Living Heritage
Culture of Lima
History you can taste, dance and walk through — Lima's food, festivals and architecture.
The Gastronomic Capital of South America
Lima is the only city with multiple restaurants regularly ranked among the world's 50 best. Its cuisine fuses pre-Columbian ingredients, Spanish technique, and Japanese, Chinese, Italian and African influences brought by centuries of migration.
Start with the national dish: ceviche — fresh fish cured in lime juice with ají chili, red onion, sweet potato and choclo corn. Then try lomo saltado (a Chinese-Peruvian stir-fry), ají de gallina, anticuchos from a street grill, and a pisco sour to finish.
- Ceviche has its own national holiday — 28 June.
- Peru grows over 3,000 varieties of potato.
- Pisco sour, the national cocktail, was perfected in Lima's bars in the 1920s.