Lima Restaurant — Restaurant in Jefferson Township

This is a newer (2025) restaurant opened by the Avenida Peru entrepreneurs. We attended for the first time for a Father's Day buffet so we have not yet ordered from the menu. I understand they do open for breakfast and Avenida has been repurposed as a street grill food place. Atmosphere is family friendly, clean and new, not fancy, with fairly loud latin music (not as loud as it would be in Peru). BYOB. The buffet had about 20 choices, mostly served on hot plates, cold plates, or slow cookers. Drinks included chicha morada, water, maracuya, orange juice, and coffee and were included in the $50 per person buffet price. Two ceviche choices and causa. The only US item was brownies for dessert (invented in Chicago of course!) but Peruvian options included mazamorra and a flan torte. The entrees ranged from good to fantastic. There were several regional dishes that we tried: some we didn't really care for because they had ingredients we don't like (cow organs for me, certain vegetables for my spouse) but the dish was fresh, well prepared and properly seasoned. A buffet was a perfect way to try these because we would never have ordered them from a menu. The Seca de carne (beef dry soup) is unattractive but absolutely-to-die-for delicious. The fish with macho (spicy) sauce wasn't quite spicy enough for my taste, but still fantastic. We just came back from a month in Peru and this food was very authentic, very well prepared, and very...

They changed to a new location, the place is nice and bigger and food is regular, nothing outstanding, but the portions are smaller, I ordered a chicharrón sandwich and it has more sweet potatoes than chicharrón, just 4 little pieces in it, I also ordered a lomo saltado, the portion used to have more meat, bigger chunks, now is just small title pieces, the portion definitely smaller from what it used to be. I come from time to time and I notice that difference from the time when they opened Av Perú time ago, it was much much better, I think they’re trying to get back the money they invested in the new place by cutting off the portions, I ordered a tamal, they forgot about it, but I was charged for it. If you ask me if I will come back to this place, maybe, but not often, unfortunately we don’t have many good Peruvian options here in Chicago, like there are in other states, like Miami, NY or NJ (from...

We went there for a family gathering, We ordered: Cau cau, was good, Lomo saltado was good, Causa Good, Tallarin verde, my kids didn't like it. Both tried and didn't like it.. Arroz con Mariscos...was ok Trio marino, I love it, very delicious...

We were a party of 5 adults and a toddler, got my 3 year old, and we asked for a booster, apparently the restaurant didn't have one, or didn't want to give us a smaller table ..(although, some tables were empty)...

At the time of the service, got charged for 18% service fee, because we were a party of 6...Although, my youngest, didn't ordered anything..(he shared the tallarin that he didn't like with his brother)...so got charged for the so called service fee...

Next time, I might order to go, since the service fee, can pretty easy fill my tank to pick up the food...

Good food, hefty...