PERU CHICHA PERUVIAN RESTAURANT. — Restaurant in Gardena

Honestly, amazing food but TERRIBLE service.

Causa Limeña - highlight of the visit. I've never had this food in regular Peruvian spots! I love the pressed mashed potato and in the middle is a refreshing chicken salad. The wonton strips on top was also complimentary to the mashed texture of potatoes. I highly recommend getting this dish.

Lomo Saltado - very good! Very soupy though that the fries turn into stewed potatoes. Great flavor and they don't put so much onions unlike pollo inka 🙄

Aeropuerto - I thought the noodles were separate but that's my bad. I was thinking chowmein and fried rice like panda express but this dish is fried rice with bits of noodles in it. So it's just carb overload. Eat this with other protein cuz this dish was good but it needs something else to balance it out.

Got Maracuja juice and it's VERY fresh!

The sad part was the service and the atmosphere. I love the colorful vibes but it's packed in there. The tables are really close together, and despite how close the tables are, it's harder to get serviced properly.

The waitress sat us and had us wait to order for 20min! She has walked by us and locked eyes with us multiple times. We've gestured and verbally expressed that we are ready multiple times and she kept making a hand gesture of one moment. They weren't even busy. Everyone was starting to leave when we got there.

I think it may be because I am Asian so she thought I can't get by with my Spanish but I ordered in Spanish enough for her to understand. I HATED being treated like that.

Overall, I'm giving grace to this spot because the food is made really well, but don't have servers who will purposefully...

I am peruvian, first time here, took my whole family here-7 people- Pros 1.- Original graphic design decoration, according with the the name of restaurant “Chicha” 2.- TV screen playing cumbia music 3.- Cordial customer service, relatively fast. 4.- Good plating presentation 5.- Prices were average/ competitive for a good peruvian restaurant, Entrees $20+ Cons 1.- Flavor, Flavor, Flavor was not there 2.- Lomo Saltado meat was not soft a little chewy, it seemed to be a soup due to the amount of broth/juice . Chupe de Camarones lame flavor nothing extraordinary. Tallarin verde with Milanesa Pollo had deeply fried black piece of chicken meat. 3.- At the end 260 USD for 6 people which is 37USD per person gladly paid if flavor would’ve been there, NOT on this occasion.

In conclusion: Overall 3 stars out of 5. Would i...

If I could leave zero stars I would do soo 100% percent. I’ve been coming to this establishment with my family, and had brought them once again for lunch. We come and have to sit ourselves, wait 15 min to even be attended to. Another family comes that’s larger than our group & we are asked to move to another table. We did not want to move nor should we to accommodate someone else that came later than our arrival. It was either move to another table or leave… my family and I left, what a TERRIBLE way to treat customer. NEVER will we come back, I’m leaving this post for future patrons to read and be aware of. Absolutely...