Across the pond many things are happening. Tourism is reactivated, while the European traveler is thirsty (and hungry) for new experiences with which to approach the cultures that he feels are the most exotic and unknown. So the match (traveler) is more than assured.
It would be practically impossible try all the flavors Peru in a single trip (Just to give an example, we will tell you that the Andean country has about four thousand varieties of potatoes), but the JW Marriott El Convento Cusco wants to make it very easy: your Qespi restaurant has just reopened its doors and brings as a novelty a gastronomic menu called Moments and Earth.
Qespi restaurant.
PACHAMAMA MENU
“Pachamama Food” it's the kind of cuisine chef Jonathan Campos practices at this 153-room boutique hotel. “From the farm to the table”, what others would say, but it is that in Cuzco the presence of Mother Earth in gastronomy It comes very, very far. Long before becoming a colonial city, it was already the navel of the world for the Incas, who transported food through that perfect network of roads that covered the entire Tahuantinsuyo, or Inca empire, from the coast to the jungle, passing through the high mountains.
There are seven steps that make up the menu Moments and Earth designed by fields and his team, among which dishes such as Peruvian stuffed potatoes (with smoked trout roe from Arapa) or some grilled anticuchos accompanied by corn and, of course, more potatoes.
In this tribute to the Peruvian cuisine that is the new proposal of the Qespi restaurant could not miss a pisco sour, but in its own way, because the national drink can be reinterpreted in many different ways, even giving it a more solid, almost chewy touch. And for dessert? A fusion of ingredients and flavors that It is called Chocolate and Café Quillabambino.
Courtyard of the JW Marriott El Convento Cusco.
THE HOTEL
Located in the historic center of Cuzco, a few steps from the Plaza Mayor, the JW Marriott El Convento Cusco is all about a boutique hotel that occupies a restored 16th century convent. Something that you will notice the moment you set foot in its reception and you are trapped by the beauty of its stone vaults. Although for exquisite, but truly exquisite, his courtyard, there where once the monks found that calm that still breathes under the porticoes. In fact some rooms overlook this part; others to the mountains.
The hotel has a spa with a water area where you can request one of its curative treatments based on ancestral Andean traditions, as well as several exhibition areas in which archaeological remains and ancient Peruvian objects are shown.