Excerpt from 2004/05 RTGooch - Where No Gooch Has Gone Before (Lima, Peru)

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L'EAU VIVE DE PERU
Jiron Ucayalin 370, Central Lima
Across form Palacio Torre Tagle
427-5612
12° 02' 969" S, 77° 01' 775" W

L'Eau Vive De Peru is in Central City. In fact, I walked past it earlier without noticing. What makes this special is that L'Eau Vive De Peru is a French restaurant owned and operated by a bunch of nuns. All profits go to their missionary work. Perhaps you've heard of them, they have branches of the restaurant in Rome and Buenos Aries too. The nuns live there. Ten of 'em, the one that took care of us said.

Dinner was excellent. Pappy and I both had Coquille St. Jacques for an appetizer. I had onion soup and a grilled trout to follow up; Pappy had a steak. It was all so wonderful, I even went for the dessert of ice cream and some sort of pastry with warm chocolate sauce. After dessert, the nuns came into the dining room and serenaded us with their version of Ave Maria. I'm not a big fan of that type of music, but their harmonies were good and the acoustics in the old building were excellent. And they're nuns, what are you gonna do? So we listened. The total check was $42. Pappy left an extra $20 propina for good karma, he said.
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Photos submitted by RTGooch

RT here. These are some platos from a recent visit to L'eau Vive. There's the Onion Soup, Steak au Poivre, Chicken Breast, another steak plate, and a Cream Volteada (basically, flan).