Soup for starters.

Right across the street from our bed and breakfast in Barranco we found this amazing chifa/traditional Peruvian place.  They serve good soup and daily lunch set-lunch specials for a good price.

Ají de gallina

We tried a few of their main courses and all were tasty and filling.  Carrie especially like the “aji de gallina”, sliced potatoes, shredded chicken, and onions in the deliciously-cheesy “huacaina” sauce (I found a recipe here and will definitely be trying to replicate it back the US).  They have an enormous menu, offering both typical Peruvian almuerzo combinations and a huge selection of Chinese options, all of which come with wonton soup.

Macarrones=basically pasta bolognese

Here’s their menu!

A classic Peruvian chifa.

Location:  Corner of Grau and Pierola, Barranco, Lima, Peru

EDIT 2024: We did a lot of hostel and restaurant reviews back in the day. These were good for us to have more content, and also good for the businesses, many of which had zero online presence. There were whole countries we traveled through without paying for a single place to stay. Many of the places are still there after all these years, and it would be cool to see if anyone still remembered us ha!