For a fine dining experience try Astrid Y Gaston and enjoy a taste of Peruvian fused with Asian spices. Sample dishes like spiced roast duck, red peppers stuffed with basil-scented risotto, spicy roasted kid or the fish called noble robado, served in miso sauce with crunchy oysters. Mahalo Suggests: While planning your trip, please see Lima Vacation, Lima Hotels

• Restaurant Huaca Pucllana Peruvian, Phone: 51-1-445-4042
  • Concierge.com Recommendation: "The restaurant serves excellent New Andean cuisine, such as grilled corvina with shrimp and spinach risotto, as well as powerful pisco sours."

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "A beautiful and serene upscale restaurant with knockout views of the pyramid, secluded in the midst of Lima's chaotic jumble, makes for a remarkable night out."

• • Fodor's Choice: "Yellow peppers stuffed with shrimp are a great way to start, and the cabrito al horno (roasted kid) is a work of art. Wash it all down with one of many pisco preparations."

• Astrid y Gaston International, Phone: 51-1-444-1496
  • Concierge.com Recommendation: "The cooking is modern Peruvian, with a fusion of Asian and Peruvian spices: An entree might be spiced roast duck and a red pepper stuffed with basil-scented risotto-everything skillfully prepared and exquisitely plated."

• • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "The place is sophisticated and hip but low-key, a description that could fit most of its clients, who all seem to be regulars."

• • Fodor's Choice: "Make sure to peruse the wine list, one of the best in town. In a colonial-style building on a quiet street, the restaurant itself is lovely, with pumpkin-color walls covered with original artwork."
• Costa Verde Seafood, Phone: 51-1-227-1244
  • Concierge.com Recommendation: "Lima's most famous restaurant, about 20 minutes from downtown, commands a magnificent seaside view from its glass-walled dining room."

• • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "[Probably] as expensive a meal as you'll have in Peru, but it's also good enough to draw a decent number of Limenos celebrating special occasions."

• • Fodor's Review: "Locals with a lot of cash on hand come for brunch on weekends, when there's a buffet so expansive it holds a place in the Guinness World Records book."

• La Hamaca Latin American, Phone: 51-1-242-7978
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "One of Lima's most seductive restaurants, it is a splurge but well worth it for an extraordinary experience."

• • Lonely Planet Selection: "This high-class restaurant takes an intimate atmosphere to another level with tables in private booths, each carefully decorated with antique touches."

• El Cartujo International, Phone: 51-1-221-4962
  • Fodor's Choice: "The salads are excellent; the ensalada flamenco has smoked salmon, plump olives, and buttons of caviar atop fresh greens."

• • Lonely Planet Selection: "Have a refreshing pisco sour at the long wooden cocktail bar then select a table for gastronomic treats that range from Argentinean beef to ceviche to lobster to pasta."

• Las Brujas de Cachiche Peruvian, Phone: 51-1-446-6536
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The restaurant, in a sprawling old house with several warmly decorated dining rooms, is popular both night and day with well-heeled Limenos, expat businessmen and foreign government officials, and tourists..."

• • Lonely Planet Selection: "It's one of the best places in town for quality Peruvian food."

• Restaurante Manos Morenas Peruvian, Phone: 51-1-467-0421
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The main dining room, in what was the house's interior patio, is very appealing, with handsome wood chairs and tables, and art for sale on the elegant yellow walls."

• • Lonely Planet Selection: "Manos Morenas is an informal pena ( bar or club featuring live folkloric music) that's highly recommended locally for both its top-notch criollo food and its live criollo music..."

• Antica Trattoria Italian, Phone: 51-1-247-5752
  • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "The house specialty is gourmet pizza from the wood-fired ovens, but the menu has several tempting ideas to lure you away from pizza..."

• • Lonely Planet Selection: "This classy Italian joint with a nouveau-rustic air serves up pizza, but is better recommended for its pasta concoctions and generic Italian cuisine."

• Cebicheria La Mar Seafood, Phone: 51-1-421-3365
  • Frommer's Exceptional Rating: "The airy, plant-filled space has a chic, modern touch, with an angular, poured concrete facade, bamboo roof, turquoise chairs and cement floors."

• Canta Rana Seafood, Phone: 51-1-477-8934
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "The shacklike interior is decorated with simple wood tables, and the walls are festooned with futbol paraphernalia."

• Antico Ristorante Italiano di Porto Rotondo Italian, Phone: 51-1-447-9575
  • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "A pretty yellow colonial house with an inviting library-like club bar off to one side, Porto Rotondo is a sophisticated retreat in the midst of Miraflores' hustle and bustle."