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Ary Quepay
This place offers traditional plates, including alpaca and cuy (guinea pig), in a colonial-style building that extends out to a dimly lit rustic area dripping with plants. There's enthusiastic música folklórica most evenings.
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Cafe Restaurant Antojitos de Arequipa
This café-restaurant is a bright beacon in the dead of night. An enormous menu of comfort food and Peruvian favorites, plus espresso machines and locks on the chairs for safeguarding your pack make it ideal for waiting out that tiresome late-night bus departure.
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Cevichería Fory Fay
Small and to-the-point, it serves only the best ceviche (raw seafood marinated in lime juice) - and nothing else. Pull up a chair at a rickety table and crack open a beer - limit one per person, though! By the way, the name is a phonetic spelling of how Peruvians say '45' in English.
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La Viñeda
An intimate spot, this is one of the best places to knock back a steak or platters of traditional Peruvian food, all in an ornate Victorian atmosphere. The wine list features South American varietals.
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Los Guisos Arequipeños
This huge, barnlike formal restaurant is in the suburb of Lambramani, 2km southeast of the center. Along with bow-tied waiters, it has bountiful gardens and occasional live music.
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Manolo's
With a decidedly retro atmosphere, this mirror-filled café looks as if it were established in the early days of the Republic. Its endless menu lists coffees, ice creams, desserts, sandwiches and full home-style Peruvian meals.
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Restaurante Gopal
This basic, health-conscious vegetarian café specializes in traditional Peruvian dishes made with imitation meats, so you can enjoy lomo saltado (strips of beef stir-fried with onions, tomatoes, potatoes and chili) without guilt.
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Ribs Cafe
This surprising storefront cooks up BBQ ribs in a rainbow variety of sauces, from honey-mustard to chocolate to red wine, along with empanadas (meat or cheese turnovers) stuffed with everything imaginable and solid American breakfasts.
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Sambambaia's
Just 2km outside of the center, this restaurant is an elegant upper-crust alternative with Brazilian specialties, live piano music and a tropical garden setting. Call ahead for reservations.
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Sol de Mayo
Serving good Peruvian food in the Yanahuara district, Sol de Mayo has live música folklórica every afternoon. Book a table in advance. You can combine a visit here with a stop-off at the mirador (lookout) in Yanahuara.
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Tradición Arequipeña
This locally famous restaurant has mazelike gardens, fountains and terrace tables. Live music includes folklórica and criollo . It's 2km southeast of the center.
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