Villa Peru — Restaurant in Tucson

Villa Peru Everything will be rated from 1-10 in each category. This way you guys get the full experience and can judge yourself. The total score is my final experience where it dictates the amount of stars in the title of the review.

Atmosphere: This restaurant is a hole in the wall in comparison to the restaurants next to it. When my father and I were walked to our table we were shocked to see someone playing the harp. With the sounds of the harp playing in the background it gives this place a bit of a classy kind of atmosphere. The menu isn't in English for the most part except for the ingredient section so be prepared to point to the menu items you would like to order. This restaurant does have a bar further towards the back and the kitchen is right up front which gives this place an unique look. Score: 9/10

Food: My father and I both got two completely different foods so that we can get the full experience. I got a plate with what seems like every kind of seafood they had in the kitchen. In the photo I had to move the pile of red onions to the side because it seemed to block the sight of everything on my plate. Now with my dish I was asked what level of spiciness would I like. Now I normally like my food spicy so I asked for it to be medium. My food wasn't what I expected. The sauce was more like a vinegar sauce with a hint of heat that hit you later. The clams were extremely salty to the point where my father and I trade plates. My father ordered a dish with steak and pasta. The menu stated that the pasta sauce was an Alfredo sauce but from from the looks and taste it reminded me more of a rustic pesto with a hint of more salt. The stake was nicely done and was a favorite between the both of us. The snack they gave us is a bowl of unpopped popcorn with dried banana slices with an tasty hot sauce. We couldn't help but laugh that they gave us this unpopped popcorn and how amazing it taste. We ended up getting 2 or 3 bowls full. The deserts we got are Dulce de leche shortbread cookie and their helado de lucuma (signature ice cream). The dulce de leche was very powdery and was nearly impossible to eat with a spoon. Would recommend just picking it up with your hands. The ice cream was really good and reminded me a lot of a sherbet ice cream. Overall the food was a complete hit or miss with each plate. The food could either have too much of a bitterness or too salty. Score: 3.5

Restaurant recommendations: This section is mainly for the restaurant so they know what exactly to work on. It won't affect the score.

Have the cook taste test each plate to make sure it's not too bitter or salty. Have a translation of the title of each food so that customers don't have to point to the menu Have better description of drinks

Overall score Atmosphere: 9/10 Food: 3.5/10 Friendliness: 9/10 Total: 21.5/30 (71%)

Would I come back again? Sadly no. The price of my total bill came down to $71.49 for two people. With the price being so high and the food being a hit or a miss it didn't justify me...

My wife took me here because she said they serve a great Pisco Sour and great Peruvian food. She was so right on both counts. She also said the recent renovation made what was already a nice place into a great place, with a partially open kitchen in the front, a quiet bar in the back, and live-edge wooden tables with turquoise inlay throughout the restaurant. The former small entry door to the right has been supplanted by a big, pivoting glass door that delivers you to the center of the front dining room, which — by the way — was hopping with a Galantine’s Day dinner of about 30 ladies dressed in pink and red, being serenaded by a strolling violin player (don’t expect this every night ☹️). We were seated at a great little table for two outside the glass-walled private room, where we could enjoy the action and see the stunning live-edge table in the private room, along with a very colorful wall painted to evoke the Andes. We started with a perfect Pisco Sour, then took advantage of half-priced wine by the bottle on Tuesday nights, opting for a tasty California meritage. Aji Amarillo is one of my favorite ingredients, which the chef used to great effect in the Aji de Galina, which perfectly balanced Aji and chicken flavors in a creamy sauce without too much Aji kick. We followed the Galina with the Ceviche Mixto Clasico, which gave us a taste of several different fish and shellfish marinated in a Leche de Tigre with just the right amount of roar. We ended with the roasted plantains with ice cream, which were delicious. The service was great, not only by our server but also by the owner, who checked on us from time to time. We will be back the next time we are in Tucson. YouTube’s...

We were at this restaurant with a reservation at 6:30pm (week ago) Freida the server is the owner’s daughter and I did not feel to us like she cared for her Mexican customers who were at Villa Peru for the first time, she was more concerned with pleasing her white American customers than her Mexican American customers equally and it took 1 hr and 1/2+ to get our food and appetizers prior to that, of course to no surprise there was cero apology on her part, she never acknowledged the kitchens issues they were having and her follow up was less than perfect, her white American customers got served and her undivided attention but my guest (party of 6) were treated like they did not mattered, when the food finally got to us, like our appetizers they were semi-warm, the meals did not get to us for about an an hour and a half, just about the time they were about to close; we are avid foodies and have been to many restaurants and yes we have experience on what great customer service looks like at family owned venues, but Villa Peru definitely did not meet our expectations, poor service, poor tasting food and cold since the server didn’t bother to check on our meals status. The rib eye plate was luke warm and apparently they run out of one of their menu choices but told us about it an hour later, so one of my guests didn’t get that meal they wanted. This was a Saturday evening event, how are you not prepared for a weekend venue. Most definitely we do not recommend this place at all, what a burger has better service- please don’t waste your time with this...