Mosquette (my girl) and Felipe (new SiL) say that Peruvian is the best. I think I’m gonna have to go ahead and say, they get some serious benefit of the doubt here.
We we went to a small restaurant called Machu Picchu. I didn’t get enough pictures, sorry but we were having so much fun I wasn’t thinking. We ordered a couple appetizer plates of shrimp, octopus, potatoes, ceviche, and a thing that was mashed potatoes, avocado and tuna that was really outstanding. Yes, the ceviche was also outstanding! That was the first photo I forgot to take.
I had Peruvian chicken with rice and potatoes, most everyone else had variations on (XX protein) and rice: shrimp, beef, chicken, fish. Peruvian isn’t so much Andean as it is Andean/Asian fusion; it can be authentic either way, it’s just a matter of where in the cultural timeline you want to drop yourself.
The yellow sauce is served served with almost everything, including the potatoes in the appetizer. It’s pretty mild, like a bright bell pepper mayonnaise if that makes any sense. I expected it to be spicy, but it was not. But it was really good.
We ordered sides of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and fried yucca. All were excellent. The sweet potatoes were cold and glazed. The fried yucca was most delicately fried, the layer of crispness was very thin, it was served with the yellow sauce. The potatoes (forgot the photo) were completely unadorned and deserve special mention; they were downright savory in their perfection. Just potatoes. No butter, no salt, no pepper.
Some side notes:
I mixed up my chicken and rice before taking the photo. The presentation was actually very nice, with the rice formed in a cake and the chicken and sauce over the potatoes.
The rice dishes all came out like that. That one stands for all the others.
It is strange to fight traffic for half an hour, then pull up to your destination and park right in front, with your choice of half a dozen spots. Parallel, no meters.
Chile is very child friendly. No one notices screaming infants.
Tip is optional, 10%, and on the receipt at every restaurant we’ve visited . You point to which one you want to pay. When you tip, the waiter gets a big smile and doesn’t say "gracias", he says "muchas gracias!"
People here eat very late. We arrived at 6:30, and the only other patrons were the couple with the screaming infant; when we left at 8:45, the place was packed. Mosquette said that the couple with the kid were probably there early because they knew it wouldn’t be crowded. They left around 7.
The prices were pretty reasonable, an entree was about 11000 pesos, which is $16-17. Felipe says in Peru they would be $2-3 at a roadside stand. I did get him to confess that there is a benefit to being sure you won’t get sick. And to not having to travel 1500 miles.
I’ll think of more.
We we went to a small restaurant called Machu Picchu. I didn’t get enough pictures, sorry but we were having so much fun I wasn’t thinking. We ordered a couple appetizer plates of shrimp, octopus, potatoes, ceviche, and a thing that was mashed potatoes, avocado and tuna that was really outstanding. Yes, the ceviche was also outstanding! That was the first photo I forgot to take.
I had Peruvian chicken with rice and potatoes, most everyone else had variations on (XX protein) and rice: shrimp, beef, chicken, fish. Peruvian isn’t so much Andean as it is Andean/Asian fusion; it can be authentic either way, it’s just a matter of where in the cultural timeline you want to drop yourself.
The yellow sauce is served served with almost everything, including the potatoes in the appetizer. It’s pretty mild, like a bright bell pepper mayonnaise if that makes any sense. I expected it to be spicy, but it was not. But it was really good.
We ordered sides of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and fried yucca. All were excellent. The sweet potatoes were cold and glazed. The fried yucca was most delicately fried, the layer of crispness was very thin, it was served with the yellow sauce. The potatoes (forgot the photo) were completely unadorned and deserve special mention; they were downright savory in their perfection. Just potatoes. No butter, no salt, no pepper.
Some side notes:
I mixed up my chicken and rice before taking the photo. The presentation was actually very nice, with the rice formed in a cake and the chicken and sauce over the potatoes.
The rice dishes all came out like that. That one stands for all the others.
It is strange to fight traffic for half an hour, then pull up to your destination and park right in front, with your choice of half a dozen spots. Parallel, no meters.
Chile is very child friendly. No one notices screaming infants.
Tip is optional, 10%, and on the receipt at every restaurant we’ve visited . You point to which one you want to pay. When you tip, the waiter gets a big smile and doesn’t say "gracias", he says "muchas gracias!"
People here eat very late. We arrived at 6:30, and the only other patrons were the couple with the screaming infant; when we left at 8:45, the place was packed. Mosquette said that the couple with the kid were probably there early because they knew it wouldn’t be crowded. They left around 7.
The prices were pretty reasonable, an entree was about 11000 pesos, which is $16-17. Felipe says in Peru they would be $2-3 at a roadside stand. I did get him to confess that there is a benefit to being sure you won’t get sick. And to not having to travel 1500 miles.
I’ll think of more.
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