Kjolle Barranco - Buy Reservations

Excellent restaurant with great dishes and service. Nothing to add except that the overall experience was great! I would definitely recommend it to everyone living or stopping by in Lima.

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Great experience at Kjolle: the staff was great, and the food exceptional. They always try to cook with local products, which is also a big plus.
We had the “à la carte” menu, I had the pork belly and my wife ordered the octopus. Both were full of flavour, and with great accompanying dishes.
Would definitely recommend!

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The good and the bad, in short:

1. Hard to find the place, as the sign is very discreet.

2. Located in a nice garden, but you don`t see it from where you eat. There are no windows near the sitting area.

3. All people that attend you are very nice, but we had to ask for a bit of piece of mind, as they did not stopped bumping in for more than 10 sec. You can not think of talk with your partner for more than 10 seconds before they come and talk and talk.

4. The tasting menu was nice, with interesting colorful options. Taste was ok, aroma was weak, nothing extraordinary. It was clear they made a big effort to use local original ingredients, but success was limited.

5. My partner announced that she does not want garlic, so they changed a meat plate by pork belly. Problem is that they did not alerted her of the change and she actually does not like pork belly at all.

6. The wine by the glass was good and at a reasonable price.

7. The cost, US$ 115/person, before drinks and service, is high for Lima.

My recommendation is to go if your are curious to know this specific restaurant, but if you have to choose only one or two of the top Lima restaurants, skip this one.

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Lunch at Kjolle was good! Service was good, food was good…just a notch or two below what Central offers downstairs. For lunch, it’s pricey…probably too pricey.

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I'm a *súper foodie, now vegan for a year now.. I was thrilled that I would have an opportunity to eat at Top Female Chef's Pía Leon's restaurant in Barranco, Lima, Perú, 'Kjolle'.. I chose an 8 course vegan menú, very curious as to what would be prepared and hoping to get some good ideas, as I love to cook at home... I dressed nicely, but informallt, as they requested, as I read in the description and arrived a bit early to look around. The ID gets a 5.: Beautiful and minimalist, withTouches of wood and stone (and wood WITH stone) beautiful displays of contemporary hand made cerámics and DRIed plants and fruits and veggies in jars, neuteral tones, plant dyed weaving. Exquisite!... I was lead to my table by a tastefully casually dressed waiter. I was given a menu, but evidently they thought I was vegetarian instead of vegan ( happens often)... The choreographed meal began I had chosen to also have the wines (excellent choices!), the 'maridaje'... Well, The background music was too loud, and was annoying digital music poorly balanced with way too much treble( so it was kind of 'piercing', very little bass, so I asked them to turn it down, which they did not ( perhaps it was programmed, quien sabe? I asked 2x)...being synesthetic this really distracted me from focusing on my lovely ( costly) meal. So the energy I wanted to spend on tasting was used in blocking annoying music, bummer! Also, I noticed that the food was beautifully presented but...very bland. But wait I had seen a beautiful herb garden outside, was it all for show? Or was this because it was vegan, or is bland "in'.I THOUGHT I had a sensitive palate, but maybe I'm wrong? Oh, dear!...Anyway, I was grateful to have the delicious wines presented to me by lovely, professional Geraldine, in gorgeous stemware. (All the flatware changed each time also, impressive)... Then 1/2 way thru a young couple ,with a cute 3-4 year old, is seated next to me... The young dad has a loud, corny T shirt on, shorts, lip- flops, the Mom, is at least wearing a tasteful black dress with a little sparkly 'tiara' in her hair (really, Ariadne?). Wait! I read their web page and there IS supposedly a dress code AND small children are not incl.in their guest list.. Don't get me wrong I love kids and often go to 'family style restaurants in a -T shirt, & shorts. But this is SUPER upscale. The little girl now is watching her cartoons on a cel phone with the screen facing MY table... What had become what I had hoped to be an unforgettable, sophisticated , elevated 5 star 'experience' meal become a family style nightmare w/ bad theme music... Such a bummer! (I wondered ...were they friends of the esteemed chef and her spouse, who have a child the same age ? Quien sabe?) ... I finished with an exquisite dessert with cocoa in various forms and a lovely sweet home distilled wine, so I was somewhat assuaged. I paid my bill leaving a very generous tip for the serving staff, as I don't hold them responsible for what ended up being a disappointing experience, they were just doing their jobs., attentive, though somewhat stiff...Luckily I wandered downstairs to the bar, where things seemed more laid back and there wparwas no annoying background music OR cartoons playing. I started chatting with Nilver,the cocoa expert (this is when I'm so happy I'm bilingual!) who passionately explained the MANY virtues of the cocoa bean! Wow!... SO yes it turned out to be an intense restauurant 'experience, but where the food played a minor part.
minor part,

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