Maido

Maido is ranked #7 on the 2018 list of the best 50 restaurants in the world. We couldn't get dinner reservations, but we were able to book for lunch. We sat at the bar. It was the best meal I've had in my life.

The first course was paired with sake, and before that was served we were presented with a tray filled with a variety of sake cups, from which we chose what we would drink out of.

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Snacks

Tomatoes marinated in mirin, grilled avocado,, crispy chicken skin, free range hen eggs from Huacho, homemade bacon.  Amazonic sausage, roasted banana, sachatomate emulsion, crispy black cracker ponzu.  Aji negro chawanmushi.

Top left: Tapioca cracker. Treviso. I could eat this forever

Top Right: Sandwich in which the bread is chicken skin. Avocoado. Tomato. Basically, riff on a BLT. Fantastic.

Bottom: Some kind of custard. Taste of sesame seeds. Vinegary tasting fluid.

Sake: Nambu Bijin Shimpaku

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Poda Cebiche

Sarandaja cream, mackerel, shallots, aji, limo, chulpi corn, nikkei leche de tigre

Ceviche - mackerel clams, avocado, tiger's milk, white bean puree, canchas. The brown dots are gelatinous soy.

Trapiche Costa & Pampa Sauvignon Blanc 2016

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Chicharron Sandwich

Steamed buns, pork belly, kimchee emulsion, creole sauce

Pork belly slider with sweet potatoe crunchy thing. Yellow chile mayonnaise dots. Pork chops and applesauce, baby.

Reichsgraf Von Kesselstatt Goldtropchen Riesling Kabinett 2016

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Sudado

Catch of the day, sudado reduction, creole sauce

Served in a very hot bowl - cod cheeks in a vegetable soup.

Stephane Ogier Blanc D'Ogier 2016

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Cuy-San

Cauliflower cream, garlic and rocoto cream, torikara sauce, Pachacamac greens

"Cuy Surprise" - cuy confitte, with a vegetable pepper puree.

Chivie Le Gardeta Finca De Villatuerta Chardonnay 2017

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Nigiris

Straight-up sushi. Yo.

From left to right: tuna, scallop, beef. Jet from the server's torch is visible

Saint Lizier Ultra Blanc 2013 - organic, unfiltered Peruvian

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Gindara Misoyaki

Cod marinated in miso, crispy Bauaja nuts, apple gel, Porcon mushrooms powder

Black cod fish, chestnuts on top, apple gel

De Martino Viejas Tinajas Muscat 2016

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Beef Short Rib 50 Hours

Native potato cream, crispy rice, cushuro

Beef short rib in a sweet sauce, with potato puree on the side.

Manos Negras Artesano Malbec 2014

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Sea Urchin Rice

Chiclayo rice, Atico sea urchins, avocado cream, wan yi, baby corn

Risotto with sea urchin, shreds of nori.

Heinrich Neuburger Freyheit 2016

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Theobroma Cacao

Granadilla with mandarin sorbet, mucilage foam, cacao nibs, lucuma ice cream, raspberries

Mucilage foam, cocoa nibs, lucuma ice cream inside, topped with toasted chestnuts. Passion fruit sorbet under the foam. The grey rock is made out of sugar, but is not for eating.

La Spinetta Biancospino Moscato D'Asti 2017

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Theobroma Bicolor

Macambo seeds ice cream with smoked plantain and shoyu, crunchy nibs, sugar coated macambo, camu camu, goldenberry, and mucilage

Lucuma ice cream with soy sauce. Sprinkled with mucilage frozen with nitrogen.

Mistela "Rosa Victoria" 2015 Bodega Moquillaza Robatty