El Rocoto — Restaurant in Cerritos

First of all Peruvian food cost more and more these days. That would be dandy if the food was on par with what they charge. Sadly, in this place, it’s not so. We used to go by driving one hour each way. The pandemic put a stop to eating at a table for 2 years plus. Finally today we arrived around 7:30 PM. Service was prompt and pleasant in every way. Food became the issue. Ceviche Mixto Criollo, $17 each. Ordered 2 and overall was one of the two best dishes. Ceviche, of course, the primary reason to go. 4 Stars. Anticuchos, marinated beef heart, $14. This one with the price hiked, a very sad choice. Why? Used to be 3 wooden skewers with at least 3 pieces of meat in each. Plus typical sauce, and roasted potato. No the wooden skewers were half the size, if not less. 2 instead of 3, and to add insult to injury 2 very thin, hard to chew pieces. Mini Anticuchos is what they should have been named. A joke on us. 2 Stars. Pulpo Parrilla, $18. Pulpo being Octopus , and when prepared right very delicious. This one was half the mark, extremely chewy which to me meant they did not bother to brine the Octopus, unforgivable oversight for the amount and price. 2 Stars. Tamal, $12. Became apparent that the batch were this Pork Tamal came from had seen better days. Crumbly all quality exhibited before missing. For the money spent no good. 2 Stars. Parihuela Salvaje, $22. This dish when prepared correctly well worth its high price? Parihuela is like the French Bouillabaisse a la cheap, or even Sopa 7 Mares Mexican style. When the broth expresses the bounties of the seas, and the selections are in numbers to be savored, definitely a winner. This expensive version was not bad, lacking perhaps a little more variety? 4 Stars. Their sauces are tasty and the free bread old but warm, easy to eat. Service all around, as mentioned, nice. Water only drink a little off, no filter in the back. Total bill: $108 plus. Adding the somewhat fair 15% came to over $122. Peru distinguishes on their quality of food, so what El Rocoto brought to the table lacked that level of quality, yet it costs like if it...

1/31/23 : Had dicided to update my review, I was ver y pleased with my conversation with Jorge as soon as he saw this message he contact me immediatly and apoligize for the bad experience and understood my concern. I was invited to go go back to the restaurant again . Thak you Jorge for taking care of your customers and for undertanding how upset I was about the food. THANK YOU SO MUCH AND LOOKING FOWARD COMING BACK FOR SOME DELICIOUS PERUVIAN FOOD.

Previous comment : Saturday 1/28/ 23 around 8:00pm I was there with my family and I have to say the food was the worse ever. I have gone to peruvian restaurants and never had a bad expereince THIS PLACE IS OVER PRICE!!!! THE FOOD IS NOT COOKED GOOD AND THE TASTE IS NOT AUTHENTIC PERUVIAN.

YUCCA FRITA !!! HORRIBLE we had ordered Yucca Frita : it was way under cook, not crispy and it has hard tasted , this needs to be crispy with a little flavor this was horrible

LOMO SALTADO : it had so much soy sauce that all you can taste was the that "soy sauce" no flavor, cooked bad , there was no season more less drenched in soy sauce !! MY STOMACH WAS UPSET AFTER EATING THIS . was it because we were almost the customers ? or the chef likes soy sauce that puts so much food is not good

total of $155.00 bill for something we didnt like and it taste it horrible.

" I want to mention the staff ,and waiter and the seating host were amazing , friendly , and good service. Nothing bad to say about the staff at this place everything here at the restauran is very attentive and...

We went here after shopping in Little India for a dress for an upcoming wedding. We had previously dined at their other restaurant in Gardena and were quite pleased and wanted to take my daughter for the experience. The young man who greeted us at the door, was very nice, our waitress also was very nice. Unfortunately, the eating experience was marginal. I had asked for papa rellena. The meat was spoiled! After having a few bites, I knew it wasn't me and stopped. I don't like to complain about anything and at first, I thought maybe it was just me. When the waitress came back to check on the table, unfortunately I had to be honest. She did take the plate, and because it was late and they were closing, she offered to take the plate off the bill, which I did appreciate. My husband had arroz chaufa which was a little greasy and my daughter had a veggie plate which the salsa was a little watery. I also had a tamal and chica morada, and that, I can say, was very nicely made although there seemed to be a filler in the masa. The chicha was made from a powder base but it was nice and cold and was pleasant to the tastes. If I ever were to return, I would return for the tamal and chicha which...