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I would imagine they are everywhere in Sao Paulo bon appetit.
The food / restaurant scene is noticeably better in São Paulo….Be like comparing the restaurants in San Diego or Orange County (Rio) to San Francisco (Sao Paulo).
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in 2013 only nine hundred thousand tourist visited Peru, so the claim you are making, make no sense with reality, the same year 24 thousand tourist visited Mexico. basing your claim on an online survey is childish.
Peru has typically ranked highest according to another recognized source, 50 Best, with 3 of the top 5 restaurants (and 16 of the top 100) within LATAM (v 15 for Mexico). Not bad considering it is also only 1/4 the population of Mexico.
Central American cuisine is not easy to find where I am in eastern Ontario, but it is so underrated and I wish we had more of it. I used to get great Guatemalan food at a family run restaurant years ago. I still miss that place.
Peru has typically ranked highest according to another recognized source, 50 Best, with 3 of the top 5 restaurants (and 16 of the top 100) within LATAM (v 15 for Mexico). Not bad considering it is also only 1/4 the population of Mexico.
Who cares about all that junk it’s what’s popular that counts and that’s what indicates what is actually good. Mexican food is infinitely more popular and sought than Peruvian food. I took my daughters to a Peruvian restaurant recently and they said it was very underwhelming and they couldn’t wait to go get tacos instead as did I lol.
Who cares about all that junk it’s what’s popular that counts and that’s what indicates what is actually good. Mexican food is infinitely more popular and sought than Peruvian food. I took my daughters to a Peruvian restaurant recently and they said it was very underwhelming and they couldn’t wait to go get tacos instead as did I lol.
That's a bit of a stretch. What is holding back Peruvian cuisine is its price, or at least in the markets where I have had it (US and Colombia). Due to the ubiquitous and popular nature of Mexican food, the cost is much lower in general compared to Peruvian. There's simply too much competition for Mexican places to brand themselves as chic, expensive fine dining establishments like I see Peruvian joints pulling on us. But in terms of the flavors and ingredients and what not, I would never consider Peruvian food underwhelming. It is definitely one of the most dynamic and flavorful Latin American cuisines in my opinion.
While I put TRUE Mexican food (as opposed to the widely circulating Tex-Mex) way in front of any other Latin American cuisine, there are some seriously underrated cuisines out there. Honduran food for example is dynamite. Puerto Rican food is also stellar.
Speaking of Latin America cuisine, at the end of October 2022 Chef Tita from the Dominican Republic received a star in the world's only "Paseo de las Estrellas de la GastronomÃa" (Gastronomic Stars Boulevard) in Huelva, Spain. This like the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California, USA but for the gastronomic world only.
Receiving this recognition is a big deal in itself, but she is also the first Latin American to receive this star. Last but not the least, everyone noticed she is a woman, right? That means she is also the first woman to receive this recognition.
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Who cares about all that junk it’s what’s popular that counts and that’s what indicates what is actually good. Mexican food is infinitely more popular and sought than Peruvian food. I took my daughters to a Peruvian restaurant recently and they said it was very underwhelming and they couldn’t wait to go get tacos instead as did I lol.
I could say the same about Mexican cuisine, depending upon the restaurant.
Having just returned, last week, from Lima, Peru, so far, between Peru & Mexico, I am in love with the great food in Peru, though Mexico's cuisine still rates pretty close.
Sadly, I was disappointed in one restaurant that seems to be very highly rated and was featured on a Netflix series about Peruvian street foo; I ended up not eating most of what I was served and giving it to someone else. I can't wait to get back to sample more food in Peru for sure.
I've spent significant time in both Peru and Mexico, and I prefer Mexican food.
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