Mamón Hillside Eatery Serves Comfort Food With Hints of Inka Mama’s Peruvian Flavor

At Aji Peruvian Cuisine in Long Beach's Retro Row, there are potatoes everywhere: boiled, mashed, fried—sometimes all three. Potatoes are buried like treasures beneath the shredded-chicken-studded gravy of the aji de gallina and displayed like...

There used to be a different Peruvian restaurant at the very spot Inka Mama's has recently claimed as its fourth Orange County location. By all accounts, it did a very capable plate of lomo saltado, a dish all Peruvian restaurants worth their aji...

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...

The dining room at Los Balcones, a new Peruvian restaurant in Studio City, is a welter of cheerful, cathartic noise — salsa and cumbia rumble over the speakers, the throng of bearded dudes in the next booth gleefully toasts every fresh round of...

LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold once wrote that the chicharron de pollo at Mario's Peruvian Seafood was “something like Peruvian Chicken McNuggets, heavily breaded chunks cooked to resemble fried pigskin, and served with an herbed, citric dipping sauce...