It's a different restaurant serving innovative dishes and has a fully functional sports bar on the side with four TVs and every sport you can possibly want to watch.

plateros 334 entrance inside a souvenirs market

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Fab food, clean and tasty and excellent pisco sours!

Totally agree with the recommendation for travelling from Celendin to Leyembamba: awesome scenery for those willing to endure the slow, less-travelled road. This part of Peru gets very little traffic compared with the southern areas.

Cuesta San Blas 525, San Blas

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A restaurant in Cuzco offering delicious meals in a relaxed setting.

Cuesta San Blas 571, Cusco, Peru

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Hare Krishna-run Govinda vegetarian restaurants are found all over Peru.

Vegetarians do not get surprise meat on their plates, and for £1 per set meal, budget travelers will have difficulty finding a cheaper place to fill their tummies.

Lima: Schell 634, Miraflores / Jirón Callao 480, central Lima.
Cuzco: Espaderos 128.
Arequipa: Jerusalen 505
Puno: Deustua 312.
And in other cities in Peru.

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Lovely, cosy little restaurant in San Blas owned by a Canadian lady serving amazingly rich and tasty dishes. I'd recommend the medallions, from what I remember you get a beautiful cheesy mash with it.

I lived in Cusco for a year and this place was always a guilty pleasure!

Carmen Bajo 169 San Blas, Cusco, Peru

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This is a bakery that sells cakes so delicious you will come back again and again.

We bought some fresh alfajores (2 round crumbly biscuits with a layer of dulche de leche inside and a bit of coconut flakes on the top) every day we spent in Cusco.

They also have a range of savoury and sweet tarts, hot drinks and breads. Eat in or take away.

The shop is owned by a religious order who looks after orphan girls.

Cuesta de San Blas 579
On the way up to San Blas church, on the left hand side of the road. I think they are closed on Sunday.

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This is the best bar in Cuzco (after much extensive research!!). It serves amazing daquaris in every flavour under the sun and the steaks are huge! They also serve amazing roast veg!

The best bit is the decor, half is covered with blue skies, clouds, cherubs etc and the other half of it is red leather, rubber and fetishy!

The sofas are actually old-fashioned iron bedsteads and the tables are old baths with glass tops with real live fish living in them. The service is amazing and the owner and his four boxer dogs are just the nicest people in the world!

www.fallenangelincusco.com/

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Eat well and like a local by buying a tamale (a kind of steamed dumpling wrapped in a corn husk - it's nicer than it sounds!) They are really cheap, real Peruvian street food available as either sweet (with a raisin in the bottom) or savoury (with meat).

There is usually a lady selling tamales under the porch outside the shops to the left when looking at the cathedral. There is usually a small crowd hanging around. She's sometimes only around in the morning though

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Helps a lot with the altitude, is available free in most hotels, and tastes pretty good too. Hardcore travellers will want to chew the coca leaves, as the locals do, but the tea is more palatable and leaves you with a more attractive smile.

Wherever there's hot water

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Cuzco can be cold in the evenings. But fear not, locals have come up with a cure. A hot glass of creamy Ponche de Leche with Pisco warms the parts other drinks cannot reach.

Perhaps the best place to enjoy this speciality is in the eccentric little place on the Plaza de Armas, alongside the Cathedral. Pretty much all they serve are Ponches de Leche, pastries, and some left-wing politics in the shape of huge Soviet posters.

A great place to warm up, wind down, and actually experience a bit of authentic Cuzco.

Many places, but Plaza de Armas is best

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Such great and unusual sandwiches on delicious ciabatta bread, you can forgive them the use of the ubiquitous “I-word” in the name.

Calle Choquechaca

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This tiny café offers one of the best views in Cuzco, great coffees and enormous juices. If you can secure one of the seats outside, you get to look past the nearby San Blas Church and down onto the red roofs of the city while enjoying the sun and a latte. Of course you will be asked to invest in cigarettes, paintings, postcards and so on, but it’s worth putting up with.

Above the waterfall, Plaza San Blas;
Tandapata 684, Plaza San Blas

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One of the best things to do in Cuzco is to grab (it may involve inflicting minor flesh wounds) a table in one of the balcony cafes overlooking the Plaza de Armas, order a Pisco Sour and just take in the view. The Cathedral, La Compania, San Blas, laughing local children harassing tourists in quick-dry clothing … what more could you ask for?

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