Restaurante La Rosa Náutica

This guide to La Rosa Nautica, the Victorian-style pier restaurant over the Pacific in Lima, centers on a house tradition that ran unquestioned from the restaurant's 1983 opening: women were handed a gold menu with no prices at all, while men received the same dishes on a blue menu listing the cost. It follows that ritual for over three decades of dinners, management calling it chivalry, until a single diner's complaint in 2019 landed the practice in front of Peru's consumer protection court. Stand at the tip of the jetty as the sun drops behind the glass and picture that gold menu changing hands, table after table, for thirty-six years.