Anticuchos are skewers of beef heart marinated in aji panca, garlic, cumin and red wine vinegar, grilled over coals and served with corn and boiled potato.
Anticuchos descend from the African enslaved communities of colonial Lima (1530s-1850s), who received the rejected beef-heart cuts and turned them into the city's signature street grill. Doña Grimanesa Vargas opened her Miraflores anticucho cart in 1974; the dish carries Lima's evening grill culture.
4 editor picks for Anticuchos in Lima, ranked by editorial score. All Lima signature dishes · Anticuchos across every city.
Grimanesa Vargas Anticuchos ★ 4.7
miraflores · Calle Ignacio Merino 466, Miraflores, Lima 15074
Grimanesa Vargas at Calle Ignacio Merino 466 in Miraflores Lima is dona Grimanesa Vargas's 50-year anticucho stand, now a fixed shop after starting as a cart.
Isolina ★ 4.6
barranco · Av San Martin 101, Barranco, Lima 15063
Isolina at Av San Martin 101 in Barranco is Jose del Castillo's 2015 criolla taberna, a tribute to his mother Isolina Vargas and her Lima home cooking.
Ayahuasca ★ 4.5
barranco · Av San Martin 130, Barranco, Lima 15063
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.
El Bolivariano ★ 4.3
pueblo-libre · Pasaje Santa Rosa 291, Pueblo Libre, Lima 15084
El Bolivariano in Pueblo Libre Lima is the criolla institution housed in a republican casona, tracing tradition to the 1780s with the canonical carta.