Lima is home to many restaurants, national and international. You must try the local comida criolla, (domestic or South American food, spiced meats, seafood, or poultry). The seafood is excellent, Peru borders the Pacific Ocean, which is very rich in seafood and fish. This and a huge variety of ingredients from coast, mountain and Amazon regions makes the Peruvian cuisine very tasteful. Fish and seafood restaurants are therefore worth the visit, and besides that they are not expensive. Lima's, Peru's international cuisine is a mix of the old Spanish colonial past in combination with the influence and ingredients of African, European, Chinese, and Japanese immigrants. Try Creole food, Chifas, Cebicherias, and Pollerias.

Lima is known as the gastronomical Capital of the Americas.