{{Short description|Historical building and bar in Peru}} {{Infobox organization | image = Bar Restaurant Cordano.jpg | caption = | founded = 1905 | owner = <!-- or |owners = --> | website = <!-- {{Official URL}} or {{URL|example.com}} --> }} The '''Bar Cordano''' is a [[restaurant]] and [[Bar (establishment)|bar]] located next to [[Desamparados station]] and [[Government Palace, Peru|Government Palace]], at the corner of [[Jirón Carabaya|Carabaya]] and [[Jirón Áncash|Áncash]] streets in the [[historic centre of Lima]], [[Peru]].<ref name=Angulo>{{Cite news |title=Bar Cordano en el Centro de Lima: un tesoro gastronómico impregnado de historia y tradición |url=https://www.infobae.com/peru/2023/07/08/bar-cordano-el-tesoro-historico-en-el-centro-de-lima-que-cautiva-con-su-tradicion-y-sus-personajes-emblematicos/ |last=Angulo |first=Jazmine |date=2024-01-18 |work=[[Infobae]]}}</ref> It is located in the first floor of the former '''Hotel Comercio'''.<ref name=Gonzales>{{Cite news |title=Hotel Comercio: A 90 años del sanguinario crimen que escandalizó la Lima de los años treinta |url=https://peru21.pe/cultura/hotel-comercio-a-90-anos-del-sanguinario-crimen-que-escandalizo-la-lima-de-los-anos-treinta-nczg-noticia/ |last=Gonzales Obando |first=Diana |date=2020-06-23 |work=[[Perú 21]]}}</ref>
Due to its proximity to Government Palace, almost all [[presidents of Peru]] have dined in the restaurant since its inception.<ref name=Angulo/>
==History== The establishment was founded in 1905 by the [[Italian Peruvians|Italians]] Vigilio Botano and brothers Luis and Antonio Cordano, on the first floor of the Hotel Comercio, known for a murder that took place on June 24, 1930.<ref name=Gonzales/> It belonged to its original owners for 73 years, being ceded to its workers in 1978.<ref name=Angulo/> The Cordano family lived in front of the bar, in what today is the [[Bodega y Quadra Museum]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Bar Cordano: una esquina con historia familiar |url=https://elcomercio.pe/gastronomia/peruana/bar-cordano-esquina-historia-familiar-159399-noticia/ |date=2017-01-17 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref>
It was declared part of the [[Cultural heritage of Peru]] on April 26, 1989.<ref name=Angulo/>
==See also== *[[Peruvian cuisine]] *[[Pulpería]]
==References== {{reflist}} {{Lima landmarks}}
[[Category:Restaurants in Lima]] [[Category:1905 establishments in Peru]] [[Category:Historic Centre of Lima]] [[Category:Cultural heritage of Peru]]