The 21 Best Places to Drink and Stay in Lima

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You enter through a working tailor shop, which is exactly the kind of door a cocktail bar in Miraflores would choose. Inside, Sastrería Martinez leans into its Prohibition-era premise with herringbone floors, vintage leather couches, and recessed golden lighting that makes everyone look like they have secrets. It holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Bars list, and the room earns the billing without trying too hard.

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Perched on the Malecón clifftop above the Pacific, this Belmond all-suite hotel in Miraflores puts the ocean view in nearly every room. The rooftop pool makes the point more dramatically. Larcomar and some of Lima's most talked-about restaurants are a short walk, so the neighborhood does some of the heavy lifting. Forbes Four Star. Service runs attentive without being stiff, and the club lounge gives regulars somewhere to land.

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Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Pacific from almost every room in this full-service hotel on the Miraflores cliff edge, which means you wake up to the kind of view that makes you briefly forget Lima is one of the world's great food cities. The lobby leans into polished marble and Peruvian artwork without overdoing either. Larcomar and the Malecón are steps away, which keeps the location from feeling purely about the hotel itself.

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A Belle Époque white mansion on a Barranco corner, the kind of building that makes you crane your neck from the taxi window. This boutique hotel holds antique candelabras, Italian marble, and rooms furnished like a glamorous traveler's fever dream, complete with claw-foot tubs and vintage suitcases. The rooftop deck pours pisco sours toward the Pacific, and the bar will remind you, unprompted, that pisco is Peruvian. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Key.

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A nine-room boutique hotel in Miraflores built around the conceit of a globetrotting photographer who's lent you his Tudor-era mansion, his bicycle, his chauffeur, and his staff. The rooms are compact but handsomely turned out, breakfast is included, and 24-hour room service runs on local ingredients. Lima's best dining is a short walk away, which in this city is not a small promise. It holds a Michelin Key.

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Hand-painted Spanish tiles and brass chandeliers set the tone in the lobby, and the old-world formality never really lets up. This hotel in San Isidro runs to spacious rooms with high ceilings and dark wood, many with balconies overlooking a garden courtyard or the Lima Golf Club next door. The spa, gym, and palm-ringed plunge pool are there when the meetings end, and business travelers fill the conference wings reliably.

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Five rooms in a 1920s Miraflores townhouse, one block from the coastal promenade. This boutique guesthouse keeps the original bedroom layout intact, which gives it the feel of borrowing a very stylish friend's home rather than checking into a hotel. The fridge runs on complimentary snacks, the honesty bar never closes, and staff will mix a pisco sour whenever you need one. Picked by the Michelin Guide, and an easy walk to the clifftop park.

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A mural by Conrad Florez anchors the room at this cocktail bar in San Isidro, where the backlit bar and spare furniture split the difference between old-school tavern and somewhere you'd photograph your drink. The ever-changing menu leans on seasonal Peruvian ingredients, with pisco threading through most of it, sometimes with a little theater. Small plates of local food round things out when the cocktails convince you to stay.

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Every room in this boutique hotel takes its cue from the Tapada Limeña, the veiled women of Lima's Viceroyalty era, interpreted by local artisans across botanical wallpapers and warm wood floors. It sits in San Isidro, the city's most composed neighborhood, with El Olivar's ancient olive grove just outside. The restaurant pairs Peruvian and Mediterranean cooking on a terrace, and cajón drumming classes are available if you feel ambitious. Selected by the Michelin Guide.

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The translucent facade glows from within like a lantern planted in Miraflores, which sets expectations correctly for what's inside: riotous color, bold Inca-inspired design motifs, and zero interest in restraint. This boutique hotel was Nhow's first foothold in the Americas, and it commits fully to its brand of maximalism. Rooms are generously sized even at entry level, a restaurant leans into Amazonian flavors, and the 13th-floor pool bar quietly becomes a club after dark.

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The revolving front door is your first hint that this is not a casual drop-in bar. Inside, Incan design motifs give way to nautical touches at the bar itself, which somehow creates the feeling of drinking aboard a very tasteful ship docked in San Isidro. Order El Capitán, the Peruvian pisco-and-vermouth classic, which arrives in two parts, the second kept cold on ice. An old-school institution, and the crowd dresses accordingly.

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1. The 50 The 50 Discovery

Perched on the Costa Verde cliffs in Miraflores, this boutique hotel looks straight out over the Pacific, which does most of the decorating. The 76 rooms lean into light wood and spa-style bathrooms, with local artwork keeping things grounded. Guests get access to the InterContinental next door's rooftop pool, a neighborly arrangement. Huaca Pucllana ruins and Barranco's galleries are close enough for a proper afternoon.

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The stone façade's recessed windows cut shadow lines across the face of the building before you even walk in, which is exactly the kind of detail the Hyatt Centric sub-brand leads with. This is a design-forward hotel in San Isidro, Lima's business and dining hub, a few minutes from Miraflores. Rooms read comfortable for both a work trip and a weekend away. The rooftop bar, Celeste Solar, gives you a reason to stay in rather than wander out.

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A 21-floor tower on the Miraflores malecón, with floor-to-ceiling windows that put either the Pacific or Lima's chaotic sprawl right in your room. The hotel runs four restaurants, from a rooftop Nikkei spot to stone-oven pizza with live music, plus what it calls Lima's largest outdoor pool. Business travelers fill the Club Floor; weekenders walk straight to the boardwalk. A solid, full-service base for either mission.

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The checkerboard facade makes the building hard to miss from the street, which is sort of the point. This Accor hotel in the upscale Miraflores district runs 237 rooms, all decorated with geometric murals that lean Bauhaus, and even the entry-level rooms are a generous size. The rooftop pool looks out over the coast and the skyline, and a terrace bar there presumably does well at dusk. Business travelers are catered to, but the leisure side keeps pace.

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A full-service business hotel in San Isidro, one block from Lima's financial district and a short walk from El Olivar Park and the Huaca Pucllana ruins. The 250 rooms lean contemporary and practical, with marble bathrooms and coworking space for the laptop-and-luggage crowd. Downstairs, Residente serves traditional Lima cooking with terrace tables overlooking the pool, which keeps it from feeling purely transactional. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

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A boutique hotel in Miraflores that quietly banned single-use plastics before it was fashionable, SOUMA runs 27 rooms with light wood and neutral linens, ocean or city views depending on your floor. Restaurante 27 Tapas works through contemporary Peruvian small plates downstairs, while the rooftop bar handles Pisco cocktails against Pacific sunsets. Larcomar and the clifftop Malecón are both a short walk away.

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