Balcones de Puno — Restaurant in Puno

The food was great, the drinks were good and the entertainment was excellent. However, it's another one of those places that you go and find it a cliche of the local culture. As there were many other tour groups in the room, they literally would talk the entire time of the performances and then do a slapstick kinda clap at the end. It's very annoying as these people are talented and putting on a show. Yes, I know they've done it many times but they are giving their all. So I was annoyed at the tourists. The staff however, we lovely and very quick at getting our meals together. The calibre of dishes was fantastic and of course the pisco sours were fabulous. Expect to choose from local and international dishes. I had pasta which was superb. Others had steak. Others had seafood. All was tasty and well presented albeit a little 90's in style. Not wheelchair friendly. Kid friendly. DIdn't check for wifi but think it...

The worst dining experience in Peru - with 3 weeks under the belt this far we've visited quite different places.

We arrived at 6pm - I know that is really early for dinner in Peru, but still... ordered 2 mains and they kept us waiting 45 minutes before serving two lukewarm and bland dishes.

In the meantime a group of about 40 had arrived which brought noice to painful levels due to terrible acoustics.

Once finished we asked to pay and they left us sitting for another 30 minutes.

They even charged additional cover 10 soles p.p. for a show that hadn't started when we left.. (they did have a sign at the entrance stating that cover would be applied after 7pm)

I cannot recommend this place in any...

My friends and I wanted to see some live Andean music but every place we asked referred us to the dance show here. We were put off by the ads with the mini-skirted dancer. It looked like some touristic ripoff of the local culture. But we didn't have any other options so we came here. And we had a totally 5-star experience. The music was prerecorded, which was a disappointment. But the folk dances were authentic. The dancers wore traditional costumes except for the final two dances when the mini-skirts came out. And the food was good, too. It would be really great if Peru's folklore capital actually had a place to hear live folk music. But lacking that, this place is...