It is no longer necessary to have crossed an ocean or be an expert gourmet to know and be a fan of ceviches, chaufas or causas. Peruvian food has been the trendy food for years. The freshness of its seafood dishes, the forcefulness of its creole stews or the intense flavor of Peruvian chifa food has made the Andean country’s gastronomy land to stay in Barcelona.
From the small home-style Peruvian restaurants for the first Peruvian migrants who arrived in the city, to the large cevicherías created by the likes of Gastón Acurio, the Ferran Adrià peruvian. Barcelona has a huge selection of restaurants in the country of ceviche, and that’s why we bring you a list of the best Peruvian restaurants in Barcelona so you can navigate through them, and get a real trip to Peru without leaving the Barcelona subway network.
Don Isidro
The taverns are a type of place with its own category in Lima and other Peruvian cities. They are the equivalent of our menjars house, places full of history where the food has the flavor that decades of experience grant, and where one also eats the history that the walls of the premises breathe.
Don Isidro wants to be a tavern peruvian here, and thus becomes one of the best Peruvian restaurants in Barcelona. The menu includes classic ceviche, causa limeña, yucca with huancaína sauce, rocoto relleno, chaufa de cerdo or classic but unknown stews such as carapulcra. A menu of a tavern in the center of Lima but served in a place in the heart of Barcelona.
📍C/ dels Enamorats, 11
💸Medium price:
Mishkiuchu
In Mishkiuchu they are specialists in Peruvian tapas, so if you do not decide on a single dish, you can choose to try a few of them. Its specialty, of course, is ceviche, although you will also find dishes with a Peruvian flavor such as Tequeño de Ají de Gallina, Jalea or Choritos a la Chalaca, that is, mussels accompanied by Creole sauce.
Mishkiuchu means enjoying Peruvian gastronomy , according to the website, so here they serve everything that encompasses the country’s gastronomy, from traditional Peruvian recipes, to others that have emerged from fusion (such as Peruvian chifa food) that has already become a symbol of the Andean country’s cuisine, such as the Wok Sauteed Pork Loin or the Tagliatelle a la Huancaina.
📍C/ de Sepúlveda, 23
💸Medium price: 20€
La Candela
The metaphor tells us that the fire of a good Peruvian cuisine has been lit in the middle of the Borne, in Sant Pere square, where a tapas bar that already existed, La Candela, has become a Peruvian restaurant where we have tasted, we say it openly, the best cause since we passed through Peru. It serves as an example of its cuisine: a traditional dish that can be rustic becomes a fine and reinvented dish, where the protein, which is usually chicken or tuna, is here a delicious halfway of sautéed prawns in sweet and sour anticuchero sauce.
Candela has reinvented itself to become a walk through a reinvention, also, of classic Peruvian dishes often treated with local techniques. The result is chupe croquettes (a type of Peruvian soup) of codfish, very good and hearty; the aforementioned causa; a ceviche with a very well-balanced and fine leche de tigre and a mellow rice with acorn-flavored duck with chili bell pepper and chica de jora (and rice from the Ebro Delta). Finish with the classic tres leches, which here is five, and cocktails that are just as important as the food.
📍Pl. de Sant Pere, 12
💸Medium price: 30-50€
Yakumanka
The Spanish passion for Peruvian cuisine could not but make Gastón Acurio, the Peruvian Ferran Adrià, the great exponent of the country of ceviche, cross the ocean to settle here. From that trip Yakumanka, Gastón Acurio’s embassy in Barcelona, was born.
The site is born, as they say, “faithful to the concept of popular Peruvian cebichería, with abundant dishes and Creole aesthetics”. That is why the focus of the menu is on ceviches, tiraditos (a Peruvian-style sashimi) and starters with a taste of the sea such as leche de tigre (tiger’s milk) or fish causes. Peruvian seafood custard from the best chef in the country made in Barcelona.
📍 C/ de València, 207
💸Medium price: 40-50€
Cocorocó
Cocorocó is the example of the Peruvians we love. An affordable restaurant where you forget that you are eating Peruvian food because here, what you eat is really good food. But apart from being delicious, the Peruvian food of this family restaurant elevates the gastronomy of the Andean country.
In a nicer than average location, and with an offer that raises the level of the Peruvian warrior menu without turning it into an inaccessible restaurant, Cocorocó offers a great ceviche, of course, but also nails it with homemade stews such as lomo saltado or aji amarillo, the two favorite dishes of the couple who run the restaurant.
📍C/ de Muntaner, 83C
Ceviche 103
More of the same. Peruvian marine haute cuisine brought directly from the Pacific to this Eixample restaurant. As the name suggests, in Ceviche 103 you will find up to seven proposals of this typical Peruvian dish and a menu a little more playful than Yakumanka’s, but at the same level.
In addition, the menu it keeps some curiosities for connoisseurs, such as rice with duck chiclayana style, typical of Sundays on the Peruvian coast, a tacu tacu (a dish of leftover rice and beans) with entrails or shells Parmesan, scallops au gratin with cheese.
c/ de Londres, 103
💸Average price:40-50€
Warike
In Peru, a huarique is that small, hidden restaurant (a hollow, they call it), that place that few know about but where authentic and delicious food is hidden. The Warike in Barcelona may have started out hidden, but it is now an institution among the restaurants of Peruvian food in Barcelona, as it is one of the few that has specialized in a specific field: Peruvian-style grilled meat.
They say they do peruvian street food, and we think they do something else. Here they cook chicken and pork a la caja china and al cilindro, the two Peruvian grilling techniques, and they also make anticuchos and sánguches with all the meat they grill. An authentic Peruvian steakhouse where you will discover that the mix between the grilled flavor and the Peruvian seasoning is a winning combo.
📍 C/ de Bilbao, 24
💸Medium price: 30-40€
La Turuleca
We all know that chicken is the universal meat par excellence, but few countries can talk about it like Peru, which has turned roast chicken into a national dish and even has an annual day, the third Sunday of July, dedicated to this dish. That is why it is good news to have a Turuleca here, a place that already from the name, warns us that here they cook chickens.
The star here is, obviously, the grilled chicken, our pollo a l’ast, which in Peru is pre-marinated with a dozen spices or even beer, and then cooked, ideally, on the grill. This is how the one here comes out, to eat on site or delivery. There are many other options, and although we recommend trying them all, we also recommend trying, at least once, the Peruvian version of pollo a l’ast.
📍 Carrer d’Arizala, 5
💸Medium price: 20-30€
Cumpanamá
Few people know that the real secret of a good chaufa rice is not in the grain of the rice, in the soy sauce (or sillao as it is called in Peru) or in the skill to turn the wok, which is also true. A key to chaufa is a good roast pork, bits of heaven that give flavor and crunchiness to the rice. That is the secret of Cumpanamá’s chaufa, since its chaufa rice comes out with a pork prepared on the embers of the Chinese box.
Cumpanamá is the name of an Amazonian god, and that is why the menu of this Peruvian restaurant has nods to the Amazonian cuisine of the country, something unusual to see in these Mediterranean lands. From there come the tacacho with jerky or patacones, two typical dishes of the jungle that stand out in the proposal of this place.
📍 C/ de Bailèn, 127, 08009 Barcelona
💸Medium price: 20-30€
Pueblo Libre
In Lima, Pueblo Libre is not a revolutionary municipality, but a neighborhood with a good number of taverns where you can go to drink pisco sour and chilcanos. The Pueblo Libre of Barcelona recovers the aesthetics of these places and serves a complete menu of classic dishes of Peruvian Creole cuisine.
Ceviche, stuffed potato, anticucho de corazón, aji de gallina, seco de churrasco… The best of Lima’s cuisine is represented here, so that one can take a mental and gustatory stroll through the capital of Peru without leaving Barcelona’s Eixample.
📍: C/ de Sepúlveda, 151
💸Medium price: 20-30€
Rocoto
Rocoto is one of those restaurants that we like. Before Peruvian haute cuisine landed in Barcelona, Andean gastronomy was represented here by small home restaurants in less central neighborhoods, which fed Peruvian food to the country’s immigrants who settled in the city’s less gentrified neighborhoods. Rocoto is one of these sites.
Hidden in the depths of Sants, the Rocoto specializes in food for Peruvians, that is, no fancy ceviche, but grilled chicken, grilled meat and other classic dishes at reasonable prices and with the trump card of the lunch menu, always with ceviche or some chaufa at a good price, making it easy for everyone to get to know firsthand the authentic Peruvian cuisine.
📍Carrer d’Olzinelles, 13
💸Medium price: 20-30€