This is a legendary Peruvian restaurant.
Ignore the various bad reviews.
These are people who wanted to order take-out sushi to eat in their apartment.
Paru has "sushi" but that is not what it is all about.
This is a major haute cuisine innovative Peruvian restaurant.
You will get dishes here that you can't get in the United States or in Buenos Aires, or for that matter probably, Peru.
The dishes are innovative, complex, multi-layered and multi-ingrediented.
Having access to the many forms of Peruvian corn gives Paru natural advantages over Peruvian restaurants in the United States that can't get this critical input.
Having access to the utterly superior seafood that Argentina has doesn't hurt either.
And yet, there is no doubt in my mind, there is a just a whole lot of originality here.
Of a menu with about seventy items, about thirty were standard Japanese or Peruvian staples.
There were forty items I had absolutely never seen before,
Each one had a super long list of ingredients.
It took me a minute per dish to understand exactly what the cook was trying to do.
Even then - there were tastes and concepts that defied any attempt to categorize them with the foods in my mental vocabulary.
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What happened when I ordered these various dishes and actually put them in my mouth?
They were amazing.
I won't even begin to try to describe them here.
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If you are in Argentina and you want the classic Argentine dishes,
Go to the great bodegones and the great parillas.
They will change your life.
There is incredible vegan food to be had.
The ice cream here is legendary.
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But after you have done that ...
and you fully understand the miracle of Argentine cuisine,
Paru is waiting for you.
There are new frontiers to be crossed.
There are new worlds awaiting you. read more
