Sabor Peruano
Peruvian restaurant · Walworth
103 Newington Butts, London SE1 6SF, United Kingdom
Highlights
Authentic Peruvian soups, stews, and rice dishes
Authentic Peruvian soups, stews, and rice dishes
"Sabor Peruano has a very specific atmosphere. Outside it’s a canteen, but inside it gives 1960s banquet wedding. The fact you can’t smoke inside feels like a great shame. But you’ll soon forget that once you have a pisco sour in your hand and some yuca frita in front of you. The Elephant and Castle spot should be close to the top of your list in terms of Peruvian restaurants in London for three reasons: it’s great-value, has traditional cooking, and it closes before 10pm, so you can have a great dinner and still have time to do nothing on the sofa." - jake missing, rianne shlebak, heidi lauth beasley
"Restaurants like Sabor Peruano are very easy to settle into. The Peruvian spot opposite St. Mary’s Churchyard has an old-school white tablecloth aesthetic and a familial atmosphere where every table is sharing anticuchos and stabbing at ceviche mixto. Both of these dishes are delicious. The beef heart skewers are tender and gently spiced and the ceviche is as enlivening a plate of food as you’ll eat anywhere. It’s open for lunch but just know that dinner service finishes at 9pm, latest, on weekends. It’s a family affair, after all." - jake missing, sinead cranna
"Sabor Peruano has a very specific atmosphere. Outside it’s a canteen, but inside it gives 1960s banquet wedding. The fact you can’t smoke inside here feels like a great shame. But you’ll soon forget that once you have a pisco sour in your hand and some yuca frita in front of you. The Elephant and Castle spot should be close to the top of your list in terms of Peruvian restaurants in London for two reasons: it serves great value, traditional cooking and it closes before 9pm. So that means you can have a great dinner and still have time to do nothing on the sofa." - Jake Missing
"‘Fusion’ cuisine hardly reveals the brutal histories it masks — and the Peruvian tradition of chifa belongs here. Brought to Peru by Guangdong labourers to be slaves, they left an indelible mark on Peruvian cuisine and many of these dishes can be found on Sabor Peruano’s menu: darkly sweet and acidic lomo saltado, a beef stir fry dense with soy, vinegar and onions. Better still is the seco norteño, a slow-cooked stew of beef and potato, coloured ditchwater green-brown by the aggressive use of coriander. The non-chifa dishes are well worth ordering too — ceviche is fresh, well-cured and bracingly acidic as part of a trimarinero, while anticuchos come correct as tender parchments of beef heart, marinated with the sting of aji amarillo. The same subtle heat turns up in the humblest and maybe best dish: a starter of papa huancaina, a simple dish of boiled potatoes served cold in a pool of custard-coloured sauce made from queso fresco, aji amarillo and milk." - Jonathan Nunn
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