La Olla de Juanita

It sits on the Carretera Jorge Chávez in San Juan Bautista, right on the stretch where Ica's pisco bodegas and tasting rooms line up: Nietto, Viña Margarita and Don Torres are steps away. The room is wide and rustic, with a cane roof and open-air tables. The menu is Ica-criollo cooking; among the dishes Google flags as popular are the veal seco and the duck rice with huancaína, while reviewers keep naming the carapulcra and the pisco. Our read: it is the restaurant that closes out the pisco route rather than a standalone stop, and the hours give it away — it opens only from 12:00 to 17:30 every day, so it is a long lunch with a glass, not dinner. It has a bar, a terrace, its own parking and high chairs, and takes reservations without requiring them; the entry records a 2025 Summum nomination as Ica restaurant and another for the 2026 Premios Somos. Curation note: the Google listing is unclaimed and publishes no website or "From the owner" photos, so the images are left empty.