Danessi doesn’t dull the Peruvian skewer experience—the signature anticuchos here are threaded with slices of beef heart. While other restaurants spear only American-approved options like chicken or kinder cuts of beef, Danessi shoots straight to South America. For those fearful of any kind of offal, know that the heart is harmless—off the grill, the charred [...]
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ANTICUCHERIA DANESSI
April 22, 2009FEAST ON MY HEART
April 8, 2009All is full of love at Anticucheria Danessi
PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Peruvian food is one of the most coveted cuisines among culinary trendspotters, the supposedly eagle-eyed eaters who try and find the next big flavors before the apocalyptic onset of global blanding. More than anything else though, Peruvian plates always seem to be on the tips [...]
EL ROCOTO
July 24, 2008Like the Japanese-Peruvian cuisine at Lomita’s Kotosh, El Rocoto’s dishes pull from Peru’s immigrant past, drawing on the recipes and techniques that traveled with the Chan family from China to Peru and, later, to the kitchen of the first El Rocoto in Gardena. But you still get all the staples, like jalea, a fish fry [...]
THE BICONTINENTAL DIVIDE
July 23, 2008Peru by way of China at El Rocoto
PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
El Rocoto hits every equatorial trope: The walls glow a golden yellow, packs of tropical fish zip through a cool blue aquarium, the menus even come with a South American street scene sunken into their leather. And inside those bound books are all the Peruvian [...]
SIDES
April 16, 2008Mama Ocllo’s Peruvian cookies
Simple as it is, Mama Ocllo’s advertising hits square in the stomach: photos of burger-sized alfajores (dusted in sugar and stuffed with only the darkest dulce de leche) that look like they could end any meal. Thankfully, the buttery Peruvian cookies, which best most of Europe’s multinational treasures, can end any meal. [...]
KOTOSH
March 27, 2008There are, of course, segregated sections of Kotosh’s menu that list distinctly Japanese and Peruvian dishes, but the best and most interesting offerings come from when Kotosh lets the two cuisines collide. One of the best examples is the tiradito de atún, a Peruvian-style tuna sashimi that pays its respects to both ends of Kotosh’s [...]
BROKEN BORDERS
March 26, 2008Beyond fusion with Kotosh’s transcontinental tastes
PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Kotosh seems like it is a world away, located a stuttering drive down PCH past tangles of pipes and smokestacks and into those worn-down blocks beyond the 710. But that’s only half the trip. The rest finishes up in Lomita, where palms shoot up from nearly every [...]
CEBICHE DEL REY
March 10, 2008Cebiche del Rey focuses primarily on slow-cooked meats and (mostly) uncooked seafood. The pollo saltado is a good catch-all dish—a jumble of sautéed chicken, tomatoes, onions, peppers, French fries and rice all lumped together into a pleasing pile. But the shrimp cebiche reigns here: accompanied by a few spears of yams, a roll of nickel-sized [...]
KING’S DOMINION
September 26, 2007Cebiche del Rey reigns over Downey
PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
We live in Southern California, and so it’s no surprise that taquerías dominate our landscape, sprouting up between blocks about as often as the next palm tree. But as good as it usually is, Mexican food has a limited palate: a cuisine stunted by decades of false [...]
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Saturday, March 20
- Dennis Vernon @ River's End
- Spazzmatics @ Shore Ultra Lounge
- Ladies Night @ Executive Suite
- Blues Jam @ Clancy's
- Flyer @ Buster's Beach House
- Helicopter and Martini Flights @ Ristorante DaVinci
- Karaoke @ Bottoms Up
- Flamenco Dancers @ Alegria
- Spazzmatics @ Shore Ultra Lounge
- DJ DeLa @ The Gaslamp
- Karaoke with Tom Terrific @ Clancy's
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Sunday, March 21
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