La Kokona Restaurant — Restaurant in Passaic

The food was not that great for the amount of wait time.

The wait time was terrible and should not be happening at all for any restaurant. We arrived at 3:40pm.

My wife, 2 yr old and I sat down by 3:42pm.

By 3:50pm, we placed an order of plantains, french fries and fried yuca for appetizers. For the main course, we placed, at the same time of the apps, an order of Ceviche mixto for me and Chaufa mixto for my wife.

At 3:55pm - They served us the pitcher of chicha morada with three glasses.

(During this long gap we finished the chicha morada and were dying of hunger)

4:45pm - They finally brought out the plantains, yuca and french fries (that’s only took them 55 minutes for some simple apps)

(My baby loves few shows fries and yuca. The plantains were for my wife and I. We all were starving and these bad boys helped ease the hunger)

5:03 pm - Finally, the Ceviche and Chaufa made it’s way (the average cooking time for each of these dishes are 30min. This place took 1 hr and 13 minutes)

Look at the timeline.

The food is not that great for that amount of wait time. Why did I go there? My wife and I live down in central jersey, but we had to go up to Belleville for an event. I have a good friend recommend me this Peruvian restaurant in Passaic. I usually head to “la tia Delia” if I am up in north jersey. I basically asked my wife if we could try this new...

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I couldn’t believe when I saw it about this restaurant selling my typical food from my town in Perú!!! I have been looking for so long a restaurant that will sell my jungle dishes from my town in Perú. If you haven’t tried authentic jungle food you got to try this place, is small place has few seating inside but food is delicious!!! I got Juanes, tacacho mixed with bits of fried pork skin, humitas saladas, arroz chaufa and papa a la huancaina (the last two dishes are typical Peruvian dishes) Also they have aguaje ice creams, cocona drinks and uvachados (exotic drink) delicious!! I’m definitely coming back to eat more of my...