Between polished brass and black and white photographs, nostalgia clings to the air in the lounge bar at the Gran Hotel Bolívar, Lima. On its outside balcony, I sit drinking their Pisco Sour Catedral beside one of Peru’s busiest squares to a choir of car horns in the street below. This scene has undoubtedly changed over the years compared to when aristocrats, artists, and diplomats would come here in their droves to swill the same cocktail a century ago — but the taste hasn’t. Nor has the size. As the story goes, a notable businessman of the
