La Mar / Miraflores / Cevicheria

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Excerpted from this Field Report:


LA MAR
Av. La Mar 700, Miraflores
421-3365
Noon – 5:00 pm daily

La Mar is another restaurant in the Gaston kingdom. It is officially a ‘cebicheria’, but the menu runs much further than just fish marinating in lime juice.

I opened with the mini-cebiche of conchas negras, and CG tried the causa. Causas are potatoes mashed and then balled up with different toppings. CG was being pretty experimental, and he said that he liked his a lot.

For my second course, I ordered sushi rolls. The fish was fresh, the wasabi was strong, and the rolls were delicious.

My main dish was yet another fish stew (I don’t remember the name), and CG had fried shrimp over stringy rice noodles. These meals were plentiful, and would have been enough for any normal person for the entire day. And aside from plentiful, they were wonderful. We sat at the ceviche bar, so we could watch a lot of the stuff being prepared. The show is almost as good as the food itself.


We passed on dessert and coffee. The tab, including three sodas, and five dishes and a large additional tip came to 120 Soles ($37.50). A steal.

 

RT here. I realized that I hadn't been at La Mar for over a year, so we stopped by yesterday for lunch.

Everything was the same: the food was delicious, the service excellent, and we left fatter and happy.

We ate a cevice classico, a small order of ceviche nikkei (tuna), an order of Choritos, and the tamales verdes. All were awesome, and more food than two people needed. Luckily, we passed on the grilled octopus -- the blackboard said that they weighed over a kilo each!

I was so excited by the ceviches, I forgot to take any other pictures!

 

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You were probably at La Red!!!