Bagdad Cafe - Cusco

We enjoyed the food, fast and smiling service and the environment with great views. In a week we spent two different evenings in this restaurant. Had excellent ceviche twice, pizza (pizza is very rich), guinea pigs, pisco acid. The owner is very nice!

We had a great dinner in Bagdad. The food was delicious, the grill alpacas is also good to die for the tres leches. In our second night we went back here and I had the Alpaca Lomo saltado and chocolate cake with morochonhot llama ice cream also well. And on our fourth days, I had the Lomo Serrano sour with something pisco. The pisco sour was the best I had been here in the 4 days. The owners were amazingly explained to us every dish and recommend their specialties. They were so freendly they made special dishes for us. Also coffe they offer it amazing. Thanks again to the owner for the amazing time. I must recommend this place to anyone who travels to Cusco and wants to taste the food.

Nice views from the balcony, a relaxed and chill place to hang out for drinks and appetizers.

Gross! Gross! Gross! I ordered a three milk cake for dessert and as soon as I took one bite, to my horror there was a piece of hair inside the cake. As soon as I found it, I called the server and notified him of the hair all in 15 secs of it being delivered. The owner of the restaurant comes back and says it must be from the wind or my coat which was placed on the adjacent seat. He did not even apologize and left the cake on the table for my consumption. Disgusting attitude and service. Not only did I have to pay for the cake and not eat it, the attitude of the owner was hostile. I will never recommend this place to tourists. Do not go there.

Beguiled by the charm of eating in a restaurant that overlooks the Plaza de Armas, we gave Bagdad Cafe a try one night. What a mistake. Like most of the restaurants around the plaza, there is little to distinguish the menu at Bagdad Cafe from the other restaurants. Given the name, we thought we might find some Middle Eastern fare, but that was not the case. We ordered the alpaca steak with papas fritas and mashed potatoes as well as the chicken salad with a avocado. The alpaca steak was thin, as if it had been pounded flat with a mallet. It was over cooked and tasted more like liver than a wild game like deer. It was also chewy enough that our jaws got tired trying to break it down so we could swallow it. The papas fritas were tough and lacked any real flavor. The mashed potatoes didn't taste like potatoes and didn't seem to be mashed. They were gritty, like American grits, and tasted exclusively like low grade butter. We ate perhaps one fifth of that plate before giving up. It was too awful to continue. The chicken salad was luke warm and devoid of flavor. It was heavy on the mayonnaise. The chicken was stringy and mixed with fried potato and carrot sticks on a bed of browning lettuce. We ate the avocado, which was finely sliced and good, and a couple of bites of the chicken salad, but quickly decided this dish wasn't worth eating either. We rarely waste food, but this food was so bad as to be inedible. Not only was this the worst food we had in Peru but it was the worst food we have had in several years. Don't fall for the allure of eating over the plaza. There are way better restaurants within five minutes of the plaza with food you can not only enjoy but eat.