Frommer's Review
Any time a restaurant in Peru lists all prices in dollars, you know it's not going to be cheap. Costa Verde, perched on a promontory jutting out into the ocean along the "green coast" south of Miraflores, is probably as expensive a meal as you'll have in Peru, but it's also good enough to draw a decent number of Limeños celebrating special occasions. It draws a bigger share of foreigners, as evidenced by the touristy little national flags the hostess places on everyone's table. (I suggest telling her you're from Iceland or Zimbabwe, just to see how well stocked they are in miniature flags.) The restaurant is attractive enough, but it's the big-time seafood buffet that makes everyone's eyes bulge. There's a daily lunch buffet and also a huge gourmet dinner buffet ($60 a head -- in Peru!), which the restaurant claims is registered in the Guinness Book of Records. The regular menu seems not to have changed in more than 3 decades of business, but you can't really argue with sea bass with wild mushrooms and morel sauce with scallop mousse, or basil and ricotta gnocchi with river shrimp in saffron sauce. Not in the mood for fish? Try the pork loin in beer-and-honey sauce. Sit in the glass-enclosed atrium -- although it's rather devoid of character, you'll get to hear the sound of waves crashing against the shore. Then again, that could be the sound of your bank account crashing and burning.
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