?> {"id":4740,"date":"2011-01-26T23:44:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T04:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2011-01-26T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T04:44:44","slug":"inka-grill-cusco-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/2011\/01\/inka-grill-cusco-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Inka Grill (Cusco, Peru)"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n We arrived in Cusco relatively late in the evening, and although they gave us a snack on the train, we found most of it to be pretty bad so we decided to go out for a late dinner when we got into the city. We asked the front desk at our hotel for some restaurant recommendations, specifically saying that we were in the mood for some Peruvian style chicken. One of the restaurants they sent us to was the Inka Grill, which was right on the main square. As soon as we saw it, we knew they didn’t serve the Peruvian chicken we were looking for, but it was late and the menu looked ok so we decided to go in anyway.<\/p>\n The restaurant was definitely more upscale than what we were looking for, though the decor was pretty nice. It wasn’t crowded because of the late dinner hour so it was pretty quiet, giving us the opportunity relax and chat. We started with a nice bottle of red wine and they brought us some homemade potato chips to start. The chips were made from yellow starchy potatoes, and even though they were fresh, they weren’t nearly as tasty as the chips we had at the Lobby Bar at Tambo del Inka<\/a>. The chips came with a green sauce on the side for dipping, which I thought would be a garlicky ajo sauce, but turned out to a mint sauce made from my dreaded Andean mint. Yikes! I still don’t know what it is about Andean mint, but I had to force myself to swallow that bite rather than spit it out. Josh liked it though.<\/p>\n