MATRIA RESTAURANTE

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"Chef Arlette Eulert’s restaurant boasts Peruvian and organic ingredients that change according to the seasons, and her menu is one of few in town to specify dishes that are gluten or lactose free, vegan, or vegetarian. The chef puts spins on classic dishes like tiradito — adding popped quinoa for crunchiness and salsa-like chalaquita with roe — and she loves to mix Indian and Thai spices into dishes like grilled scallops with curry or the catch of the day in a sauce of coconut milk and yellow curry. Leave space for dessert and order the shareable alfajor (layers of cookies and dulce de leche, locally called manjar blanco). You won’t regret it. [$$$]" - Liliana López Sorzano