Ayacucho
It’s been around longer than most and the youth of today prefer the newer venues but this bar-gallery still has local art, beer, pizza and great music.
Ayacucho
It’s been around longer than most and the youth of today prefer the newer venues but this bar-gallery still has local art, beer, pizza and great music.
Ayacucho
An intriguing mix of cocktails are served, DJs provide the music (reggaetón, salsa) most nights and the atmosphere is buzzing.
Amazon Basin
A great, lively bar playing pop and rock from the last 30-odd years. It does karaoke and has a dance floor.
Lima
Cushy leather armchairs, flat-screen TVs for sports fans, and tantalizing soul food make you feel at home the moment you walk into this pub. Serving up a…
Lima
Lounge in a stunning restored casona full of Moorish architectural flourishes and hyper-real decor, including a dangling mobile made with costumes used in…
Lima
Located in the vibrant district of Barranco, this low-key bar offers up artisanal beer and cocktails to warm up your night. Settle in at cozy indoor…
Lima
Facing the Plaza San Martín from the Gran Hotel Bolívar, this frayed yet bustling spot is known as ‘La Catedral del Pisco’ for purveying some of the first…
Huaraz
If you’re hankering to restore life to your numb hiking legs, this is the most popular disco in town, complete with dance-floor trees and loads of nooks…
Arequipa
Two bars split into upstairs and downstairs (with no ground level). Both are dark, narrow and popular with locals who like to kick-start the night with a…
Puno
If you want to see how young locals get down, this is the place. Multileveled mayhem, a karaoke lounge, a dance floor that explodes to salsa, reggaetón …
Lima
Facing the park, this second-story cocktail bar is another outlet of this small chain started by an American pisco lover. Fabulous, inventive pisco…
Cuzco
Run by a motorcycle enthusiast, this unassuming expat-style bar overlooks the Plaza de Armas. It’s a boon for people-watching, if you can get a balcony…
Cuzco
Though it may change names, this place usually has the most up-to-the-minute electronic music collection, with trance, house and hip-hop mixed in with…
South Coast
A postmodern bar that looks like it has drifted across from Arica, Chile, Mushna attracts a fun young crowd and is a good place for a night out in the…
Arequipa
This Middle Eastern–themed bar with stained-glass windows and overstuffed couches serves up exotic liquor concoctions, beers and jet-fuel coffee. Falafel,…
Cuzco
Spanish for hideout, this odd, perfectly named little bar is stripped of pretensions. In its dim interior you'll find a bohemian crowd listening to live…
Cuzco
This cramped little Irish pub is packed with random memorabilia, TVs, a working train-set and homesick European travelers eating excellent-value hot…
Arequipa
There’s dancing by 8pm on a Saturday night in this youthful upstairs pub/club a block from the main square, with enough sectioned-off parts to find your…
Puno
With a classic-rock soundtrack, grungy cool bartenders, cocktails, pizzas and liquor-infused coffee drinks essential for staying warm during Puno’s bone…
Cañón Del Colca
The tiny cappuccino machine in this diminutive ‘three’s-a-crowd’ cafe takes the conscientious barista about 10 minutes to manipulate, but your Peruvian…
Lima
Another vintage bar renowned for popularizing pisco sours. Intimate and old-world, it’s lined with stained-glass windows and tended by a battalion of bow…
Arequipa
Nordic-style pub with Union Jack flags, happy-hour cocktails and plenty of locals and expats chatting away. Live bands play at 9:30pm and 11pm most nights…
Lima
You can’t miss the enormous, brightly colored flags that hang over this boisterous outdoor Brazilian bar-cafe where the cachaça flows like water.
Puno
This rock and reggae travelers’ haunt is usually buzzing. The enthusiastic young staff all dream of being DJs someday, and relaxed service lives up to the…
Puno
Travelers and locals alike gravitate to this tiny, ultraviolet dance floor above a restaurant, splashed with psychedelic murals. It moves to a thumping…
Arequipa
Where would any city be without its themed Irish pub? Tucked behind the cathedral, this gringo haven has – guess what? – pricey Guinness and English beers…
Ollantaytambo
Treehouse meets circus meets Batman! The hallucinatory decor in tiny, friendly Ganso is enough to drive anyone to drink. A firemen’s pole and swing seats…