Cocktail bars, wine bars, dive bars and gastropubs: drinking in Lima for grown-ups.
10 places
Order The Carnaval signature, plus a pisco-base off the special menu.
Carnaval at Av Pardo y Aliaga 662 in San Isidro Lima is the Peruvian temple cocktail bar founded 2018, an Ice Room programme and 70 cocktail menu.
Order The signature White Lady and Bee's Knees riffs, paired with the seasonal snack flight.
Lady Bee at Av Pedro de Osma 205 in Barranco Lima is the husband-and-wife bar at No.13 on World's 50 Best Bars 2025, the Michter's Art of Hospitality winner.
Order A pisco sour and a flight of the house herbal pisco macerados.
Ayahuasca at Av San Martin 130 in Barranco Lima is the cocktail bar housed in a restored 1875 republican casona, a reference point for pisco macerados.
Order A pisco sour and the butifarra de jamon del pais, eaten at the marble bar.
Bar Cordano at Jiron Carabaya 103 in Centro Historico Lima is the 1905 cantina founded by Italian Cordano brothers, facing the Palacio de Gobierno.
Order The Country Club pisco sour, often cited as Lima's best, with a butifarra to share.
Bar Ingles at Calle Los Eucaliptos 590 in San Isidro Lima is the Country Club Lima Hotel's near-century-old wood-panelled bar, the canonical pisco sour pour.
Order A flight of BarBarian core beers, plus a viking-hat burger that uses one of their ales in the build.
BarBarian at Calle Manuel Bonilla 108 in Miraflores Lima is one of Peru's first craft brewpubs since 2010, 25 rotating taps including the BarBarian Red Ale.
Order Flight of the Nuevo Mundo flagships plus a craft pizzeta to share.
Nuevo Mundo Draft Bar at Av Larco 421 in Miraflores is the city taproom of the 2013 Surquillo craft brewery, six flagship beers and brewer specials.
Order A chilcano of pisco Queirolo and a chicharron sandwich, both at the marble bar.
Antigua Taberna Queirolo at Av San Martin 1090 in Pueblo Libre is Lima's 1880 Queirolo pisco-bodega cantina, chicharron and chilcano served daily.
Drink Pisco sour and chicha morada at the cantina bar
El Bolivariano at Pasaje Santa Rosa 291 in Pueblo Libre is Lima's republican-casona cantina, pisco sours and anticucho piqueos with criolla music.
Order A pisco sour at sunset, then a chilcano de maracuya as the DJ takes over the terrace.
Cala at Playa Barranquito Costa Verde Barranco is Lima's beachfront cocktail terrace, a lounge over the Pacific with DJ programme past midnight Fri-Sat.
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