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- Apr 17, 2025, 2:02 PM
- ☁️ 75 °F
- Altitude: 70 m
PeruLima12°8’36” S 77°1’28” W
Barranco food tour 🌽

We walked around our neighborhood of Barranco. The weather is really nice because we’re right by the ocean. We stumbled upon a cute artists gallery/ souvenir shop. Then we walked towards the Bridge of Sighs. There is a lot of really cool street art around town. We took in the atmosphere and listened to a pitch from a guy selling coffee as a fundraiser for an addiction recovery center.
The main attraction for today was a food tour. In our group was two young Canadian women, a middle-aged couple from the UK, a couple who lives in San Diego and a solo guy from LA. Our guide first took us to try some fruits and vegetables. We had cherimoya (custard apple) which was delicious and such an interesting texture. Next up was an empanada with a chicken filling and very smooth Peruvian coffee. The next restaurant was on a house built by a couple from New Orleans. We got to go into the kitchen and watch them make marinated beef heart and lomo saltado. There’s a large Chinese Peruvian fusion culture that was created when Chinese workers immigrated (to be indentured servants, unfortunately).
We stopped at an art gallery from an artist Jade Riviera back near the Bridge of Sighs. We had ceviche next, they explained all that goes into it. Here it includes lettuce and cooked sweet potato. For our drinks course we went to a very local bar called “Juanito’s” because everyone is named Juan. One of the Juans made us pisco sours that were very strong. The bar also did sandwiches but we didn’t get to try unfortunately. For dessert we had ice cream. I’m not sure if that’s very Peruvian but I did have lúcuma flavor which is a Peruvian fruit.
The San Diego couple invited us to check out Kennedy park, which is home to many cats. Many were friendly and were out of their little houses wandering around. We pet some and observed some cat dynamics drama and then wandered home.Read more
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