Peru

We ate at a Ceviche place called El Mercado (in the Miraflores district). Amazing – make a reservation ahead of time for lunch because it’s crowded.
We stayed at a Sheraton Four Points in the Miraflores district using SPG points – we were only there for one night. Perfectly nice hotel, pretty walkable district as well. Miraflores is definitely the nice/safe place to stay, so whatever you pick should be in that area and you can walk to the cliffs overlooking the ocean from there too.

Chicha (cool fancier peruvian dinner place)
Cicciolina (also good nice dinner place in Cusco)
Greens (good lunch place)
Bodega 138 (good pizza & beer place in Cusco)
Tons of churches/ruins - you can easily spend a day or two walking around Cusco, though it’s a harder than it sounds because of the altitude.

Huacantay in Urubamba - had a great dinner here - got the gnocchi with fresh veggies, chicken and chorizo. it was massive and delicious.
Kaia in Urubamba - small mostly veggie oriented place - really good lunch/dinner
Monestario - a pottery place in Urubamba - really cool gifts/stuff to take back for your apartment.
Sacred Valley Brewing Company - impossible to find (it’s near Pachar in between Urubamba and Ollantaytambo so it needs a cab) but really good craft brewery started by some dudes who trained in Oregon.
In Ollantaytambo, definitely see the ruins. We also had lunch at a place which was pretty good called Hearts Café.
Tons more ruins in the Sacred Valley. We did Moray, Ollantaytambo, Sachsayhuaman, Pisaqa, and a few others. They’re all really cool.
Pisac is another cool town in the SV – they have a market on Sunday that is worth going to if you can (local food, etc).

We stayed in a hostel the last night of our trek which was perfectly fine/clean. Lots of decent hostels there I think.
No standout restaurants but lots of beer and places to hang out (we hung out at a place called Machu Pisco) - town has a trekking heavy vibe since most of the people that stay there are trekkers (the rich tourists come in/out on the train).
You can easily spend an entire day walking around Machu Picchu - make sure you have enough time there because it can be in the clouds for a lot of the day