La Collpa

It sits on the high side of Tarapoto, along Av. Circunvalación, with a terrace and open-air seating looking over the city and Cerro Escalera; it is one of the names that comes up most when someone asks where to eat with a view. The menu is regional Amazonian: Google flags fried tilapia and chonta salad as the popular dishes, while reviewers keep coming back to the house cordon bleu. Our read: you go up for the landscape as much as for the food — solid regional cooking rather than adventurous — which is why it works better at lunch, when the view is doing the work and the evening chill has not set in. It opens daily from 11:30, until 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 21:00 on Sundays; it has a bar, free parking and high chairs for children. Curation note: the Google listing is unclaimed and publishes no street address, only the plus code, so the address comes from a local tourism guide; there is no website of its own and no owner-uploaded photos either, so the entry has no images.