I only found out about this place because of a groupon. And I don't regret buying that groupon because their food and service was fantastic. When I went there they had only been open for a few months. It is a family run business and they make sure we are enjoying our meal.
For appetizers, I ordered the Papa A La Huancaina (potatoes and eggs with queso sause, very authentic Peruvian dish) and my friend ordered the Choros A La Chalaca (mussels). My dish was fine, but very filling. Let's say I had never had something like that before. My friend's dish was just awesome; very refreshing as it had tomatoes and lime in it.
For my entree I ordered the Lomo Saltado (stiry fried beed with fries). It was very flavorful. That was the first time I ate any dish actually cooked with fries. I enjoyed it a lot. My friend ordered the Chaufa de Carne o Pollo (fried rice) which was regular fried rice with some different spices.
We both enjoyed our meal and decided we would definitely go back. Their price is slightly on the higher side. When we went there (around November) they were waiting for a liquor licence and were planning to move to St Paul if they didn't get the licence. Don't know what the status is right now on that.
I wanted to write a good review of this place but just can't. The food here is merely "meh." I had the ceviche. Some of the fish was tough as rubber. I was hoping to get a Pisco Sour, but they didn't have a liquor license.
The service was so slow here. I think we got our order here one hour after we ordered it.
I came here with a friend and I ordered the papa a la huancaina, Aji de gallina, and an inca kola. Â The food was absolutely amazing, cooked and spiced well with different layers of flavors. Â It has been weeks since I've had a meal that was this good! Â
Our waitress was friendly and had several great recommendations of what we should get. Â The "green sauce" was described as Peruvian hot sauce, and it was as others have stated delicious. Â
I have read some reviews that call this place horrible due to the service, and I think it's more of a cultural barrier that people aren't understanding. Â No one in Peru eats dinner as fast as Americans do, so taper your expectations when going to a restaurant owned and run by a Peruvian family. Â
I highly recommend this place to anyone in the Minneapolis area who wants to eat authentic peruvian food at somewhat of a hole in the wall. Â They also said that they are getting their liquor licence for their bar soon, which will make this place even better.
Somos Peru is the best worst restaurant in the Twin Cities. When Isabel is cooking, the food is amazing. However, it is absolutely terrible in every other way. Even the first time I went there, and the food was spectacular, our service was incredibly slow. In the three times I have eaten there, I have never gotten my meal in less than an hour. The last time it even took 45 minutes to get the appetizer...and we were the only ones in the restaurant. Â I truly do like the food...when I can get it. I've tried to take my friend there THREE additional times, and it has been closed--all during what would be normal business lunch hours. They don't keep a consistent schedule, so I guess if you decide to go, and have a long time to spend at dinner, just be sure to check their website for updated hours first. And maybe call too. Because once they didn't update their site...
Overall, it's good food, but it's so delicious that it makes me angry.
Service was terrible and considering there was hardly in the place, there should have been no excuses. Â We had to send back one meal and it took 30 minutes for the replacement meal to come back out. Â My wife was well past eating her meal. Â Food was ok at best. Â Was not worth it even with a Groupon
Review Source:This place is absolutely HORRIBLE on all levels.
- The food is really bad. Â The meat in the Lomo Saltado is tough. Â Everything we had was served cold or luke warm.
- Service was HORRIBLE! Â It took us about 40 minutes to get our food. Â And we were the second ones to order in the entire restaurant. Â Imagine the people that ordered after us. Â They brought the dishes out one at a time. Â They didn't even serve our two young children first. Â They didn't bring enough silverware for all of us. Â They messed up our orders and it took them a long time to correct them. Â We hardly even saw our servers as they were hiding in back most of the night.
This place will not be open for long. Â Don't waste your time and money going here. Â This is one of the worst restaurants I have ever gone to. Â It is bad in every way possible.
I should have known better when the hostess/waitress put our name on the wait list of 40 mins and then proceeded to tell us to call in an hour to see if a table was open. Um, what?
And then a table opened up and we were in. Sweet!
But it was all downhill from there.
The service is an absolute disaster, and the food is not nearly good enough to make it worthwhile. I wish I could be more understanding, but the servers are super unfriendly and don't seem to put forth any effort. I noticed every table in the restaurant get irritated with them throughout the night, making the whole experience uncomfortable. The waitresses had no idea what anyone in the place had ordered and went from table to table confused. Many people complained of forgotten orders. Food took forever, and plates came out randomly. Not good at all. Definitely won't be back.
My wife is from Peru and is pretty picky when it comes to Peruvian food. We both really enjoyed our experience and meals. The lomo saltado and aji de gallina were excellent, and the green sauce that came with yucca was awesome. We have been a couple of times since it is close to us and we have not been disappointed. If you are feeling a little adventurous and willing to try a new cuisine give this little place chance.
Review Source:Met some friends at Somos Peru on Friday night for dinner and drinks. Â Sadly, they didn't have a liquor license yet, so the staff encouraged us to go to the nearby liquor store and bring our won liquor in! Â Not sure how legal that is, but it's definitely cheaper! Â No complaints there!
There was only 1 server working the entire floor on a busy Friday night. Â We sat down and waited what seemed about 10 minutes or more before someone got up and went to the bar to get menus.
The server finally came over to take orders (this was probably a good half hour later). Â The food took at least an hour if not more to come out. Â
Apparently shrimp was a popular dish on the menu that night as they ran out and had to go to the grocery store to buy more. Â One of the people in our group ordered 3 dishes, one with shrimp. Â After waiting about an hour and a half for anything to come out we finally asked the waitress what was going on. Â It's then that she told us what the problem was and that they were working on making it now as they just got more shrimp.
The food was pretty good, although there are better Peruvian restaurants in the Twin Cities.
Prices are very fair, but i'd say it's not worth sitting there for hours before you can get any food.
They definitely need more people in the kitchen, on the floor and a liquor license!!
Went to Somos Peru recently and had a great meal of Lomo Saltado, a beef with peppers, onions, and french fries stir-fry dish with rice that I discovered and used to enjoy years and years ago when I lived in Los Angeles. Was thrilled to find one in south Minneapolis. Â I especially asked for the green sauce. Â I think it is typically served with chicken -- they seem to call it aji de pollo -- but that stuff is magical and reminded me of the place in Los Angeles where they had squirt bottles of the stuff on the tables.
I stopped by for lunch on a whim and didn't read any Yelp review first. I experienced none of the service problems mentioned. Â In fact, after my lunch the chef came out and and stopped by my table and we wound up talking for 15 minutes (it was later in the afternoon and the lunch hour was over.)
Because of this friendliness and the delicious lomo saltado and the heavenly green sauce I give this place 4 stars. Â
The "improver" in me says that Somos Peru should:
1) Have the green sauce in squirt bottles on the tables. Â Own it. Â You can get a million salsas in the stores, but this green stuff is hard to find. Â It doesn't normally come with the Lomo Saltado and people shouldn't have to special order it. Â
2) Also, their menu should not only  mention the green sauce, it should also give an overview of Peruvian cuisine -- influenced by asian stir fries, lots of rice and potatoes, but otherwise somewhat Latin flavors.  The menus should have 2-3 paragraphs explaining that because Peruvian is still kind of non-traditional for people in the U.S. People I think are just now starting to understand the differences between Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Vietamese, and Malaysian food.  But I think that they are less familiar with the differences between "Mexican" food (much less the differences between Sonoran, Sinaloan, Michoachan, Tex-Mex, Santa Fe, and my favorite, Oaxacan) versus Salvadoran, Brazilian, Columbian and Peruvian.  So they need to broaden their appeal by educating about what Peruvian food is.
3) The server should explain Peruvian food, as well. Â If people seem like they don't know. And... if I ask the server the name of the green sauce, the server should know that. And know what's in it. The server should know the cuisine and be excited about it. Okay, maybe that is a bit of a service issue.
4) Have just a wee bit more lomo saltado with the lomo saltado. Â
5) But they should put the hot dog dish at the bottom.
6) The place isn't overwhelmingly mariscos-oriented, so the mariscos mural on the side of the building is a little misleading.
7) And get a liquor license. At least one to sell beer. At least one to sell Cusquena.
Because Lomo Saltado, the magical green sauce, AND a pint of Cusquena is the holy trinity.
After several more visits, I need to temper my original enthusiasm..
1. Service has always been a problem and they fail to take it seriously. Even with good food, service this poor will not make up for the food.
2. There is but one good cook at this place. When is is not there, they apparently will take anyone off the street with a pair of knives. Most recent visit included the usual lomo saltado. I HAVE NEVER HAD LOMO SALTADO SO POORLY PREPARED. The meat was so over-cooked it should have gone directly into the trash. Instead, when I mention it to the server, she said that the cook "said he was sorry"
3. I have had friends who have tried to visit during lunch hours. On three separate occasions, they were closed. No mention of it on the website -- just some unprofessional hand-written sign on the door.
4. I am done recommending this place to anyone. If these owners do not have enough pride in there work to do better than this -- then they will soon find out that once you lose all your credibility -- you have nothing to offer.
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As a Peruvian transplant, I'm always suspect about Peruvian cuisine in Minnesota. We have had incredibly poor restaurants (Machu Pichu) passing themselves off as "authentic" -- and they fail in spectacular fashion.
Everything I tried at this place was better than I ever imagined. High quality ingredients, high quality preparation. Service is slow, but that is to be expected for a small business of this kind, that employs family members.
I thought my mother made a great lomo saltado -- doesn't compare to how good it is here. Ask for the hot green sauce!!
If this place can survive the first year, they will become successful -- the kind of place you take any foodie or out of town guest.
I was so excited that I was going to have a Peruvian lunch (it is one of our favorite cousines) that I arrived 20 minutes before the reservation. Â Lucky me there was only one table occupied at that moment. Â I don't care too much about the looks of restaurants as long as they are clean and safe. Â It was clean and at least during the day the neighborhood was fine. This is a new restaurant but I had heard that the owners used to have restaurants in NJ so I expected that they would know the business pretty well. Â There were only 3 or 4 tables with guests and it took over 90 minutes to get our meals (one of them was the "special of the day"). Â Not just that, the food was not served at the same time. Â By the time that I got my plate (it was 3 of us) the first one that got her plate was already finished with hers. Â The food was homey but nothing spectacular. Â They only had one waitress doing all the floor work while the owner's family members were chatting by the bar and playing with their computers. Â I thought this was a family business not a family hang out place. Â Unfortunatelty, I don't think I will be back and will keep driving all the way to Plymouth for my Peruvian food craves.
Review Source:My wife and I are always excited when new restaurants open in our neighborhood, but (to our surprise based on the first few Yelp reviews) Somos Peru was a colossal disappointment. We were one of only two tables during the Saturday afternoon lunch hour, and yet it took an hour just to get our appetizer of Salchipapas. Btw the potatoes had obviously been frozen since they were served soggy, and I have seen more flavor in a Delta Airlines hot dog.
Fast-forward twenty more minutes of listening to way-too-loud futbol announcers and drinking water, and I had almost forgotten what I had ordered. The first three meals came (the two others took another 5-10 minutes)... I was really hoping that the food would redeem Somos Peru. Sadly, it did not. My Aji de Gallina didn't taste like much of anything, and the rice was overdone. The chicken was not "tender" as the menu described. My brother-in-law couldn't finish his cebiche due to poor quality ingredients and lack of flavor. The steak chunks that were served with my wife's and mother-in-law's Tallarin Saltado de Carne were good, the only redeeming quality of anyone's meal.
I would like to say I will visit again, but sadly it was bad enough that I'll pass.
Wow I am so bummed to be writing this review. I have missed Machu Pichu since it closed a few years back and was  ecstatic to find a new Peruvian restaurant had opened a mile away from me. What a  colossal disappointment. We ordered the Lomo Saltado, Pescado a la Chorrilla en Filete (always a bad sign when the menu doesn't specify the type of fish used) and the Causa Limena de Atun for an appetizer and Chicha Morada to drink. The food was poor, greasy and even worse bland! The beef in the Lomo Saltado was tough and chewy. They did bring a fabulous green hot sauce but it was after I was halfway through my meal. The Chicha Morada was a tasty and refreshing drink but that was about it. As noted in other reviews it was also very slow service which I have a pretty high tolerance for if the food is good but in this case...
Review Source:This place just opened and for me it's a hit. We were traveling and lucky enough to find this authentic Peruvian restaurant. The food was fresh and well seasoned.
My son had the Arroz con Mariscos which he loved. I had my staple of lomo saltado and it was delicious.
The only detriment they had was they were understaffed. Service was a little slow but I feel all new places will have their growing pains but I'm sure they will find their momentum.
Their location is conveniently located off of the interstate and has ample parking. I will definitely be back when I'm in town.
We ate at Somos Peru on their opening day. Â We've been wanting a good Peruvian restaurant to open up in the Twin Cities and this one has a lot of potential in our opinion. Â I hope people will give this place a try! My partner is from Peru and grew up in Miami. Â The food was as good as any of the Peruvian restaurants we've eaten at in Florida.
The Causa de Atun and Lomo Saltado were the highlights for us--very good! Â The portions are generous and the menu prices are reasonable. Â My partner was not wild about the ceviche, but perhaps with time they'll perfect that. Â Ceviche is hard to do well in this area because its difficult to get really fresh, reasonably priced seafood.
The real downside was that the service was very slow. Â We were not in a rush, so it didn't pose a problem for us. Â I hope they will get organized in the kitchen and become more efficient with their service. Â The food was worth the wait in our opinion. Â Please go check this place out and give them the business they need to get off the ground!
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