El Chullo Peruvian Restaurant & Bar

When on a Friday, got in just in time, around 6:30 before it really got packed. It is a small place so easy to fill up with just a few parties. The ceviche was awesome! Pisco sour was tasty but a tad overpriced at $ 9. Suggest grabbed a few pints of craft brew at the Main Ingredient Ale House down the street beforehand if you are looking for some craft beer.

Went on a whim. The drinks were tasty. Enjoyed my dish as well as my companions. I would like some more spice to it. I have been to Peru and the food is divine. Well priced and clean as well as a friendly staff.

The passion fruit juice was delicious, and the steak lomo saltado will be the best thing you have eaten in a long long time. The marinade on the plate is to die for…

Love the food here! Usually Peruvian owners or cooks are Mexicans but this restaurant is family run by Peruvians! The dishes are very authentic and I love how they serve the food on the dishes. There is awesome Peruvian criollo music to set the mood. Overall fantastic and almost as great as my Peruvian mom’s food

Delicious food, great service and wonderful pisco sours. They have great vegetarian and meat options. Highly recommended if you are looking for something different near downtown. The ceviche is incredible!

Parking in the back.
Seated right away.
Dinner time gets busy.
Many cultures have their own take rice and chicken, and I will say that the Peruvian version is one that I enjoyed. The arroz con pollo was uplifting with it’s cilantro and spices. The place inside is clean and nice. It may look like it’s a hole in the wall on the outside, but very renovated on the inside.
Good service.
Would come back again.

Finally, a true to flavor Peruvian restaurant. I’ve been to several in the Valley but non compare. This is the spot to enjoy a variety of delicous Pisco Sour concoctions along with all the favorite traditional dishes such as Lomo Saltado or Tacu Tacu. They also have several other options that are unknown Peruvian inspired. Check this place out, it rocks!

Exquisite, finger licking good Peruvian food!
The best Peruvian food I’ve ever had outside of Peru. Great cozy ambiance, friendly staff, and good service. The food brought up memories of my grandmother’s restaurant in Ilo, Perú.

What! I don’t know how I’ve been missing this place. The traditional Pisco sour was amazing, like an alcoholic, less sweet, key lime pie. I had chicharrones, a stuffed potato pastry that was cooked perfectly and full of flavor. Both were served with lime juice and cilantro marinated red onions that gave the dishes such perfect balance. A pork stew for my entrée and I was stuffed to the gills and exceedingly pleased. The staff is crazy friendly. Will go back four to five million more times.

First time eating Peruvian food so I had no idea what to expect. I read through the small vegetarian section on the menu and took a long shot anyway. Potato and veggies. How bad could it be?
Well, I would have rather eaten somewhere else. The best thing about the meal was the drink of lucuma juice. It was delicious. Everything else, not worth waiting for. And that was everyone’s sentiment.
For the meat eaters, any dish with flavor was just salty. For the vegetarians, the food was not flavorful at all. In fact it was outright bland. Even the sauces were bland! That’s hard to swallow, especially when the meal consists of all starchy foods. (potatoes, corn, peas, rice)
For the meat eaters plates included: appetizers of Causa Rellena (two tier potato cake with chicken filling), Papa Rellena (fried potato dough stuffed with meat), Papa a la huancaina (boiled sliced potatoes covered with sauce and egg) and then chicken entrees.
For the vegetarians plates included: appetizer of Yucca Frita (fried yucca with dipping sauce), entrée of veggie Causa Rellena (two tier potato cake with creamy vegetable filling), and sides of Sarsa de Cebolla (onions marinated in lime juice) and Camote Frito (thin strips of salty fried sweet potato). The onions saved the meal. Without them, there would have been no other flavor.
I will try Peruvian food again, but not at El Chullo.

2^nd time here and the saying the 1^st time is always the best does not apply here. Food is spot on fantastic. Growing up in Miami was surrounded by Latin food and this brings me back to childhood and family.

Words can’t describe how amazing this place is! It’s amazing from service to food! Definitely returning my husband and I were very pleased! Great food amazing flavors!

I really want this place to be good. I spoke at great length with the owner and I truly feel that this family has the best of intentions. It’s heartwarming to hear about a family putting their son through college to become a chef. I’ve been here twice and can tell you that I won’t be back unless significant changes happen.
It all started off wrong. My girlfriend and I walked in to see a mostly empty restaurant. There was a large table with 13 seats that had a party of about 6 sitting and eating. We told the hostess that there were only 2 of us, and she seemed annoyed. She asked if we had reservations, which we didn’t and her response was, «well I don’t think we have any availability.» Odd seeing how the place was mostly empty. Luckily, a couple was just leaving the bar and we were able to grab a seat.
For being a Peruvian restaurant, they don’t have a single Peruvian beer available.
The food is okay, but the rice wasn’t cooked enough and was crunchy. The ceviche was perfect and had the perfect amount of spice. The leche de tigre was delicious.
I asked for a glass of water and was given one fast enough. However, while sipping I noticed a sharpness on my lips. When I examined my cup, I noticed a large chip missing from the edge of my glass. I notified the waitress and she was barely interested. Not enough to replace it immediately. Odd seeing how this is a HUGE health risk. Chips like this are caused by laziness in the wait staff who scoop ice from the ice bin using their customers glass. Guess what? That chip is now somewhere in the ice bin. The entire rest of the night, I couldn’t help but think of someone swallowing shards of glass.
While sitting at the bar, I couldn’t focus on anything other than the activity in the kitchen: the entire wait staff and cook staff were horsing around playing. It wasn’t a single instance I saw, it was for the entire duration of my meal. It was incredibly unprofessional and distracting. Maybe the cook was too busy playing grab ass with his friends to cook rice acceptably.
I truly hope the owner sees this review and cleans house. The girls behind the the bar are inattentive and don’t care about the heritage of the food they’re serving. Moreover, the owners son needs to get serious about his trade. El Chullo really has an opportunity to clinch the Peruvian food market in all of Phoenix. For now, I’ll be going to Villa Peru

El Chullo is an authentic eatery staffed and operated by natives, and frequented by those seeking to indulge in true homemade Peruvian deliscousness.
My wife and I took our three kids and a cousin visiting from Venezuela. The adults had a carafe of white sangria and the kids had a Peruvian staple, chicha.
We had the appetizer platter, and chose fried yuca, causa rellena, and a Peruvian tamal. We ate every last ounce of food and sauce!
For our entrees, the kids had the tallarin and salchipapas, and the adults had ceviche and the mixed seafood platter. The ceviche was some of the best Peruvian ceviche we’ve had. The seafood platter was made up of deep fried fish, shrimp, calamari, and oysters. It was served with boiled potatoes and fried yuca.
Everything was great, and the service was awesome. The seafood platter was a little over cooked, but then again it’s deep fried so what can you expect. We will definitely come back and bring our Peruvian neighbors to enjoy tasty authentic food they don’t have to prepare themselves. :-)

Decided to treat my wife and one of her lady friends to something different. I’ve had this place bookmarked for ages and never seem to be in this area around eating time.
This is a really cool family owned and operated restaurant. The inside is very cozy and decorated with interesting Peruvian style artwork as well as several articles and «Best of» awards displayed proudly on the walls.
We came for the lunch service which starts at noon. The menu is loaded with a good variety of Peruvian favorites. It was tough to choose what we wanted and took advantage of the photos on Unilocal to decide. The server was also most helpful and gave us a good idea on how it would taste.
We started with an appetizer plate that had a mixture of three different items. See my photo. The Papa Rellena was our favorite in the grouping. It is described as a golden-​fried creamy potato dough stuffed with meat, eggs, raisins and olives and served with red onions marinated in lime juice. So good!
The ladies ordered a dish with Rice & Peruvian beans topped with a cilantro Beef stew called Frijoles con seco a la norteña. Yours truly ordered one called Escabeche de Pollo with a side of their spicy homemade Hot Sauce. It is pan fried Chicken garnished with sautéed red onion, aji amarillo, aji panca, & vinegar.
Both the food and service were spectacular. The wonderful and unique flavors of all the dishes are hard to describe and definitely something you will have to try. The service was very friendly and helpful. We even had the chance to talk to the chef and get a couple of top secret tips that she uses in her recipes.
This is not a very big place and the parking area is really small out front. They say there is also additional parking behind the restaurant with a back entrance when very busy.
Can’t wait to eat here again and maybe even try recreating a couple recipes at home. This stuff is plate licking crazy good. Just try and restrain yourself and use a spoon. Simplemente Delicioso!
4.75 STARS

I went to El Chullo on a Friday night with two other people.
We were seated immediately but it was very busy (a great sign)!
The food was great-​I had arroz chaufa con pollo, which is a sort of chinese rice with chicken, and my sister and friend both had the lomo saltado.
The dining room is very small; just something to keep in my mind.
Very friendly service, great food, and a great latin vibe.

Drove 45 … Well worth it. The Ceviche Mixto is to die for. Everything was great, from the presentation, portion, texture, flavor and spices. Just Perfect !
Super Friendly staff, easy to talk to and very knowledgeable about their dishes, def coming back next time I’m in AZ !

First of all — very cool ‘hole in the wall’ kind of vibe.
We walked in and were seated at one of the two remaining tables… good sign
We started by splitting a ‘choose three’ appetizer platter.
We got the Papa Rellena, Yuca Frita, and I don’t remember the name of the third.
The Papa Rellena was really good — tasted kind of like a tamale, but better — and served with some pickled onions, I think? Really tasty — this was the best. The Yuca Frita was good. The other one was about a 4″ diameter cylindrical shaped item about 1 ½″ tall. It had chicken in it — I thought it tasted like deviled eggs — it was also very good, but we had to save room for the main course. My wife ordered the Ceviche — it was very good — had a lot of zing to it. Everybody else ordered the Lomo Saltado. It was also really good.
Our server was friendly and attentive as well.
Very nice place to go and get your Peruvian gnosh on.

I’m a Peruvian girl and I always think my mom’s Peruvian home cooked meals are actually the best. I came to El Chullo on Peruvian Independence Day (July 28^th) with my dad in order to celebrate.
I ordered the lomo saltado and he ordered the cau cau. As much as I love my mom, I hate to say that this lomo saltado is just as good (maybe even a bit better — please don’t tell her). I told my hubby that I have to take him here so that he can try it out for himself. I even loved their rocoto (hot peppered sauce) and I dipped my french fries in them. It was spicy… but a good spice.
I highly recommend this place if you want to try good Peruvian food!

In AZ and not sure what to eat? want something flavorful and definitely worth every penny? El Chullo is your spot! go here and you totally won’t regret it one bit!!!
ordered:
*Lomo Saltado-​YUM! flavorful. one of their most popular items at el chullo. i definitely didn’t want to stop eating this! everything was very well seasoned and the beef strips were cooked perfectly. the tomatoes were very flavorful as well!
*arroz con pollo– this was recommended to me by the staff. which i thought was pretty good. the rice was flavorful and the sauce that came with it was very unique. for my first time having arroz con pollo i was definitely left with a good impression and would definitely try to order this at other peruvian places.
overall, staff is really nice. the bittersweet part about coming here is you’re hungry you gotta wait quite awhile for your food because they make it fresh. it’s like i like the idea of it being made fresh but the wait is long for the food. also they don’t have the spicy dipping sauce i’ve had at other Peruvian food places that you eat with bread. they however give you these unpopped popcorn kernel thing that is lightly salted. personally i didn’t care for it.
tips:
*small front of store parking lot.
*cash and credit cards accepted
*they post a lot of their food on instagram
*serves alcohol.
*they have a few TVs.
*indoor seating only.
*not super ideal for large parties since it’s a small little mom and pops place.