Allpa was started by Lima sociologists Nelly Cánepa and María del Carmen de la Fuente after years spent traveling Peru's regions and working directly with artisan cooperatives on pottery, textiles and home decor. As a member of the World Fair Trade Organization, the company ties its product design to fair pay and long-term capacity-building with the makers behind each piece.
Alpaca 111 traces back to 1986, when it began as Incalpaca in Arequipa before rebranding under Grupo Inca; its Lima outpost sits inside the Jockey Plaza shopping center. The range spans alpaca sweaters, wraps, gloves and homeware made for everyday wear and for gifting.
Cooperative Handmade, at 28 de Julio 206 A in Barranco, Lima, hand-makes leather shoes, boots and accessories to measure, with an average delivery of 8 to 10 days after purchase. It operates as a cooperative with equal benefits and no rank or salary differences among its members.
Contemporary-art gallery based in Barranco, Lima, representing emerging and established Latin American artists. Its current programme presents exhibitions in Lima and Madrid and maintains a roster spanning artists working across the region.
Opened more than 30 years ago by María Elena Fernández, Dédalo was among the first concept stores in Lima to pair contemporary design with Peruvian craft, and now represents work from more than 700 artisans and independent designers. The Barranco space also houses SED, a rotating exhibition hall, and Dédalo Café, built around a mature ficus tree.
Best for Curated Peruvian craft and design
More than 30 years ago the first concept store for craft and contemporary design in Lima opened its doors, and Dédalo remains the place where that proposal gathers. The house occupies a mansion at Av. Sáenz Peña 295 in Barranco and shows the work of more than 700 artists selected by its founder, María Elena Fernández. Its rooms hold signature pieces and Peruvian handicrafts, ready-to-wear fashion and accessories. Jewellery and objects for the home follow, with a section for children. The goods come from independent brands, Peruvian designers and recognised artists, and many are made by hand. A temporary exhibition hall, SED, is run as a white cube so that works can be seen without interference. Its programme of solo and group shows is chosen each year by its director Paloma Lores. Dédalo Café serves on a large terrace watched over by an old ficus tree. It pairs coffee and kitchen with the art on the walls. Shoppers who cannot visit are offered a personal shopper service through WhatsApp, and an online store carries a selection of the pieces. The house describes itself as a tireless bet on innovation and quality, with originality, for anyone looking for an object that surprises and identifies them.
El Virrey sells fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and stationery through several Lima locations. A specific Miraflores branch should be attached because hours, events and stock differ across the chain.
Best for Fiction, children's books, and stationery across multiple Lima locations
Fortress Shoes are handmade in small quantities in Peru by ateliers including Pedro and Marta, a husband-and-wife team, Adriana's family-owned factory run by a third-generation Peruvian-Italian designer, and a small workshop on the edge of Lima run by Carlos. The brand is working toward a traceable leather supply chain starting with LWG-certified leathers.
Fringe Mod is a Peruvian fashion retailer selling sweaters, cardigans, ponchos, tops, pants, skirts, dresses and tunics across seasonal collections such as Spring Summer 26 and Fall Winter 25.
Ilaria works in Peruvian silver, pairing it with natural stones, pearls, crystal and nacre across collections such as the Andean-inspired Ilaria Étnica line. The house also produces silverware and home décor, and credits its network of artisans on the site.
Best for Peruvian silver jewelry, pearls, nacre, silverware and home décor
Kero Design is a Peruvian knitwear label that works with alpaca. Its site describes its work as design rooted in tradition and created with social responsibility at its core.
Lima contemporary-art gallery founded in 2023 and directed by Hanna Ballon Carneiro. Based at Avenida Jorge Basadre 951 in San Isidro, it presents emerging voices alongside established artists through a programme integrating conceptual and visual-art approaches.
Historic Swiss-founded cafe and pastry shop at Av. Larco 111 on the Miraflores oval in Lima, Peru, open since 1936; still family-run, known for pastries, fondue and a mention in Mario Vargas Llosa's fiction.
Best for Swiss-Peruvian café, pastries and Miraflores history since 1936.
The Sanseviero family's El Virrey has been Lima's literary anchor for decades — Peruvian letters, Latin American fiction and a Cusco outpost for readers in the Andes.
Maraná is a bean-to-bar chocolate maker working with cacao from Cusco, Piura and San Martín, producing tablets at 70, 80 and 100 percent alongside chocotejas and pastry lines. Its bars and confections are stocked at specialty grocers and cafés across Miraflores, Barranco and San Isidro, with two-hour delivery inside Lima.
Mulata is a Peruvian clothing line of handmade, knitted and tailored pieces, including dresses and swimwear, with jewellery by Mestiza. The shop is at Miguel Dasso 126, store 305, San Isidro.
Origen works with Peruvian coffee producers, following coffee from farm to cup with attention to traceability and fair relationships. Its Pueblo Libre shop is on Avenida Bolivar in Lima.
Pastelería San Antonio's own history page states it plainly: "En 1959 Don Pepe y Don Emilio, junto a un equipo de maestros artesanos peruanos, abrieron las puertas de la Pastelería San Antonio" — in 1959, Don Pepe and Don Emilio, with a team of Peruvian master artisans, opened its doors.
Best for Lima's institutional panadería-pastelería, tracing continuously back to its 1959 founding in Magdalena.
Pastelería San Antonio's own history page states it plainly: "En 1959 Don Pepe y Don Emilio, junto a un equipo de maestros artesanos peruanos, abrieron las puertas de la Pastelería San Antonio" — in 1959, Don Pepe and Don Emilio, with a team of Peruvian master artisans, opened its doors. The two founders, Spanish immigrants José Villa and Emilio Fernández Santa María, became partners in 1957 and formally opened the bakery-pastry shop two years later in the Magdalena district, working from what had been a small grocery, Bodega El Pacífico, previously run by Chinese immigrants.
The founders built the bakery around Peruvian master bakers rather than importing a foreign template wholesale, and the shop's name was chosen deliberately: San Antonio, reflecting the founders' stated faith and their commitment to work that generated, in their own framing, dignified and creative employment. Through the 1960s the business grew on the strength of its bread and pastry sales, moving from a single storefront into a name recognized across Lima.
More than six decades on, San Antonio has expanded into a multi-location bakery-pastry chain across the city, still tracing its identity back to the 1959 Magdalena original. Its through-line is longevity under continuous local ownership — a mid-century immigrant partnership and a Peruvian baking crew that turned one converted bodega into an institution, rather than a recent artisan revival built to fit current bakery trends.
Retablos Ayacuchanos, based in Brena, Lima, makes Ayacuchano retablos alongside ceramics, "Toritos" bull figurines, Huamanga stone pieces and textiles. Its catalogue lists 129 retablos, 11 Toritos, 3 Huamanga stone pieces, 2 textiles and 1 ceramic item.
Té Quiero Té opened in March 2011 on Avenida 28 de Julio in Lima's Miraflores district, half a block from the neighborhood's main commercial artery, before moving to its current second-floor shop on Pasaje Los Pinos.
Best for 80+ loose-leaf tea and herbal infusion varieties
Té Quiero Té opened in March 2011 on Avenida 28 de Julio in Lima's Miraflores district, half a block from the neighborhood's main commercial artery, before moving to its current second-floor shop on Pasaje Los Pinos. The business built its identity around loose-leaf tea specifically, at a time when Lima's specialty-beverage retail was still dominated almost entirely by coffee.
The shop's catalog runs past 80 varieties of loose-leaf tea and herbal infusions, sourced, by the company's own description, from some of the world's best-known tea plantations, alongside a line of infusers, teapots and cups. Beyond selling tea, the shop frames itself as an information point for customers new to loose-leaf brewing, offering guidance on preparation and steeping rather than treating the sale as the end of the interaction.
More than a decade since opening, Té Quiero Té describes a customer base that has stayed with the shop across that whole stretch, alongside a newer wave of Peruvians increasingly curious about tea as a category distinct from the herbal infusions long native to Peru's own pharmacopeia. It remains one of the few Lima addresses built specifically around loose-leaf tea rather than treating it as a secondary line next to coffee or the country's traditional herbal infusions.
Tostaduría Bisetti roasts Peruvian coffee at its roastery in the Lima district of Barranco. It says its beans are selected and evaluated carefully before they are roasted each day.
Vernácula is a shop for independent design in the Peruvian capital, Lima. It sells women's clothing made by local designers, with dresses among its main categories.