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The best Peruvian restaurant in London depends on which of three scenes you want: Lima in Fitzrovia (Time Out’s number one, and the only Peruvian restaurant in Greater London ever to hold a Michelin star), Coya for a night out, or Tierra Peru on Essex Road, the one Peruvian Londoners name. Peruvian cooking sells in London in three different forms.
There is Nikkei — the Japanese-Peruvian cooking that came out of Japanese migration to Peru, which is why a Notting Hill room can charge £120 for a menu built on raw fish. There is criollo, the stews, rice dishes and charcoal chicken that Peruvian families in Lambeth, Southwark and Elephant and Castle have eaten since the 1970s. And there is ceviche and pisco as a bar format, where the curing counter and the spirits list are the room rather than the menu. This guide splits them.
💡 The Short Version: Lima in Fitzrovia tops Time Out’s ranked twenty and is the only Peruvian restaurant Greater London has ever starred. Coya is named by more sources than anything else here, and priced accordingly. Tierra Peru on Essex Road is the one Peruvian Londoners send you to. For Nikkei without the Mayfair bill, Ayllu in Paddington. For criollo, Sabor Peruano at Elephant and Castle. Under £20 a head: Chan Chan in Peckham’s Rye Lane Market and Lima Limón in Brixton’s Market Row.
📊 The evidence behind this guide. 13 independent sources carrying 79 citations across 29 named venues, and 17 venues are named by two or more independent sources. Built on: Harden’s and the Michelin record; five mastheads; three London blogs; three YouTube creators. Evidence built 22 September 2026 · How we rank →
Where they are
| If you are near… | Where to eat |
|---|---|
| Fitzrovia & Soho | Lima, Señor Ceviche, Chotto Matte |
| Mayfair & Piccadilly | Coya |
| Covent Garden & Seven Dials | Crudo, Monmouth Kitchen |
| Shoreditch & Hoxton | Llama Inn, Lima Shoreditch, Darkest Peru |
| Islington & Angel | Tierra Peru, Mr LoBo |
| Hackney & Broadway Market | Chakana |
| Dalston | Piscos Dalston |
| Paddington | Ayllu |
| Notting Hill | Fan |
| The City | Coya Angel Court, Sushisamba |
| Elephant & Castle | Sabor Peruano |
| Brixton & Oval | Maka, Lima Limón |
| Peckham | Chan Chan |
| Greenwich | El Alquimista |
| Hammersmith & Fulham | Jarana |
| Stratford | Bamboo Mat |
Price guide: £ under £20 a head · ££ £20–£40 · £££ £40–£80 · ££££ £80+.
The winners
Time Out’s ranked twenty puts Lima first; Coya is named by more independent sources than anything else on this page, seven of thirteen; and the only Peruvian voice in the set — a Peruvian cook who runs her own buffets in London — goes to Tierra Peru, an Islington dining room that started as a Camden market stall. Lima is a tasting-menu room, Coya is a night out, Tierra Peru is a Wednesday.
Lima, Fitzrovia — the only Peruvian restaurant London has starred
£££ · 31 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JH · #1 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 6 sources · the restaurant’s site
The only Peruvian restaurant Greater London has ever starred, holding one from the 2014 Michelin guide to the 2018. It no longer holds one, and its kitchen is not the one that won it: head chef Diego Recarte runs a menu rebuilt around the Japanese and Cantonese strands in Peruvian cooking rather than the Andean and Amazonian showpieces the restaurant made its name on.
Order the stone bass ceviche — the fish cured in leche de tigre, the cloudy lime-and-chilli marinade that has no milk in it despite the name — and the Ikejime trout sashimi with strawberry ponzu. The room is high and skylit, with a fringed canopy over the glass and pendulum lamps.
Closed Sundays. The £27 lunch is the value here: two courses noon to 3pm on weekdays, with pisco sours at £5. A second site opened on Sun Street in Shoreditch and runs the same menu with a busier bar.
Coya, Mayfair and the City — named by seven of the thirteen sources
££££ · 118 Piccadilly, W1J 7NW · #18 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 7 sources · the restaurant’s site
Named by seven of the thirteen independent sources in this pass. Two floors, three open kitchens, teal and gold, and a pisco lounge; Harden’s readers call it a “great place for something different” and then note the meal “came at an excessive price”.
Coya’s dining room, Mayfair.
Order Peruvian rather than around it: the signature ceviche platter runs sea bass, corvina, yellowtail and tuna, each cured differently, and the anticuchos — charcoal skewers, here beef fillet with ají panca — are the dish to have with a pisco sour.
Open until 1am, and it books weeks ahead at weekends. The City site at Angel Court, behind the Bank of England, is the same menu with fewer tourists and more bankers.
Tierra Peru, Islington — what Peruvian Londoners actually eat
££ · 164 Essex Road, N1 8LY · #4 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 6 sources · the restaurant’s site
A Camden market stall that became a restaurant, run by two brothers. Six sources name it, including the only Peruvian voice in this pass: Cecilia Tupac, a Peruvian cook based in London, filmed a visit in August 2026 and called it the best Peruvian restaurant in the city, “not just me saying so but a lot of Peruvians”.
Tierra Peru, on a weeknight.
The menu covers the cuisine rather than picking a lane: ceviche and shots of leche de tigre, ají de gallina — shredded chicken in a creamy yellow chilli sauce over rice — lomo saltado, arroz chaufa, and alfajores filled with dulce de leche. The chef’s picks are cordero huanuqueño, lamb rubbed in the Andean herb huacatay, and picante chalaco, a spicy seafood stew. Inca Kola and chicha morada, the purple-corn drink, are both on.
It is loud and full on a Tuesday, and bookings are by phone: 020 7354 5586. Open from 5pm Monday to Wednesday.
Also strongly backed
Llama Inn, Shoreditch — Peruvian via Brooklyn, on a rooftop
£££ · The Hoxton, 1 Willow Street, EC2A 4BH · #2 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 5 sources · book a table
The London branch of a Brooklyn restaurant that opened in 2015, reached through a yellow door on a back street and a service lift to the roof of The Hoxton. The room is glass-covered and plant-heavy.
Llama Inn’s rooftop, glass-covered.
The cooking leans Chifa — the Cantonese-Peruvian strand — with Nikkei on the edges: sea bass ceviche in leche de tigre, cabbage anticuchos glazed in saikyo miso, crispy squid with yuca. The lomo saltado is the one to argue about: instead of rice, the beef and chips land on an okonomiyaki-style pancake with a zigzag of kewpie mayonnaise. It is £56.
Closed Sundays. Oysters are £1 every Monday, and the lunch set menu (two courses £25, three £29, weekdays noon to 5pm) is the cheaper way in.
Señor Ceviche, Soho — ceviche at £11 to £13, in Kingly Court
££ · Kingly Court, Carnaby, W1B 5PW · #7 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 4 sources · book a table
Grew out of Don Ceviche, a pop-up run by chef Harry Edmeades, and now occupies a bright first-floor corner of Kingly Court with an open kitchen and a ceviche counter you can watch.
Señor Ceviche’s Monday deal.
Ceviches are £11 to £13 — sea bream in tiger’s milk, salmon tiradito with piquillo peppers — and the Peruvian barbecue plates run £12 to £19: pachamanca pork ribs, beef heart anticuchos with anticuchera salsa, tequeños, which are wonton wrappers fried around chicken and caramelised onion. Chocolate mousse with cancha, the toasted corn kernels, for pudding.
Go on a Monday: any ceviche and any pisco sour, £6 each. The weekend bottomless brunch is £39 and the room gets loud with it.
Chotto Matte, Soho — Nikkei at scale
£££ · 11–13 Frith Street, W1D 4RB · #19 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 3 sources · book a table
An international group with six sites. Black-and-white floors, murals, purple seating, and salsa dancing on Thursdays.
Order the sea bass ceviche, the black cod with ají miso — the Peruvian chilli paste standing in for the usual sweet miso — and the yellowtail with yuzu truffle soy. Unlimited Nikkei starters and sushi run weekdays noon to 5pm, and Chotto hour, 3pm to 7pm daily except Saturday, is discounted cocktails and small plates.
Open until 1am every day.
Sabor Peruano, Elephant and Castle — the criollo benchmark
££ · 103 Newington Butts, SE1 6SF · #14 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 3 sources
The Infatuation’s line: “Outside it’s a canteen, but inside it gives 1960s banquet wedding” — white tablecloths and Peruvian owners.
Sabor Peruano’s criollo cooking.
The menu is Chifa-heavy: arroz chaufa, Peruvian fried rice with beef, egg, spring onion, beansprouts and, traditionally, diced hot dog; lomo saltado with tomato, onion, chips and white rice; mazamorra morada, a thick purple-corn pudding with pineapple, apple and cinnamon, for afterwards. Starters and ceviches £3 to £8, mains £12 to £22.
Closed Mondays, and it shuts at 9pm Tuesday to Saturday and 7.30pm on Sunday.
Sushisamba, the City and Covent Garden — Peruvian as one of three passports
££££ · Heron Tower, 110 Bishopsgate, EC2N 4AY · #20 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 3 sources · the restaurant’s site
Japanese, Brazilian and Peruvian on one menu, at the top of Heron Tower with an orange tree growing through the open-air terrace. Time Out’s verdict: not the most authentic, “a hell of a lot of fun”.
Order the Peruvian half deliberately rather than letting the sushi carry the table: octopus and chorizo anticuchos over choclo, the big-kernelled Andean corn, and crisp plantain with ají amarillo sauce. Harden’s readers rate the food and object to the price and the pace — “they churn out huge numbers of covers”.
Ask for a terrace table when you book, and read our Japanese restaurants guide if the sushi side is what you are actually after. A ground-floor Covent Garden site has the food without the view.
Chakana, Hackney — the chef who won Lima its star
£££ · 41 Broadway Market, E8 4PH · #13 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 2 sources · book a table
Named for the Andean cross and built on Peru’s two flagship crops, corn and potatoes. The kitchen is run by Robert Ortiz, the chef who won Lima its Michelin star, in a Broadway Market shopfront rather than a Fitzrovia dining room.
Order the crab causa, white crab meat over chilled yellow potato with rocoto pepper and avocado, and finish with the lúcuma tiramisu — lúcuma being the caramel-tasting Andean fruit Peru puts in everything sweet. Sharing plates £8 to £14, mains £18 to £24. On Sundays the kitchen serves a Peruvian roast: Yorkshire puddings alongside lomo saltado.
Closed Mondays, and dinner only until Saturday. Saturday, when the market is running, is the hardest table.
Nikkei: the Japanese-Peruvian counters
Japanese families moved to Peru for plantation work from the 1890s, and their descendants cooked Peruvian ingredients with Japanese knife work. What arrives is sashimi dressed in lime, chilli and ají amarillo instead of soy, and a tiradito — fish sliced like sashimi, sauced like ceviche — sitting on the menu beside nigiri. Our fusion restaurants guide sets these rooms beside London’s other two-cuisine kitchens, from Japanese-Italian to Indo-Chinese.
Ayllu, Paddington — Nikkei without the Mayfair bill
£££ · 25 Sheldon Square, W2 6EY · #6 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 2 sources · book a table
Jade-green walls with a water-lily motif, cushioned booths and low light, in the canalside office estate behind Paddington station.
Ayllu’s dining room, Paddington.
Come for the raw half: oysters with truffle and leche de tigre, tuna tataki tiradito, and the lubina clásica, a sea bass ceviche. Away from the fish there is sweet potato katsu curry with kimchi, bao buns, and a Peruvian steak with black lime butter and crisp garlic. Tasting menus £45 to £59.
Open late every night — midnight on Fridays and Saturdays — and the weekend samba brunch is loud, so book away from it if you want to talk.
Bamboo Mat, Stratford — all Nikkei, no hedging
£££ · 21–24 Victory Parade, East Village, E20 1FS · #15 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 2 sources · the restaurant’s site
Deal Bamboo Brunch: Nikkei brunch to share, with a bottomless drinks upgrade, Sat–Sun, 11:00–16:00 (90-minute seatings); whole table, minimum 2. Offer details. More bottomless brunches →
Opened in Leyton and moved to a bigger East Village room in 2023, with a menu built entirely on Nikkei. Sleek, minimal, lit blue, with an open kitchen.
Bamboo Mat’s hamachi tiradito.
The order is the hamachi tiradito to start and the sashimi platter for two — sea bass, salmon, tuna, octopus and pine prawns with shiso ponzu and salsa huacatay, the Andean-herb sauce that makes it Peruvian rather than Japanese. Lunch specials £13 to £15, tasting menus £36 to £64.
Open daily, noon to 10pm, five minutes from Stratford station.
Fan, Notting Hill — “neo-Nikkei”, and priced like it
££££ · 6 Chepstow Road, W2 5BH · #16 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source · the restaurant’s site
A small, plain room on a Notting Hill side street doing what it calls neo-Nikkei: Nikkei with the Cantonese-Peruvian strand pulled through it as well. Nigiri dressed with ají amarillo, or with pachikay — the Peruvian-Cantonese chilli oil of sesame, garlic, chilli, ginger and spring onion.
The signature tasting menu is £120 a head. The day menu at £39 — one tiradito or ceviche, two nigiri, two maki rolls and a main — is the cheaper way in, and runs every service except Friday and Saturday evenings. There is also a build-your-own six-course menu at £69.
Dinner only Monday to Thursday, from 6.15pm.
Criollo: Peruvian home cooking
Criollo is Peru’s creole home cooking — potatoes, rice, slow-cooked meat, charcoal chicken — and in London it lives south and east of the river.
Darkest Peru, Hoxton — the first Peruvian café London had
£ · 101 Murray Grove, N1 7QP · #3 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source · the café’s site
London’s first Peruvian café, run by Pedro Tello, a Peruvian architect who missed the food he grew up with. One long blackboard of coffees, cakes and sandwiches, all on a crusty roll.
Darkest Peru’s lomito.
Breakfast is the salchicha: home-made pork sausage smashed and folded through scrambled egg with garlic, paprika and achiote oil. Lunch is the lomito, stir-fried beef in a bap — lomo saltado as a sandwich. Coffee is Peruvian, and there is a guanábana smoothie. Sandwiches £8 to £10, everything else under £7.
Open 8.30am to 5.30pm, closed Mondays, and there are monthly BYOB supper nights where the team cooks a home-style dinner for a room of strangers.
Maka, Oval — causa, and wings worth ordering twice
££ · 62 Brixton Road, SW9 6BS · #8 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source
Bright orange inside and out, at the Oval end of Brixton Road. Acevichado chicken wings first — glazed in something between leche de tigre and aioli — then the causa limeña: yellow potato boiled, chilled, pureed and moulded into cold towers under tuna, avocado and egg. A jug of chicha morada to drink.
Maka’s chicha morada.
Closed Monday and Tuesday, open to 10pm Wednesday to Saturday and 7pm on Sunday. Starters £3.50 to £9.50, mains £13.50 to £20.
Mr LoBo, Islington — ox heart, and the pisco list
££ · 176 Upper Street, N1 1RG · #12 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source · book a table
A small room hung with Peruvian paintings and a handful of outdoor tables on Upper Street. The order is anticuchos de corazón — ox heart, marinated and charred on skewers — with pescado frito, fried sea bass under an ají amarillo reduction, after it.
The drinks list is the other reason to come: the Chicha Sour folds purple-corn chicha morada into a pisco sour. Closed Mondays; Sunday service ends at 6pm. Beef and seafood dishes £12 to £20.
El Alquimista, Greenwich — Peruvian plated French
£££ · 2 Stockwell Street, SE10 9JN · #11 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source
Peru-born chef Walter Pineda cooks his own cuisine through French technique in a guava-pink dining room by the theatre. Starters are mostly Nikkei — ceviches and tiraditos — but the dish to order is the pichón anticuchos: pigeon on the skewer instead of the usual heart or chicken, with fondant potatoes and ají panca cream. Peruvian wine as well as pisco.
Two courses and a drink for £39 before the theatre, Tuesday to Friday, 5pm to 6.30pm. Closed Mondays. À la carte mains £27.50 to £47.
Jarana, Fulham Palace Road — the charcoal chicken
££ · 77 Fulham Palace Road, W6 8JA · #5 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source · the restaurant’s site
Pollo a la brasa is Peru’s charcoal rotisserie chicken. Jarana is a small family-run room at the Hammersmith end of Fulham Palace Road that had its rig shipped over from Peru, and Time Out reckons the result might be the best in London — £14 to £38 depending on how much bird you want, with a pile of chips.
Jarana’s pollo a la brasa.
Before it, papas a la huancaína: potato medallions at room temperature under a sauce of queso fresco, ají amarillo and garlic. The menu changes almost weekly and mixes Chifa, Nikkei and criollo, so ask what has just come on.
Closed Monday and Tuesday. There is a terrace.
Ceviche and pisco bars
The third format: rooms built around a curing counter and a spirits list rather than a menu of mains. Pisco is Peruvian grape brandy; a chilcano is pisco, lime and ginger ale, and is what to drink when a third pisco sour would be a mistake.
Crudo, Seven Dials — a cevichería and not much else
£££ · 36 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9HA · #17 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source · book a table
Opened by Maria and Carlos as a stand-alone ceviche restaurant: the curing counter is what the menu is built around, with oysters, a whole grilled bream and small plates filling in behind it. Start with the sea bass, add Andean octopus with purple confit potatoes and panca chilli, and order the pastel de choclo — a savoury corn cake with feta, pickled shallots and sweet potato purée.
Crudo’s ceviche spread.
Open seven days, from 5pm on weekdays and noon on Sundays. Snacks and small plates £7 to £20; ceviches and mains £9 to £52.
Monmouth Kitchen, Seven Dials — Peruvian and Italian on one menu
£££ · 20 Mercer Street, WC2H 9HD · Cited by 2 sources · the restaurant’s site
A hotel dining room two minutes from Covent Garden station that runs Peruvian and Italian small plates side by side rather than blending them, with DJs at weekends and a terrace. The avocado and corn salad with blackberry dressing is the dish London x London singles out, and the vegan menu is longer than most Peruvian kitchens bother with.
All-day dining runs Wednesday to Saturday only. The rest of the week it is breakfast and the lounge bar.
Cheapest
Most of Peruvian London’s budget end is south and east of the West End.
- Darkest Peru, Hoxton — Peruvian sandwiches, £8–£10, coffee £3–£6. Cited by 1 source.
- Lima Limón, Brixton — small plates from £2.50, ceviches and mains £10–£15. Cited by 1 source.
- Chan Chan, Peckham — small plates £4–£8, mains £12–£20. Cited by 1 source.
- Sabor Peruano, Elephant and Castle — starters and ceviches £3–£8. Cited by 3 sources.
- Lunch menus do the rest of the work: £27 for two courses at Lima, £25 at Llama Inn, £39 for a five-part day menu at Fan.
Quickest
- Darkest Peru, Hoxton — a sandwich and a Peruvian coffee, no booking, no table needed. Cited by 1 source.
- Chan Chan, Rye Lane Market, Peckham — counter service, no bookings, out in fifteen minutes. Cited by 1 source.
- Lima Limón, Market Row, Brixton — a market kitchen with a handful of seats and a jalea that arrives fast. Cited by 1 source.
- Piscos Dalston, Stoke Newington Road — a small criollo dining room, picked by the YouTube channel Randomly Food in December 2025 as its Peruvian stop in a five-cuisine day across London. Cited by 1 source.
Market stalls
Named traders only — the halls themselves are not the recommendation.
- Chan Chan, Indoor Unit 45, Rye Lane Market, 48 Rye Lane, SE15 5BY. Carlos Medina and Carla cook the classics plus parihuela, a spiced seafood soup of mussels, prawns, squid and white fish that appears at weekends and is the dish for a winter trip. Ceviche, arroz chaufa and lomo saltado the rest of the time. Closed Monday and Tuesday; Saturday 11am–8pm is the long day. #9 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source.
- Lima Limón, Unit 21 Market Row, Brixton, SW9 8LB. Pink walls, string lights, and two dishes the West End lists skip: jalea, a battered heap of squid, king prawn, mussels and sea bass under salsa criolla and fried cassava, and pulpo a la brasa, octopus over the coals instead of the usual chicken. Picarones, pumpkin and sweet potato doughnuts, after. Wednesday to Sunday, 1pm–9pm. #10 of 20, Time Out · Cited by 1 source.
Elephant and Castle, Brixton and Peckham
London’s Peruvian population grew out of the Latin American migration of the 1970s and 1980s into Lambeth, Southwark and Elephant and Castle, and the cooking that came with it is criollo, not Nikkei. The demolition of the Elephant and Castle shopping centre scattered its traders.
Castle Square, the market at 40 Elephant Road that rehoused the centre’s traders, is where people go looking. Its six food and drink traders are Colombian, Ecuadorian, Guyanese and Caribbean — Coma y Beba, El Guambra, Kaieteur Kitchen, Original Caribbean Spice, Daddy O’s and AA Grocery. None of it is Peruvian.
The Peruvian cooking is five minutes south, at Sabor Peruano on Newington Butts, and then further out: Maka at the Oval end of Brixton Road, Lima Limón in Market Row, Chan Chan in Rye Lane Market. A canteen, a corner restaurant and two market units.
Recent arrivals, and two that have gone
Lima opened a second site on Sun Street in Shoreditch, running the Fitzrovia menu with a bigger bar. Bamboo Mat moved from Leyton to a larger East Village room in 2023.
Pachamama, the Marylebone restaurant that five of the thirteen sources here name, is no longer trading; its group now runs four non-Peruvian restaurants instead. Chicama, its King’s Road seafood sibling, has closed too.
Booking
- Weeks ahead: Coya at weekends, Lima on a Saturday, Llama Inn’s rooftop in summer, Chakana.
- A few days: Señor Ceviche, Ayllu, Chotto Matte, Crudo, Mr LoBo.
- Phone, not a website: Tierra Peru takes bookings on 020 7354 5586.
- Walk in: Darkest Peru, Chan Chan, Lima Limón, Sabor Peruano. None of them takes reservations.
- Check the day, not the hour. Maka, Jarana, Chan Chan and Lima Limón all shut Monday and Tuesday. Chakana, Mr LoBo, El Alquimista, Sabor Peruano and Darkest Peru close Mondays, Lima closes Sundays, Llama Inn closes Sundays, Fan serves dinner only until Friday, and Monmouth Kitchen does all-day food on four days out of seven.
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Common questions
What is the best Peruvian restaurant in London?
It depends which of the three Peruvian scenes you want. Time Out puts Lima in Fitzrovia first of twenty, and it is the only Peruvian restaurant in Greater London ever to hold a Michelin star — from the 2014 guide to the 2018, and not since. Coya is named by seven of the thirteen independent sources in this pass. Tierra Peru on Essex Road is the one Peruvian Londoners name: six sources, including a Peruvian cook in London who calls it the best in the city.
What is Nikkei food?
Japanese-Peruvian cooking, from the Japanese families who moved to Peru for plantation work in the nineteenth century. In practice it means raw fish cut with Japanese precision and dressed Peruvian: sashimi under lime, chilli and ají amarillo rather than soy. Bamboo Mat in Stratford and Fan in Notting Hill are built on it, Ayllu in Paddington leads with it, and Chotto Matte and Sushisamba are the big rooms that sell it.
What is leche de tigre?
The marinade that cures ceviche: lime juice, fish trimmings, onion, garlic, ginger, coriander and chilli, blitzed cloudy. Tiger's milk in English, and no dairy in it. Several places serve it on its own as a shot, which is the fastest way to work out whether a kitchen can cook.
Where can I eat Peruvian food in London cheaply?
South and east, not central. Darkest Peru in Hoxton does Peruvian sandwiches on crusty rolls for £8 to £10. Chan Chan is a stall in Peckham's Rye Lane Market where small plates run £4 to £8. Lima Limón in Brixton's Market Row starts at £2.50. Sabor Peruano at Elephant and Castle does full criollo plates from £12.
Do I need to book a Peruvian restaurant in London?
For Lima, Coya, Llama Inn and Chakana, yes. Tierra Peru is busy midweek and takes bookings by phone. The market kitchens — Chan Chan, Lima Limón — and the cafés are walk-in, and several close two days a week, so check the day before the hour.
What should I order at a Peruvian restaurant?
One ceviche, one anticucho and one rice or potato dish covers the country. Ceviche is raw fish cured in leche de tigre; anticuchos are charcoal skewers, traditionally ox heart; causa is chilled yellow potato pressed into a terrine with tuna or crab. Then lomo saltado, beef stir-fried with tomato, onion and chips.
Is there Peruvian food at Elephant and Castle?
Yes, but not where most people look. Castle Square, the market that rehoused the shopping centre's traders, has Colombian, Ecuadorian, Guyanese and Caribbean kitchens rather than Peruvian ones. The Peruvian cooking is a few minutes away at Sabor Peruano on Newington Butts, which three independent sources name.
