Exclusive Lima Culinary Experience at Malabar The Aracari team were recently invited to Lima restaurant Malabar to test out an exclusive new private cooking demonstration and dining experience with chef Pedro Miguel Schiaffino. Pedro’s Malabar restaurant was voted one of Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants. It was a fantastic night, definitely a…

Free Ebook: Culinary Travel in Peru

culinary travel in peru

Culinary Travel in Peru: The Best Food and Drink and Where to Find It With three Peruvian restaurants included on the prestigious 2015 World’s Best 50 Restaurants list, Peru’s transition from renegade upstart to a fully-fledged equal among the world’s culinary superpowers seems complete. Exploding onto the international food scene…

Chilcano Week 2015 Lima

Chilcano Week If Happy Hour and other such drink deals and socializing opportunities appeal to you, look no further. Starting last Friday, January 9th and running until the 18th is La Semana del Chilcano 2015, or “Chilcano Week”, where many bars and restaurants all over Lima promote this popular pisco-based…

Marcelo Batata Cusco Cooking Class

Cusco Cooking Class

When you’ve had your fill of Inca sights in and around Cusco, there is no better way to relax and enjoy Peruvian culture than taking Marcelo Batata’s interactive Peruvian Cusco Cooking Class. This culinary experience proved to be much more than just a cooking class: it was a real window…

It was on a Thursday evening that my colleagues Mark, Maria Julia and I found ourselves walking along the Jirón de la Unión in the center of Lima, looking for Casa Aliaga: the Aracari team had been invited to this historic landmark by Jerónimo de Aliaga, a chef who has recently…

A Must Taste Guide to Fruit in Peru

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Fruit in Peru guide Blessed with extreme biodiversity and the three vastly different climate zones of the coast, highlands, and jungle, Peru is home to a myriad of fruits, some native, others exotic and rarely known in other regions of the world. A visit to any Peruvian market (perhaps during…