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 Peruvian home cooking establishments for the first Peruvian migrants who arrived in the city, to the large cevicherías created by people of the stature of Gastón Acurio, the Peruvian Ferran Adrià. Barcelona has a huge sample 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 metro network of Barcelona.
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 casa de menjars, places full of history where the food has the flavor that decades of experience give, and where one also eats the history that the walls of the place breathe.
Don Isidro wants to be a Peruvian tavern here, and thus becomes one of the best Peruvian restaurants in Barcelona. That is why its menu includes the classic ceviche, causa limeña, yuccas a la huancaína, 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. Their specialty, of course, is ceviche, although you will also find dishes with a Peruvian flavor such as the Tequeño de Ají de Gallina, the Jalea or the 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 gastronomy of the country, from traditional Peruvian recipes, to others that have emerged from fusion (such as Peruvian chifa food) that has already become a symbol of the cuisine of the Andean country, such as the Wok Sauteed Pork Loin or the Tagliatelle a la Huancaina.
📍C/ de Sepúlveda, 23
Average 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 anticuchera sauce.
Candela has reinvented itself to become a walk through a reinvention, also, of classic Peruvian dishes often treated with local techniques. Thus come out some croquettes of chupe (a type of Peruvian soup) of cod, very good and hearty; the aforementioned cause; a ceviche with a very well balanced and fine leche de tigre and a mellow rice with acorn duck flavored with chili and chica de jora (and rice from the Delta de l’Ebre). Finish with the classic tres leches, which here are five, and cocktails that are just as important as the food.
📍Pl. de Sant Pere, 12
Average 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 was born Yakumanka, Gaston Acurio’s embassy in Barcelona.
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
Average price: 40-50€.
Maymanta
One of the best Peruvian restaurants with one of the best views in the city. The chef Omar Malpartida, one of the referents of Peruvian cuisine outside Peru has opened at the top of the Grand Hyatt hotel, at the end of Diagonal, above all of Barcelona , a high level restaurant, with Peruvian cuisine (never better said). Obviously, it is not cheap, but if money is not an issue that day, the experience is worth it.
The experience, by the way, has been recognized, and in just one year Maymanta has been mentioned in the Michelin Guide, recommended not only as one of the best Peruvian restaurants in Barcelona, but also as one of the best restaurants in the city.
📍 Pl. de Pius XII, 4, Les Corts, 08028 Barcelona
💸Average price: 50-60~€.
Macambo
We have to get used to it: Peruvian food is not only the popular street food you know, but it is already established, and that now “haute” Peruvian cuisine options are also born in our own homes. This is what Roberto Sihuay(Ceviche 103, Nikkei 103 and La Turuleca) has done with Macambo: a Peruvian food restaurant where you can go to celebrate.
Space and careful elaborations, with dishes such as the trio of ceviches (it could not be otherwise considering the chef’s experience), the causa limeña with Andean sauce and Iberian jowl or the Pekin duck croquette. Refined Peruvian dishes that show that eating Peruvian today in Barcelona is an experience as top as any other.
📍 Laforja, 18
Average price: 40-60~€.
Ceviche 103
More of the same. Peruvian marine haute cuisine brought directly from the Pacific to this place in the Eixample. As the name suggests, in Ceviche 103 you can find up to seven proposals of this typical Peruvian dish and a somewhat more playful menu than Yakumanka, but at the same level.
In addition, the menu has some curiosities for connoisseurs, such as rice with duck chiclayana style, typical of Sundays on the Peruvian coast, tacu tacu (a dish of leftover rice and beans) with entraña or conchas a la parmesana, 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 Peruvian food restaurants 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, but 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 grill where you will discover that the mixture between the grilled flavor and the Peruvian seasoning is a winning combo.
📍 C/ de Bilbao, 24
Average price: 30-40€.
La Turuleca
That chicken is the universal meat par antonomasia perhaps we all know, but few countries to talk about it like Peru, which have turned roast chicken into a national dish and even have 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 chickens are cooked here.
The star here is, obviously, the grilled chicken, our pollo a l’ast, which in Peru is marinated beforehand with a dozen spices or even beer, and then cooked, ideally, on the grill. This is the way it comes out here, to eat on site or for 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
Average price: 20-30€.
Cumpanamá
Few 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 they call it in Peru) or the skill to turn the wok, that too. A key to chaufa is a good roast pork, little pieces of heaven that give flavor and crunchiness to the rice. That is the secret of Cumpanamá’s chaufa, since its chaufa rice comes 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. The tacacho with jerky or patacones, two typical dishes of the jungle that stand out in the proposal of this restaurant.
📍 C/ de Bailèn, 127, 08009 Barcelona
Average price: 20-30€.
Pueblo Libre
In Lima, Pueblo Libre is not a revolutionary municipality, but a neighborhood where there are a lot of taverns where you can go to have some 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
Average 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 homemade restaurants in the less central neighborhoods, which fed Peruvian food to the country’s immigrants who settled in the less gentrified neighborhoods of the city. Rocoto is one of these places.
Hidden in the depths of Sants, 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 bonus 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
Average price: 20-30€.