Bistros, trattorias and the everyday places where Lima actually eats.
Bistros, trattorias, taverns and neighbourhood rooms: the mid-tier places where Lima actually eats.
12 places
Order The ceviche clasico and a tiradito sequence, with chicha morada to drink.
La Mar at Av Mariscal La Mar 770 in Miraflores is Gaston Acurio's 2005 cevicheria, No.26 on Latin America's 50 Best 2025 and a Lima lunch institution.
Order The ceviche siete pecados (seven sins) and a jalea to share, with maracuya juice.
Pescados Capitales on Av Mariscal La Mar 1335 in Miraflores pioneered the cevicheria corridor, with a sin-named menu and sophisticated seafood program.
Order The ceviche mixto and a leche de tigre shot to chase it.
Punto Azul on Calle San Martin 595 in Miraflores is one of Lima's most popular cevicherias, fifteen years on the map serving daily generous ceviche plates.
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Order The ceviche with capers and avocado, plus a parihuela seafood soup for the table.
Canta Rana at Calle Genova 101 in Barranco is a 35-year cevicheria-huarique in the Lima neighborhood, the Sunday lunch standard for limeños in the know.
Order The ceviche of the day plus a tiradito; the gyoza fusion course is a sleeper.
El Mercado at Av Hipolito Unanue 203 in Miraflores is Rafael Osterling's daytime seafood room, a terrace cevicheria with gyoza, taco and curry bridges too.
Order The dim sum sequence at breakfast or the Peking duck for dinner.
Wa Lok at Jr. Paruro 878 in Barrio Chino is among the oldest chifa restaurants in Lima's Chinatown, with 100-plus Cantonese dishes and Peking duck nightly.
Order A dim sum tower plus arroz chaufa and the wantan frito, the chifa trinity.
Salon Capon at Jr. Paruro 819 in Barrio Chino is a Cantonese-Peruvian institution on Calle Capon in Lima, a multi-level chifa with a vast classic menu.
Order The lomo saltado is the canonical version; add a chaufa and a wantan frito.
Madam Tusan at Av Santa Cruz 859 in Miraflores is Gaston Acurio's chifa house, a celebration of Chinese-Peruvian cuisine in a dramatic dragon dining room.
Order The aji de gallina and the lomo saltado; finish with a suspiro limena.
El Bolivariano in Pueblo Libre Lima is the criolla institution housed in a republican casona, tracing tradition to the 1780s with the canonical carta.
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Order Lomo saltado with chaufa and a chicha morada; the anticucho de corazon is the appetiser.
Tanta at Malecon de la Reserva 610 in Miraflores is Gaston Acurio's casual Peruvian chain in Larcomar, the lomo saltado and ceviche carta over the Pacific.
Order Choritos a la chalaca and butifarra de jamon del pais with a chilcano of Queirolo pisco.
Antigua Taberna Queirolo at Av San Martin 1090 in Pueblo Libre is the 1880 Santiago Queirolo cantina, criolla snacks and a Lima pisco-bodega buffet daily.
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