5 Best Restaurants in The Southern Andes and Lake Titicaca, Peru

Café Bar

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This laid-back café-bar is the only thing keeping La Casa del Corregidor alive these days. It offers some of the best international food and bar snacks you can find in Puno, as well as a wide variety of craft beers and great coffee drinks. Teas, cocktails, and smoothies—along with sweet treats like cakes and pies—round out the menu. After 9 pm, there's more of a bar scene, with savory food choices like tapas.

Crepisimo

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With an extensive variety of sweet and savory crepes, as well as quality espresso, pisco sours, and craft beers, you could easily spend the day in this artistic, Euro-styled restaurant, little sister to the Zig Zag restaurant on Calle Zela. Check out the terrace for great views of the Monasterio de Santa Catalina and volcanoes. Crepisimo also offers prix-fixe menus for 30 or 35 soles and happy hour specials from 4 to 6 pm and 9 to 11 pm.

InnKas Resto Bar

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This long-standing Peruvian restaurant, tucked on a corner of Chivay's Plaza de Armas, serves reliable and tasty alpaca, chicken, and beef mains that include lomo saltado and pollo chimichurri (grilled chicken with piquant sauce), as well as a choice of pastas to quell comfort-food cravings. Excellent and inexpensive espressos pair up with crepes and a variety of cakes. This is a great place to linger prior to visiting Cruz del Condor.

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Las Gringas

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With interesting and fresh organic ingredients topping its delicious pizzas and focaccias, this courtyard restaurant is a fun and relaxing place to have dinner or just get an espresso and a quick bite to eat. It also offers gluten-free and vegan options, as well as a wide variety of craft beers.

Loving Hut Titicaca Vegan

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This no-frills vegan restaurant, one of the few such options in Puno, is actually decent, and the inexpensive set-lunch menu is a great value. The options are many and varied, with dishes like soups, quinoa, and falafel.