May 13, 2008

La Isla Escondida

Address: Leonardo Da Vinci 506, Urb. La Calera, La Merced, Surquillo
Phone: 271-6455
Web page: laislaescondidaperu.com
Description:

Big and soberly decorated restaurant located in a nice area of Surquillo. They offer a good variety of cebiches and other seafood dishes like tiradito (kind of a cebiche without onions), parihuela (a spicy thick soup with fish, shellfish and crabs), jalea (fried seafood on top of a fried fish filet covered with an onions salad), sudado, etc. The piqueos (trays with a sample of a couple of dishes) are really good. Piqueo del puerto brings cebiche, tiradito and causa de pulpa de cangrejo (a dish that has two layers of spicy and sour mash potatoes and crab meat stuffing between them). They have a nice selection of piscos and they prepare a good pisco sour.
Price Range: Moderate

May 7, 2008

La Tienda de la Carreta

Address: Av. Rivera Navarrete 722, San Isidro
Phone: 422-2690
Web page:
Description: This restaurant is located right in the heart of the financial district of San Isidro, next door of its fancy big brother La Carreta. The whole building (including La Carreta) is decorated in colonial hacienda style. They have sandwiches, empanadas and some other appetizers that you can eat there or take to go. For lunch you can order pasta or grilled meat or chicken among some other dishes at a reasonable price. This is a popular place for people in nearby buildings and offices so it can get crowded at lunch time, specially on Fridays, so be sure to get early.
Price Range: Inexpensive to moderate

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Highlights

World's Largest Cebiche: Peru wants the Guiness World Record


Peru will need five tons of fish and seafood and 400 chefs in order to get back the Largest Cebiche Guinness World Record. This event will be held on August 30th.


This challenge is being organized and promoted by the Sociedad Peruana Cebiche más grande del Mundo (World´s Largest Cebiche Peruvian Society) and the Grupo Gastronomico Comunicadores, an editorial group that publishes books and magazines about the Peruvian Cuisine.


The organizers want to break the current Guinness Record that was established in 2007 by Mexican cebicheros. This record was previously in Peruvian hands since 2004.


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First Gastronomic and Cultural Festival of the San Martin Region at Melia Lima Hotel


Tacacho con cecinaAn important delegation of the San Martin Region will display in the Melia Lima Hotel a significant sample of its gastronomy, art and folklore with the purpose to show its cultural richness. This will take place within the First Gastronomic and Cultural Festival of the San Martin Region, organized by the Regional Government of San Martin and the Melia Lima Hotel, between April 15th and 19th.


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