Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Lima from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Lima
Central Restaurante, Kjolle, and Mérito in Barranco, and Mayta in Miraflores, each serve a tasting menu. Kjolle, Mérito, and Mayta hold World's 50 Best rankings in 2025.
Central Restaurante in Barranco serves a tasting menu and a prix fixe. The menu is arranged by altitude across Peruvian ecosystems, with ingredients sourced by Mater Iniciativa and utensils made by local artists. The wine list is extensive, and it pours craft cocktails. World's 50 Best ranked it first in 2023.
Kjolle in Barranco is the sister restaurant to Central Restaurante. Chef Pía León, named World's Best Female Chef, runs a tasting menu and an a la carte list from Peru's ingredients. The wine program has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. World's 50 Best ranked Kjolle ninth in 2025.
Mérito in Barranco is chef Juan Luis Martinez's restaurant, with kitchen counter seating. The cooking is Venezuelan-Peruvian, served as a tasting menu, a la carte, and small plates. The wine program has an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. World's 50 Best ranked Mérito 26th in 2025.
Mayta in Miraflores serves a contemporary Peruvian tasting menu and an a la carte list. The list is extensive. Chef Jaime Pesaque builds the menu around regional ingredients, including Amazonian fish and Andean algae. A plant-based menu earned five radishes from We're Smart in 2025.
Our guide counts one exceptional wine program and one Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in Lima citywide. Maido, Maras, La Niña, and Astrid & Gastón are the restaurants behind the lists in this section.
Maido in Miraflores holds the only exceptional wine program in our guide. The list is extensive and the restaurant also runs a sake program, next to Nikkei cooking from chef Mitsuharu Tsumura. The menu is a tasting menu and a la carte. World's 50 Best named Maido the best restaurant in 2025.
Maras in San Isidro holds the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2026, and a Star Wine List the same year. The wine program is extensive: 205 selections and an inventory of 460 bottles, guided by head sommelier Julián Oliva. Modern Peruvian cooking is served a la carte inside The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center.
La Niña in Miraflores serves a seasonal Peruvian tasting menu and small plates. The list is extensive. It holds a Star Wine List for 2026 and a World's Best Wine Lists Awards WBWL 3-Star from 2022. The room also runs a cocktail program.
Astrid & Gastón in San Isidro serves contemporary Peruvian cooking as a tasting menu and a la carte, in the Casa Moreyra hacienda. The list is extensive, and service is sommelier-led. World's 50 Best ranked the restaurant 39th in 2018.
Lady Bee, Sastrería Martínez, and Carnaval hold World's 50 Best Bars rankings. Curador in Miraflores is a wine bar with a Star Wine List.
Lady Bee in Barranco is a cocktail bar and eatery with small plates and a la carte, and a wine list that is sommelier-led. Seasonal drinks use Peru's regional ingredients. Chef Gabriela León leads the kitchen. World's 50 Best Bars ranked Lady Bee 13th in 2025.
Sastrería Martínez in Miraflores is a speakeasy behind a tailor shop. Cocktails use Peruvian ingredients from the coast, the sierra, and the jungle, and the list includes classic cocktails, craft cocktails, and non-alcoholic drinks. World's 50 Best Bars ranked it 33rd in 2025.
Carnaval in San Isidro is a cocktail bar with its own Ice Room and theatrical drinks, run by Aaron Diaz. The format is a la carte, small plates, and counter dining, with craft cocktails and non-alcoholic drinks. World's 50 Best Bars ranked Carnaval 69th in 2024.
Curador in Miraflores is a wine bar pouring a selection of wines from around the world, by the glass. It holds a Star Wine List for 2026. The kitchen serves pizzas, sharing plates, cheeses, and charcuterie in a historic house.
Serious wine lists in our guide sit in Miraflores and San Isidro. Maido in Miraflores holds the only exceptional wine program. La Niña, Curador, and La Mar Cebicheria, all in Miraflores, hold Star Wine List awards. Maras in San Isidro holds the only Wine Spectator Award of Excellence citywide. Sapiens in San Isidro holds a Star Wine List, and Astrid & Gastón in San Isidro has a sommelier-led extensive list.
Maido and Mayta in Miraflores, Central Restaurante, Kjolle, and Mérito in Barranco, and Astrid & Gastón in San Isidro hold World's 50 Best restaurant placements in our guide. Maido is first for 2025. Kjolle, Mérito, and Mayta hold placements in that same year, Central Restaurante was first in 2023, and Astrid & Gastón's latest placement is from 2018.
Tasting menus in our guide are in Miraflores, Barranco, and San Isidro. Maido, Mayta, La Niña, and Xoma in Miraflores serve a tasting menu. Central Restaurante, Kjolle, and Mérito in Barranco serve a tasting menu as well. Astrid & Gastón and Sapiens in San Isidro also serve a tasting menu.
Maras in San Isidro holds the only Wine Spectator award in our guide, an Award of Excellence for 2025 and 2026. The restaurant's wine program is extensive, with 205 selections, and head sommelier Julián Oliva guides the list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Named The World's Best Restaurant 2025 by the 50 Best organisation, Maido occupies a specific position in Lima's dining scene: the city's clearest expression of Nikkei cuisine, where Japanese technique meets Peruvian ingredient with precision and seasonal intent. Chef Mitsuharu Tsumura has built a decade-and-a-half of credential around this intersection, earning consecutive top-ten rankings and a loyal international following from a Miraflores address on Calle San Martín.
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Central occupies a converted house in Barranco, Lima's bohemian coastal district, and has held the number-one position on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list (2023). The tasting menu moves through Peruvian ecosystems by altitude, ocean floor to high Andes, using ingredients sourced by the research collective Mater Iniciativa. For serious diners visiting Lima, it represents the clearest single-table argument for Peru's biodiversity as a culinary framework.
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In Barranco, Lima's most creatively charged neighbourhood, Mérito has built a serious reputation by threading Venezuelan culinary memory through Peruvian ingredients and technique. Ranked #55 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2024 and #6 in South America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, the two-floor restaurant on Jr. 28 de Julio draws both local regulars and informed international visitors. The chef's counter remains especially coveted seat in the house.
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Kjolle sits in Barranco's Casa Tupac, where Pía León, named World's Best Female Chef and the chef behind Central's rise, runs a tasting menu built entirely from Peru's ingredient treasury. Ranked #16 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2024 and #5 in South America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, the restaurant applies months of research to each ingredient without obscuring what it is. Open Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner.
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Ranked #41 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2024, Mayta has been among Lima's most consistent modern Peruvian addresses since relocating and relaunching in 2018. Chef Jaime Pesaque structures the menu around Peru's regional biodiversity, from Amazonian fish to Andean algae, across a nine-course tasting format and a parallel plant-based programme that earned a fifth radish in the We're Smart Green Guide.
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Set inside the 17th-century Casa Moreyra hacienda in San Isidro, Astrid & Gastón has held a place in the World's 50 Best Restaurants every year from 2011 to 2018, peaking at #14 in 2013 and 2015. Under chef Jorge Muñoz Castro, the restaurant runs a tasting format built around Peruvian biodiversity, with vegetables as a recurring editorial thread. Ranked #9 in South America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025.
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Rafael occupies an art-deco mansion on Calle San Martín in Miraflores, where chef Rafael Osterling has spent decades threading Peruvian ingredients through Italian and Japanese technique. Ranked on Opinionated About Dining's South America list consistently since 2023 and awarded 90 points by La Liste in 2025, it holds a steady position in Lima's upper tier of cosmopolitan modern Peruvian dining.
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La Mar Cebichería in Miraflores is Gastón Acurio's dedicated ceviche house, ranked #31 among South America's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2024. Open daily for lunch service, the Av. La Mar address has become a reference point for Peru's ceviche tradition, drawing on fresh seafood and combinations that range from the traditional to the vegetable-forward. Chef Anthony Vasquez leads the kitchen.
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Maras in Lima presents modern Peruvian cuisine with regional flair. Must-try dishes include Crispy Baby Octopus, Nikkei Tuna Tiradito, and Arapaima with mashed cassava and banana. The restaurant pairs seasonal plates with an expansive wine program, 205 selections and an inventory of 460 bottles, guided by Head Sommelier Julián Oliva. Located inside The Westin Lima Hotel & Convention Center, Maras offers a focused tasting menu and à la carte choices that highlight coastal seafood, Amazonian produce, and Andean roots. Recognized with Tripadvisor's Travellers' Choice 2025, the dining room delivers attentive, knowledgeable service and a warm, inviting atmosphere ideal for celebratory dinners and business meals. Reserve via SevenRooms.
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Isolina Taberna Peruana in Barranco brings traditional Peruvian home cooking to a serious dining context, with consistent recognition from La Liste and Opinionated About Dining since 2023. Chef José del Castillo draws on the deep pantry of Lima's mercado culture to produce dishes rooted in generational technique. Open seven days a week, it occupies a distinct position among Lima's mid-to-upper tier restaurants as a counterpoint to the city's modernist wave.
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Flama brings Neapolitan pizza tradition to Miraflores with disciplinary-code dough, classic toppings, and fresh pasta alongside a well-assembled cured meats and cocktail selection. The room carries warm wood tones and an elegantly casual character that sits apart from Lima's Peruvian-centric dining scene. Chefs Juan Carlos Romero, Daniel Vergara, and Daniel Ramirez lead the kitchen.
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OSSO Carniceria operates at the intersection of butcher shop and restaurant in San Isidro, where Chef Renzo Garibaldi has built a programme around dry-aged cuts and wood-fired cooking that Opinionated About Dining has ranked among South America's top restaurants in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The format is meat-forward and intentional: produce quality, butchery craft, and fire are the three load-bearing elements.
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Fiesta Lima brings four decades of northern Peruvian culinary mastery to Miraflores, where Chef Héctor Solís transforms Chiclayo traditions into refined dining experiences featuring signature Arroz con Pato, notable ceviche, and rare loche squash preparations unavailable elsewhere in the capital.
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Osaka in Lima's San Isidro district sits at the intersection of Peruvian produce culture and Japanese culinary discipline, representing the Nikkei tradition that has shaped Lima's dining identity for over a century. Located on Avenida Felipe Pardo y Aliaga, it operates in a neighbourhood that concentrates several of Lima's most serious dining rooms, making it a natural reference point for visitors mapping the city's Japanese-Peruvian cooking scene.
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On a residential stretch of Miraflores, Anticuchos Grimanesa has built a reputation around a single ingredient and the charcoal smoke that transforms it. Ranked 45th in the 2025 Opinionated About Dining South America list, this is street food refined to a serious address, where anticuchos, Peru's grilled beef heart skewers, are the reason Lima's food community keeps returning.
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A plant-based kitchen in Miraflores that draws on Peruvian, Japanese, Thai, and American influences to produce hearty, flavor-driven food without any fine-dining pretension. Recognized by the We're Smart Green Guide for proving that impact doesn't require white tablecloths or tasting menus. Find it on Av. Petit Thouars in the heart of Miraflores.
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Chifa TITI is Lima chifa seen through heat, timing, and Cantonese-Peruvian continuity rather than fusion shorthand. Its 2026 Opinionated About Dining ranking at No. 81 in South America gives it a useful marker in a city better known internationally for cevicherías, picanterías, and tasting-menu Peruvian restaurants.
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Clon occupies a compact space on Avenida Almirante Grau in Barranco, where Venezuelan chef Juan Luis Martínez folds high-end Peruvian ingredients into a menu shaped by his South American roots. Recognised by the We're Smart Green Guide team for its vegetable-forward creativity, this is the third restaurant from Martínez and the one that most clearly defines his direction.
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Costanera 700 sits within Miraflores' tightly competitive seafood circuit, drawing consistent recognition from La Liste (76 points, 2025) and a Star Wine List White Star.
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Demo is a Lima café entry that makes sense within the city’s broader daytime dining culture rather than as a trophy booking. With Juan Luis Martinez attached, the editorial interest lies in how a chef-led café can read against Peru’s ingredient-driven cooking without borrowing the language of a formal tasting-menu room.
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On Miraflores' busiest dining street, Don Nico positions itself within Lima's small but serious steakhouse tier, sourcing premium Aberdeen Angus from the US and applying Argentine-style flame-grilling to the cut. The address on Avenida Mariscal La Mar places it at the intersection of neighbourhood foot traffic and destination dining, making it a practical choice for carnivores working through Lima's broader restaurant scene.
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Perched on the clifftops of Miraflores above the Pacific, this Belmond all-suite property scored 93.5 points in the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking. The 87 suites range from 484-square-foot Junior Suites to Presidential Pool Suites with ocean-view plunge pools and butler service. Tragaluz restaurant, the rooftop infinity pool, and pisco sour masterclasses make it a credible base for serious Lima itineraries.
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A nine-room hotelito in Miraflores, Atemporal occupies a 1940s Tudor-style mansion on Calle Santa María and operates on a guests-only basis, making it one of Lima's most private small hotels. Rates from $336 per night include breakfast and 24-hour room service sourced from local suppliers, plus complimentary bicycles and a house car with private chauffeur. The surrounding neighbourhood puts Astrid y Gastón and Osaka within walking distance.
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Built in 1927 and protected as a Lima heritage monument, Country Club Lima Hotel occupies a considered position among San Isidro's established luxury addresses. Its 83 rooms and suites carry original artwork from the Pedro de Osma Museum, while Perroquet restaurant and the Bar Inglés serve as anchors of the hotel's social life. A La Liste 2026 score of 91 points and Leading Hotels of the World membership confirm its place in the upper tier of Lima accommodation.
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A restored 1914 Belle Époque mansion on Barranco's seafront corner, Hotel B occupies one of Lima's most architecturally arresting addresses. The rooftop Sundowner Deck, a curated Latin American art collection, and a gourmet Peruvian restaurant complete the picture.
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Nhow Lima occupies a Miraflores address on Calle Atahualpa, placing it within walking distance of the district's clifftop parks and restaurant corridor. The property positions itself at the intersection of pre-Columbian heritage and contemporary hotel design, a combination that has become the dominant mode for Lima's upper-mid and luxury hotel tier. Travellers routing through Lima before onward connections to Cusco or the Sacred Valley will find the location practical and the aesthetic considered.
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Named Peru's Leading Boutique Hotel at the 2025 World Travel Awards, Belmond Las Casitas occupies twenty private casitas across terraced grounds above the Colca Canyon, one of the deepest canyons on earth. The all-inclusive format pairs canyon trekking, condor watching, and hot spring bathing with a culinary program built around locally sourced ingredients and high-altitude gardens. Entry starts at $490 per night.
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Carrying a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction, fausto occupies a considered position in Lima's hotel offer at Av. de la Aviación 316. The property sits within reach of San Isidro and Miraflores, two districts that anchor the city's most concentrated dining and cultural activity. For travellers building an itinerary around Peru's food reputation, fausto provides a credentialled base with access to both neighbourhoods.
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Carrying a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025, Hyatt Centric San Isidro Lima positions itself within San Isidro's established business and leisure corridor, where financial-district polish meets proximity to Lima's most serious dining addresses. For travellers arriving during Lima's grey-sky winter months, when the city's coastal mist settles in, the property offers a composed urban base with the neighbourhood's walkable restaurant culture directly outside.
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Positioned on a clifftop above the Pacific in Miraflores, JW Marriott Hotel Lima occupies one of Lima's most geographically commanding addresses. The hotel earned recognition on the Star Wine List (2026), signalling a beverage program that sits above the standard for large-format international properties. For travellers combining Lima's dining scene with genuine Atlantic-facing rest, the address delivers on both fronts.
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Manto Lima, part of the MGallery collection and carrying a 2025 MICHELIN Selected designation, occupies a quiet address in Lima's San Isidro district. The property positions itself in a tier of design-conscious boutique hotels that trade scale for atmosphere, making it a considered option for travelers who treat the stay itself as part of the itinerary.
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Pullman Lima Miraflores carries a MICHELIN Selected distinction for 2025, placing it among a small tier of Lima hotels that meet the guide's baseline of quality and comfort. Located on Calle Juan Fanning in one of Lima's most established residential and hospitality districts, it operates as a full-service international property within the Accor group, suited to both business travelers and those using the city as a gateway to Peru's wider circuit.
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Pullman Lima San Isidro sits on Av. Jorge Basadre Grohmann in Lima's most composed financial district, carrying a 2025 Michelin Selected designation that places it within the city's editorially recognised hotel tier. The property operates in the international full-service bracket, positioned for travellers who want San Isidro's structural calm alongside a brand infrastructure that scales from business stays to longer leisure itineraries.
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Crowne Plaza Lima by IHG sits at Av. Alfredo Benavides 300 in Miraflores, placing guests within walking distance of the district's clifftop parks, restaurant corridor, and coastal access. As part of IHG's upper-midscale brand, it offers the operational reliability of a global chain in one of Lima's most commercially active neighbourhoods, with the Larcomar shopping centre and Malecón seafront promenade close by.
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Iberostar Selection Miraflores belongs to Lima’s coastal hotel story: a Miraflores base for travellers who want the city’s restaurant circuit, Pacific-edge walking routes, and a contemporary high-rise setting rather than a historic mansion hotel.
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Meliá Collection Lima sits in a city where hotel dining competes with serious standalone restaurants, not just lobby convenience. With for price, awards, rooms, or restaurants, it is better read as a Lima hotel prospect to verify directly, especially if dining access, booking terms, and neighbourhood fit are central to the stay.
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In Barranco, Lima's most atmospheric neighbourhood for nightlife, Lady Bee operates at the intersection of serious cocktail craft and small-plate cooking. it occupies a specific tier in Lima's bar scene where the drinks program and the food arrive at equal weight. Chef Gabriela León leads the kitchen.
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Carnaval belongs to Lima’s serious cocktail conversation: a bar treated by Opinionated About Dining as part of the city’s dining culture rather than as an after-hours add-on. Aaron Diaz’s name gives the project a clear authorial line, but the larger point is Lima’s shift toward drinks programs with the structure, pacing, and recognition usually reserved for restaurants.
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Behind a working tailor shop on a Miraflores side street, Sastrería Martinez delivers Lima's most theatrically committed speakeasy entrance before revealing a full-service cocktail bar stocked with ingredients from Peru's highlands and Amazon basin. Ranked 460th on the 2025 Top 500 Bars list, it represents the city's growing confidence in bartending as a serious craft, with a drinks program that pulls from biomes most bars never consider.
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One of Lima's few dedicated wine bars, Curador occupies a low-key corner of Miraflores with a format built around personalised glass-by-glass curation. The approach is deliberately conversational: staff read the room and the drinker, then pour accordingly. In a city better known for pisco and cocktail theatre, Curador operates in a quieter, more considered register.
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Ranked 491st in the Top 500 Bars global list for 2025, Sayani operates out of Miraflores, Lima's most concentrated drinking district, at a tier where the competition is genuinely serious. The bar sits alongside a cohort of Lima venues that have pushed Peruvian cocktail culture onto the world stage, making it a reference point for anyone tracking South American bar craft at the highest level.
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Bar Inglés sits in San Isidro, Lima’s business-and-residential district, where the city’s cocktail culture often reads quieter than Miraflores or Barranco.
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Belo Bar sits on Malecón de la Reserva in Miraflores, placing it in Lima’s coastal drinking circuit rather than the colonial-centre hotel-bar tradition. Public venue data does not list awards, chef, price range, booking method, or signature drinks, so the useful read is contextual: use it as a Miraflores bar reference point within a city increasingly defined by serious back bars, pisco literacy, and destination cocktail rooms.
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Dédalo occupies a converted space in Barranco, Lima's arts-district neighbourhood, where the physical environment does as much work as anything on the menu. The address on Jirón Sáenz Peña places it within walking distance of the district's gallery circuit, and the crowd reflects that, local creatives, informed visitors, and the kind of regulars who treat the room as an extension of the neighbourhood itself.
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Peña Don Porfirio occupies a Barranco address that places it inside Lima's most concentrated drinking and live-music district. The format follows the classic peña tradition, a space where pisco, chicha, and live Afro-Peruvian and criollo performance converge on the same evening. For those tracing Lima's vernacular drinking culture, it sits on Manuel Segura 115 in the 15063 postcode.
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