Ricardo Zarate's Rosaliné is a Peruvian party. Jonathan Gold orders a pisco sour and has some fun

At the buzzy new restaurant on Melrose Avenue, the menu features juanes (does it look like a saint's head to you?), chaufa and a rib-eye with anticucho spices. There's an imaginative wine list too.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • September 8, 2017

A juane is an unusual dish in the Peruvian repertoire, a huge, overstuffed tamal from the headwaters of the Amazon, a kind of combo meal made in its area of origin as a convenient takeaway lunch for travelers. Juanes take their name from John the...

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Review: At Los Balcones in Studio City, modern mestizo Peruvian cooking is a party

Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • March 13, 2019

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...

In Little Tokyo, Yapa shines with sophisticated Peruvian-Japanese cooking

Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • January 29, 2020

At Yapa, the new Japanese-Peruvian restaurant in Little Tokyo, cumbia music tumbles from the speakers and the most popular appetizer in the house is a dainty-looking plate of churros. The pastries are pudgy as cigars and glittery with sugar, with...

Review: Nitrogen and horchata mix at Michael Voltaggio's latest restaurant

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • October 13, 2017

Imagine a plate at the new Ink.well, a heavy one whose steeply curved lip is high enough to ensure that a haphazardly placed fork balanced on it slides right down into its contents. The plate’s surface is paved with a thin layer of...

Two of L.A.’s hottest new restaurants sit side by side in Silver Lake

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • June 30, 2022

I’ll never forget my first conversation with David Rosoff, one of the great wine savants of Los Angeles who has been helping to shape our tastes for decades. Our exchange was a few years back when he was general manager at Hippo in Highland Park....

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

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • December 10, 2014

Doesn't it seem as if food pundits have touted Peruvian food as “The Next Big Thing” for more than a decade? Back in 2011, The Wall Street Journal cited as proof the Zagat Survey listing four times more Peruvian joints than it did 10 years prior....