"This Peruvian restaurant on the Embarcadero works for both “let’s dress up” nights or dinners with hard-to-impress clients who’ll feel right at home amidst the lanyard-wearing office goers that congregate here. La Mar looks like a Miami Beach hotel lobby, with a big woven squid hanging overhead, teal booths, floor-to-ceiling windows, and indoor palms. The waterfront patio facing the Pacific is the best setting for never-ending pisco sours over ceviche that gets our tang receptors firing, and flaky empanadas that let out a hot puff of steam when you tear into them. " - ricky rodriguez, julia chen 1, patrick wong