Based on reviews came to this place for lunch during a visit of the Phoenix area. The place is very clean and somewhat spacious with quiet a few set of tables. The decor of this place is not the greatest. The fluorescent turquoise color of the walls and smurf blue and white tile clashes with Machu Pichu mural. I was expecting to have excellent food based on reviews, but it was a disappointing experience. We ordered chicha morada for drink. It was watery and and too much cinnamon flavor. We ordered seco de res with Peruvian beans . it was not to my liking at all. Beans were prepared with bacon. Awful combination with the seco . Traditional Peruvian beans are not prepared with bacon at all. Meat was dried and unseasoned. Seco should be a soft meat slowly simmered so it remains with excellent flavor and moist. The yuca frita and salsa that accompanied the seco were really good
We also tried the anticuchos and they were not good. We left them all in the plate. They were dried needed salt, lack seasoning and with a strong red chile flavor. You could even see pcs of red chile (Mexican chile) should be at least some aji panca.
We were expecting to at least have a good lomo saltado , a flamed moist meat mix with the onions still crunchy and tomatoes hardly cooked, but flavor was ok to marginal. The type of meat and the way it was cut, made the meat dried and without flavor. The meat look more like stew meat. This lomo saltado lack that flamed flavor (flameado)
The best dish we had was the saltado of vegetables vegetarian version of the lomo saltado. This veggie saltado was great excellent flavor and taste with the signature flame flavor of lomo saltado. Vegetables just cooked right and juicy flavor
Service was ok. Quick, but the waitress forgot to bring the papa a la huancaina we ordered. We did not bother to remind her
I would not return to this place. Unless I hear food has improved
Might be overrated