Restaurante Piqueo — Restaurant in Medellín

For all the great reviews and high expectations, I was a bit disappointed. Firstly, it was the ambiance; Peruvian cuisine is an explosion of different tastes, but it is also very much a visual experience. How do you want to enjoy its presentation, the colours and textures, if you don't have enough light at the table? Also, the modern music played at the restaurant was way too loud, it felt like entering a disco.. My second point would be the lack of drink and dessert menus; apparently it doesn't exist at the moment. So if I am not dead set on what I want to drink, I might have to start a long conversation with a waiter, asking about prices as well,  which makes things rather awkward. Finally, all ceviches and tiraditos are from tilapia, a freshwater fish. To me, this is a great compromise on the taste of the fish. We ordered a tiradito, and it was fine, the aji amarillo sauce was well balanced. The same goes for the arroz peruano con mariscos, the taste was rich and satisfying. The lomo saltado steak was also well prepared, but the sauce was more on a sour side than I am used to. The prices were a bit higher than in most Peruvian restaurants in Colombia. Overall, better than average, but less...

Food was amazing. I had a chicken and it was delicious. My friends had other meets and they said it was very good too.

Low score because of the bad move from service person. During ordering food he recommended us white wine. And after brought another bottle. And it ended up 200cop for one bottle. This is crazy price.

In my opinion he should say how much the wine cost before ordering. And also the wine wasn't worth 200.000 cop at all. It wasn't anything special.

I bet if they could they would sell it for a million cop. I treat this as unfair move and scam to clients. Because you are coming to relax, not to be aware and check for scam at any point.

Piqueo - normally I would consider coming back and recommending to others, but because of this I will not. And I am a high influencer with high amount of followers on this...

This is a nice looking location in Medellin. The service, however was not very good. Our server did not know anything about the drinks at the bar, and didn't ask us if we wanted more drinks. I didn't bother to order more drinks as it was too much of a hassle. I'm not sure what was happening at the bar. Then, there is the food. This is a peruvian restaurant and we shared three appetizers with two other people. The causa peruana appetizer was really good and tasted like authentic peruvian food. Then, we had a sampler that had at least six different things including ceviche. The ceviche was decent, but considering how tasty peruvian food is, the rest of the food that included some fried items was somewhat bland. Desserts were good and we had the suspiro Limeño, which was hit at the table. Overall an...