La Escondida Paris 14 — Restaurant in Paris

I am French-Peruvian and was craving Peruvian food while visiting Paris. We came to this place with my family, a group of 5. The food was great, very authentic, well served and reasonably priced. We had some of the highlight dishes of Peruvian gastronomy and it was all perfect.

We ordered pisco sours (the national cocktail) for all to start. The server is Colombian and ensured us he could make an authentic pisco sour, which is fine of course. However what we got were NOT pisco sours at all. The mix was completely wrong and the taste completely off. He proudly told us he had put a good amount of pisco, clearly prioritizing the level of alcohol. Yet, what matters in a pisco sour is a well balanced mix of alcohol, sugar and lemon to optimize the taste. After all Peruvian food is all about taste while mixing several different ingredients together. That was very disappointing especially when paying 10€ a glass! Besides that, the server put on quite loud music as soon as our group was complete. We were the only ones in and didn't really understand why did music have to be so loud. Given the awkwardness of the server and his constant movement around the place, we didn't bother asking any more favors.

The food was absolutely delicious, highly recommended for it. The chefs are Peruvian and do a great job. The dishes are well served, like a proper Peruvian style, not small at all.

Unfortunately despite the great food, the server kind of let us down with his awkwardness. By the time to pay the bill, respecting my softer uncle's wishes we paid an important tip. The whole bill with tip to be shared on 2 cards. For some reason that seemed to be a problem for the server, yet even if reducing taxes (since the payment was by card) it was still a pretty good tip. His confusion when managing the bills and tip made things a lot longer and complicated than it needed to be, but well, it is what it is.

I recommend the place for the food. Not for the pisco sour nor for...

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