Peruvian Restaurants Declared as the Best in Latin America

With Latin America’s biggest food festival, Mistura, set to kick off on September 5, two restaurants in Peru, Central and Astrid y Gaston, have been awarded as the best restaurants in the region.

Central, which received first place honors, was praised for the diversity of ingredients used by its 37-year-old chef Virgilio Martinez, who has made the Lima restaurant a new reference point for Latin American haute cuisine.

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The recognition also confirmed Peruvian cuisine as one of the best known in the continent, with its celebrated ceviche, "tacu-tacu" rice-and-beans mixture and "lomo saltado," a beef dish.

The list of Latin America's 50 best restaurants, begun in 2013 by a trade publication, is chosen by a 252-member academy of experts.

They elevated Central above last year's winners Astrid y Gaston and Brazil's D.O.M., which this year came in second and third respectively.

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Among the region's top 10 establishments were three Peruvian restaurants, three Mexican, two Brazilian, one in Chile and one in Argentina.

Gaston Acurio, the chef of Astrid y Gaston, which has opened franchises in several countries, was named best chef for 2014, chosen as "the driving force behind the rise of Peruvian cuisine."

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Honors for the region's best female chef went to a Mexican, Elena Reygadas of the Rosetta restaurant.

Mistura, Latin America's most important food festival, opens its doors Friday to as many as 500,000 visitors over the next 10 days.

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Source-AFP