Today I went to a peruvian food restaurant near my home here in downtonw São Paulo, Brazil. It is located in Galeria Metrópole, a kind of gallery, mall or shopping center opened in the 60's in the modernist style.
This is one of the 11 restaurants from the Rinconcito Peruano chain in the city. I remember the first opened 20 years ago in Rua Aurora, a degraded no go zone of downtown, a small space hidden in a second floor that still exists. But this unit is in a charmfull gem of Brazilian architecture and gardening style in front of Dom José Gaspar square.
Rinconcito offers the typical Peruvian food that they helped to popularize in São Paulo, ceviches, causas, lomos saltados and chaufas. As usual I choose the Arroz Chaufa Mixto (Chaufa rice with chicken, meat and eggs).
The Dom José Gaspar square is very green and scenic, behind the City Library built in 1925 in Art Decó architecture style, has many world famous writers statues surrounded by trees and lush tropical plants.
It's not in the picture but after the main course we ordered the alfajor filled with dulce de leche (caramelized milk) and spresso coffee.
Today the Galeria Metrópole became an art, design and food hub, attracting people from other neighbourhoods and tourists, aside the downtown office workers.
It was a delicious food and many people considered it in the average price, not so expensive as other Peruvian food restaurants located in the city's rich neighbourhoods
As I mentioned in one of the arts of my Challenge: Drawing (almost) every day on iPad, after I Cleaning the dust from the camera, I finally used it to take these pictures for this first post to Worldmappin community.
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