Peruvian restaurants in London
10 places
Ayllu
£££Jade-green walls with a water-lily motif, cushioned booths and low light, in the canalside office estate behind Paddington station — an unlikely address for a kitchen doing this much with raw fish.
Chakana
£££Named for the Andean cross and built on Peru's two flagship crops, corn and potatoes.
Chotto Matte
£££An international group with six sites, and the room that taught central London the word Nikkei.
Coya
££££The food is better than the room's reputation suggests when you order Peruvian rather than around it: the signature ceviche platter runs sea bass, corvina, yellowtail and tuna, each cured differently,
Lima
£££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.
Llama Inn
£££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.
Monmouth Kitchen
£££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 that is the best table in the place.
Sabor Peruano
££Three sources name it and none of them calls it fashionable, which is the point.
Señor Ceviche
££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.
Tierra Peru
££A Camden market stall that became a restaurant, run by two brothers with portraits from home on the walls and the national team on the television above the bar.