El Niño

Ayacucho


The specialty at this large restaurant is grilled meat – often cooked over a wood fire on the sheltered patio in the evenings – but a variety of Peruvian dishes, as well as pasta and pizza, are dished up, too. Inside seating is also available. After years in the game, this remains one of the city’s better restaurants.

The individual parrillada (grilled-meat platter) for S55 is good, and in practice sufficient for two modest eaters.


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