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Signature Table
Your Seat at Lima's Most Celebrated Restaurants
The Buddy Lima Experience
Discover Lima at its most celebrated table. Signature Table is Buddy Lima’s premium culinary experience, created for travelers seeking an unforgettable meal at one of the city’s most acclaimed restaurants—without the stress of coordinating reservations, transportation or timing.
Choose one restaurant from our carefully curated collection of Lima’s culinary icons. Subject to availability, Buddy Lima will assist with your reservation, confirm the details and provide private round-trip transportation in a clean, reliable vehicle. Your experienced local driver will navigate Lima’s traffic, remain nearby during your meal and return you safely to your hotel or agreed destination. Multilingual communication assistance is available throughout the experience.
Perfect for food lovers, couples, special celebrations and once-in-a-lifetime evenings. Restaurant meals and beverages are paid separately unless specifically included in your booking. Early reservations are strongly recommended.
Choose 1 of 5 Best Culinary Stops
Review these five World Best Culinary stops and pick your top one when booking World's 50 Best
Central
Central is not simply dinner; it is a journey through Peru’s extraordinary geography. Guided by Virgilio Martínez and Pía León, each course moves across elevations—from the Pacific coast and Amazonian forests to high Andean ecosystems—revealing native ingredients through research, precision and quiet theatricality. Named The World’s Best Restaurant in 2023 and now a member of the Best of the Best, Central offers a rare encounter with Peru as landscape, memory and living culture. The room is understated and contemporary, allowing every color, aroma and story to command attention. For the discerning traveler, this is a defining Lima experience: intellectually compelling, deeply rooted and unforgettable long after the final course.
Price category: $$$$
Maido
Named No.1 in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025, Maido is chef Mitsuharu “Micha” Tsumura’s masterful expression of Nikkei cuisine—the meeting of Japanese technique and Peruvian soul. Its acclaimed tasting journey balances precision with generosity, pairing pristine seafood, refined sauces and unexpected ingredients from the Andes, Amazon and Pacific coast. The atmosphere is polished yet warmly welcoming, reflecting the name Maido, a Japanese greeting offered to returning guests. Each course feels disciplined, inventive and alive, transforming cultural exchange into pleasure. For Buddy Lima guests seeking Lima’s most celebrated table, Maido delivers world-class craftsmanship without losing the warmth that makes Peruvian hospitality unforgettable.
Price category: $$$$
Kjolle
Ranked No.9 in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025, Kjolle is Pía León’s luminous celebration of Peru’s biodiversity. Named for a vivid Andean flower, the restaurant presents native fruits, grains, tubers, herbs and seafood in compositions distinguished by natural color, clarity and grace. León’s cooking is highly researched yet never feels overworked; ingredients remain recognizable, their flavors intensified with imagination and restraint. The setting is contemporary and serene, creating a refined stage for a menu that moves effortlessly between coast, mountains and rainforest. Kjolle is ideal for guests who value beauty with substance—a sophisticated, distinctly Peruvian experience where curiosity, sustainability and exceptional hospitality meet.
Price category: $$$$
Mayta
Ranked No.39 in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025, Mayta presents chef Jaime Pesaque’s elegant interpretation of contemporary Peru. The menu draws from the country’s coast, Andes and Amazon, transforming native ingredients into polished dishes that feel inventive yet grounded in tradition. Beautiful plating, thoughtful textures and carefully balanced flavors give each course a sense of occasion, while the refined setting makes the experience celebratory without becoming formal or distant. Mayta is an excellent choice for travelers who want to discover modern Peruvian cuisine through a chef’s confident personal vision: creative, sustainable, proudly local and designed to be remembered.
Price category: $$$$
Mérito
Ranked No.26 in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025, Mérito is an intimate Barranco dining room where chef Juan Luis Martínez brings the flavors of his native Venezuela into a deeply personal conversation with Peru. Familiar ingredients are transformed through fire, fermentation and precise technique, producing dishes that are generous, surprising and full of character. The open kitchen and warm two-level space create a sense of closeness: sophisticated cooking without stiffness, served with genuine hospitality. Mérito is ideal for travelers who want a world-class experience that feels discovered rather than staged—a graceful meeting of two culinary cultures, expressed with originality, soul and remarkable balance.
Price category: $$$
Complete Your Signature Evening
A world-class tasting menu is the centerpiece of your evening. If time allows, complete the experience with a scenic stop or a final taste of Lima, adapted to your restaurant location, finishing time and preferred pace.
Scenic Lima Stop
Dessert & Coffee Finale
Pisco Nightcap
If timing, traffic and location allow, we will take you to a nearby scenic viewpoint or landmark chosen around your restaurant. Enjoy one final glimpse of Lima’s Pacific coastline, illuminated architecture or neighborhood charm before we return you safely to your hotel or agreed destination.
If you would like something sweet, we can take you to a nearby café or dessert destination—or surprise you with a Buddy Lima recommendation—for Peruvian coffee, artisanal chocolate, a soothing infusion or one final indulgence, when timing and location allow.
End the evening with a carefully chosen Pisco Sour or another Peruvian cocktail at a refined bar near your restaurant, when timing and location allow.
Ready to Complete Your Signature Evening?
What’s Included
PLEASE NOTE:
Finale stops are subject to location, hours, and seat openings. Meals and drinks must be paid for independently unless outlined in your package.
These optional extensions are discussed with your driver during the experience and depend on your dining time, location, traffic, operating hours and availability. They cannot be reserved in advance and are not guaranteed.
Three curated food tastings at selected locations