I stopped by here a couple of Saturdays ago for dinner with my fiance. We had been looking for a good place to eat in Madison and this came up on Yelp. I can honestly say that I have never had Peruvian food before and so I was looking forward to eating here. Upon entering the restaurant the first thing that I noticed was how bright the walls were as they were a bright golden/orange color. Other than the walls there were a bunch of white table clothed tables around including a few high tops.
My fiance and I decided to start off our evening with the ceviche which consisted of raw fish, leche de tigre (lime juice, garlic and ginger), sweet potatoes and peruvian corn (think American corn only much larger kernals) . While I have had ceviche before, it has generally been at trendier places and so the focus has been smaller dishes catering to foodies and not necessarily on portion size. So you can imagine my surprise whenever the ceviche came out and it was a huge plate covered in fish and peruvian corn. Both my fiance and I loved every minute of eating it as the leche de tigre had a perfectly acidity that complimented the fished perfectly. For my dinner entree I ended up ordering the Pollo naeza which was actually not what I had decided on. It was a Peruvian seasoned chicken filet with a inka salad and white rice. You see I had closed the menu and whenever I picked it had said the wrong dish insted of the aji de hallina which was chicken in a Peruvian cream sauce. After our server had left our entrees at our table I questioned my fiance about whether it was what I had ordered and she said that she had been surprised by it but yes it was. I was a little disappointed as it was not what I was looking forward to but since I had ordered it I decided to stick with it The chicken breast was juicy as they had said it would be although I didn't get too much of the spice and the salad was decent as well. While it was not bad it was definitely a departure from what I would have ordered and fairly vanilla. My fiance on the other hand really enjoyed her meal which was essentially a paella.
The bottom line for me is that I would head back here again in the future. Thinking about the ceviche has my mouth watering and I imagine that if I lived in the area that this would be one of the places that I would love to show my friends.