Our second night was also in the new city and took us to an empty La Gloria
when we arrived at 7pm. They had two menus in English, but we soon discovered
they had to be printed ages before as most the items were not on the Spanish
menu, but between Sam's Spanish and my food knowledge we got thru it. The
excellent Pisco sours helped. I headed to the small wine room as they let you
choose your bottle from small cabinets marked with the prices, like a store,
rather than from a menu. I chose a Santa Carolina Sauvignon Blanc Riserva 2016
from Argentina that was excellent with all our seafood.
Will started with a Peruvian Ceviche of fish with sweet potato and those
yummy huge corn kernels. I had an amazing Shredded Hearts of Palm, Smoked Salmon
& Goat Cheese salad dotted with awesome local tomate de arbol or tree
tomatos with a passion-fruit vinaigrette which was huge(check it out on FB) as
were all the salads. Samuel had a Caprese salad with two monster mounds of fior
de latte mozzarella that looked like two giant white boobies(we head to the
Galapagos soon).
Sam's main course was a nice penne with prosciutto and parmesan, while Will
had a gorgeous Corvina (sea bass) over a lentil cake (called tacu-tacu),
caramelized onions and basil.
My Loin of Tuna was covered with black and white sesame and in a Thai
reduction with mandarin and lime.
There was no way we could eat dessert, so we headed back to the old city
and our gorgeous hotel and bed.
