I started with coffee, juice and toast at La Bodega Verde, a perfect indoor/outdoor coffee shop about two blocks from Jeremy's place.
It wasn't your typical coffee shop entrance. It was almost like you were walking into someone's front yard.
The coffee bar, tables, and architecture was designed and built around the already existing trees, lawn, and planters giving it that indoor/outdoor feel.
It was a perfect little patio to enjoy a leisure coffee and light breakfast.
The food was prepared in a kitchen housed in a separate back bungalow. It was fun because the cook, who you can see through the window, would put the prepared food on the window sill when it was ready for pickup.
After breakfast I took a walk down the cobble stone path to the beach. I saw workers preparing rows of cabanas, restaurants putting finishing touches on their patio expansions, and large ocean view condo complexes being completed in time for the summer real estate boom. In Lima right now it's their Spring time and summer officially starts in December, but the sun is already starting to peek through on occasion so the locals are preparing for the visitors coming to enjoy their sun and sand a little early.
The path leading from the Barranco city center area right down to the beach front.
Santa Monica Incline leading into a busy PCH? Nope, but it looked eerily like it. This is actually the continued part of the cobble stone path with a bridge taking you over the highway to the sand.
We didn't get a ton of sunny weather while we were there, but it was out and shinning on Monday.
I meandered around the beaches in front of Barranco and Miraflores for most of the afternoon. I even took a brief ciesta on a grassy beach-side knoll. I eventually made it over to Lacomar, the shopping and entertainment complex we frequented during our stay in Lima, for a quick bite to eat and some window shopping. Around 4pm I headed back to the apartment to clean up for my final feast in Peru.
We had talked all trip about a burger joint from one of Lima's top chefs, Gaston Acurio and on Monday night we finally gave it a go. The restaurant is called Papacho's and it's in the high-end area of Miraflores. It was a Monday night around 9pm so we were expecting a light crowd, but no so much. The place was filled up and there was even a short wait.
Papacho's is one of several of Gaston's restaurants in Lima. He is a massive celebrity chef in Peru, but he also has restaurants in Colombia, Argentina, Spain, San Francisco, New York, and more.
I went with the blue cheese burger with bacon, onion ring and a medium rare patty...it was my last night of vacation, I was going big!
Juicy. It was a huge super tasty burger and surprisingly didn't leave me feeling overwhelming stuffed afterward...perfect, because we were going for a special dessert.
We got back in the car and headed to La Bodega de la Trattoria for the famous Cinco Leches cake. Yep, Cinco Leches, not Tres Leches like you've probably heard of before, but Cinco Leches. Delicioso!
It was a perfect last supper, a final culinary hurrah. I was ready to call it a night. We got home, I said my goodbyes and thank yous to our wonderful hospitable hosts Jeremy and Pam, and headed to bed. My flight was at 9am on Tuesday so I needed to be up and out early.
I'll put up a final post with a few of the best photos from the trip.
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