The Best Casual Gourmet Restaurants in Lima
The latest trend in restaurants in Latin America, other than the rapid proliferation of burger joints, is a new genre we call Casual Gourmet. These are restaurants that either take traditional street foods or regional comfort foods and elevate them to gourmet status, served in a more casual ambiance and typically at prices that are less than you’d pay for a similar meal at an upscale dining establishment. We’ve listed the ten restaurants that fall within this category, ranked by our overall rating, in this list of the 8 best Gourmet Casual restaurants in Lima.
Kjolle
Rating: 4.5 starsPrice: $$$$
Type: Casual Dining
Cuisine: Eclectic Gourmet
Kjolle gracefully straddles the boundary between upscale and casual dining. Unique ingredients from Peru’s vast terrain, rivers and seas are skillfully used in …
El Mercado
Rating: 4.6 starsPrice: $$$
Type: Casual Dining
Cuisine: Eclectic, Seafood
El Mercado is fun. The food’s delicious. The menu is unique. I can’t wait to go back!
Museo Larco Restaurant
Rating: 4.6 starsPrice: $$$
Type: Cafe, Casual Dining
Cuisine:
Although rarely lauded by food critics, we’re not sure why. This is a gourmet dining experience that enables diners to experience Peruvian cuisine with European …
Matsuei
Rating: 4.5 starsPrice: $$$$
Type: Casual Dining
Cuisine: Fusion, Japanese, Peruvian Nikkei
Matsuei offers an appealing contemporary décor, devoid of kitschy Japanese artifacts, and some of the freshest and best-executed sashimi and sushi in Lima. Mats …