Causa con Pulpo Anticuchero
Octopus in anticuchera sauce over yellow-potato causa, crowned with crispy sweet potato.
Criollo Restaurant & Sandwich House · Lima — Arequipa
BITUTE
Grandma's cooking, sharpened by everything today's kitchen knows.
LimaArequipa4 locations
Lomo SaltadoSeco de ResTacu TacuCeviche BituteCausa AcevichadaPulpo al OlivoTiradito NikkeiAeropuerto Bitute
House classics
The way it always should have been
The dishes that made Bitute Lima's most viral huarique.
Ceviche Bitute
Fish, octopus and prawns in a leche de tigre with the exact balance it always deserved.
Pulpo al Olivo Bitute
The port-side classic — precisely cooked octopus in botija olive cream.
Arroz Cremoso a la Huancaína con Lomo
Creamy huancaína rice crowned with smoky lomo saltado, seared over roaring heat.
01/05
About us · Chef Cavero
We invented nothing.
We rescued everything.
“The recipe doesn't change. What changes is the precision with which it's executed.”
Bitute / About us
We invented nothing.
We rescued everything.
“Bitute” is Lima slang for eating well: something generous, satisfying, and made with care. It is the word that comes to mind when someone asks where to go for lunch and the answer is obvious. It sounds like the neighborhood, a full table, and food given the time it deserves.
Chef César Cavero founded Bitute in Pueblo Libre in July 2024 with an idea that sounds simple but runs deep: recover Peru's oldest cooking — grandma's, the kind born at the family stove — and bring to it everything contemporary gastronomy has learned.
The result is a beef seco slow-cooked for hours, a tacu tacu with the perfect texture no traditional pot could guarantee, a leche de tigre with the exact balance it always deserved. Within months it became Lima's most viral huarique. Today, that same kitchen lives in four locations across two cities.
2024
Founded in Pueblo Libre
04
Active locations
02
Cities
100K+
Digital community
The four pillars
The old ways, with today's precision
Old recipes
Dishes rooted in Peru's most traditional cooking. Nothing invented. Everything reclaimed.
Contemporary technique
Low-temperature cooking, precise timing, concentrated mother stocks. The best of today's kitchen in service of the classics.
Memory and emotion
Every dish triggers a memory: grandma, home, family Sundays. That can't be created — only rescued.
Truly accessible
Dishes from S/25. This food is for everyone. The price is part of honoring a popular tradition.
Locations
One bitute, four corners
The same flavor as always, in Lima and Arequipa.
LimaPueblo Libre
The original spot. Where it all began, July 2024.
- Address
- Jr. Libertad 1553, Pueblo Libre
- Hours
- Tue – Sun · 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
LimaSurquillo
The second home. The same bitute, in the heart of Lima.
- Address
- Av. Andrés Avelino Cáceres 197, Surquillo
- Hours
- Tue – Sun · 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
ArequipaCayma
The regional expansion. Order ahead, skip the line.
- Address
- Calle Tronchadero 213, Cayma
- Hours
- Mon – Sun · 11:30 am – 5:00 pm · Sat until 6:00 pm
ArequipaJ.L. Bustamante y Rivero
The newest member of the Bitute family.
- Address
- Av. Argentina 200, José Luis Bustamante y Rivero
- Hours
- Mon – Sun · 11:30 am – 5:00 pm · Sat until 6:00 pm
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