La Romántica

It occupies a room with a terrace and pavement tables at Av. Gral. Córdova 1155 in Miraflores, a few blocks from the óvalo. The house presents itself as Swiss cooking with a Mediterranean accent — traditional fondue and pasta made in-house — and among the dishes Google flags as popular are the peppersteak with cream fettuccine and the scallops parmesana, which show how far the menu drifted toward what Lima asks for. Our read: this is not a showcase Swiss restaurant but a neighbourhood house that has held the same corner for more than two decades and survived by becoming Italian and criollo as well; the atmosphere diners report — romantic, with live music — explains its crowd better than the Swiss label does. The practicalities: it runs a split service, 12:30 to 3:30 and 6:30 to 11 at night, except Sundays, which run straight through to 5; it accepts reservations and recommends them for both services, and it has its own parking, a terrace and wifi. The entry records a 2025 Summum nomination in World Cuisines. Curation note: the house website publishes no menu with per-dish prices, so the menu is still pending; the origin story — a Swiss couple — comes from its own page, which tells it in relative years rather than an exact date.