Peruvian restaurants in Los Angeles

Picca

9575 W. Pico. Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035

The category of anticuchos, traditionally skewers of grilled, marinated beef heart sold as street food in Lima, has been expanded to include skewered sweet potatoes with... More »
Mo-Chica

514 W. 7th St., Los Angeles, CA 90014

The downtown restaurant feels like a hot spot with design elements meant to conjure and nod to a street stall. In the front room, along one side, hand-scrawled signs are... More »
El Pollo Inka

15400 Hawthorne Blvd., Lawndale, CA 90260

Beyond the roasted chicken that earned the chain its reputation, El Pollo Inka?s menu is filled with the seafood dishes typical of Lima?s industrial port... More »

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Amy Scattergood writes for LA Weekly on Pollo A La Brasa Western

It is a maxim of Los Angeles food culture that you'll find some of the best meals in the oddest places, in run-down strip malls or seemingly abandoned building complexes. Pollo a la Brasa looks less like a restaurant than like a folklorist's dream of one: a Peruvian chicken shack wedged into a well-trafficked Koreatown intersection, pungent smoke rising from the rotisserie...
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Besha Rodell writes for LA Weekly on Picca

Los Angeles is both lucky and unusual in that it's rich in Peruvian cuisine — even high-end Peruvian cuisine, thanks to Nobu's longtime influence and, more recently, Ricardo Zarate. Zarate's Picca may be this country's most perfect expression of upscale Peruvian, a glorious merging of the lime-, coconut- and potato-heavy cuisine of Peru with the loud, fun, bar-driven...
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Besha Rodell writes for LA Weekly on Mo-Chica

Ricardo Zarate has taken his whiz-kid Peruvian place Mo-Chica from a stall in Mercado la Paloma and moved it downtown, opening a restaurant that tries to channel that street-food vibe in a swanker setting. There's stylized graffiti on the walls, the design is all cement and industrial chic, and the gorgeous girls shaking drinks vigorously behind the tiny bar wear men's...
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