Amazon Basin
You don't find this sort of cafe very often in Peru, let alone in Yarinacocha. Lovely coffee (the city's best), freshly squeezed juices and 100% homemade…
Must-see restaurants in Amazon Basin
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Iquitos
This is laid out with TLC by the Belgian owner with a New York–style breakfast bar (OK, Amazon version thereof) and upper-level mezzanine seating looking…
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Puerto Maldonado
This has quickly developed into Puerto Maldonado’s standout restaurant. It calls itself an exponent of Novo Amazonica cuisine – that’s like Novo Andino,…
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Iquitos
There are great eats at Iquitos’ markets, particularly the Belén mercado where a menú, including jugo especial (jungle juice) costs S5. Look out for…
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Iquitos
This traveler magnet on the Malecón, with its tempting row of street-front tables, sports a menu divided up into North American, Peruvian, Spanish and…
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Puerto Maldonado
Clamber up three flights of stairs to this welcoming open-sided vegetarian restaurant with views over the Plaza de Armas. Here you can get about the best…
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Iquitos
Elegant rubber boom-style refurbishments are all the rage in Iquitos and this 2nd-floor people-watching spot has nailed the vibe. Airy, high-ceilinged and…
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Iquitos
Take a boat out to this floating foodie paradise in the middle of the mouth of the Río Itaya to sample some of the city’s best food. The emphasis is on…
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Amazon Basin
Maggy whips up pizzas nothing short of superb, and from a wood-burning oven. The flavors play up to their names: an 'Amazónico' for example comes with…
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Amazon Basin
Formerly dealing in just teas, coffees and light snacks, this enterprising German-Peruvian-owned establishment now combines a first-class butchers with,…
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Iquitos
This chilled atmospheric place does a little bit of everything and does it well: Thai, Greek, Indian, vegetarian, Peruvian, cocktails. It offers a 'make…
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Puerto Maldonado
A pleasing and popular little spot that charges above-average prices for way-above-average Amazonian food, with a few surprises such as the divine ceviche…
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Iquitos
This gets our nod for first prize in the keenly contested battle for number one in the city's cevichería (ceviche restaurant) contest. An air-conditioned…
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Amazon Basin
Whilst quiet outside of prime hotel guest eating hours, the hotel restaurant at Casa Andina Select is a slick, modern eatery offering delicious ceviche…
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Amazon Basin
This parrilla (grill) place does grilled meat every bit as wonderfully as it claims to: its smoked chicken and pork are particularly divine. That's what…
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Iquitos
Taking on the big boys in town and beating them hands down as far as caffeine fixes go, this agreeable little air-conditioned place will do anything from…
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Iquitos
Enter the bygone world of the rubber-boom days at this atmospheric Amazonian restaurant. Expect silk tablecloths, wall-length mirrors and imaginative…
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Pizzería El Hornito/Chez Maggy
Puerto Maldonado
'I get knocked down, but I get up again…' this could well be the anthem to this popular upstairs hangout on the Plaza de Armas, which burned to the ground…
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Iquitos
On the corner of the Plaza de Armas, this clean, chirpy and brightly lit joint is known locally as gringolandia (gringo land).Two walls are open to the…
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Amazon Basin
Keeping the flame burning for good machine coffee and tantalizing cakes in Oxapampa is this 2nd-floor plaza-fronting gem. It serves simple, tasty lunches…
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Amazon Basin
This place gets the gong for being the best of Pucallpa’s chifas (Chinese restaurants). Choosing where to sit in the roomy interior can be a challenge…
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Puerto Maldonado
The local restaurant in town: in the game for decades. An ocean of tables are attended with no-nonsense service. Portions are large, cheap and tasty, and…
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Iquitos
The Antica is the best Italian restaurant in town. Primarily a pizza place − there’s an impressive wood-fired pizza oven − pasta also takes a predominant…
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Amazon Basin
A pleasant restaurant built out into the lake from Yarinacocha's lakeside drag. After reaching the waterfront in Puerto Callao, it is the first restaurant…
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Iquitos
Resembling the inside of an ayahuasca vision, Mitos y Cubiertos is one of the places to be cool in an understated way in Iquitos. The menu loosely hinges…
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Iquitos
Wondering what to do for breakfast? Don't wonder. This is the spot; has been for decades. Grab a newspaper from the old dude outside and pull up a pew…
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Iquitos
One of the most popular local spots for juice, and cake and tamales (corn cakes filled with chicken or fish and wrapped in jungle leaves). The juices are…
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Amazon Basin
On the plaza, this famous hole-in-the-wall restaurant provides an Amazon-centric menu so extensive you can be lost for choice, but includes sensational…
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Iquitos
The Fitzcarraldo is an upscale option on the riverside strip, with very good food, but occasionally dopey service. It does various local and international…
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Iquitos
Once you have gotten over the miserable service, the mountains of tasty Chinese food at this most legendary of the chifas (Chinese restaurants) near the…
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Amazon Basin
Getting a taxi to this spot, slightly out of the center, is the best idea for breakfast or lunch. Nothing fancy, mind, but agreeable enough – and the…
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Iquitos
For self-catering supplies, visit this supermarket, which has a surprisingly diverse wine section and a clean, dirt-cheap cafe (from 7:30am to 10pm; you…
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Iquitos
Efficient service, a variety of dependable tasty meat and fish lunch specials and great juices are the cornerstones of this good-value, centrally located…
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Amazon Basin
The best place to eat Chinese food in the Amazon has a branch in La Merced and in San Ramón, but this clean, smart address is the most convenient.
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Amazon Basin
Mean cakes, ice cream and tried and tested breakfasts and mains can be found at Fuente Soda Tropitop, along with a lineup of rainforest juices.
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Amazon Basin
The Kitty is clean and popular, if dark, and brings in local lunch crowds for a wide variety of Peruvian culinary classics. Join ‘em!
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Iquitos
The 'comma and the full stop' rustles up good ceviche (raw seafood marinated in lime juice).
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Amazon Basin
Decent for juices, cakes, coffees and generous portions of Peruvian Amazonian food.
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