{"id":2115380,"date":"2026-10-19T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/?p=2115380"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:07:47","slug":"peru-50-best-restaurants-lima-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/peru-50-best-restaurants-lima-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"In Lima, Peru moves from guest to host of the world ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 4 November 2026, Lima will host The World’s 50 Best Restaurants for the first time \u2014 the first staging of the ceremony in South America, and the consecration of a country that has placed two establishments at the top of the ranking in three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two crowns in three years<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Central was named best restaurant in the world in 2023; Maido succeeded it at the top of the ranking in 2025. Within three years, Peru has become the only Latin American country to have taken two different establishments to first place in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants \u2014 a concentration of recognition that no other country in the region has matched over so short a period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hosting rather than competing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

4 November marks a change of status more than one more prize: Peru no longer merely sends candidates to a ceremony organised elsewhere, it becomes its host. The programme planned in Lima for the week \u2014 50Best Talks, 50 Best Signature Sessions, dinners bringing together international chefs, Chefs’ Feast, the awards ceremony \u2014 physically shifts the centre of gravity of a ranking born, and long administered, from Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A terroir claimed as a method<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The press release attributes this success to the richness of the Peruvian terroir: from Lima’s colourful markets to the traditional picanter\u00edas, from the Pacific coast to the Amazon, each region has a distinct culinary identity, nourished by one of the richest biodiversities in the world. This geographical diversity, rather than a picturesque extra, appears to be the real raw material on which the international recognition of Peruvian cuisine was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gastronomy as tourism policy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to PROMPER\u00da, the national tourism promotion agency, gastronomy is among the main motivations of the international travellers who choose Peru, particularly among Millennials and Generation X. Hosting The World’s 50 Best Restaurants is therefore not only a matter of culinary pride: it is an openly acknowledged instrument of tourism policy, in which the ranking becomes a lever of attractiveness on a par with an archaeological site or a nature reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Lima does not yet say<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It remains to be seen whether this first South American staging of the ceremony will durably alter the geography of the ranking itself, or whether it will remain an isolated episode celebrating a country already honoured twice. 4 November will settle less the question of the best table in the world than that of who, from now on, holds the power to name it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bridge of Sighs in the Barranco district<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jir\u00f2n Conde de Superunda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plaza Mayor in Lima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jir\u00f2n Conde de Superunda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Central restaurant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Raw fish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creole cuisine of the coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creole cuisine of the coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Creole cuisine, anticuchos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Octopus grilled over purple corn charcoal. Central restaurant, by chef Virgilio Mart\u00ednez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plaza de Armas in Lima<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tourist on the Malec\u00f3n de Miraflores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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El Faro Park in Miraflores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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FERIA PER\u00da MUCHO GUSTO LIMA 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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FERIA PER\u00da MUCHO GUSTO LIMA 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Facilities of the new Jorge Ch\u00e1vez Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Facilities of the new Jorge Ch\u00e1vez Airport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tasting of dishes at the Kjolle restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tasting of dishes at the Kjolle restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tasting of dishes at the Kjolle restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tasting of dishes at the Kjolle restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tasting of typical dishes at the Nikkei restaurant Maido<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tasting of typical dishes at the Nikkei restaurant Maido<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Preparation of Pisco cocktails at the Carnaval bar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plaza Miguel Grau in Callao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Malec\u00f3n de Miraflores<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 4 November 2026, Lima will host The World’s 50 Best Restaurants for the first time \u2014 the first staging of the ceremony in South America, and the consecration of a country that has placed two establishments at the top of the ranking in three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":2071931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30409,70532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gastronomy","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}