Amazon Basin
You don't find this sort of cafe very often in Peru, let alone in Yarinacocha. Lovely coffee (the city's best), freshly squeezed juices and 100% homemade…
Must-see restaurants in Amazon Basin
Iquitos
This is laid out with TLC by the Belgian owner with a New York–style breakfast bar (OK, Amazon version thereof) and upper-level mezzanine seating looking…
Puerto Maldonado
This has quickly developed into Puerto Maldonado’s standout restaurant. It calls itself an exponent of Novo Amazonica cuisine – that’s like Novo Andino,…
Iquitos
There are great eats at Iquitos’ markets, particularly the Belén mercado where a menú, including jugo especial (jungle juice) costs S5. Look out for…
Iquitos
This traveler magnet on the Malecón, with its tempting row of street-front tables, sports a menu divided up into North American, Peruvian, Spanish and…
Puerto Maldonado
Clamber up three flights of stairs to this welcoming open-sided vegetarian restaurant with views over the Plaza de Armas. Here you can get about the best…
Iquitos
Elegant rubber boom-style refurbishments are all the rage in Iquitos and this 2nd-floor people-watching spot has nailed the vibe. Airy, high-ceilinged and…
Iquitos
Take a boat out to this floating foodie paradise in the middle of the mouth of the Río Itaya to sample some of the city’s best food. The emphasis is on…
Amazon Basin
Maggy whips up pizzas nothing short of superb, and from a wood-burning oven. The flavors play up to their names: an 'Amazónico' for example comes with…
Amazon Basin
Formerly dealing in just teas, coffees and light snacks, this enterprising German-Peruvian-owned establishment now combines a first-class butchers with,…
Iquitos
This chilled atmospheric place does a little bit of everything and does it well: Thai, Greek, Indian, vegetarian, Peruvian, cocktails. It offers a 'make…
Puerto Maldonado
A pleasing and popular little spot that charges above-average prices for way-above-average Amazonian food, with a few surprises such as the divine ceviche…
Iquitos
This gets our nod for first prize in the keenly contested battle for number one in the city's cevichería (ceviche restaurant) contest. An air-conditioned…
Amazon Basin
Whilst quiet outside of prime hotel guest eating hours, the hotel restaurant at Casa Andina Select is a slick, modern eatery offering delicious ceviche…
Amazon Basin
This parrilla (grill) place does grilled meat every bit as wonderfully as it claims to: its smoked chicken and pork are particularly divine. That's what…
Iquitos
Taking on the big boys in town and beating them hands down as far as caffeine fixes go, this agreeable little air-conditioned place will do anything from…
Iquitos
Enter the bygone world of the rubber-boom days at this atmospheric Amazonian restaurant. Expect silk tablecloths, wall-length mirrors and imaginative…
Pizzería El Hornito/Chez Maggy
Puerto Maldonado
'I get knocked down, but I get up again…' this could well be the anthem to this popular upstairs hangout on the Plaza de Armas, which burned to the ground…
Iquitos
On the corner of the Plaza de Armas, this clean, chirpy and brightly lit joint is known locally as gringolandia (gringo land).Two walls are open to the…
Amazon Basin
Keeping the flame burning for good machine coffee and tantalizing cakes in Oxapampa is this 2nd-floor plaza-fronting gem. It serves simple, tasty lunches…
Amazon Basin
This place gets the gong for being the best of Pucallpa’s chifas (Chinese restaurants). Choosing where to sit in the roomy interior can be a challenge…
Puerto Maldonado
The local restaurant in town: in the game for decades. An ocean of tables are attended with no-nonsense service. Portions are large, cheap and tasty, and…
Iquitos
The Antica is the best Italian restaurant in town. Primarily a pizza place − there’s an impressive wood-fired pizza oven − pasta also takes a predominant…
Amazon Basin
A pleasant restaurant built out into the lake from Yarinacocha's lakeside drag. After reaching the waterfront in Puerto Callao, it is the first restaurant…
Iquitos
Resembling the inside of an ayahuasca vision, Mitos y Cubiertos is one of the places to be cool in an understated way in Iquitos. The menu loosely hinges…
Iquitos
Wondering what to do for breakfast? Don't wonder. This is the spot; has been for decades. Grab a newspaper from the old dude outside and pull up a pew…
Iquitos
One of the most popular local spots for juice, and cake and tamales (corn cakes filled with chicken or fish and wrapped in jungle leaves). The juices are…
Amazon Basin
On the plaza, this famous hole-in-the-wall restaurant provides an Amazon-centric menu so extensive you can be lost for choice, but includes sensational…
Iquitos
The Fitzcarraldo is an upscale option on the riverside strip, with very good food, but occasionally dopey service. It does various local and international…
Iquitos
Once you have gotten over the miserable service, the mountains of tasty Chinese food at this most legendary of the chifas (Chinese restaurants) near the…
Amazon Basin
Getting a taxi to this spot, slightly out of the center, is the best idea for breakfast or lunch. Nothing fancy, mind, but agreeable enough – and the…
Iquitos
For self-catering supplies, visit this supermarket, which has a surprisingly diverse wine section and a clean, dirt-cheap cafe (from 7:30am to 10pm; you…
Iquitos
Efficient service, a variety of dependable tasty meat and fish lunch specials and great juices are the cornerstones of this good-value, centrally located…
Amazon Basin
The best place to eat Chinese food in the Amazon has a branch in La Merced and in San Ramón, but this clean, smart address is the most convenient.
Amazon Basin
Mean cakes, ice cream and tried and tested breakfasts and mains can be found at Fuente Soda Tropitop, along with a lineup of rainforest juices.
Amazon Basin
The Kitty is clean and popular, if dark, and brings in local lunch crowds for a wide variety of Peruvian culinary classics. Join ‘em!
Iquitos
The 'comma and the full stop' rustles up good ceviche (raw seafood marinated in lime juice).
Amazon Basin
Decent for juices, cakes, coffees and generous portions of Peruvian Amazonian food.
