Just as hotels sprung up to cater to the tourists, so have restaurants. Little cafés serving cheap Peruvian fare dot the railroad tracks, and vegetarian options, meat dishes, buffets and pizza joints line Pachacútec on the way to the hot springs. Again, prices tend to be a little higher due to the town's popularity with tourists traveling to Machu Picchu, so be prepared to pay a little more in some restaurants.
One of several restaurants alongside the railroad tracks on Imperios de los Incas, the advantages of this eatery are: 1) its attractive location; 2) its small seating capacity--36--ensuring relatively quick service; and 3) its low prices, particularly in Aguas Calientes. The selection offered is...
This restaurant has style to spare, from the stained and varnished logs holding up its roof to the combination of dyed cotton and black leather tablecloths on its tables to the sheepskins on it its benches, El Charro is fun simply to look at. They offer Peruvian, Mexican and Italian dishes, with...
Toto's House Restaurant is virtually defined by bigness in all of its aspect. It is one of the largest restaurants in all of Peru, with a seating capacity for 400. Its main feature is a huge buffet featuring an all-you-can eat cornucopia of just about everything Toto's can prepare. And the...
As a restaurant, Indi Feliz has acquired a reputation--not just in Aguas Calientes, but in all of Peru--that is nothing less than legendary. In ten years they have won eight prizes, including, in two consecutive years, top honors in a national contest as Peruvian Business of the Year. It is the...
This standard but very decent restaurant on Manco Capac Plaza offers standard Peruvian food along with, of course, the universal favourite, pizza. There is an amusing touch in terms of its look: sitting on every table there are folk-art dolls representing classical stereotypes of rural Peruvians,...