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Chifa Hong Kong $$
(Jirón del Batán 133; mains S9.50-27)
If you're thinking this is a step up from the usual
Chinese restaurants that abound in Peru, you'd be right - the chef hails from Canton and
is working on two decades of experience with stir-fries, noodles and the like. The extens-
ive menu weighs heavily with chicken, beef, pork and duck and everything is damn tasty.
CHINESE
Cascanuez Café Bar $
(Puga 554; mains S6-26; from 7:30am; )
A nice cafe for breakfast and light meals
but most folks flock here for a decadent means to their sweet tooth ends - nine varieties of
tres leches
cake alone (try chocolate!).
CAFE
El Marengo $
(Junín 1201; pizza S11.50-25.50; 7-11pm)
The wood-fired brick oven heats the en-
tirety of this tiny pizzeria and the best pie in town comes out. Squeeze in, get a pitcher of
sangria and call it a night.
PIZZERIA
El Quinde Shopping Center $
(
www.elquinde.com
;
Av Hoyos Rubio, cuadra 7; 10am-10pm)
This shopping center
has the closest supermarket to town (Metro), about 2.5km north of the Plaza de Armas.
SELF-CATERING
Drinking
BAR
Usha-Usha
(Puga 142; admission S5; closed Sun & Mon)
For something a little more in-
timate, this place is a graffiti-covered, hole-in-the-wall dive bar run by an eccentric local
musician Jaime Valera, who has managed to cultivate a heap of charisma in these four
walls. He sings his heart out with his musician friends and you walk out with an unforget-
table travel memory.
Gruta 100
COCKTAIL BAR
