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Frommer's Highly Recommended

In a 17th-century casona that operated as a mint for the Spanish vice regency and later as a gambling house, El Truco combines good Peruvian cooking and platos típicos with a loud and lively peña (criollo music) show every night (8:30-10:30pm). The restaurant, virtually an institution now that it has been around for over 40 years, has an attractive colonial interior and offers a daily lunch buffet of Peruvian specialties. At night, it's a la carte only. Dishes include pork tamales, roast pork, roast lamb, and stuffed rocoto peppers. The lively music-and-dance shows, along with consistently good food, make El Truco very popular with upscale tour groups.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Peru, 4th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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