El Fogon

Ian's aunt came across a Peruvian restaurant in Toronto on St. Clair near Bathurst. Unlike the more commonly known Toronto "Peruvian" restaurant, Boulevard Cafe, on Harbord, El Fogon actually seems to serve authentic dishes that you might actually find in Peru! And they are cheaper making the place even more Peru-ish!

To start off with we had an Inca Cola. At $2 for the can, it can hardly be considered cheap, but it certainly was tasty! We shared a pretty good avocado salad with potato, tomato and onion for $5.95. A bit pricey for what we actually got.



They brought out same tasty warm bread with a hot peppery spread thing.

I strayed slightly away from hard core Peruvian food and had the only nominally non-Peruvian dish on the menu - arroz a la cubana. I did eat these dish numerous times in Ecuador - a close neighbor to Peru so I shouldn't feel too bad?? Came with yummy rice (arroz), some fried plantain, a mini-salad and two fried eggs....mmmmmm. Great deal for a meager $5.25.

I convinced Ian to skip the $10.95 lomo saltado plate and instead go with the $6.25 sandwich. Came with the usual stir fry tomato, onions and beef with spices. It was all on a tasty roll and came with fries on the side (of course Ian stuffed them into the sandwich).

Ian's Bonus Comments
The rice with janice's dish was pretty good. It was formed into the usual nice round mound and it tasted like the classic peruvian rice. Quite tasty. The only let down was not getting a full regular lomo saltado.

Faithful readers may find it interesting that this keeps up our annual april/may tradition of eating at a new peruvian place. May 2005 was a place in NYC, April 2006 was in Washington DC.

Cultured readers may enjoy the peruvian theme of the weekend since on Friday we went to see that Peruvian Sican exhibit at the ROM.