El Porteño II Restaurant & Bar — Restaurant in San Francisco

This place is amazing. I’m taking about the food. Last time I went there I have ordered Tallarín Saltado de Carne and also ordered Lomo Saltado de Carne previously. I can tell you this: Service is quite good but I care about the flavors in each dish I order. If the flavor is not good…the rest doesn’t matter. So I can tell you…the ingredients, seasoning and flavors are undoubtedly, present in each bite you take making each dish extremely exquisite. All ingredients used are of good quality as well. I personally went to the kitchen to congratulate the chefs (3) at that time and told to them, it is the first time in 38 years that I really enjoyed my favorite dishes made the way they are supposed to be done and taste. “The Traditional Way”. “The Old Way”. I promised them I was going to write a review as a Food Critique I am stating the good news of this Peruvian Spot. Even better taste than the original Porteño at Mission and Geneva Ave. Good job!!! Buen trabajo!!! Y no cambien nada. El mejor sabor de la comida Peruana en toda el Area de la Bahía....

Overpriced for its small portion size and lack of quality.

Food: I'm of peruvian descent and know what it should taste like. Plenty other local spots that get it right.

Major ingredients are there, but the dishes lack expertise or effort.

Ordered ceviche de pscado, it's supposed be marinated fish, but it was not, so just tasty fishy with lemon juice around it, and the fish was undercooked.

Ordered yucca with "huancaina" sauce. Not sure what that sauce was, but it definitely isn't authentic huancaina sauce. Tasted nothing like it.

Ordered fried chicken. One of my pieces was only a joint bone fried with batter sauce.

Service: Had to call almost 6 times just to ask for hot sauce on the side. Got hung up on 3 times, until they...

This is my first time to this location. We typically go to the one in the Excelsior.

Everyone should know this location is amazing. Right in the middle of the mission. Service is great very quick and friendly. TV screens all over the place. It’s very clean and modern inside vaulted ceilings.

Many of the items that we ordered were just as good if not better than the other location

I ordered the seafood paella… That was amazing deep flavor and super tasty. We got the seafood tomato soup. That was good… I think I’ll go home and add extra lime seasoning to it. We also got Lomo saltado. And micheladas...