Which neighborhoods are these tasting menus in?

These tasting menus are in Miraflores, Barranco, and San Isidro. Maido, Mayta, La Niña, and Xoma are in Miraflores. Central Restaurante, Mérito, and Kjolle are in Barranco. Astrid & Gastón and Sapiens are in San Isidro. Each restaurant here is in one of those three neighborhoods.

Which of these tasting menus have the strongest wine lists?

Maido in Miraflores has the exceptional wine program on this tasting-menu list, with an extensive list and a sake program. La Niña in Miraflores and Sapiens in San Isidro each hold a Star Wine List. Astrid & Gastón in San Isidro has an extensive wine list with sommelier-led service. Central Restaurante, Kjolle, and Mérito in Barranco, and Mayta in Miraflores, also have extensive wine lists.

Which tasting menus are on the World's 50 Best list?

Maido in Miraflores, Kjolle and Mérito in Barranco, and Mayta in Miraflores are on the World's 50 Best list for 2025: Maido first, Kjolle ninth, Mérito 26th, and Mayta 39th. Central Restaurante in Barranco was first in 2023. Astrid & Gastón in San Isidro last held a place on that list in 2018.

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Best Tasting Menus in Lima

The tasting-menu list in our Lima guide has nine restaurants, in Miraflores, Barranco, and San Isidro. Maido in Miraflores holds the 2025 World's Best Restaurant title. The cooking is Nikkei, Japanese technique with Peruvian ingredients, and the wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list and sake. Central Restaurante in Barranco arranges its menu by altitude, with ingredients from Mater Iniciativa, and held the World's Best Restaurant title in 2023.

Kjolle in Barranco is chef Pía León's menu from Peru's ingredients. Mérito in Barranco cooks Venezuelan-Peruvian food with an extensive wine list. Mayta in Miraflores serves a modern Peruvian tasting menu built from regional ingredients. Astrid & Gastón in San Isidro serves its menu in the Casa Moreyra hacienda, with sommelier-led service. Sapiens in San Isidro and La Niña in Miraflores each hold a Star Wine List. Xoma in Miraflores serves a tasting menu with craft cocktails.

How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.

Astrid & Gastón
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.
Central Restaurante
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.
Kjolle
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.
La Niña
La Niña is an eclectic bistro in Miraflores, Lima, accredited with three stars by the World of Fine Wine Awards. Since relocating and expanding in early 2023, the venue has sharpened its identity around a serious wine cellar and a full cocktail program. It sits in a different register from Lima's high-concept tasting-menu circuit, offering a more sociable, wine-forward dining format in a neighbourhood with many ambition.
Maido
Deep wine list
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.
Mayta
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.
Mérito
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.
Sapiens
At Sapiens in San Isidro, open fire and vegetable-forward cooking form the structural logic of the menu, with grilled produce sitting alongside house-cured charcuterie including alpaca salami and duck prosciutto. Chef Jaime Pesaque frames the kitchen around Peruvian roots, using live-fire technique to draw out depth in ingredients that tasting-menu formats often treat as supporting acts.
Xoma
In Miraflores, Lima's most concentrated dining district, Xoma operates at the intersection of architectural considered design and creative Peruvian cooking. Chef Ralf Zuniga frames the menu around emotion, color, and innovation, placing the restaurant in the emerging tier of modern Lima tables that We're Smart has flagged for closer attention. The address on Elías Aguirre puts it within walking distance of the neighborhood's leading restaurants.

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Which neighborhoods are these tasting menus in?: These tasting menus are in Miraflores, Barranco, and San Isidro. Maido, Mayta, La Niña, and Xoma are in Miraflores. Central Restaurante, Mérito, and Kjolle are in Barranco. Astrid & Gastón and Sapiens are in San Isidro. Each restaurant here is in one of those three neighborhoods.
Which of these tasting menus have the strongest wine lists?: Maido in Miraflores has the exceptional wine program on this tasting-menu list, with an extensive list and a sake program. La Niña in Miraflores and Sapiens in San Isidro each hold a Star Wine List. Astrid & Gastón in San Isidro has an extensive wine list with sommelier-led service. Central Restaurante, Kjolle, and Mérito in Barranco, and Mayta in Miraflores, also have extensive wine lists.
Which tasting menus are on the World's 50 Best list?: Maido in Miraflores, Kjolle and Mérito in Barranco, and Mayta in Miraflores are on the World's 50 Best list for 2025: Maido first, Kjolle ninth, Mérito 26th, and Mayta 39th. Central Restaurante in Barranco was first in 2023. Astrid & Gastón in San Isidro last held a place on that list in 2018.