Kjolle

Name: Kjolle
Telephone: +51 1 242 8575

Restaurant

Lima, Peru

About Kjolle

A sister restaurant to Central located within Casa Tupac in trendy Barranco. Chef Pía León – who has been named the world’s best female chef by ‘50 Best’ – shares a culinary philosophy with chef Virgilio Martínez, cooking only with ingredients that showcase Peru’s diversity. Her menus, however, offer a laid-back dining experience, given that you can choose à la carte or tasting menus, with many dishes designed to be shared or enjoyed with your hands.

Located upstairs from Central in a light and airy setting, the open kitchen preps colourful dishes such as ‘Many Tubers’, a delectable tart starring a rainbow of native potatoes.

And being housed under the same roof as Central means that beverage director Diego Vásquez Luque has the luxury of sharing the same 600-label cellar to create pairings that change several times a year, in line with the menu.

Given chef León’s gastronomical eye on Peru, Vásquez Luque features South American diversity. “That includes but goes beyond Argentina and Chile to include Uruguay, Bolivia, even rescuing some bottles from Paraguay as well as Brazil and Peru itself. Plus, we’ve been working closely with small Bolivian producers for the past year to become part of our list,” he says.

One of his favourite pairings is cured duck with calamari tentacle and chapla, a traditional Andean bread, with Familia Santa Maria Quebranta Airayá 2018, a heritage grape traditionally used to produce pisco.