Lonzo's Restaurant

"Lonzo’s makes some of the best Peruvian food in the city. Half-bakery, half-restaurant, this Culver City staple serves beautiful honey bay oysters, made fresh and spicy with a drizzle of rocoto pepper sauce and ponzu, plus decked-out marisco cocteles piled high with seafood and a glass of leche de tigre. There’s a patio in the back, complete with heaters, just in case it’s an especially cold day on the Westside (a.k.a. below 65 degrees), making it a perfect place to stop for a quick lunch break or casual dinner with a few friends." - brant cox, sylvio martins, garrett snyder, cathy park

"Everyone loves a local Peruvian restaurant, and the one almost hiding in plain sight in Culver City remains one of LA’s best. In recent years, Lonzo’s expanded its menu to include huge bowls of shareable ceviche, grilled beef heart anticuchos, and lomo saltado. These days, it’s caught the attention of influencers and content creators, giving it a new audience hungry for seafood-packed arroz con mariscos and more. — Matthew Kang, lead editor" - Eater Staff, Matthew Kang

"Wahl went to Lonzo’s in Culver City for leche de tigre ceviche, lomo saltado, and grilled octopus with choclo. It's a family-owned spot, and she was already a regular customer for their excellent lomo saltado." - Matthew Kang

"A bakery and cevicheria aren’t things we’d typically expect under the same roof, but at Lonzo’s it works. Sure, you can walk away with a decent baguette, but it’s the Peruvian mariscos you're really here for, including the incredible leche de tigre coctel. This shrimp and kanpachi ceviche comes in a cocktail glass filled with a tart and salty marinade, plus a dose of ají amarillo for heat. There’s a lot of texture going on, too: cooked yams, large corn kernels called choclo and some perfectly fried calamari, which get dunked in that citrusy sauce." - sylvio martins, garrett snyder, brant cox

"Ceviche and fresh baked pastries aren't always found under the same roof, but such a magical place does exist at the small but mighty Lonzo's, a hybrid bakery and Peruvian restaurant in Culver City. These days, the restaurant section has mostly taken over the room, with a handful of tables sharing appetizers like ponzu topped with spicy rocoto pepper sauce at dinner. Colorful seafood dishes and decked-out cocteles take up most of the menu here, the latter of which are served in tall sundae glasses brimming with tangy cured fish, octopus, shrimp, and crushed corn nuts. Make sure to ask for some of the house bread to soak up the tart leche de tigre left behind." - sylvio martins, brant cox