LIMA DAY 10: A Reserved Night At the Fiesta. Or Was it Rowdy?

My friend, high school math teacher and all-around great guy, Les Max, first showed me this comic in 1977

Friday, May 18, 2019

Anytime I hear about a reserved table, my mind always goes to that comic. It was a running joke of ours for 67290473429 years. So I got to think of my friend when I saw this:

Anyway, I was pretty free in the morning, so I went back to 1972 Coffee and had the same Breakfast as last week.

That's a Latte, Chicken Salad Sandwich, and a Pastel de Acelga.

It was enough to keep me full until Dinnertime. My friend Javier just got into town (he lives up in Washington), and we had a dinner date at Fiesta Gourmet. We have been talking about getting their Rice and Duck for weeks.

We were seated - nobody asked us if we were going to be Reserved or Rowdy - and they started us with some sort of complimentary something.

I don't rightly know what it was. There was a small piece of Fish, some Fish Eggs, and a Cheesy-type thing. Whatever it is, it was good.

We both had basically the same dinner. Omelets and Duck.

My Omelet was made with Erizo. In English, it's what we call a Sea Urchin.

There were both Fresh and Fried Erizos on the omelet. Delicious.

It could be argued that the Omelet was enough for a meal. Not by me, however. Or Javier. We both also had the Rice & Duck.

 

Fiesta's Duck - it is argued - is the best in Lima. I won't disagree. The one at Gaston's place last week was a little fancier. Both were excellent, and I am glad that I don't have to rank them first or second.

Fiesta is super fancy, so they insist on making a Big Deal and serving everything to you. Here's a video of my Omelet and Duck presentations:

Javier's omelet was Scallop-based and he liked his as much as I did mine. Here's his plates and his presentation videos:

 

 

We passed on a Dessert. I had a Cappucino.

That was it. I could hardly walk, but I made it to the Casino after Dinner, where, for the first time this trip, I wound up going to sleep with more money in my wallet than I woke up with.