Peruvian

• LIMA to open a third restaurant in London, inside Shoreditch’s Sun Street Hotel

  

  5/9/24 - updated with a new opening date. 

  Hang onto your ceviche, London’s favourite Peruvian restaurant is about to open a third site. LIMA Shoreditch will take wings inside the Sun Street Hotel, which opened in late 2022. We told you about the hotel’s previous restaurant when it

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• Chakana sees ex-Lima head chef serve up Peruvian on Broadway Market

  

  Eagle-eyed London Fields residents may have spotted the arrival of a new restaurant, Chakana, on Broadway Market. Turns out this is the new London outpost for chef Robert Ortiz who opened the first Chakana in Birmingham four years ago. Ortiz, you may remember, was also the head chef for Lima for years when it became the first Peruvian restaurant in Europe to gain a Michelin star. He left Lima in 2019 to head

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• Test Driving Llama Inn - the Brooklyn Peruvian hit makes its way to London from New York

  

  A bona fide hit in Brooklyn, the popular Peruvian restaurant Llama Inn has now opened in London. From NYC to Shoreditch we see how it's faring this side of the pond. 

• Peruvian restaurant Floral by Lima relaunching as Lima Cantina

  

  If you’ve enjoyed the Peruvian flavours of Floral by Lima over the past decade, there’s a shake-up on the way. Be alert, not alarmed, though. In these recent weeks of significant restaurant closures, it’s reassuring to learn that this much-loved venue in Covent Garden is still

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• NYC's Peruvian Llama Inn comes to Shoreditch

  

  Updated 14/8/23 with soft launch info

  A new Peruvian restaurant is coming to London via a somewhat unexpected route - New York. 

  Llama Inn opened in New York back in 2015 and has been a hit ever since. Just this year it made it onto the New York Times' Top 100 Restaurants list and its chef Erik Ramirez was a finalist on the James Beard "Outstanding Chef" list this year too. So

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• Bamboo Mat sees ex-Chotto Matte team bring Nikkei cuisine to Leyton

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  News reaches us of something new to Leyton's dining scene. Peruvian-Japanese fusion restaurant Bamboo Mat, which opened just a few weeks back, has a team that met while working at Chotto Matte so there's a good chance that this could be something special. 

  The chefs behind it are Denis Gobjila who's ex-Chotto Matte and his business partner Victor Rosca, who also

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• Andina returns - the Peruvian restaurant finds a new home in Spitalfields

   

  10/5/21 - updated with opening details. 

  Last year, Peruvian restaurant Andina (from the same people behind Ceviche) ended up in the position of having to find a new location. In a passionate Facebook post they announced the news: "We

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• Test Driving Chotto Matte from Restaurant Box - knocking up a Nikkei feast in your own kitchen

  

  If you've ever fancied trying to make nikkei food at home, the Chotto Matte meal kit from Restaurant Box is a low-effort way to do just that. 

• Lima starts delivering and adds the new, more casual, Barranco by Lima

  

  Lima, the Peruvian restaurant in Fitzrovia, is the latest restaurant in town to kick off a delivery service - but not just one. They're launching two different offerings at the same time. 

  First up is Lima at Home. As you can imagine, that's offering up signature Lima dishes to eat... at home. So the menu will feature sea bream or scallop ceviche or slow-braised suckling pig with parsnip &

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• Andina Bakery put on an evening tapas menu with wine by Noble Rot

  

  Well, what a treat for West Londoners. We hear that Andina Bakery over on Westbourne Grove is gearing up to open in the evenings with a rather special offering.

  The Peruvian bakery has teamed up with Keeling Andrew & Co, the new wine import company set up by the founders of Noble Rot. They'll be creating a series of tapas to go along with a weekly changing wine list, with dishes like:

  • Pork steamed bun, rocoto chilli
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• Pachamama East sees the team behind the original restaurant open in Shoreditch

  The team behind the original Pachamama in Marylebone and Chicama in Chelsea are bringing Pachamama to Shoreditch, with some Asian influences as well as Peruvian.

• Flesh and Buns new Fitzrovia restaurant will have a Press for Pisco button - updated

  Covent Garden's Flesh & Buns is opening a second restaurant just north of Oxford Street and this one's going to be huge with more of a Peruvian Nikkei vibe going on as well as the old izakaya favourites.

• Andina comes to Notting Hill with Picanteria and Panaderia - Peruvian restaurant and bakery

  This is the latest from Martin Morales, the man behind Andina and Ceviche. It sees him bringing not only another Andina restaurant to Notting Hill but is bringing London's first Peruvian bakery to the area.

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• Señor Ceviche's new Charlotte Street branch will serve up Peruvian brunch and Pisco Punch

  A new Fitzrovia branch of Carnaby Street's Señor Ceviche will not only have all the usual favourites, but there'll be an exciting new brunch menu, and an underground pisco bar with loads of cocktails, as well as the usual Sours.