La Tasca — Restaurant in Arequipa

What a great little restaurant with delicious, high quality food at a reasonable price. The lunch menu offers a choice of four starter dishes, four main dishes, and a drink and dessert of the day for 25 soles. The food appears to be Spanish/Italian/Mediterranean food. There are both meat and vegetables options and the owner is open to assist with food allergies to alter menu items if possible. We shared our meal and had the mixed, roasted vegetables and the Moussaka. Both were excellent. We’re were served a fruit drink, maybe cranberry juice, and a small slice of flan. There are only 5-6 table and it can get full quickly. The atmosphere is lovely and calm. The only word of caution is I would not recommend going here if you are in a hurry as there is only the owner working and service can take awhile. I highly recommend La Tasca for a great meal at a great price. Edit: We visited a second time and wow, very consistent and did not disappoint. La Tasca is hands-down one of our favorite lunch restaurants and a...

Really good value at 25 soles for a full 3-course meal plus what looked like grenadine syrup to drink. Started with a hot baked veggie appetizer, then had lasagna as the main dish. Dessert was interesting - seemed like a beige English sauce topped with some kind of cakey fluff.

Nice personal touch from the Spanish owner who came directly to our table and walked us through the menu, offering it in both English and Spanish. Everything came piping hot straight from the oven and was definitely worth what we paid. Was especially nice to get some vegetables in the...

Everything is simply AWESOME in this place! Atmosphere is great, the salon looks wonderful, so light and having some flowers, decorations, what is perfect. Food is really delicious! I didn’t know about this place, it’s super close to the main square and even closer to the Puente Grau bridge cuz it’s located like in the corner of the street named Puente Grau. In the downtown I may consider this place being one of the best ones to have lunch in. Menu is great, taste and quality of the food is just so good!!!! Prices are reasonable...