A 20-room Relais & Châteaux boutique in a restored 1914 Belle Époque mansion in Barranco, Peru's only Relais property, the art-quarter address with the city's most considered private collection on its walls.
"A private house pretending to be a hotel, the only Lima address where the contemporary Peruvian art on the wall has been bought rather than rented, and where the curator is the owner's brother."
Hotel B opened in 2013 inside a 1914 Belle Époque mansion in Barranco, the seaside artists' district that sits between Miraflores and Chorrillos and which has been Lima's most concentrated cultural neighbourhood since the late nineteenth century. The mansion was designed in 1914 by the Italian-Peruvian architect Claudio Sahut as a summer beach house for a wealthy Lima banking family, the building's name was originally "Casa Bürckhardt", and was occupied by descendants of the original family until the early 2000s. The current ownership (the Mulanovich family, prominent in Peruvian visual-arts circles) acquired the property in 2009 and restored it over four years in collaboration with the Lima architect Jordi Puig.
The 20 keys, 17 rooms and 3 suites, are arranged across the original mansion's three floors plus a sympathetic contemporary extension at the rear. Every room is individually designed; the original parquet, plasterwork, and stained glass have been preserved where they survived, with restrained contemporary additions (Pierre Frey textiles, bespoke Peruvian-walnut furniture by local maker La Marina). The Suite B occupies the original principal suite at the front of the house with a tiled-balcony view down Avenida Sáenz Peña; Studios are the smaller (28 m²) entry-tier rooms in the contemporary extension; the Loft Suite is the top-floor garret with a private terrace.
The hotel's restaurant, known simply as Restaurante B and run by chef Oscar Velarde, was added the World's 50 Best Restaurants long-list in 2018 and remains the most considered hotel kitchen in Peru, doing a daily-changing tasting menu of Peruvian produce executed with French technique. The library bar holds 200-plus pisco vintages, the lobby pours a curated South American natural-wine list, and the rooftop terrace serves a casual lunch. The art programme is the property's signature feature: more than 200 works of contemporary Peruvian and Latin American art (Fernando de Szyszlo, Joaquín Liébana, José Tola, and the new generation that the Mulanovich family's adjacent gallery represents) hang throughout the public spaces and guest rooms, a working private collection, rotated quarterly.
Barranco itself is the hotel's most compelling asset. The MATE Museum (Mario Testino's photography institution), the MAC Lima (contemporary art), the Puente de los Suspiros, and Lima's most concentrated independent-restaurant strip are all within a five-minute walk; the Pacific cliff is one block south. Hotel B is the only luxury property in the district and remains the most authentic Lima boutique by some distance. The Belmond Miraflores Park outranks it on the strength of its lobby and ocean view; the Country Club outranks it on historic gravitas; but for travellers who want Lima the way the city itself wants to be seen, Hotel B is the answer.
For Lima honeymoons that want the city's most cultivated boutique rather than the Belmond grand hotel, Hotel B is the obvious answer. Suite B for the central booking, the original principal suite with the tiled balcony, and Restaurante B at the chef's-table position. The hotel runs a quiet pre-wedding programme: art-walk tours of Barranco galleries, MATE private viewings, in-room pisco tastings.
Hotel B is the strongest single-traveller proposition in Lima. The Studio rooms in the rear extension are calibrated for solo stays (good desk, decent reading light, the library bar accessible without crossing a banquet hall); the location among Barranco's galleries and independent bookshops gives an unaccompanied stay structure. The library bar pours by the glass and is the city's best place to be alone with a book over a pisco.
Restaurante B handles anniversary dinners with the kind of considered attention only a 20-room hotel can manage, the chef will adjust the tasting menu around dietary preferences, the maître d' remembers which side of the table the conversation tends. The Loft Suite's private terrace is the milestone-anniversary booking; Suite B for two-night romantic stays.
Sáenz Peña 204
Barranco, Lima 15063
Peru
Jorge Chávez International (LIM) 50 minutes by transfer; MATE Museum 4 minutes' walk; Puente de los Suspiros 10 minutes' walk; Larcomar 15 minutes by taxi
20 rooms (17 rooms + 3 suites)
Studio from USD 340/night
Deluxe Room from USD 460/night
Junior Suite from USD 640/night
Suite B from USD 1,100/night
All rates include breakfast
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Mansion built 1914 (Claudio Sahut); restored 2009-2013; opened as Hotel B 2013; Peru's only Relais & Châteaux
Restaurante B (Peruvian tasting)
Library bar (200+ pisco vintages)
200+ contemporary Peruvian artworks
Rooftop terrace
Curated Barranco gallery walks
Personalised concierge for 20 keys
High-speed WiFi throughout
From USD 340/night including breakfast. With only 20 keys, Hotel B is the smallest serious-money hotel in Lima, Suite B and the Loft Suite book three to four months ahead for April, October peak season.
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