Tom Sietsema Gushes About Glitzy Mi Vida - Eater DC
"Bethesda Magazine restaurant critic David Hagedorn checks out the Peruvian restaurant that opened in Rockville’s Talbott Center in August. Right off the bat he gives props to its “delicate” alfajores, or small anise-scented cookies that “sandwich creamy, thick slatherings of caramel sauce” known as dulce de leche. Owner Emma Perez, a Silver Spring resident and native of Lima, Peru, is the real deal and it shows in the bigger version of her original restaurant, which sports detailed accents like elaborate cast-iron chandeliers. Its version of the pisco sour is a “sound” one, he decides, The ceviche is also done right, featuring cubed tilapia “cooked” in lime juice and hot rocoto peppers. And a sampler of four savory causas —whipped potatoes topped with, respectively, a poached shrimp and three “mayonnaise-y dollops” of crab, tuna and chicken salad—”is a showstopper.” But his favorite starter is what he calls “wintertime comfort in a casserole dish”: corn pudding with sautéed diced sirloin steak, hard-boiled eggs, and raisins. For the main event, he’s into the braised beef shank cooked pot roast-style, and his desserts of choice were the creamy rice pudding with cinnamon, or bright orange lucuma (a fruit) ice cream." - Tierney Plumb
