Restaurants in Cuzco
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Jack’s Café
The only food outlet in the world that you may consider worth standing in line for, and you will clearly not alone in your appreciation – the ever-present crowd of hungry travelers waiting outside Western-style, Australian-run Jack’s tells you how popular it is. One breakfast here and you’re hooked. You have been warned.
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Granja Heidi
Follow the pictures of cows upstairs to this light Alpine cafe with terrific fresh produce, yogurts, cakes and other snacks on offer. The hot breakfasts are gigantic, and can satisfy any carnivorous cravings you may have.
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Los Toldos
Local favorite with perhaps Cuzco’s best salad bar (try the purpley black olive sauce) and an extensive menu of high-class fast food. Most people can’t go past the Peruvian classic cuarto de pollo (quarter of a chicken cooked on a spit), done here to perfection.
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Green’s Organic
With all-organic food and a bright farmhouse feel, Green’s Organic oozes health. The salads and wraps are fabulously tasty, telling their own story of pesticide-free, free-range ingredients. The atmosphere is calm and uncluttered, with attentive professional staff. The same consortium owns several of Cuzco’s top-end restaurants – Limo, Incanto, MAP Café, Inca Grill and Pacha Papa – all of which have big reputations and receive many recommendations.
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Cicciolina
Inhabiting a lofty colonial courtyard mansion, Cicciolina has long held its position as Cuzco’s best restaurant. The eclectic, sophisticated food is divine, all the way from home-marinated olives through squid-ink pasta to melt-in-the-mouth desserts and biscotti. The service is impeccable, and the ambience will make any laid-back globetrotter feel at home. A huge expat favorite; highly recommended.
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Trotamundos
This coffeehouse has a dead-on view of the cathedral and sells a bit of everything, with especially good coffees and baked goods. It's also a popular late-night bar-cum-café.
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Maikhana
A friendly, comfy place to enjoy excellent, good-value renditions of all the Indian classics, including a long list of vegetarian dishes.
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Aldea Yanapay
With stuffed animals, board games and decor that perfectly evokes the circus you dreamed of running away with as a child, Aldea Yanapay is pitched at families but will appeal to anyone with a taste for the quixotic. Food includes burritos, falafel and tasty little fried things to pick at, and there’s a whole separate menu for vegetarians. Profits go to projects helping abandoned children. Highly recommended.
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Pachapapa
With rustic wooden tables and a crackling fire pit just off the Plaza San Blas, this airy outdoor restaurant has a menu full of classic Peruvian dishes with African, European and Asian accents, from cuzqueño lamb soup to roast trout with wild fennel, plus oven-fired pizzas and fruit-flavored piscococktails. There's live Andean harp music on most evenings.
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Juanito’s
Good sandwiches were hard to find in Cuzco until Juanito’s came along. All the traditional favorites are here, plus some fusion treats such as lechón (suckling pig) and lomo saltado (strips of beef stir-fried with onions, tomatoes, potatoes and chili). The inner room could be San Blas’ most inviting lounge hangout.
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Inka Panaka
Along an alleyway west of the plaza, this ambitious and artistic restaurant has just a half dozen candlelit tables at which you can fork into novoandina (Peruvian nouvelle cuisine) fare, including delicious breakfasts, steaks and desserts. There's a chill-out soundtrack and artisan crafts for sale.
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Muse
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The coolest cafe-bar-restaurant in town, the Muse offers consistently delicious food with lots of vegetarian options, live music every night, an excellent hangover breakfast, very cool staff, great coffee, a good wine list and a rotating display of art – in short, a hard place to leave at any time of day.
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Marcelo Batata
As if the stunning view from the rooftop terrace, Cuzco’s longest coffee list and a daring array of cocktails weren’t enough, Marcelo Batata’s food is dangerously delicious. Try pasta with ají de gallina (spicy chicken and walnut stew) sauce for an exquisite fusion moment.
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Inkafe Café
With an art gallery on the walls and magazines scattered on the front table, this intimate café does a stellar job not only with breakfast, but also with regional Peruvian dinners and desserts, real Italian espresso and a short, but sassy wine list.
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Al Grano
Al Grano has a non-spicy menu of varied Asian food, including great vegetarian options, plus big breakfasts and some of Cuzco’s best coffee. You’re welcome to hang out and enjoy it with cards, games, free wi-fi and a book exchange.
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Muse, Too
The laid-back San Blas version of the center’s iconic cafe-bar, Muse, Too serves up fresh, funky food through the day, big-screen sport and movies in the afternoon, and live music and cocktails at night.
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Kin Taro
As authentic a Japanese menu as you'll find anywhere outside of Lima, with sake to swill and trout sushi among the more unusual fusion dishes.
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MAP Café
Inside the gorgeous Museo de Arte Precolombino, this is the city's most sophisticated restaurant and lounge. Outdoor tables with starched white tablecloths sit royally upon a glass-enclosed patio, while attentive waiters pour ruby red glasses of fantastic South American, European and New World wines. The menu ranges from Italianesque salads to Andean steak and guinea-pig confit. The crowd of movers and shakers is always dressed to the nines.
There's live music almost every night. Make reservations for dinner.
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Chicha
Celebrity chef Gastón Acurio’s first venture in Cuzco serves up a strangely wide-ranging menu in a too-cool-for-school setting. Burgers, pasta and pizza share space with haute versions of meaty cuzqueño classics such as chicharrones (deep-fried pork) and estofado de res (hearty beef melting off the bone). Naturally, debate rages in Cuzco as to whether it’s worth coming here to pay twice what you would elsewhere, but your experience may be eye-rollingly, plate-lickingly positive.
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El Rey de Felafel
If, as has been known to happen, you stumble out of a discoteca at 4am with an insatiable hunger, you could go to El Rey de Felafel. Of the many sandwich stalls that serve late-night revelers along Plateros and Saphi, this is by far the best. Not only are the sandwiches clean, safe and tasty, and the felafel itself the best in Cuzco, but Victor is a kindly soul who will let you squeeze behind his hotplate and sit on a bucket to eat.
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Olas Bravas
Most cuzqueños think Olas Bravas offers the best ceviche in town, so it’s often packed. Luckily there’s another branch around the corner on Av de la Cultura. Even if ceviche isn’t your thing, this is a great place to try other criollo (coastal) dishes, such as causa (avocado and seafood sandwiched between layers of mashed potato) and seco a la norteña (goat stew). Check out the hammocks and the mural of the surfer.
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El Mesón de San Blas
Many cuzqueños eat out every day for lunch and dinner. Menú (set meal) is so economical in many places that it’s cheaper to eat out than to cook for yourself. You generally have to ask about the menú – it’s often not advertised, but is available almost everywhere. You’ll get soup, a main course, a drink, and sometimes dessert. El Mesón de San Blas is one of the good options here.
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Q’ori Sara
Many cuzqueños eat out every day for lunch and dinner. Menú (set meal) is so economical in many places that it’s cheaper to eat out than to cook for yourself. You generally have to ask about the menú – it’s often not advertised, but is available almost everywhere. You’ll get soup, a main course, a drink, and sometimes dessert. One of the good options here is Q’ori Sara.
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Ñucchu
Many cuzqueños eat out every day for lunch and dinner. Menú (set meal) is so economical in many places that it’s cheaper to eat out than to cook for yourself. You generally have to ask about the menú – it’s often not advertised, but is available almost everywhere. You’ll get soup, a main course, a drink, and sometimes dessert. Ñucchu is one of the good options here.
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Kukuly
Many cuzqueños eat out every day for lunch and dinner. Menú (set meal) is so economical in many places that it’s cheaper to eat out than to cook for yourself. You generally have to ask about the menú – it’s often not advertised, but is available almost everywhere. You’ll get soup, a main course, a drink, and sometimes dessert. One of the good options here is Kukuly.
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