No Te Rajes

Address: Av. Benavídes 1083, Miraflores
Phone: 242-1737
Web page:
Description:

Small restaurant located almost in front of Parque Reducto in Miraflores. It is decorated with Mexican motiffs

They offer sandwiches of smoked ham, turkey and sausage. Besides, they have a good variety of totopos, tacos, sincronizadas, flautas and other Mexican dishes. They also offer breakfast and for lunch time they have menus (combos) based on Peruvian and international dishes.

Credit cards are welcome.
Price Range: Inexpensive

D'nnos Pizza

Address: For a list of all their locations see their web page.

Av. Dos de Mayo 790, San Isidro

Av. Comandante Espinar 408, Miraflores
Av. Benavides 1931, Miraflores
Phone: 219-0909 (Delivery). You can also order online.
Web page: www.pizza.com.pe
Description:

This is a Peruvian chain of pizzerias. with small restaurants located in the main districts of Lima. You can eat in the restaurants, order to go or ask for delivery (most common).

If you are a meat lover then the Taipa, Carnívora or Bestia are for you, otherwise the Vegetariana, Mediterránea or Margarita are you options. They have more than 20 different varietues of pizza from where to mix and order.
Price Range: Moderate
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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

La Calesa

Address: Manuel Bañón 255, San Isidro
Phone: 440-5568, 441-4192
Web page:
Description:

This is a comfortable restaurant and bar that offers criollo and international dishes but it is best known for its bar. Samuel Díaz (Sammy), its barman with more than 35 years experience, is well known among pisco sour fans because he prepares one of the best pisco sours in Lima. The restaurant now has a second bar where you can find Sammy´s son. They close around midnight, so go early in order to have time to enjoy your drinks.
Price Range: Moderate
Peruvian Restaurants

Maury and Salón de los Espejos

Address:
Jr. Ucayali 201 - 217, Cercado

Phone:
428-8188, 428-3185, 428-8174

Web page:
http://ekeko2.rcp.net.pe/hotelmaury/

Description:
Hotel Maury is an old historic hotel located in downtown Lima, very close to the Plaza de Armas (Main Plaza), includes in its facilities the Salón de los Espejos Restaurant and the Maury Bar.

Salón de los Espejos is a restaurant that offers criollo, international and chifa dishes. On Fridays they have a criollo buffet.

Maury is a pretty famous bar because, according to urban legend, here the Pisco Sour was created many years ago by its barman Graciano Cabrera T. You can order a simple, double or catedral (really big and tall glass) Pisco Sour.

Price Range: Moderate to expensive.
Peruvian Restaurants

Puno Market

Address: Jr. Walkuski 165, Cercado
Phone: 330-1801
Web page:
Description: This is a small restaurant and kind of a deli market that sells Andean products like cheese, quinua, kiwicha, kañiwa, chuño, canned trout, among others. They offer empanadas, sandwiches and sodas. On weekends they have salteñas and cancacho (roasted pork or lamb macerated in ají - red chili pepper - and oil).
Price Range: Inexpensive
Peruvian Restaurants

La Casa del Pisco

Address: Germán Schreiber 144, San Isidro
Phone: 440-5272, 9954-2562, 9933-4200
Web page: www.lacasadelpisco.org
Description:
This restaurant opens at lunch time and offers criollo dishes like tacu tacu, lomo saltado, seco and adobo.
On Friday nights it opens as a bar and peña criolla where you can enjoy a criollo show (live criollo music and poetry) while drinking pisco prepared in several ways. If you order Golpe Criollo (kind of a stylish version of a res) you will get a jar of pisco, another one of soda, some lemon juice, syrup and ice in order for you to prepare your own Chilcanos (see Pisco).
Price Range: Inexpensive to moderate
Peruvian Restaurants

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
Peruvian Restaurants

T´anta

Address:
Pancho Fierro 117, San Isidro
Prolongacion Primavera 692, Chacarilla, Surco
Av. 28 de Julio 888, Miraflores
Pasaje Nicolás de Rivera el Viejo 142-148, Cercado
Phone:
421-9708 (San Isidro)
372-3528 (Surco)
447-8377 (Miraflores)
428-3115 (Cercado)
Web page:
Description:
This is another endeavor of Gastón Acurio, currently most renown Peruvian chef, and his wife Astrid Gutsche . The place is not easy to define, it is a mix of an upscale cafe, bistro and deli market. Here you can find the best national and foreign oils, sauces, breads and culinary delights, as well as cookbooks. It is decorated in a modern and casual style with lots of glass and windows.
In T´anta (which means bread in Quechua) you can have a light meal consisting in tapas, salads, empanadas, or sánguches (Peruvian sandwiches) or desserts, which are inspiration of Astrid and are very good. If you are in the mood for something bigger you can go for a main course and have some Peruvian traditional dishes presented in innovative ways.
Price Range: Moderate to expensive
Peruvian Restaurants

Antigua Taberna Queirolo

Address: Av. San Martín 1090, Pueblo Libre
Phone: 460-0441
Web page: antiguatabernaqueirolo.com
Description: Very old and traditional restaurant and tavern. Opened in 1880, it is located in the heart of the historic downtown of Pueblo libre. Although they offer seafood and criollo dishes like cebiches, escabeches, rocoto relleno (stuffed hot chili pepper), cau cau (stew of beef tripe and potatoes) and tamales, they are probably better known because of their sandwiches and drinks. You can get roasted pork, ham and cheese sandwiches.
They sell their own wines and Pisco (Santiago Queirolo). You can order a pisco sour, a chilcano or even a res, i.e. a whole bottle of pisco, soda (ginger ale), lemon, plenty of ice and some syrup, in order for you to prepare your own chilcanos (see Pisco).
Price Range: Inexpensive
Peruvian Restaurants

Empanadas Paulistas

Address: Chinchón 944 Tda. 128, San Isidro
Phone: 440-1945, 9812-5499
Web page: www.empanadaspaulistas.com
Description: This is a small restaurant located inside a commercial gallery right in the heart of the financial district of San Isidro and you can access the gallery from Chinchón, Rivera Navarrete and Juan de Arona streets. It offers a good variety of empanadas. Among their specialties they have lomito, rodizio, chicken, choricao (sausage), feijao (beans and sausage), ham and cheese, seafood, veggie, oriental, etc. Since they are kind of small, you will need at least two of them to curb your craving. These empanadas were inspired on Brazilian rodizio and Peruvian empanadas and sauces. They have delivery service.
Price Range: Inexpensive
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La Casa de la Empanada y D´Sandwich

Address:
Av. Rivera Navarrete 841, San Isidro
Húsares de Junín 295, Jesús María
Santa Elena Norte 104, Surco
Phone: 425-0107
Web page:
Description: Chain of small restaurants especialized on serving empanadas and sandwiches. They offer many different and innovative types of empanadas, baked and fried, with classic stuffings and some other with stuffings inspired on the traditional Peruvian cuisine. They also offer traditonal sadwiches and breakfast combos.
Price Range: Inexpensive
Peruvian Restaurants

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