Los Andes Latin Bistro — Restaurant in Minneapolis

Disclaimer, as I am of Mexican heritage I cannot make claim as to authenticity of Columbian/South American food. But I enjoyed my experience very much at this restaurant. The house aji which is always present at the tables was excellent! One of the best sauces I've ever had, bar none. I was putting it on everything. It is a perfect spice and flavor. I enjoyed a nice fried corvina that was fried with care and genuinely tasted unique as to other fish I've had. Also had the sausage, pork chops, and steak. Corn cakes.All very nice. A good selection of various sodas , beers, and other beverages from Latin America. You are sure to find something you like. The service is very professional and aim to please through good service rather than pandering to people who must have hour long conversations with their server. The beans are very nice but I found the rest of the sides to be lacking on flavors, such as the rice. I am familiar with greater Latin American rice which is mostly just white. Since they give you so much of it it would be nice to do something with it even as little as adding some unintrusive vegetables, something. The extremely over used lettuce/tomato/onion salad can easily be spun into something more unique to this restaurant. And the balance between the amount of entree to sides is more weighted toward the sides. The shakes here looked wonderful but I was too full to order one. If you are looking for a wider spectrum on Latin American cuisine you can go out of your way to eat at Los Andes as this sector of Latin food is not quite as common in the...

The restaurant is ok. DO NOT COME THURSDAY, FRIDAY OR SAT, TO LISTEN TO MUSIC, DUENDE!! Very ride and disrespectful Duende staff! owner clearly doesn't know what is going on. on Thursday, saw their advertisement for some music by Duende, which stated after 10pm it is 10$ to get in. That is fine. I arrived to have dinner at 8:30ish, and stayed after 10pm listening to music. The second we got up to try to dance to the beat, they were telling us we had to pay. The owner came up to us and said that the music/dj Duende, is not part of the restaurant and we had to pay to dance, but not to listen! I mentioned the advertisement and the owner said it doesn't matter what it says on the advertisement and we still had to pay! Then the owner of Duende came up to us and said that the dj is not part of the restaurant. Why would you have a dj in your restaurant if you didn't invite them or they are not part of it? Why would people already dinning inside have to pay if they are there before 10pm? Fix your advertisement! They had nothing to say, but that we had to pay to dance and the advertisement didn't matter! DO NOT COME HERE! very disrespectful Duende staff as well as the owner of...

I really like Peruvian food, and a quick search suggested Los Andes had some of the best in MN. The dishes we had were underwhelming: Llapingachos, Pollo al Grill, and Arroz Frito con Pollo. Llapingachos were very different from what I've had before — served as slices with a bunch of diced onions and tomatoes on top. My friend says the Pollo al Grill was fine, but I was disappointed that neither of our dishes came with aji sauce. The Arroz Frito con Pollo is a MOUNTAIN of fried rice with little bits of grilled chicken and peppers mixed in — no sauce. That dish in particular seemed pretty dry.

The complimentary tortilla chips and salsa were remarkably good, but we only started with half a dish of salsa and ran out quickly. We needed to ask for a salsa refill, and service was pretty slow and inattentive despite there only being three occupied tables while we were there.

Maybe we just picked the wrong dishes. They certainly weren't bad, but on the pricier side for what they were and not...