Pisqu for Terrific Peruvian Cuisine
Peru is blessed with an enormous variety of special ingredients and included in that is over 30 superfoods. Their original cuisine has been including these amazing health giving products since ancient times. Some of these ingredients we have probably not seen much of in the UK like Camu Camu, Lucuma and Maca.
Pisqu Restaurant is the first restaurant in London to offer Amazonian cuisine. The menu is designed to showcase some of Peru’s most well known dishes like ceviche and anticuchos, but tother sensational dishes from the Amazon like the Asado beef with a yacon sauce and Chupe, a typical fisherman’s dish.
I have eaten at several of London’s new Peruvian restaurants on London and abroad and Pisqu is my top pick for the finesse and the flavours delivered on a plate. At a recent meal to showcase Peruvian Super Foods, we experienced the talents of Chef William and his presentation of dishes using these superfoods. Some of the ingredients used are purple corn, kiwicha, maca, camu camu, quinoa, criollo yacon, and guanabana. You can learn more about the benefits of these superfoods here – https://peru.info/es-pe/superfoods/super-frutas

Chef ‘s William Ortiz’s tasting menu was designed to showcase a lot of these Peruvian ingredients (His elder brother, Robert, is a Chef at Michelin rated Lima). The beautifully presented were not only delicious but very exciting, using these unusual ingredients and a culinary journey of Amazonian Peru. Some of these dishes remind William of his childhood in Peru which he has recreated and refined for the London audience without sacrificing any flavours.
Pisqu has a bar that serves a knock-your-socks off Pisco Sour, the ultimate Peruvian cocktail. It is quite lethal as it doesn’t taste as strong as it really is. With our meal, we enjoyed some rather unusual Peruvian wines too, under the Inti


TASTING MENU
Pan rustico
Quinoa, Aji Amarillo and Purple corn breads Huacatay and rocoto Butter
Scallops tigre
Artichoke tiger’s milk, green asparagus, red kiwicha, aji limo
Octopus choclo
Anticucho sauce, Inca golden cake, avocado and maca puree white asparagus
Salmon Tiradito
Salmon sashimi, rocota sauce, camu camu, dry Inca corn
Seabass Selva
Flamed sea bass with broad beans in pitahaya sauce
Chupe King prawns, ajies sauce, seaweed, Cuzco mote
Chicharron
Organic pork belly, yuca croqueta, tumbo, criolla sauce~ aguaymanto
Asado Rib-eye marinated in palo santo sauce, yacon
Guanabana mousse
Amazonian fruit with miel de tierra







Asado Rib-eye marinated in palo santo sauce, yacon


Reading the various review sites online, it looks like I am not the only who has been seduced by the food here at Pisqu. Regardless of the cuisine, the cooking is precise, refined and done by someone who has a great palate and a lightness of touch. You will get a truly Amazonian food experience at Pisqu.
Pisqu
23 Rathbone Pl,
Fitzrovia,
London W1T 1HZ
Tel: 020 7436 6123
https://www.pisqulondon.com/
EatCookExplore was a guest of Pisqu and the Peruvian Embassy