Lima Day 2: I Love Duck

Friday, March 14

I went to the dentist in the morning, so nothing before the appointment.

After the dentist, I stopped at the Supermarket and bought a Causa with Chicken and what we would have called a Spinach and Chicken Quiche. I wish I could show them off, but the camera ate those photos. They were supermarket-quality, which means Outstanding by US standards and just average by Peruvian metrics.

I met my friend Alex for Lunch. We went to a new (to us) place on Avenue La Mar called La Nacional. What do you know... another good restaurant!

They got this old-style oven right in front of the kitchen, technically in the dining room, and a lot of the dishes get prepared/finished in there. And the Bread gets cooked there, too. They brought some to the table.

The Corn Bread was amazing, and the regular Bread was pretty good,too. I had half the Corn Bread and one piece of the other Bread.

I started off with a Tamale Verde, and Alex had the Octopus Appetizer.

Alex is not a fan of Blog photos, but he's the only guy I know that likes Octopus more than I do.

For our Main Courses, I had the Arroz con Pato (Rice With Duck). Yo Amo Pato. I Love Duck. Alex had the Grilled Fish of the Day. I don't remember what Fish it was.

My dish came with Salsa Criolla, which is Onions. It also came with a little pot of what I think was more Duck meat. Both mine and ALex' dishes were excellent. Go figure... another great restaurant.

Later that afternoon, I decided that if there was a nuclear holocaust, it would be a shame if I didn't eat one more time, so I went to a Chicken pplace and got an order of Fries to go.

I won't eat Fries at home, but they use Yellow Potatoes here, and they are delicious. And they give you this spicy sauce to dip them in.

For Dinner, I wound up at La 73 in Barranco. I started with an order of Beef Carpaccio.

I followed that up with what they called "Paella Chola." I would have called it Rice with Shrimps and Octopus.

By any name, it was pretty fabulous.

Dinner was at 10:30, not Midnight as has been falsely reported in many social media outlets. I wound up staying out until 2, and when I got home, I had a Cup of Frozen Grapes. Thy had seeds, so I probably won't be doing that again.

Here's my steps for the day.