Taberna Queirolo

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• A bar-restaurant filled with tradition, Taberna Queirolo was founded by the Queirolo Raggio brothers in 1880, practically the moment they disembarked from the boat that brought them from Genoa. It was originally a Pulpería (a grocery store selling also non-comestibles), supplying the huge surrounding haciendas: San Felipe, Maranga, Mateo Salao, Pando, Oyague, etc. With time the store evolved into the bar-restaurant we know today, including an adjacent winery where they produced and commercialized their own wines and piscos. The family vineyard lied in the nearby Maranga quarter (today occupied by the Lima zoo), but after an expropriation by president Belaunde they moved to Cañete and later to Pachacamac. The colorful history and great atmosphere of Taberna Queirolo has attracted many celebrities, above all the Argentinean tango singer Carlos Gardel and Peruvian novelist Alfredo Bryce Echenique. The bar-restaurant occupies a beautiful 17th century colonial building, and is located on the corner of General Vivanco with San Martin, a 50 meters walk from the anthropological Museum of Pueblo Libre. The menu includes numerous criollo dishes such as papa rellena (fried mashed-potatoes filled with meat and spices), ceviche, and the butifarra sandwich (smoked ham with a criolla sauce made of onions, chili-peppers and lemon). And, of course, you can enjoy some of Queirolo's excellent wines and piscos.
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