Fiesta / Northern Cuisine / Miraflores

**RT Gooch** · #1 (**permalink**) 10/12/07, 23:49:16

Fiesta
Av. Reducto 1276
Miraflores - 447-3312
(also locations in Chiclayo and Tacna)
[Solo usuarios registrados pueden ver este link ]
Open for both Lunch & Dinner. Open for Breakfast on the weekends

One of my friends gave me a Lima Dining Guide as a gift, so I took the opportunity to try out a lot of new places on my last trip.

Fiesta offers "northern" Peruvian food, whatever that is. The restaurant was fairly upscale and well-appointed. The service was excellent, the prices reasonable, and the food: top-notch.

The menu is extensive, with choices from all the food groups. They specialize in duck, and the waiter recommended the arroz con pato (rice with duck), but I had eaten that the previous night, so I went the duck route for my appetizer and ordered a duck omelet.

In my travels, I have discovered that Peruvian chefs like to use the omelet as a food delivery device, so I went with the flow. The omelet was huge, and would have been enough as a main dish all on its own. I ate half the omelet and picked the duck meat out of the other half. Delicious.

My main dish was the Lomo de Lenugado en Salsa Gourmet (Sole sirloin in a gourmet sauce). It was four medallions of sole with mushrooms and asparagus in a tasty sauce. It was good, but did not compare to the duck dish. Many of the other dishes that came out of the kitchen looked to be very good, and they did make a big production out of the rice with duck at the next table.

I declined coffee and dessert, and the tab came to around 80 Soles for the dinner, including a couple of soft drinks. I would not hesitate to return here again.

**Homo_Lo_Gato** · #2 (**permalink**) 13/12/07, 17:34:37

"Comida Norteña" (Northern Food) deserves a note appart within the peruvian cuisine. Not because it is particularly good, that it is, but because of their particularly different approach to several well known peruvian dishes. There are, however, a few items worthy of a few extra lines.

One, as RT discovered, is Duck. "Arroz con Pato a la norteña" is not like any other arroz con pato. It looks the same, but it tastes quite different. And you should try "Cebiche de Pato", a real must. And no, it is not raw duck; in fact, I still don't know why is it called "cebiche" at all, but never mind try it, it is superb.

Another specialty of all northern cuisine is "cabrito" (baby goat). If you don't like even the worst "seco de cabrito a la norteña" I'll eat my shoes.

The traditional "Cebiche" is also a different experience. It is still raw fish marinated in lemon juice but the dressing is somewhat different, it comes with sweet potato, sweet corn and sarandaja. Oh, and the "leche de tigre" in the north of the country is something else.

A dish I haven't found anywhere else but in Paita (Piura region, very north) is the "Mariscala de Mero" What makes a "sudado" (steamed fish) become a "Mariscala"? Well, you have to try it to find out. It is the very best steamed fish in the world, the mero is the best fish for that purpose and it comes with crab and all kinds of seafood. Believe me, it tastes a whole lot better than it sounds.

I'll try this restaurant and report... as soon as I have the time.

**RT Gooch** · #3 (**permalink**) 13/12/07, 21:14:40

Thanks, HLG. You've just forced me to re-visit Fiesta every night on my next trip!

...although that probably won't be a bad thing!

By the way, Fiesta is the place that I couldn't remember the night of our last restaurant search...