La Vaca Negra

It is at Jr. Carlos Arrieta 299 B in Barranco, half a block off the noise of Avenida Grau. The house advertises grilled beef burgers on yellow-potato bread, and on Google what shows up most as popular is precisely the Vaca Negra, the house burger, along with the fries. Our read: this is a grill burger house rather than a griddle one, and that detail — plus the price, which diners put between S/ 20 and S/ 40 — explains its student and passing crowd better than any award; the 2025 Summum nomination in Burger Shop landed on a place that is still a neighbourhood one. The practicalities: it closes Mondays, opens at midday and stops at 9 or 10 depending on the day, takes no reservations, and has street parking only, which Google marks as hard to find. Curation note: Google marks the accessible entrance, seating and parking as unavailable, so the entry carries no accessibility attribute; the house has no website of its own and posts through Facebook and Instagram. The brand has a second location at Ca. Mercaderes 322, Santiago de Surco, with no entry of its own in the directory; this is the Barranco one, the one with more reviews.