Restaurant reviews – the opinions expressed are solely my own. Often, though it will appear that they’re based on a single visit, they’re based on more than one. And I’m willing to hear from folks who disagree – I do know that restaurants, including my own, have their off days.
“Molecular Gastronomy is not a cuisine. It is a collection of cooking techniques. Like boiling, roasting etc. These are very contemporary cooking techniques that have developed over the past 20 years by understanding the science behind it. … How do you apply these techniques in traditional cooking, to make the food innovative and create an… Read More Trailblazer
I’m not going to do little mini restaurant reviews of everywhere I ate, though I will mention where I ate things – I thought it might be more interesting overall to just look at the kind of things I ate while in La Paz. Most of it was traditional, but some was a bit more… Read More La Paz Eats
Being realistic is sometimes, not always, a good thing – flights of fancy or fantasy are just fine as well. The reality is, however, I will probably never eat at Noma, the much touted world’s best on one list or another. And whether it is “the” best is irrelevant, it’s obviously up there in the… Read More Spawn of World’s Best
In two days back in Lima I stayed in two different hotels (there was a reason for choosing each and trying them both out, but it’s irrelevant to my story), and three different restaurants, if you don’t count breakfast at the two hotels. I toured my way through two different markets. It’s all a bit… Read More Lima Eats x 3
Oh, I don’t even know where to begin this one…. Hmmm, let’s start with last day in Trujillo before heading to the mountaintop to visit Henry’s dad. We had lunch at Coquito’s, a popular seafood place in the northeast of the city: Henry and I invited out three of his sisters for lunch and we… Read More Run For/From The Hills!
All over the world there’s been this recent incursion of high end Peruvian cooking – either reworkings of traditional dishes to make them more elegant and refined, or fusing them with, usually, Asian ingredients or presentations. We do some of our own with our Mediterranean fusions and we’ve been talking about doing more of that,… Read More Upper Crust Trujillo Cooking
I had to put my foot down about hanging around the house “visiting”. Enough is enough already, and Henry’s here for the next month, he can do more visiting after I head out early next week. So we got out and about for a portion of the day yesterday. Though, first, of course, we had… Read More The Hidden Museum
We’ll see how much there is to post about on this visit back to Trujillo, Peru. For those who’ve been with me awhile and want a refresher, or those who’ve not and want an introduction, Henry and I are visiting his family for a week, followed by a couple of days to the mountaintop village… Read More Thrice, Trujillo