Restaurant Cosme in San Isidro, Lima opened in 2015 with a clear idea: high-quality cooking that still feels like a neighbourhood table. Chef James Berckemeyer builds the menu around comfort food and memory, using seasonal ingredients and modern technique to keep flavours familiar and precise. The dining room matches that spirit, sociable and informal, with design details made from recycled materials. Restaurant Cosme is not only recognised on the 50 Best Latin American Restaurants list but also awarded as the highest climber, all the while keeping its focus on the people who come back week after week.
Restaurant • Fine Dining
Cosme
Award-winning comfort food
Cosme
San Isdro
James Berckemeyer
Chef James Berckemeyer is the chef-owner of COSME Restaurant in San Isidro, Lima, and the driving force behind its comfort-food identity.
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- Peruvian comfort food
- Sustainability-led design
Modern Peruvian cooking
At Cosme Restaurant, “comfort food” does not mean casual cooking. It means dishes built on flavour memory, then refined with modern technique and disciplined execution. Berckemeyer’s style is precise and ingredient-led, working with seasonal produce and a clear respect for what makes a dish recognisably Peruvian. The menu keeps evolving, but the direction stays consistent: depth of flavour, clean structure on the plate, and combinations that feel generous and exciting. It is refined food that still feels familiar, which is exactly the point.
House drinks
Cosme’s drinks programme goes beyond wine and cocktails. The team prepares house-made soft drinks and citrus blends that change regularly, and they work well across the menu, especially at lunch. It’s a good option if you want a full experience without a heavy pairing. Ask what’s new that week, as daily specials shift with availability and seasonality, just like it does in the kitchen, keeping regulars coming back for something different.
San Isidro, Lima
San Isidro is one of Lima’s most established areas for dining, hotels, and city life, with an easy connection to Miraflores and the wider restaurant scene. It’s a neighbourhood where locals actually eat out during the week, which suits Cosme’s identity as a place built for regulars as much as visitors. Plan Cosme as a standalone destination, or use it as the start of an evening that continues nearby. Either way, the setting matches the restaurant: polished, lived-in, and practical.
Sustainability with meaning
Cosme takes its name from Cerro San Cosme, one of Lima’s first popular neighbourhoods. That reference matters, because the restaurant is built around a civic idea: good cooking can be ambitious without losing contact with the city around it. The gallinazo, Cosme’s symbol, underlines the same point, a bird associated with urban balance. The interior follows through with installations made from recycled materials, giving sustainability a practical role rather than using it as decoration.
“Comfort food, serious cooking, and a neighbourhood spirit.”
Contact
Here you find us
CosmeTudela y Varela 160-162
15073
15073
San Isdro
PeruHere you reach us
Opening times
| Day | Lunch | Dinner |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 12:30 – 17:00 | 17:00 – 22:45 |
| Tuesday | 12:30 – 17:00 | 17:00 – 22:45 |
| Wednesday | 12:30 – 17:00 | 17:00 – 22:45 |
| Thursday | 12:30 – 17:00 | 17:00 – 22:45 |
| Friday | 12:30 – 17:00 | 17:00 – 22:45 |
| Saturday | 12:30 – 17:00 | 17:00 – 22:45 |
| Sunday | 12:00 – 16:00 |
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