Tanta - Review - San Isidro - Lima - The Infatuation

"Tanta is easy, homey food with a creative twist. The restaurant that Gastón Acurio and Astrid Gutsche dreamed up has a wide-ranging menu full of reinvented recipes. There are nostalgic birthday chicken sandwiches, causa limeña with tuna just like grandma used to make, and a fancy version with shrimp, plus hearty tacu tacu of rice and beans, and oven-roasted chicken that tastes like Sunday lunch. It’s a spacious, sunlit dining room (the very first is this San Isidro location, but many more now live across Lima) where the coffee machine hums to life at breakfast, and Astrid’s pastries, like chocolate cakes, suspiros de limeña, and alfajores fresh from the oven, promise a sweet afternoon. And if they have turrón de Doña Pepa on offer, don’t miss it." - Paola Miglio