A little chicken goes a long way

Apart from choosing a luncheon instead of our traditional Restaurant Night, July took ACAP members on a most pleasant jaunt into the hills of Santa Clara on the road to Chaclacayo. We were naturally curious as to why Jimmy Schuler, one of the sons of Roger Schuler - founder of Las Trece Monedas, El Pueblo, and La Granja Azul - decided to follow in his father's footsteps.

Restaurant Day at “El Pillo”

EL PILLO has as interesting a history and story as its predecessors, and we learned a lot from our gracious host during our wonderful lunch. We listened attentively to Jimmy over pisco sours, which were followed by an abundance of 28-day-old broaster chickens that melted in our mouths. Home-made fries and a simple but fresh American lettuce and tomato salad with hot buns were accompanied by a select red wine.

Jimmy was born of a Swiss father who was a nephew of the famous Oeschle family that ran one of Lima's most distinguished department stores. Roger Schuler arrived during the 40´s to Lima and was given a job in the big store as a salesman. He eventually married a Bolivian lady and Jimmy was born….Bolivian. As it turned out, his parents were living in Cochabamba when his mother was pregnant, and when they wanted to cross the border to Peru, the immigration authorities wouldn't let her take this valuable “Bolivian” child to be born a Peruvian citizen. Mother stayed behind with child and it wasn't until he was 11 months old that she was granted permission to cross into Peru.