Lima London

LIMA serves Peruvian cuisine in a contemporary style, it is located in the heart of Fitzrovia on Rathbone Place.

LIMA London | Michelin Star Peruvian Restaurant | London, Fitzrovia

Availability shown on our website is up to date but automatic and so we can sometimes make manual adjustments to fit tables in.If you can’t find the time you would like, please call the restaurant on +44 20 3002 2640.

To book a table of 7 or more, please call the restaurant.

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Lima, 31 Rathbone Place, London W1 | The Independent

Suddenly nouveau-Peruve is all over London: there's Ceviche in Frith Street, Soho; Tierra Peru in Islington – and now Lima, a collaboration between two entrepreneurial Venezuelan brothers, Gabriel and Jose Luis Gonzalez, and Virgilio Martinez, a Peruvian chef who owns Central, the highest-profile eaterie in the Peruvian capital.

The menu starts with eight small dishes that mingle classic ceviches (fish marinated in citric fruit) and tiraditos (cuts of raw fish somewhere between sashimi and carpaccio) and causa potato dishes, with more familiar hors d'oeuvres: duck with foie gras, artichokes with fava beans.

My salmon tiradito, tenderised with tiger's milk (a concoction of lime, ginger, coriander and herbs) was smothered in rocoto pepper, given a line of green samphire and a lick of ginger.

Around us, I couldn't help notice, other dishes were similarly striking to look at: a sea bream ceviche as pink as a fairy's armpit, duck crudo served like a tiny island with yellow sand and cress foliage, a pink sea-bass causa on a green slab of avocado with dots of yellow potato purée.

We ended the meal in a flurry of potent digestifs – a coffee with pisco vanilla, cognac and orange peel, a sweet hybrid of Cointreau and amaretto with cherries drenched in almond essence – and agreed it had been well worth travelling all the way to north Oxford Street to encounter modern Peruvian cuisine and be startled by its flavours, its zingy colours, its unexpectedness, and the charm of the waiters.

Peruvian Promise: Restaurant Review

Tuck into LIMA Fitzrovia's all-new menu, inspired by the team's travels in Peru LIMA Fitzrovia has elevated Peruvian cuisine to new fine dining heights in London, and when my guest and I dine here, it’s easy to see why it has retained its Michelin star, first awarded in 2013.

Discoveries from the trip are to be found on the new menu, which launched in early October and includes white and blue sweet potatoes, types of seaweed native to the country’s shoreline, the racacha root (most similar in flavour to carrot and celery) and coffee that boasts unusual hints of banana and beetroot.

My seafood loving guest begins with a razor clam variety of tiradito – a raw dish that can only be described as the child of sashimi and ceviche, but as a true British potato-lover, I’m keen to explore some of the thousands of varieties native to Peru.

My guest meanwhile opts for the lamb with lavender, coffee and pomegranate, and both dishes surpass our starters thanks to the complex but perfectly balanced flavours and skilfully cooked meat.

Topped with golden crumbs of bee pollen, the dish delivers a sweet ending to our tour of a cuisine that LIMA is doing a superb job of representing.

Peruvian restaurant Lima wins Michelin star - Telegraph

Barely less drool-worthy was scallop tiradito (a kind of Peruvian sushi) with yellow aji pepper, umami salt and cassava powder.

Braised octopus with white quinoa was also superb, the blandness of the gastropod cut with red shiso (the sharp oriental herb often served with sushi and sashimi) and a purée of Botija olive, which justified its reputation as the most flavourful olive on earth (with the arguable exception of Olive from On the Buses).

Suckling pig “andes” matched the sweetest, juiciest pork, with lashings of crackling, to giant corn, cress, piquillo pepper and green rocoto chilli.

Halibut “chalaca” saw a large, delectably buttery fillet accompanied by another vividly colourful medley of corn, yellow aji pepper, avocado oil and Muna mint.

This was topped with blobs of velvety, ricotta-infused mashed potato, and – for colour and textural contrast – dollops of black quinoa and red aji panca (yet another pepper).

Lima (restaurant) - Wikipedia

Lima is a restaurant in London, England, which serves Peruvian cuisine.

In 2014, it was awarded a Michelin star, the first time a restaurant serving this cuisine had been awarded a star in Europe.

[3] Martínez Véliz is the chef at Central Restaurante in Lima, Peru, which was named 5th in the 2017 The World's 50 Best Restaurants.

[2] He described the lamb shoulder dish as "amazingly soft, the meat meltingly fibrous" and thought the accompaniment of poached grapes on black quinoa gave a suitable contrast.

[1] It was the first time a restaurant serving Peruvian cuisine in Europe had been awarded a Michelin star.

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Lima, 31 Rathbone Place, London W1 | The Independent

Suddenly nouveau-Peruve is all over London: there's Ceviche in Frith Street, Soho; Tierra Peru in Islington – and now Lima, a collaboration between two entrepreneurial Venezuelan brothers, Gabriel and Jose Luis Gonzalez, and Virgilio Martinez, a Peruvian chef who owns Central, the highest-profile eaterie in the Peruvian capital.

The menu starts with eight small dishes that mingle classic ceviches (fish marinated in citric fruit) and tiraditos (cuts of raw fish somewhere between sashimi and carpaccio) and causa potato dishes, with more familiar hors d'oeuvres: duck with foie gras, artichokes with fava beans.

My salmon tiradito, tenderised with tiger's milk (a concoction of lime, ginger, coriander and herbs) was smothered in rocoto pepper, given a line of green samphire and a lick of ginger.

Around us, I couldn't help notice, other dishes were similarly striking to look at: a sea bream ceviche as pink as a fairy's armpit, duck crudo served like a tiny island with yellow sand and cress foliage, a pink sea-bass causa on a green slab of avocado with dots of yellow potato purée.

We ended the meal in a flurry of potent digestifs – a coffee with pisco vanilla, cognac and orange peel, a sweet hybrid of Cointreau and amaretto with cherries drenched in almond essence – and agreed it had been well worth travelling all the way to north Oxford Street to encounter modern Peruvian cuisine and be startled by its flavours, its zingy colours, its unexpectedness, and the charm of the waiters.

LIMA Floral | Peruvian Restaurant | London, Covent Garden

Availability shown on our website is up to date but automatic and so we can sometimes make manual adjustments to fit tables in.If you can’t find the time you would like, please call the restaurant on +44 20 7240 5778.

To book a table of 7 or more, please call the restaurant.

Fay Maschler reviews Lima | London Evening Standard

ES Food Newsletter My companion for lunch at the newly opened Peruvian restaurant Lima was my stepdaughter Amy.

But I haven’t managed to eat at Ceviche in Soho and the dishes at Lima, overseen by Virgilio Martinez, were a revelation to both of us.

Martinez has cooked in many parts of the world at very different establishments — the late Santi Santamaria’s Can Fabes near Barcelona, Lutèce in New York and The Ritz in London are a few — and now has his own restaurant, Central, in Lima.

These last three dishes were ordered at a dinner with Reg, Amy’s father, a few days later.

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Lima London | Restaurants in Fitzrovia, London

This Rathbone Place restaurant from Virgilio Martinez and Robert Ortiz was part of the ‘Peruvian wave’ of restaurants to hit the capital in 2012.

The small-plates menu showcases classic and modern Peruvian cuisine.

Weekend brunches and set menus are also available.