Photo: Callao 24Best Peruvian Restaurants in Madrid
Introduction
The Madrid Peruvian & Nikkei List We Send to Friends
Tampu, in Justicia, is the only kitchen on this list holding both a Michelin Selected listing and a Repsol Recomendado, run by chef Miguel Ángel Valdiviezo. Thirteen Peruvian, nikkei and chifa kitchens made this list, from a Chinese-Peruvian chifa spot in Ríos Rosas to a rooftop tasting counter on the fourth floor of The Madrid EDITION hotel. Chef Mario Céspedes runs two restaurants here. Peru's cooking shows up in several forms across Madrid: straight cocina criolla, nikkei (the Japanese-Peruvian fusion), and chifa (the Chinese-Peruvian one).
The short answer
Key Picks at a Glance
In a hurry? These are the essential picks from our full ranking below.
- Best overallTampu
Michelin Selected and Repsol Recomendado, chef Miguel Ángel Valdiviezo's narrative-menu Peruvian kitchen in Justicia.
- Best chifa specialistChifa
the Gil brothers' Chinese-Peruvian kitchen, with dishes like black chaufa rice and a beef-cheek red curry from their Sudestada days.
- Best for a date nightQuispe
An intimate, elegant Recoletos room.
- Best nikkei-Asturian fusionRonda 14
Chef Mario Céspedes's three-way fusion of Peru, Japan and Asturias, since 2011 in Avilés and 2015 in Madrid.
- Best splurgeOroya
Chef Diego Muñoz's tasting-style rooftop kitchen on the fourth floor of The Madrid EDITION hotel.
- Best on a budgetPonja Nikkei
Nikkei nigiri in Justicia for under about €25 a person.
Before you order
A Guide to Peruvian & Nikkei in Madrid
What's nikkei cooking?
Nikkei is the fusion cuisine that developed from Japanese immigration to Peru, joining Japanese technique and raw-fish preparation to Peruvian ingredients like ají amarillo, rocoto and leche de tigre. Ceviche and tiradito both sit at the crossover point between the two traditions.
What's chifa cooking?
Chifa is the fusion cuisine that grew out of Chinese immigration to Peru in the 19th century, blending Cantonese technique with Peruvian ingredients. Arroz chaufa, a Peruvian fried rice, and lomo saltado, a stir-fried beef dish, are two of its best-known results.
What's the difference between ceviche and tiradito?
Ceviche is raw fish cut into cubes and marinated in leche de tigre (tiger's milk), a citrus-based marinade, usually with onion and chili. Tiradito is sliced thinner, in the style of Japanese sashimi, and dressed rather than fully marinated, a legacy of nikkei cooking's influence on the wider Peruvian kitchen.
What's cocina criolla?
Cocina criolla is Peru's everyday, home-style cooking: guisos (stews), saltados (stir-fries) and dishes built for sharing, like ají de gallina and lomo saltado, rather than the composed plates of a tasting menu.
What's a causa?
Causa is a cold, layered dish built on mashed yellow potato seasoned with ají amarillo and lime, usually filled with tuna, chicken or seafood and topped with avocado. It's one of the most common starters at a Peruvian restaurant.
How We Built This List
Years of Eating, Asking, and Going Back
We started from the Madrid restaurants we've profiled tagged Peruvian, chifa or nikkei, then checked which ones showed up across food sites covering Peruvian restaurants in Madrid. Three sites, Madrid Secreto, El Blog de Celeste and Con El Morro Fino, were fetchable and gave us a consensus list; two others that turned up in search results, Elle and Esquire, wouldn't load for us, so we didn't count them. We also added Chifa, a chifa-specialist restaurant all three fetchable sources named that wasn't in our original Peruvian shortlist; its own page confirmed the cuisine fits. A few restaurants named repeatedly, including Inti de Oro (cited by all three sources) and El Inca, don't have a Guidavera page yet, so they're not here; we've listed them as gaps rather than guessing at their menus. One restaurant, La Cuadra de Salvador, was called Peruvian by one source, but our own data frames it as a straight steakhouse with no Peruvian dishes on record, so we left it off.
More on how we rank: our methodology and quality standards.
At a glance
The 13 Best Peruvian & Nikkei Restaurants, Compared
Quick reference table. Click any name to jump to the full review.
| # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tampu | Justicia | €€€ | Repsol Recommended | Mussels in mojito granita with sweet potato threads |
| 2 | Chifa | Ríos Rosas | €€ | — | Filipino-style bonito escabeche |
| 3 | Quispe | Recoletos | €€€ | — | Cebiche Clásico |
| 4 | Ronda 14 | Castellana | €€ | Repsol Recommended | Salmon tartare with crispy plantain |
| 5 | Llama Inn | Chueca | €€ | Repsol Recommended | Oyster, rocoto chili and tomato vinaigrette |
| 6 | Cilindro | Lista | €€ | Repsol Recommended | Tiradito with cheese sauce and roasted plantain |
| 7 | Lima Nikkei | Castillejos | €€ | Repsol Recommended | Nikkei tuna tataki nigiri |
| 8 | Callao 24 | San Juan Bautista | €€ | — | Papa a la Huancaína |
| 9 | Gaman | Barrio del Parral | €€€ | — | — |
| 10 | Mikuna | Arapiles | €€ | — | Causa Limeña |
| 11 | Mis Tradiciones | Acacias | €€ | — | Papa Rellena |
| 12 | Oroya | Sol | €€€ | — | Whipped huacatay butter |
| 13 | Ponja Nikkei | Justicia | € | — | Hotate & Caviar nigiri |
The ranking
13 Best Peruvian & Nikkei Restaurants in Madrid
Tampu


1. Tampu — Michelin Selected and Repsol-listed, chef Miguel Ángel Valdiviezo's narrative-menu kitchen
Tampu takes its name from the Quechua word for inn or lodging, which tracks: chef Miguel Ángel Valdiviezo, who trained in the first cohort of Le Cordon Bleu in Lima, started the restaurant modestly in Prosperidad before moving it to Calle de Prim in Justicia. Chef Miguel Ángel Valdiviezo opened it in 2011. The menu reads in narrative chapters rather than plain sections, and it holds both a Michelin Selected listing and a Repsol Recomendado, a rare double among the Peruvian kitchens on this list. Expect mussels in mojito granita with sweet potato threads, ceviche served in four variations, and a tamal carabinero, plated in a room that runs from a bar area through three private rooms to a main salon done in wicker, wood and warm gold. Macarfi puts the typical spend at around €55 per person before drinks.
“A la búsqueda del sabor”— Con El Morro Fino
Chifa


2. Chifa — Chinese-Peruvian chifa from the Gil brothers, formerly of Sudestada
Chifa is run by brothers Julián and Luis Miguel Gil, the team behind the former Sudestada, on Calle de Modesto Lafuente in Ríos Rosas. The idea is chifa, the fusion Chinese-Peruvian food that grew out of Chinese migration to Peru, though the menu pushes past a single lane: Filipino-style bonito escabeche, chicken and huitlacoche empanadillas, a scallop aguachile and brisket tacos, alongside a more straightforward arroz chaufa and black chaufa rice. The carta runs to 14 dishes plus three daily specials, with a beef-cheek red curry carried over from Sudestada, and it's open every day for lunch and dinner. Spend runs €26 to €50 a person.
“fusiona la gastronomía peruana con la china cantonesa”— El Blog de Celeste
Quispe

3. Quispe — Elegant Recoletos ceviche room
Quispe serves Peruvian food, both traditional and modern-creative, on Calle Conde de Aranda in Recoletos, the grand-boulevard stretch of Madrid between Plaza de Cibeles and Puerta de Alcalá where the eating tends to lean formal. The room matches the address: intimate, elegant, warmly lit, good for a date or a table of friends. The cebiche section alone runs three ways: a Clásico in the house's own leche de tigre, a Cebiche Quispe built on corvina and crispy fried calamari in ají amarillo leche de tigre, and a Verde de Corvina marinated in a cilantro-based tiger's milk. One food blog we checked frames the kitchen's whole project as showing off the cultural and gastronomic diversity of Peru.
“la diversidad cultural y gastronómica de Perú”— El Blog de Celeste
Ronda 14


4. Ronda 14 — Peruvian nikkei with an Asturian thread, since 2011 in Avilés
Ronda 14 started in Avilés, Asturias, in 2011, when chef Mario Céspedes and Conchi Álvarez set out to fuse Asturian cooking with Peruvian nikkei; this Madrid room, on Calle General Oráa in Castellana, opened in 2015 and it's listed in the Guía Repsol. The idea holds across both locations: Peru, Japan and Asturias on one menu, gyozas and baos next to tiraditos and sushi, and Asturian stews lifted with Peruvian ají amarillo. On the carta: a salmon tartare with crispy plantain, a tiradito in yellow chili cream, a nikkei ceviche with sweet potato purée, and a huancaína-style Russian salad, a Spanish tapa reworked with Peruvian huancaína sauce. Two of the food blogs we checked for this guide cite it as a distinctive three-way fusion, uniting the best of Peru, Japan and Asturias.
“atrevida fusión entre la cocina peruana, japonesa y asturiana”— El Blog de Celeste
Llama Inn


5. Llama Inn — Brooklyn-born Peruvian neobistro, relaunched in 2026 under chef Luis Cornejo
Llama Inn opened in Chueca on 15 October 2022 as the Madrid branch of the Brooklyn original, founded by chef Erik Ramírez and his business partner Juan Correa, and it's listed in the Guía Repsol. Executive chef Luis Cornejo, from Piura in northern Peru, led the kitchen at opening and returned in 2026 to shorten the carta and rebuild it as what he calls a neobistró of Peruvian migration, pulling on Creole, Amazonian, Andean and Nikkei strands of the country's cooking. The snacks section runs an oyster with rocoto chili and tomato vinaigrette, a brioche with fish brandada and huacatay crème fraîche, and two anticuchos, one with cabbage, saikyo miso and quinoa furikake, one with char siu presa and pickled ajíes. Desserts lean on lucuma and Oxapampa honey, ingredients with real Peruvian roots rather than a generic tropical stand-in.
Cilindro


6. Cilindro — Chef Mario Céspedes's fusión kitchen, built around pollo a la brasa
Cilindro is chef Mario Céspedes's other Madrid kitchen, the same chef behind Ronda 14, on Calle Don Ramón de la Cruz in Lista, the quiet residential stretch of Salamanca. It opened in 2018. It's listed in the Guía Repsol, and the house leans into cocina fusión rather than one straight regional style, running catering and events across Madrid and Asturias on the side. The carta runs a tiradito with cheese sauce and roasted plantain, a green ceviche built on huacatay and mango, and a causa topped with fried fish, alongside a dedicated Carta de Pollos built around pollo a la brasa, a section most of the other kitchens on this list don't have. It's open Tuesday to Sunday, closed Mondays.
“Perú más criollo”— Con El Morro Fino
Lima Nikkei


7. Lima Nikkei — Embarcadero 41's Spanish outpost, seafood-heavy nikkei €26 to €50 a head
Lima Nikkei is the Spanish outpost of Embarcadero 41, a group that picked Madrid as its way into Europe, and it's listed in the Guía Repsol. It opened in June 2023 as the first European restaurant of Peru's Embarcadero 41 group, with Lima-born chef Tito Bravo in the kitchen. It trades in Castillejos, in the Tetán district, on nikkei food, the Japanese-Peruvian fusion, with the emphasis squarely on seafood. The nigiri list carries the fusion furthest: a nikkei tuna tataki, a truffled scallop with caviar, a nikkei chargrilled salmon, and an A5 wagyu nigiri, alongside a green tiradito of scallop and hamachi. It's set up for groups and built around cocktails, and a meal runs €26 to €50 a person. One food blog we checked calls it a meeting point between the culinary cultures of Peru and Japan.
“punto de encuentro entre las culturas culinarias de Perú y Japón”— El Blog de Celeste
Callao 24


8. Callao 24 — Chef Jhosef Arias's home-style cocina criolla in Ciudad Lineal
Callao 24 is chef Jhosef Arias's Peruvian kitchen out in Arturo Soria, in Ciudad Lineal beyond central Madrid, framing its food around what the house calls the seasoning of his mother, doña Ana, filtered through some restaurant technique. It leans into cocina criolla, the home-style branch of Peruvian cooking: guisos, saltados and family recipes like ají de gallina and lomo saltado. Starters run a papa a la huancaína, a papita rellena, and bombitas, fried yucca balls with cheese and avocado. It's dog-friendly and set up for groups and families, sitting mid-to-upper on the price range. One food blog we checked for this guide describes its menu as built on dishes belonging to Peruvian home-style cooking.
“platos propios de la comida criolla peruana”— Madrid Secreto
Gaman9. Gaman — Tasting-menu nikkei cooking tucked into Salamanca
Gaman cooks in the Barrio del Parral area of Salamanca, working around a tasting menu rather than an à la carte spread. Chef Luis Arévalo opened it in 2018, in the same premises where he had launched Kena four years earlier. Its own web address describes the cooking as cocina nikkei, the Japanese-Peruvian tradition, though the venue frames the food more broadly as Peruvian. It's open for lunch and dinner every day except Sunday, when it switches to lunch only, and booking runs through CoverManager. One food blog we checked for this guide calls the kitchen's nikkei cooking well made without singling out specific dishes, a sign of a kitchen that's more about the tasting-menu format than any one headline plate.
“cocina nikkei bien elaborada”— El Blog de Celeste
Mikuna


10. Mikuna — Chef Luis De Los Ríos's northern-Peru ceviche and anticucho kitchen
Mikuna is chef Luis De Los Ríos's own restaurant on Calle Galileo in the Arapiles corner of Chamberí; its name is the Quechua word for food, for the body and the soul. De Los Ríos was born in Chimbote, north of Lima, and grew up cooking alongside his mother and grandmother before working his way through kitchens in Peru and Madrid, including Tanta under Gastón Acurio. The short carta guards the flavours of northern Peru, from ceviche to anticucho, then folds in Asian seasonings and Mediterranean ingredients: a causa limeña with tuna, mayonnaise and togarashi, and a causa nikkei with salmon, nori seaweed and rocoto. There's a terrace, and it works for groups and families. One food blog we checked describes the cooking as rooted in Peruvian tradition, principally from the country's north.
“la tradición del Perú, principalmente del norte del país”— El Blog de Celeste
Mis Tradiciones11. Mis Tradiciones — Traditional Peruvian home cooking, two locations across Arganzuela and Imperial
Mis Tradiciones runs two locations, this one on Paseo de las Yeserías in the Acacias corner of Arganzuela and a second in the Imperial area of Madrid, both built around traditional Peruvian cooking rather than a fusion angle. The kitchen keeps to ceviche and tiraditos, parrillada and pollo a la brasa, and starters run a papa rellena and a causa limeña, with a chilcano de maracuyá on the cocktail list. It's set up for groups and families, with a terrace and step-free access. One food blog we checked for this guide describes it as home cooking without much artifice, a fair read of a menu that doesn't chase novelty.
“comida casera y sin mucho artificio”— Madrid Secreto
Oroya


12. Oroya — Rooftop Peruvian at The Madrid EDITION, chef Diego Muñoz
Oroya sits on the fourth floor of The Madrid EDITION hotel on Plaza de Celenque in Sol, with a pisco bar attached and a summer terrace above; alabaster lanterns and heavy greenery give the room its Amazonian look. Chef Diego Muñoz runs the kitchen, with the menu seasonally co-adapted alongside chef Danitza Alpaca, and the pisco bar is curated by Matteo Bernardo. The bread service opens with a rustic red quinoa bread and whipped huacatay butter, and the raw and ceviche section runs to oysters with capon, pickled vegetables, tiger's milk and toasted peanuts. Further in, look for fried sweetbreads with veal jus and a 40-hour braised short rib. It sits in the top price bracket on this list, €51 to €100 a person, alongside Quispe and Gaman.
Ponja Nikkei


13. Ponja Nikkei — Budget-friendly nikkei near Mercado de San Antón
Ponja Nikkei cooks in Justicia, near the Mercado de San Antón, and both the name and the food come from the Peruvian-Japanese nikkei tradition. The kitchen's own framing starts from the essence of Peruvian cooking, its mix of cultures and history, and works it through Japanese technique. The nigiri list carries names like Hotate & Caviar, a Norwegian salmon aburi, and a Tuna Perucho. Spend runs under about €25 a person, one of the cheaper nikkei kitchens on this list, and it's a busy, well-reviewed spot on Calle del Almirante. One food blog we checked for this guide describes its goal simply: to bring nikkei cooking to Madrid.
“acercar a Madrid la cocina Nikkei”— El Blog de Celeste
Also worth trying
Honourable Mentions

Ají y Sillao
Quintana
Peruvian-Cantonese chifa fusion in Ciudad Lineal, from ceviche of wild Atlantic corvina to chifa-style roast duck.

Mítiko
Castillejos
Nikkei ceviches, tiraditos and robata skewers on a lively Castillejos terrace.

Osaka Nikkei
Castellana
Nikkei from a group that started in Lima in 2002 and reached Madrid in 2025, with an attached pisco bar; €51 to €100 a person.

El Mono de la Pila
Embajadores
A small Embajadores cevichería making ceviches fresh to order with original sauces.

Sakura Maru
Almagro
Family-friendly Almagro nikkei spot for ceviche, causa and maki.

Abrazzas
San Isidro
Traditional Peruvian cooking in Carabanchel, framed by its owners as a meeting of Spanish and Peruvian cultures.
The bigger picture
The Peruvian & Nikkei Scene in Madrid
Peruvian food arrived in Madrid well before the current wave of interest, and this list reflects a few different eras and neighbourhoods rather than one centre of gravity. Tampu, Quispe and Llama Inn cluster in and around Justicia, Chueca and Recoletos in central Madrid, while Lima Nikkei sits further north in Tetán's Castillejos area. Mario Céspedes brought his Asturian-nikkei idea south from Avilés with Ronda 14 and Cilindro, both now in Salamanca. Further out, Callao 24 in Ciudad Lineal and Mis Tradiciones in Arganzuela serve a more home-style, cocina criolla version of the cuisine, and Oroya, on the fourth floor of The Madrid EDITION hotel in Sol, represents the high end, with chef Diego Muñoz's tasting-style approach. Nikkei and chifa, Peru's two major fusion traditions with Japan and China, both turn up repeatedly across the list.
Practical tips
Know before you go
A short survival guide for eating peruvian & nikkei in Madrid— everything we wish we’d known on our first trip.
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Nikkei, chifa or criollo, know what you're booking
Not every restaurant on this list cooks the same style of Peruvian food. Nikkei kitchens like Lima Nikkei and Ponja Nikkei lean on raw fish and Japanese technique, Chifa brings in Cantonese-style stir-fries and fried rice, and places like Callao 24 and Mis Tradiciones stick to home-style cocina criolla. Check the carta before you book if you have a specific dish in mind.
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One chef, two restaurants
Chef Mario Céspedes runs both Ronda 14 in Castellana and Cilindro in Lista. If you like one, the other is worth checking too.
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Budget varies a lot
Menu prices on this list range from under €25 a person at Lima Nikkei and Ponja Nikkei to €51 to €100 a person at Quispe, Oroya and Gaman. Check the venue's own site before you book if price matters.
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Some of the busiest kitchens book up
Reserve ahead, especially on weekends.
Know the terms
Glossary
The vocabulary you need to order peruvian & nikkei in Madrid like a local.
- Ceviche
- Raw fish or seafood cured in citrus juice, typically with onion, chili and cilantro.
- Leche de tigre
- The citrus-based marinade left over from making ceviche, often served as a drink or sauce on its own.
- Tiradito
- Peruvian raw fish sliced thin, sashimi-style, and dressed rather than fully marinated, showing nikkei cooking's influence.
- Nikkei
- The fusion cuisine that developed from Japanese immigration to Peru, blending Japanese technique with Peruvian ingredients.
- Chifa
- The fusion cuisine that developed from Chinese immigration to Peru, blending Cantonese technique with Peruvian ingredients.
- Causa
- A cold, layered dish of mashed potato seasoned with ají amarillo, usually filled with tuna, chicken or seafood.
- Anticucho
- Skewered, marinated and grilled meat, traditionally beef heart, though the format now covers other cuts and seafood too.
- Cocina criolla
- Peru's everyday home cooking: guisos (stews), saltados (stir-fries) and dishes meant for sharing.
- Ají amarillo
- A Peruvian yellow chili pepper, one of the base ingredients of Peruvian cooking.
- Chilcano
- A Peruvian cocktail built on pisco, ginger ale and lime.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
All restaurants on this list were independently verified as open and serving the dishes described as of .
What's nikkei food, and where can I try it in Madrid?
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Nikkei is the Peruvian-Japanese fusion born from Japanese migration to Peru. On this list, Ronda 14 blends it with Asturian cooking and Lima Nikkei leans into seafood-forward nigiri.
What's chifa food, and which Madrid restaurants serve it?
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Chifa is Peru's Chinese fusion cuisine, built from 19th-century Chinese migration to Peru. Chifa, in Ríos Rosas, is named directly for the style and runs dishes like black chaufa rice and kung pao chicken.
Which Peruvian restaurant in Madrid holds a Michelin distinction?
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Tampu, in Justicia, carries a Michelin Selected listing alongside a Repsol Recomendado, a rare double among the Peruvian kitchens on this list. Chef Miguel Ángel Valdiviezo trained in the first cohort of Le Cordon Bleu in Lima.
Where can I get a budget-friendly Peruvian meal in Madrid?
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Lima Nikkei and Ponja Nikkei both run menu prices under about €25 a person. Lima Nikkei is the Spanish outpost of the Embarcadero 41 group in Tetán; Ponja Nikkei is a nigiri-focused nikkei spot in Justicia near the Mercado de San Antón.
What's cocina criolla, and which Madrid restaurant specialises in it?
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Cocina criolla is Peru's home-style, everyday cooking: guisos and saltados rather than tasting-menu plates. Callao 24, run by chef Jhosef Arias in Ciudad Lineal, frames its whole menu around it, with dishes like ají de gallina and lomo saltado.
Is there a high-end, tasting-menu Peruvian restaurant in Madrid?
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Oroya, on the fourth floor of The Madrid EDITION hotel in Sol, sits in the top price bracket on this list at €51 to €100 a person, led by chef Diego Muñoz with a menu co-adapted alongside chef Danitza Alpaca. Gaman, in Salamanca, also runs a tasting-menu format built on nikkei cooking.
What's the difference between ceviche and tiradito?
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Ceviche is cut into cubes and marinated in leche de tigre with onion. Tiradito is sliced thinner, sashimi-style, and dressed rather than marinated. Several restaurants on this list serve both, including Ronda 14 and Cilindro.
Are there two Peruvian restaurants in Madrid from the same chef?
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Yes. Chef Mario Céspedes runs both Ronda 14 and Cilindro.
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