Originally I'd given it a thumb's down, on a visit where we'd only tried the daily menú ejecutivo and found it expensive and mediocre. With prompting from friends who love the place, we'd revisited it a couple of months later and tried a couple of items off the regular a la carte menu and found them both to be good, but still expensive for what we were getting in both quantity and quality. It more or less went into the "okay but nothing more" pile. We decided to give this place another shot.
The plan was a light dinner, three of us started off with splitting an order of anticuchos de corazon, grilled, spiced beef heart accompanied by potatoes in a reasonably spicy chili cheese huancaina sauce. Definitely good, so that was a plus to start the evening.
We each ordered a different type of ceviche - a clasico, the simplest preparation, with white fish in a straightforward lemon and salt cure. Well balanced, though lacking in spice. On request they brought a dish of pureed rocoto chilies, fiery and delicious, which perked this one right up.
Also, a mixto, fish and shellfish, the same cure, and also quite good, though needing a hit of spice. And, one of their selection of leche de tigres, in this case their Callao, which comes with a curing liquid already packed with rocoto chili, some fish and red onion, and topped with fried chipirones, baby squid. Best of the three dishes, and the only one that came already spicy.
The anticuchos run around 200 pesos, the three ceviche dishes close to 300 each. That's not bad for good quality and quantity ceviches, but these are still, for me, just good, and the quantities are pretty small - they're definitely appetizer sized portions. They charge a cubierto, and are pretty much the only Peruvian place around that does. They do take credit cards, but now they only take Visa. Service is friendly, but a little... pushy.
It might be that if there weren't a dozen other Peruvian restaurants within a two block radius, several of them equally as good, and less expensive, that this place would hold a higher attraction for me, but for me I'd still make it no more than just recommended and not a place I'd set out to go to. read more