La Cevi — Restaurant in Frankfurt

We were recommended this place by my cousin (we are both Peruvians), however the experience was quite disappointing. The service was not that friendly, even when we requested to clean the table the waiter tried to come up with an excuse and looked at us for 1 min until he finally decided he was ok with cleaning the table. (Also not a hello at the beginning just a “we are closing the terrace in 1h!). Food wise, while the sauce for the lomo saltado was good albeit a bit salty, the huaincana sauce was also good, the beef we asked well cooked was practically burnt and had been thinned into very thin slices taking away the nice texture of a lomo saltado. There were only two (overpriced) desserts on the menu which was very disappointing. Hygiene: we went to the bathroom, and I was utterly disgusted. As soon as you entered the bathroom it smelled like sewer, there were papers around the sink and on the floor, but the worse was the toilet itself, it was unclean with full of water (or pee?) surrounding it with hairs on the floor. I understand clients can be gross but it’s the restaurant’s responsibility to maintain the cleanliness of the bathroom throughout the night. At this point I regretted eating there because the saying is true: dirty toilet, dirty kitchen. Pricing: outrageous and exorbitant. A lomo saltado for more than 30€ is insane (and nearly 36€ for the one with the huancaina tallarines/noodles). Do not get me started on the Inka Kola at 7€. I get this might be “exotic” but in no way does the quality justify this price. Sure in Peru this is much much cheaper but we live in the Netherlands and there amazing Peruvian restaurants (with quality food and proper hygiene!) have a lomo saltado between 20-25€ depending on the restaurant and an Inka Kola for around 4€. There is even a high end restaurant called “Callao” from a Peruvian famous chef Jaime Pesaque (who has the famous Mayta restaurant ranking 41 across the world and 13 in Latin America) in which the lomo saltado costs 30€ (but again, famous chef and high end restaurant justifies the price). Adding to this that the Netherlands has a higher cost of living than Germany, it makes absolutely NO SENSE to have the pricing this restaurant offers specially for the quality of the food (and service). Very...

We visit this restaurant in a party of 11 on a busy saturday night. Positive: food was delicious, and every single person in our party was delighted with the variety and tastes. Food seems to be prepared with good quality ingredients in a modern style cuisine. Pisco sour was a big hit as well with most of us having several ones. Negative: service. It was a busy night, but a restaurant should be able to see calculate their average attendance and set the appropriate staff accordingly which I assume was the biggest reason for the lack of service. As far as we could see there were two servers and a bartender, plus kitchen staff which was nowhere near adequate. We arrived at 8 pm, drinks were served to us 30 min later at which point we all ordered appetizers and our main dinner. Appetizers came nearly 1 hr later and dinner about 40 minutes after. We would have been more understanding if we were given said information ahead of time and at least have somebody come over in between to at least refill our drinks, alas it was not the case. We were very patient but after not having anybody come to us for periods of at least half an hr we would go to the front and as for somebody to come to our table (mind you not to complain about food being late but simply to ask for more drinks). It would sometimes take more than one request for a server to come to us and sadly the attitude of the gentleman was very bad. He seemed annoyed and unwilling to help us when we were nothing but patient with them. The prices are slighly above average with servings which are slightly below average. Howevet portions and prices are clearly advertised by the restaurant on their website and the taste and quality of food somewhat justify it. Had our service been better we would have no doubt offer a recommendation without hesitation, however as it was, it will be a while before any of us come back to give this restaurant another shot. It is sad as some had been regular clients at its previous location (it had moved to its current location within a month of our visit) and were always satisfied with the...

THIS IS NOT PERUVIAN FOOD Well this was a complete disappointment: we came to this restaurant because of the good google reviews but unfortunately I'm not going to leave a good one. The service was overall terrible and unfrendly. The first thing I noticed when I entered to La Cevi was that they are using one of the worst quality Piscos in the market: Barsol, I have been to Peru many times and have never someone use this Pisco. I didnt even bother on ordering a Pisco Sour, my wife did order one and as expected it was terrible (and not well mixed, the bartender is inexperienced): we could taste the cheap Pisco. A supposedly ''fancy'' restaurant serving (and charging a high price for) this kind of Pisco is just disgraceful. I am not sure what the chef's concept is. It's like he is trying to copy the fancy restaurants from Lima by serving you small portions for high prices, sadly the quality of the ingredients here doesnt match the price. The traditional dishes are just being distorted at this place. Half of the plate is just decoration and sauce, even the ingredients they use for decorating the plates are not peruvian. There is no reason for non-peruvian ingredients to decorate a Tiradito or a Causa (with Tapioca???). I wouldnt recommend this restaurant to anyone, this was definetely not a peruvian expericience. This is only a restaurant benefiting from the gastronomic peruvian boom selling ''fancy'' and...