At Inka Mama's, Mami Knows Best

“There’s an Egg Involved”: We’ve got a runner. Photo by @ocwmktgdirector It may not be obvious, but the new restaurant Mamón Hillside Eatery, located just a few doors down from the Inka Mama’s flagship location in Foothill Ranch, is also a...

DX Peruvian–the restaurant at the corner of Bristol and Sunflower next to Bella Cuba and technically in Santa Ana although it's directly across from South Coast Plaza–has closed and now become the fourth branch of Inka Mama's. The switch-over...

To be honest, I usually avoid ordering Pisco Sour, or that bubble-gum-flavored Inka Cola, or anything other than plain ol' ice water whenever I visit a Peruvian restaurant. I am forever in search of a properly made saltado–that classic melting-pot...

I’ve Got to Be a Machu ManThe Lost City of the Incas—well, at least their food—discovered in Fountain Valley No other icon is as indelibly Peruvian as Machu Picchu. And no one knows it more than OC’s few but proud Peruvian restaurateurs. Around...

Photo by Edwin Goei I was 20 when I first discovered Peruvian cuisine. It was at a restaurant called El Pollo Inka in Lawndale, and a friend who’d snagged a job at Northrop Grumman in nearby El Segundo had told me about it. Everyone in her office...