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| - Short review: eat here. The beans and rice alone are worth writing home about!
Longer review:
Be prepared for juicy rotisserie chicken, fried plantains, amazing beans and rice, addicting garlicky and jalapeno sauces, yucca fries, and more fried plantains!!!
Shared the satisfying and left-over producing Latin Combo with the girlfriend containing:
Salad: sizable salad with avocado and a darn good dressing that was rather unique!
Beans and Rice: Ooooooof, these were fantastic. Nothing at all like the beans and rice you may be accustomed to at Mexican restaurants (this is Peruvian food after all!). Seasoned stewed black beans with flavorful yellow rice that were obviously made in-house with pride. I could be happy with a meal of just these. Best beans and rice I've had in recent memory!
Chicken: No messing around here. You get a whole darn chicken rotisserieed to juicy perfection with just enough Peruvian spice to hold your attention and coming back for more.
Sauces: This really shifted the chicken from 'yummy' to 'hot dang'. Near the beginning of the meal two mystery sauces appear on the table. The white one is a creamy garlic sauce. I am gonna write to Crest to request this as a new flavor of toothpaste because I was challenged to find something in the meal that wasn't enhanced by it. The orangish sauce is jalapeno-based and I used a bit more sparingly, but was just fantastic (although perhaps not toothpaste-worthy).
Fried Plantains: Let these cool down a bit before eating; they absorb heat well enough to buffer spacecraft from re-entry into the atmosphere. Upon their cool-down, the fried, soft, sweetness of these plantains offered a nice contrast to the rest of the spicy and saucy meal. Although probably not intended to be, I was satisfied with these as a dessert.
Yucca Fires: whereas not bad at all, wasn't anything super-special in my opinion. Seemed rather close to steak-cut fries to me. Go for the tostones instead!
Tostones: we ordered these on the side, and were grateful for that. Akin to those fried banana chips you find in trail mix, tostones are mashed and fried plantains to a crispy-yet-chewy chip-like consistency. Great by themselves, awesome dipped in one of the aforementioned sauces, and fantastic when use as a shovel for beans, rice, chicken, and sauce. You will not be disappointed!
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