RESTAURANTS IN CUZCO

MAP Café

Address: Casa Cabrera, Plaza Nazarenas 231
Telephone: 084-242476
Web site: http://www.cuscorestaurants.com/mapcafe_eng.htm
Description: MAP Café offers very fine Peruvian cooking with a mix of Andean and modern tastes. It is said to be one of the best restaurants in Peru. Its location inside the Pre-Columbian Art Museum gives the restaurant a sophisticated atmosphere where you can enjoy two kinds of arts at the same time.

Incanto

Address: Santa Catalina Angosta 135
Telephone: (51-84) 254 753
Web site: http://www.cuscorestaurants.com/incanto_eng.htm
E-mail: Incanto@cuscorestaurants.com
Description: Incanto is situated by the Main Square of Cuzco in an old Inca Palace. The restaurant offers a varied menu with more than 80 dishes of Italian food and specialities from the grill, prepared with a Peruvian touch. You can also choose among a lot of different wines from all over the world.   

Greens

Address: Santa Catalina Angosta 135
Telephone: 084/243-579
Web site: http://www.cuscorestaurants.com/greens_eng.htm
Description: Greens is a Peruvian-British restaurant that is very cosy. It has two rooms with green walls, art, sofas and music, and it offers many international dishes. You can enjoy chicken, pasta, steaks, but also Andean specialities such as Alpaca steak with sauco (blueberries).

Cava de San Rafael

Address: Santa Catalina Ancha 370
Telephone: 51-84-261-691
E-mail: cavadesanrafael@infonegocio.net.pe
Description: Cava de San Rafael serves Andean food in a modern way, with a wonderful view of Plaza del Armas in Cuzco outside the window. The restaurant has a very good reputation and is on the itinerary of most first class tours.

La Cicciolina

Address: Calle Triunfo 393 2nd floor
Telephone: 084-239510
Web site: http://www.cicciolinacuzco.com/
Description: La Cicciolina is a very good restaurant with a cosy atmosphere. The menu offers tasty Mediterranean food. Before you have your dinner you can spend time in the bar with a drink and tapas, making your choice from the wine list.

A Mi Manera

Address: Calle Triunfo N° 393 Cusco – Perú
Telephone: +51 84 222219
Web site: http://www.amimaneraperu.com/en/
E-mail: info@amimaneraperu.com/en/
Description: A mi manera is a small restaurant that you enter through a colonial courtyard. On the menu you find Andean specialities served with different vegetables. Why not try the oven-baked cuy (guinea pig), a delicacy in the Andes. Here you can also go for an early breakfast before exploring Cuzco.

Quinta Eulalia

Address: Choquechaca 384, Cusco
Telephone: 084/234-495
Description: Quinta Eulalia is a genuine semi-open air restaurant with a tradition of serving food since 1941. Here you can try specialties like cuy, trucha (trout) or chicharrones (fried pork and cabbage), prepared in different ways.

Fallen Angel

Address: Plazoleta Nazarenas 221
Telephone: 084-258184
Web site: http://www.fallenangelincusco.com/
Description: Fallen Angel is furnished in a surrealistic modern way and decorated in a different style. Here you can have a drink in the bar, sit and talk in the lounge or have a dinner in the restaurant. They offer steaks and pastas with a taste of the Andes.

Pacha Papa

Address: Plazoleta San Blas 120
Telephone: 084-241318
Web site: http://www.cuscorestaurants.com/pachapapa.htm
Description: Pacha Papa serves Andean food with a European influence and is located inside an old colonial house. You can see the adobe oven in the patio when they prepare your food, maybe cuy, chancho (pork), or pachamanca, a traditional dish where they cook the meat and vegetables in a hole in the ground filled with hot stones, covered with aromatic leaves. For a pachamanca you need to be at least 12 persons and make a reservation before.

Inka Grill

Address: Portal de panes 115 Plaza de Armas
Telephone: 084-262992
Web site: http://www.inkagrillcusco.com/
Description: Inka Grill is conveniently located right next to Plaza de Armas. In this restaurant you can enjoy delicious cooking as well as enjoying a beautiful view of the plaza´s two ancient churches. The Inka Grill offers the best of international Criollo and Neveau Andino Cuisine and is open from 11 am every day. It is decorated with an artistic selection of rustic Inka pottery, weavings and a beautiful collection of Andean flavours and styles, ensuring that your experience will be an exceptional one.

Tunupa

Address: Portal Confituría 233 - 2º piso, Plaza de Armas
Telephone: 084 2529362
Web site: http://www.tunupa.com.pe/restaurantescusco.htm
Description: Tunupa is very popular among tour groups so it is best to make a reservation before. Try a combination of different Andean specialities from a huge buffet that also includes Thai and Japanese dishes, and finish your meal with some of the delicious desserts.

Restaurante Illary (Hotel Monasterio)

Address: Plaza Nazarenas
Telephone: 084/243-820
Web site: http://www.monasterio.orient-express.com/web/ocus/ocus_dining_illariy.jsp
Description: Restaurante Illary is situated by the Main Patio and it serves you Peruvian and International dishes in a warm atmosphere.

El Truco

Address: Plaza Regocijo 261
Telephone: 084/232-441
Web site: http://restauranteltruco.com/restauranteing.html
Description: El Truco is located in a 17th century mansion and has an attractive colonial interior. It offers good Peruvian cuisine and every night it becomes a lively peña with a show of música criolla 8:30-10:30pm. The restaurant has been around for over 40 years and is virtually an institution. It offers a daily lunch menu but at night only a la carte. Good choices are the roasted pork and lamb, tamales, and rocoto relleno.

Granja Heidi

Address: Cuesta San Blas 5256
Telephone: 084/238-383
Description: Granja Heidi is an easygoing restaurant in the San Blas area with an emphasis on healthy, good-value meals. The breakfast is especially delicious. It is run by a German woman who has a farm with the same name outside of Cuzco so the restaurant offers fresh ingredients and products such as yogurt, cheese, and quiches. There are also meat dishes as well as comida criolla. Among the desserts you should try the cheesecake or the exquisite “Nelson Mandela” chocolate cake.

Kusikuy

Address: Suecia 339
Telephone: 084/262-870
Description: Kusikuy is Quechua for “happy little guinea pig” so cuy al horno is, of course, the house specialty. The rest of the menu offers international food such as pastas, chicken, and meat. It also serves a good-value lunch menu.

La Retama

Address: Portal de Panes 123
Telephone: 084/226-372
Description: La Retama overlooks the Plaza de Armas and the menu focuses on classic highland diches such as pink trout and kingfish from Lake Titicaca, seco de cordero (lamb), anticucho de lomo (beef brochette), cuy, and ceviche de trucha. It also serves international dishes and the restaurant´s walls are filled with arts and handicrafts of Peru.

Don Esteban & Don Pacho

Address: Portal Espinar 144
Telephone: 084/243-629
Description: Don Esteban & Don Pancho is a chic new addition to Cuzco´s dining scene. It is a modern little restaurant and “pisco bar” that serves classic Peruvian dishes from the highlands and the coast. Nice options are chupe, tiradito, ceviche, tacu-tacu, ají de gallina, and carapulcra tradicional.

Macondo

Address: Cuesta San Blas 571
Telephone: 084/229-415
Description: Macondo is a hip café/bar that looks more like an artsy coffeehouse than a restaurant. The cooking, like the décor, is modern and funky and has a laid-back tropical theme. It fits in well in the bohemian neighborhood of San Blas and it serves a variety of cocktails (with two daily happy hours). The place is gay-friendly and the owners also operate the restaurant Fallen Angel (see above).

Quinta Zárate

Address: Totora Paccha 763
Telephone: 084/245-114
Description: Quinta Zárate is located at the eastern end of town and is a relaxed place with a lovely garden with great views of the Cuzco valley. The portions are very large and the trout is a specialty; try the ceviche de trucha for example.

Al Grano

Address: Santa Catalina Ancha 398
Telephone: 084/228-032
Description: Al Grano is a quiet corner café decorated with Andean textiles and Inca stonework. It offers food from Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; such as chutneys, vegetarian curries, and lamb in spices and yogurts. The dishes are pretty mild. There is a very good-value daily menu and the café also offers good desserts, coffee and tea.

Chez Maggy

Address: Plateros 348
Telephone: 084/234-861
Description: Chez Maggy has been around for almost 30 years and offers a bit of everything; from alpaca and trout to Mexican food. However, it is most famous for its great pizzas baked in a traditional wood-burning brick oven. It is very popular among travelers and often street musicians enter the restaurant to entertain the guests. It is possible to get free delivery to your hotel.

Pucara

Address: Plateros 309
Telephone: 084/222-027
Description: Pucara is located just off Plaza de Armas and offers very good-value meals; both traditional comida criolla and international dishes. It is very popular among tourists. Make sure you try the tasty lomo saltado, one of the various soups, or the whitefish preparations.