Juan Luis Martínez, chef of Mérito in Lima, Peru

This is the full episode of the podcast interview with Juan Luis Martínez of the restaurant Mérito in Lima, Peru. Juan Luis was born in Venezuela but has been living abroad and working in restaurants in Spain and Peru for many years. He opened Mérito in 2018 after working at Central for several years. It’s this narrow, two-level space in the Barranco neighborhood, with lots of minimalist wood and adobe walls. You see the kitchen right upon entering and there are a few seats there, plus more upstairs. The food is colorful, creative and really, really delicious. Is it Venezuelan? Is it Peruvian? It’s kind of both but also neither at the same time. It’s a restaurant cannot easily be boxed in, and I think that’s the beauty of it. More recently he opened DeMo, a café and bakery, which recently moved into a larger location a few blocks from Mérito, which has an attached pizzeria called Indio. And late last year he opened another restaurant, called Clon, which is an even more relaxed version of Mérito.
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Host: Nicholas Gill ( / nicholasgill2 )
Co-host: Juliana Duque ( / juliduk )
Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque
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I know mérito . Good food, good service, but I think because Lima is a food marketable place and a food spot, this and another restaurants without marketing work force actually works and make the focus to the people who vote for the best of the best. Good vibre to Mérito . I love it and I adore all street where Mérito is.