Peru has so much to offer on the food and even on the wine side, that we also offer several tour options to have the right tour for you:
Option 1: A classic Peru Tour. 8 days/8nights, 8-10 passengers. 3800 USD per person. Best times Mid Mar-Mid Jun, Mid Aug-end of October. We visit Machu Picchu, Cusco, Arequipa and Lima
Option 2: A foodie Tour of Peru. 8 days/8 nights, 8-10 passengers. 4800 USD per person. Same as classic Peru tour, but three of the top 50 restaurants world wide will be visited during the days in Lima.
Option 3: A wine tour of Peru. 8 days/8 nights. 8-10 passengers. 4300 USD per person. We will explore the wine regions of Ica, Arequipa and Tacna and eat great in Lima. Machu Picchu is not part of this tour but can be arranged for you.
Option 4: A foodie tour in Lima only. 5 days/4 nights. 4-6 passengers. 4100 USD per person. We will visit three of the top 50 restaurants in the world. We will visit a distillery and some other really outstanding restaurants in Lima
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Restaurants in Lima, Cusco and beyond captivate the attention of foodies the world over. But Peruvians themselves are very demanding when it comes to food, and there are pretty much 30 million(=population of Peru)lists of the best restaurants in Peru and almost all deserve attention. There is no Michelin guide for Peru, but The World's 50 Best Restaurants and the List for Latin America "50 Best Restaurants in Latin America" both list Peruvian restaurants in the very top.
But Peru has many other chefs that are worth noting and that we have good access to, to make the food experience part of our tours unique and special. Javier Wong, famous cebiche Chef at his home (aka Chez Wong) and pachamanca, the Inca Version of Barbacoa are just two examples. See this video of the memorable Anthony Bourdain visiting Chez Wong with Eric Ripert from the "Le Bernardin" in New York. And this video of a traditional pachamanca.
At the World Travel Awards, Peru has been winning the distinction as the "Best Culinary Destination" every year from 2012 till 2022 with the exception of 2020, World's Leading Culinary Destinations 2021
As with other Latin American countries it was the Spaniards that brought wine grapes to Peru, mostly to celebrate mass.During the vice-royalty of Peru the wine production became so large, that Spanish wine makers complained to the crown about the wine from the colonies and the Spanish king forbade the production of wine in the colonies. That started the destilling of wine, and a new Peruvian product was born, pisco. Over the next centuries wine production was almost dormant and it was only in the 1960s that wine production restarted with the arrival of French enologists. Nowadays there are close to 200 wineries in Peru, and their production is steadily growing. New attention has been garnered by so called "patrimonial grapes", which are essentially naturalized grapes, used for centuries for pisco making. The wine category keeps growing, and we even offer a wine centric trip to Peru. While more and more wines show up at the largest domestic wine competition "Salon del Vino Peruano" celebrated usually in July, some wine brands are already winning competitions abroad, which helps the wine industry being noticed. Wine Writer Tim Atkin recently spent two weeks in Peru exploring the Peruvian wine and here is a short article he wrote on the matter "On the Trail of Peruvian Wine"
Just as in other countries the craft beer industry is growing steadily and breweries pop up all over the country.
But its in the spirits world where Peru shows the most promise after wine and pisco. In the wake of over-saturation of pisco in the local market, some distillers starting to venture into other spirits. And a lot of them came from the US.
Florida native and former UFC fighter Michael Kuryla, for instance, produces Black Whiskey, a purple corn whiskey. Watch this conversation of the Whiskey Crusaders about Black Whiskey winning the Gold Medal at the 2022 World Spirits Competition in New York. Watch the promotional video of Black Whiskey here.
Pennsylvannia native Haresh Bojswani produces a clear sugar cane spirit in the Sacred Valley.
Machu Picchu, Cusco, Arequipa and Lima are all Unesco World Heritage Sites. Santa Catalina Monastery, Cusco and Machu Picchu are also 3 of the "1000 Places to See Before You Die" a bucket list book by journalist Patricia Schultz.
Traveling through air over the Andes, over land along the coast line, or in the train to Machu Picchu are all experiences that make Peru worth the trip
But do not only take our word for it. Check out our section of "Articles" to see what impressions journalists from prestigious international publications have to say about Peru