La Trattoria di Mabrino

La Trattoria di Mambrino, with two strategically located restaurants in the Larcomar shopping center in Miraflores and on Pardo y Aliaga in San Isidro, both of which are almost identically decorated, offers two of the most pleasantly designed and decorated restaurants in Lima. The ambiance in both restaurants oozes understated elegance, which is totally devoid of the kitschy red and green caricatures of Italy that you frequently observe in Italian restaurants, even in Italy.

In the Larcomar location you have the option for a beautiful view of the coastline. The San Isidro location has a large, pleasant outdoor terrace that offers a similar open-air option.

The indoor dining areas are indistinguishable from one another and the service is generally top-notch in both locations.

Despite the word trattoria in the restaurant name, it’s clearly more formal than your typical Italian trattoria, and the menu, is a bit more gourmet as well.

You’ll find some classic Italian main-course dishes like Veal Scaloppini and Osso Buco and the restaurant offers a couple of steaks that equal or exceed what you’ll find at the city’s top steakhouses.

Yes. La Trattoria di Mambrino is a bit more expensive than either its less sophisticated little sister, La Bodega or Gastón Acurio’s Los Bachiche. But accompanying that higher price is an exceedingly better meal served in a substantially more upscale environment. Those two better elements were enough to make La Trattoria di Mambrino our highest rated Italian restaurant in Lima.