Restaurants in South Coast
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Don Hono
- Nazca, Peru
- Restaurants › Café
This venerable restaurant doesn’t waste effort on atmosphere, but concentrates on serving hearty fare with farm-fresh produce and mean pisco sours. It’s a few notches above other touristy eateries around the plaza.
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Restaurant Los Angeles
This meticulously run Peruvian and international eatery is known for especially delicious soups and salads, as well as tasty vegetarian options. It’s owned by a local tour guide who speaks French and English.
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El Bandido
A strange sight in Peru, this cowboy-themed bar seems to fit perfectly with Moquegua’s rough-and-tumble frontier attitude. Wood-fired pizzas are made to order, and the beer just keeps flowing.
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Café Genova
Brush shoulders with local socialites at this open-fronted streetside café with good espressos and cocktails, along with a variety of Peruvian and international snacks, desserts and light meals. It's the atmosphere you're paying for, not quality fare, though service is flawless.
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Sabor Latino
You’ll almost always find every table taken at this bustling cafe, which has lazy tropical ceiling fans and a spicy Latin soundtrack. It’s especially recommended for filling set lunches and dinners and Andean specialties such as cuy chactado (fried guinea pig).
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La Taberna
- Nazca, Peru
- Restaurants › Pub
It’s a hole-in-the-wall place: the scribbles covering every inch of wall are a testament to its popularity. Try the spicy fish, challengingly named ‘ Pescado a lo Macho ’ (‘macho fish’) or choose from a list of vegetarian options.
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La Limón
With its own private entryway guarded by modelesque staff, this courtyard restaurant is vacant at times. On the innovative menu are traditional Peruvian dishes done with fusion flair, accompanied by a top-notch South American wine list.
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Fulin
This is a cheap vegetarian chifa in a rickety old building that somehow manages to deny the passing of time, but with a menu that offers gluten-free options. Just look for the sign with Chinese characters outside.
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La Kañada
Handy to the bus stations, this old standby still serves tasty Peruvian food. A decent list of cocktails includes algarrobina, a cocktail of pisco , milk and syrup from the huarango (carob) tree.
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El Otro Peñoncito
Ica’s most historic and characterful restaurant serves a varied menu of Peruvian and international fare that includes plenty of options for vegetarians. The formal bartenders here shake a mean pisco sour , too.
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Restaurante La Catedral
As brightly lit as a grade-school cafeteria, this cheerful locals' favorite on the plaza serves up heaping plates of Peruvian seafood, fried bananas, mashed potatoes layered with farm-fresh veggies and much more.
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Grumpy’s
Close to the bus stations, this thatched-roof eatery gets rave reviews from starving and homesick backpackers. In addition to traditional criollo fare, it also offers filling sandwiches and breakfasts.
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Restaurante El Huarango
A swish two-story restaurant with a rooftop terrace and top-rated criollo coastal fare (a blend of Spanish, African and Asian influences). All meals come with a complimentary pisco sour to boot!
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La Huerta
In the suburb of Pocollay, La Huerta is a pleasant outdoor place with uproarious birdsong and a terrace with vine-covered trellising and live music some afternoons.
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Restaurant Moraly
Near the town center, this classy but affordable Peruvian cafe is perennially full during lunchtime. The dueña (owner) is a real pistol. Try her patience at your own risk!
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La Mia Mama
This little Italian joint is a great place to sip a glass of vino de chacra (local table wine) over one of the menu’s classic pizzas or pastas. Tables fill up quickly.
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Juan Pablo
Probably the best of the restaurants with a waterfront view, Juan Pablo is a winner for fresh seafood and offers breakfast for those departing early to the Islas Ballestas.
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Restaurant Venezia
In a new location about 2.5km south of the town center, Venezia is a popular family-run Italian restaurant. Allow plenty of time, as all plates are made fresh upon ordering.
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Don Fernando
- Ica, Peru
- Restaurants › Other
Located across from Restaurante Venezia in the suburb of San Isidro, this bakery and cafe offers innovative sandwich and snack options with the freshest ingredients.
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Restaurant Paulita
With two tiny open-air tables facing the Plaza de Armas, this local fave serves home-style set meals as well as extras such as fruit salads and cakes.
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Café Verdi
Serving up tasty baked goods and desserts, as well as affordable fixed lunches, this spot remains chock-a-block with diners throughout the day.
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Anita
- Ica, Peru
- Restaurants › Café
Right smack on the Plaza de Armas, this elegant cafe dishes up heaping plates of regional Peruvian specialties, plus lip-smacking desserts.
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El Dorado
For breakfasts as well as tasty menús (set meals) this restaurant is a hit, and it’s located smack dab on the Plaza de Armas.
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El Dorado
For breakfasts as well as tasty menús (set meals) this restaurant is a hit, and it’s located smack dab on the Plaza de Armas.
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Helena
- Ica, Peru
- Restaurants › Other
One of several shops in the streets east of the plaza selling tejas (caramel-wrapped candies flavored with fruits, nuts etc.
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