Eqeko Proves Peruvian Food Has Always Been the 'Next Big Thing'

It’s hot, ain’t it? You don’t feel like cooking and delivery pizza, which usually does the trick, isn’t exactly the refreshing meal you want right now. You could do sushi, of course, even a salad. But when you’re ready for something refreshing and...

Photo by Edwin Goei It was Saturday night at Higo Chicken. The small dining room was at capacity; the wait list, a half-dozen deep. As I stood there twiddling my thumbs, I saw one of the cooks at the stove. Flicking his wrist, he tossed...

At Centrál Coastal Peruvian, the new Laguna Beach restaurant up the street from the bustle of Main Beach, you won't see any of the usual trappings of a Peruvian joint. There are no pan flutes on the soundtrack, no token paintings of Machu Picchu...

Yes, it's the obligatory Lenten fish post. We kinda did one last year, and probably the year before that. But this is a new list, a roster of ten of the best fish dishes your humble food scribe discovered since I did that last list, with nothing...

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...