Pacha Papa

Set in a beautiful old colonial house surrounding an attractive courtyard, across from the San Blas church, Pacha Papa offers the best typical Andean dishes with a slight European influence.

Their menu includes roasted cuy (a local guinea pig) in a fresh huacatay sauce, adobo de chancho (pork stewed in "chicha de jora", onions, and spices), and olluquito con charqui, the quintessential Andean dish: olluco tuber and potatoes stewed with dried alpaca meat. You can see how they cook your food in the adobe oven located in the patio or, even best, experience a "pachamanca" ("pacha" is Quechua for ground, "manca" for pot): a traditional and millenary ritual that consists in cooking several types of food -pork, chicken, cuy, potatoes, Peruvian corn, etc- inside a hole in the ground, previously stuffed with incandescent stones and then covered with big aromatic leaves.

Alas, you must make a reservation and be at least 12-people for a pachamanca. In any case, Pacha Papa is definitely great food for your money.

Open 11:30am-10pm

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