Other restaurants in Cuzco
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Che Carlitos
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. Che Carlitos is one of the good options here.
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Urpi
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 Urpi.
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Don Estéban and Don Pancho
The original and still the best. First it was Cuzco’s coolest coffee bar. Then it started baking its own bread and created a generation of ciabatta addicts. Now it has specialty empanadas (pastries) – you must try empanada de ají de gallina before you die. Service is slow, giving you plenty of time to check out the mesmerizing wall display telling the story of the founders.
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Makayla
A smart and snappy breath of fresh air in the tourist-trap heavy Plaza, Makayla offers a Peruvian-focused menu with fusion touches, evenly weighted between red meat, white meat and vegetarian dishes. Its alitas picantes (spicy chicken wings) and yuquitas a la huancaína (fried yucca sticks with peanut sauce) are particularly fabulous for sharing.
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Inka Wall
This is the dinner and show locals come to – that pretty much says it all. They’re probably inspired by the magnificent buffet, which includes Peruvian and international plates and a staggering array of desserts. The show, which consists of 45 minutes of music followed by six regional dances, runs from 8:15pm to 9:45pm nightly. Good value.
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Niko’s
Pampa de Castillo is the street near Qorikancha where local workers lunch on Cuzco classics. Expect lots of caldo de gallina (chicken soup) and chicharrones, deep-fried pork chunks with corn, mint and, of course, potato, in a range of restaurants, one of them being Niko’s.
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Govinda Lila’s
Cuzco’s best deal and best-kept secret, Lila’s unassuming vegetarian restaurant offers cheap, clean, fresh fare to a devoted following of office workers and San Blas hippies. Her sporadically available chocolate and banana cake is worth flying to South America for. Highly recommended.
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Picantería María Angola
A good place to try local foods such as ubre (breaded udder), tripa (tripe) or panza apanada (stomach lining), or more appetizing chicharrones and costillares (ribs). Turn right and head up the stairs when you walk in here.
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Real McCoy
Tempts Brits hankering for a taste of home with chips and gravy, PG Tips teabags, real baked beans and roast dinners with Yorkshire pudding. Inviting and chilled out, it offers wi-fi, comfy couches, beanbags and sports on TV for extended relaxation sessions.
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Señor Carbón
The set deal at Señor Carbón (which translates as ‘Lord Coal’!) is a carnivore’s dream – all the meat you can eat, cooked to your liking, plus salad bar. If you can still fit it in, there’s a scoop of ice cream for dessert.
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Cafetería Los Reyes
Cuzco’s very own truck stop, complete with photos of overland trucks on the wall, and artery-clogging breakfasts from as early as 5am with prior notice. A big favorite with overland drivers and tour leaders.
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