a national peruvian dish at an irish pub?

Don’t laugh, but it’s not even been a week and I’ve already visited an Irish pub.


Call me lame but my guidebook said the food, especially the steak, was really good. And this evening I was craving some good food and beer, though not necessarily traditional pub food. (Good thing, because, though the menu was a crazy mixture of Peruvian dishes, pasta, pizza, curry and hamburgers, there was no fish and chips or shephard’s pie to be found.)

I totally hit the jackpot with the lomo saltado, ‘jumping beef’, one of the national dishes of Peru.

It’s a fairly simple dish of sautéed beef with tomatoes, onions and cilantro with French fries. Mine came with rice, too. And my guidebook wasn’t wrong about the steak - it was damn tasty (especially with beer)!