerías. It is located in the corner of José de La Torre Ugarte and Av. Arequipa, a block away from Centro Comercial Risso, right in the commercial area of Lince. They have many other locations, especially in the middle class districts of Lima and in Trujillo and Ica. They serve a good pollo a la brasa (Peruvian rotisserie chicken) and some other grilled dishes. Recently, they have started to offer some criollo combos for lunch. Among their services, they offer karaoke.

Price Range: Inexpensive
Peruvian Restaurants

Baco & Vaca

Address: Av. 2 de Mayo 798, San Isidro
Phone: 221-5586, 222-2622, 9812-1071
Web page:
Description:
This restaurant is located in a nice area of San Isidro, where other renown restaurants have their premises. It is decorated in an elegant but sober style with paintings of new artists.
The food is very good, they offer Argentinian and American beef, as well as lamb, alpaca, rabbit, cuy (guinea pig), ostrich and fishes, with side orders of potatoes and pastas with Peruvian sauces.
They have a really good selection of wines of different parts of the world, which you can order by the cup or bottle and the sommelier is always there to help you with the best choice for you.
Price Range: Moderate to expensive
Peruvian Restaurants

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
Peruvian Restaurants

Caravana

Address:
Av. Benavides 2098, Miraflores
Av. Canaval y Moreyra 471, San Isidro
Av. Aviación 2462, San Borja
Av. La Marina 2258, San Miguel
Av. Sucre 1099, Pueblo Libre
Phone:
444-6800 (Miraflores)
212-1166 (San Isidro)
475-4444 (San Borja)
515-8000 (San Miguel)
261-4666 (Pueblo Libre)
Web page: www.caravana.com.pe
Description: One of the oldest pollerías in Lima. Besides pollo a la brasa (rotisserie chicken), you can also find pork with BBQ sauce, fajitas and parrillada (including different types of grilled meat, anticuchos and sausage), and enjoy their variety of pisco sours (the traditional one, maracuya and chicha morada). They have delivery service.
Price Range: Moderate

El Cascajal

Address: Francisco Lazo 2495, Lince
Phone: 222-2251
Web page: www.elcascajal.com
Description: Restaurant that offers a good criollo buffet every day at lunch time, which includes a good variety of entrees like cebiches, tiraditos, tamales, anticuchos, rocoto relleno and others, as well as main dishes like arroz con pollo, ají de gallina, cau cau (a tripe stew), carapulcra, lomo saltado, seco de res, adobo de chancho, tacu tacu, picante de mariscos, etc. and traditional desserts like mazamorra morada, arroz con leche, crema volteada and picarones, just to mention some. After 8:00 pm it is grill time. Enjoy your lunch with criollo live music and on weekends and holidays you can also watch live traditional dances.
Price Range: Moderate

La Granja Azul

Address: Carretera Central Km 11.5, Santa Clara, Ate
Phone: 356-0082, 356-0087
Web page: http://www.granja-azul.com/
Description: Just a few minutes from Lima you can find this sunny hacienda that offers you a perfect way to spend the day with friends and family. They have a fix price buffet on baby chicken that allows you to eat all what you can on pollo a la brasa. They also have a good variety of grill dishes. The playground area and pony rides are a lot of fun for children while the bars with their innovative drinks are a must for grown ups.
Price Range: Moderate

Norky´s

Address:
Av. José Pardo 216, Miraflores
(see their web page for other locations)
Phone:
242-3104, 242-3101
Web page: www.gruponorkys.com
Description: A very popular restaurant with a very nice pollo a la brasa (Peruvian rotisserie chicken) with locations in almost every district of Lima. They also offer other grilled dishes, including grilled rabbit. They have delivery service.
Price Range: Moderate

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