Causa

Lima native Carlos Delgado brings ambition and artistry to Peruvian cuisine at this high-energy 26-seat restaurant. The six-course menu—plus optional “fish market” specials—shows off fresh-caught seafood and an impressive dry-aged-fish program. Nikkei-style ceviche is reinvented as a checkerboard of aged lean and fatty tuna, while a koshihikari-rice dish with spirulina-cured Hokkaido scallop comes hidden under paper-thin leche de tigre crackers. The upstairs cocktail bar, Amazonia, is a more casual destination for elevated street foods and the country’s largest pisco collection.