Top Lima Dining Experiences

This hands-on culinary adventure is led by a professional chef. Learn to make beloved traditional dishes including lomo saltado (sauteed beef and vegetables on rice with French fries), causa Limeña (a terrine of seasoned mashed potato and other fillings), and chicha morada (a corn-based non-alcoholic beverage) in a relaxed atmosphere using traditional pots and techniques. Finally, enjoy the lunch or dinner that you helped create!

Go beyond the restaurants, and enjoy a more hands-on way to learn about Peruvian cuisine, thanks to this small-group cooking class in Lima. Hosted by a chef guide, learn to make a 4-course meal of traditional dishes—such as ceviche, causa, and lomo saltado—and practice your mixology skills with a pisco sour lesson. Then, sit down to savor your tasting-menu-style meal, and walk away with new culinary skills and insider knowledge.

The Café del Museo Larco, which is a well-known restaurant located at the Museo Larco in Lima, Peru. It offers a great dining experience with a beautiful setting, as it is located in the museum's lush gardens. The café serves a variety of dishes inspired by Peruvian and international cuisine, making it a popular spot for both locals and tourists visiting the museum. Enjoy your lunch with a select menu made of products of the different regions of Peru and have the chance to know Larco´s museum, one of the best museums in the world.

Casa Tambo is a unique and comfortable restaurant, where creole cooking is the house speciality, thus creating a singular ambience which combines dance, music and flavours. Casa Tambo restaurant offers a dinner with live shows that mix the main dances from different regions of Peru.

A well-known restaurant located in an unparalleled setting within the compound of 1,500 year-old adobe pyramid built by the original inhabitants of Lima. It is one of the citys greatest surprises, Pucllana was an important ceremonial and administrative location. Its magnificence was reflected by the configuration of a monumental architecture. The restaurant is handsomely designed in a rustic colonial style; enjoy your dinner indoors or out, but the best spot is without a doubt the covered terrace. The different dishes of the Huaca Pucllana restaurant is made by local products of the best available quality, the menu is creative Peruvian, with fusion touches spicing up classic criollo cooking.

A well-known restaurant located in an unparalleled setting within the compound of 1,500 year-old adobe pyramid built by the original inhabitants of Lima. It is one of the citys greatest surprises, Pucllana was an important ceremonial and administrative location. Its magnificence was reflected by the configuration of a monumental architecture. The restaurant is handsomely designed in a rustic colonial style; enjoy your lunch indoors or out, but the best spot is without a doubt the covered terrace. The different dishes of the Huaca Pucllana restaurant is made by local products of the best available quality, the menu is creative Peruvian, with fusion touches spicing up classic criollo cooking.

Taste the delicious diversity of Peru’s thriving cacao industry during this 2-hour chocolate-making workshop at Lima’s ChocoMuseo. Learn about every step of the chocolate-making process, including roasting the beans, removing the husk, grinding the nibs and refining the paste in a ‘melangeur.’ You’ll then get to create your very own chocolate with your choice of ingredients, leaving with a delicious handmade dessert. This chocolate-making workshop includes all necessary ingredients, a chocolate drink tasting and a handmade chocolate souvenir.

Most gastronomic tours in Lima take you to restaurants. This one takes you where the real lime trees eat. Enter Magdalena Market — a popular neighborhood market, far from the tourist circuit — and spend 2.5 hours eating as a local in one of Lima’s most authentic corners. What makes this tour different? Your guide was born and raised in Lima. It will take you straight to the stalls where neighbors queue early, introduce you to vendors by name, and tell you the story behind each dish — from the fish sandwich that has been served the same for decades, to the lady’s ceviche that she learned from her grandmother. Then comes the unexpected part. Hop on a tuk-tuk and arrive at Casa Taste Peru, a traditional family home that opens its doors exclusively to our visitors. There, your host teaches you how to prepare a pisco sour from scratch while telling you the story and ritual behind Peru’s national drink.

Get acquainted with the rich regal history of Lima on an educational sightseeing tour of the Peruvian capital. Alongside a knowledgeable guide, delve into the ambient tangle of Lima’s historical center; gaze at the fabulous façade of the Presidential Palace; descend to the eerie catacombs of San Francisco Monastery; and admire the ancient Dominicans Tower. A portion of your tour goes to an NGO that support social projects in the community.

Master the professional techniques for creating the perfect ceviche, pisco sour, and other Peruvian classics during a small-group cooking class led by a former star chef at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Under the careful guidance of your expert instructor, you’ll prepare a traditional 3-course meal. Possible dishes include lomo saltado, aji de gallina, and shrimp causa.

Experience a more authentic, less-touristy side of Lima during this half-day, small-group walking tour through the city’s Chorillos and Barranco neighborhoods. Observe the hum of activity in ‘fish town,’ a section of Chorillos that hosts a fish market and a cast of local fishermen, before heading to the nearby cliffs to sample some local snacks. Continue to the increasingly trendy Barranco area to admire colorful mansions and hip art galleries.

Taste your way through historic Lima on an evening food tour that combines local landmarks with a series of food and drink tastings. Since Lima draws foods and traditions from all around the country, you’ll have the chance to try a wide range of treats, with a local guide to help find the very best versions among the overwhelming options in the city center.

Instead of just dining out at restaurants, personalize your Peruvian culinary experience with a cooking and cocktail-making class held in a local chef's home. Master the art of making tartare and ceviche so you can impress people back home, and taste up to 17 different pisco flavors to create the classic national cocktail.

Lima is often hailed as the culinary capital of Latin America, so there’s no better place to feast on wine and cheese than here. This private sommelier-led experience is designed to deepen your knowledge of unique high-altitude Peruvian wines and promises undivided attention from your expert guide.

Discover Barranco through the flavors that make Peruvian cuisine so unique. Explore one of Lima’s most bohemian neighborhoods while tasting some of Peru’s most iconic dishes, from ceviche and causa to lomo saltado, complemented by local drinks and specialties. A delicious cultural and culinary experience that lets you discover Lima in an authentic way.

Travel around the whole of Peru without leaving the table during a 17-flavours culinary experience in Lima. The ultimate choice for food lovers, this nighttime gourmet experience lets you feast on dishes made using ingredients from Peru’s diverse ecosystems—enjoy potatoes grown in the Andes mountains, seafood from the Pacific Coast, and cocoa grown in the Amazon. Plus, hassle-free hotel pickup and drop-off are included.

Discover Lima's best side on this guided evening tour of the city. Dress up for cocktails at a trendy beachfront bar, enjoy gourmet dining at a restaurant inside of a 2,500-year-old archaeological complex, and finish up with a walking tour of the bohemian Barranco district en route to dessert. This tour includes all food, drinks, and transportation, ensuring a night to remember.

With this experience they will be able to enjoy and taste the best craft beers made in different parts of Peru; We will start at the original brewery in Cusco, then we will go to one in Ancash and end at one in Lima, which is the most important brewery in the country. They will taste more than 14 beers on tap and identify the differences that exist between each of them according to the origin of each production, style and supplies. At the end they will try an aperitif.

Enjoy a 3-course menu with great sea views by pre-booking a lunch experience at Larcomar’s Mango Restaurant. After toasting with a Pisco sour, savor a combination of Peruvian and international menu items in the open-sided dining room. Your choice of dishes at each course makes this a hassle-free options for groups, or when you're planning for picky eaters—there’s something for everyone.

With centuries of colonial history and exciting flavors shared down the generations, Lima is an vibrant city where adventure hides round every corner. On this walking tour, explore the streets and markets of Lima as your guide brings the city’s history to life, and sample the street food snacks the locals love. With pickup and drop-off at your centrally located Lima hotel included, mingle with Lima’s residents and see the best of the city with ease.

Travel back through 5,000 years of Peruvian history with this admission ticket to Lima’s fascinating Larco Museum. Situated inside a picturesque 18th-century colonial mansion, this comprehensive museum offers a great way to put Peru’s incredible wealth of historical sites and pre-Columbian cultures into context. Connect the dots between iconic Peruvian sites like Machu Picchu, the Nazca Lines, Cusco and much more as you admire its amazing range of exhibits, beautiful gold and silver artifacts and a unique erotic art collection.

Experience one of Lima’s most magnificent museums by night during an evening experience of the Larco Museum with dinner. After the daytime crowds have departed, explore extensive collections of pre-Colombian artifacts with a guide who takes you beyond the info panels. Then, sit down to a gourmet dinner inspired by Peru's regional specialties. Sip sweet pisco sours overlooking the museum’s beautiful gardens.

Enjoy the most relaxing sea view and discover the culinary creativity of Mangos Restaurant at Larcomar. You’ll enjoy a varied Peruvian and international dishes which is a culinary experience that will satisfy the most demanding palates. Do not miss the incomparable sunset seen from the terrace that it is ideal to meet with your friends or to have an awesome time with your family. Sample a delicious variety of dishes: a pisco sour like appetizer, a variety of exquisite dishes and a non-alcoholic drink that will fascinate you.