‘Guinea pig never tasted so good’: My 14-course meal at the world’s best restaurant From gourmet fish scales to Amazonian chorizo foam, Maido’s dazzling Peruvian-Japanese tasting menu is one you’ll never forget
Maido in Lima has recently been crowned the world’s best restaurant – and it’s handily a 10-minute walk from this writer’s home The very first dish leaves me so baffled I have to ask the waiter which bits I am supposed to eat. The only edible part, it turns out, is the tiny blob of brown foam, made from Amazonian chorizo, perched on top of a spiky bed of desiccated scales from the arapaima, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish. Each the size of a credit card, the scales vaguely resemble prawn…Read more …