El Rocoto - Peruvian restaurant in Cerritos - 11433 South St, USA

The food was delicious. The wait was 25 minutes. The maracuya juice was tasty and sweet. I really like it. It cost $4.50 each. But it was worth it. I got 2 just for myself. And the plates here are pertty expensive. I think 2 people can really enjoy one plate here together. I over ate just eating my own CARNE POBRE PLATE. It cost $29 dollars. The PESCADO MACHO was $29. It was good, too. If you come here I would recommend you get 1 plate for you and your friend. Share it and finish it. I took some of the leftover food home, but it was not great. My rice was too hard and not soft anymore after heating it. I feel it is a bit too much in one plate for one person. 😊 I liked it. I like that the restroom is private for one person at a time. The floor was not clean when I used it. The door for the restroom seems a bit hard to close and open. It would be nice if they could fix that.

I came back to this place last night and this is 3rd time here and im glad the taste of the food and service and the ambiance were all the same as before , all fantastic! This is my favorite peruvian restaurant. I got the arroz con maricos and carne a lo poble . The rice is so good , well seasoned and flavorful with mixed of seafood. The green sauce and orange sauce they bring from the beginning are perfect sauce to go with anything . Since it was a Saturday night , its a little bit long to way in line but it was all worth it , and i wouldn’t mind to wait if the food is great .

This Peruvian resturant was amazing! The food was very authentic and they had a lot of delicious and unique menu items. All of the dishes we had were high quality and tasted just like we remembered when we traveled in Peru.

Très bon plats! Parfait pour découvrir la cuisine péruvienne.

Always nice coming here, we really love it. Everything is consistently on point. Never disappoints! Great place for date night. Highly recommend.

Simply stated, El Rocoto is a chef-owned and operated Peruvian restaurant, serving one of the most delicious expressions of this amazing country's cuisine in SoCal. Everything we ordered tasted super fresh and made with a lot of love and passion. The quality ingredients are treated with respect, and the cooking techniques involve both the age-old traditional Inca style as well as the high BTU range--providing a slight smokiness, aka "wok hei"--a product of the Southern Chinese influence in Peruvian cuisine (known as "Chifa" style). Oh those aromas are to die for! Their tiraditos, lomo saltado, tacu tacu especial, chaufa, and papa rellena tickled our taste buds with a huge array of flavors and textures, way beyond what's common in any single meal. Although I really got the impression that everything on their menu is scrumptiously delicious! Also, be sure to try one of their amazing craft cocktails as well as their housemate chicha morada! If you're already familiar with Peruvian food, then you definitely have to try this place, and if you're not, I'm telling my friend, you're missing out big time! Highly recommend!

Food good rib eye stake is half the size it used to be before I've been going there for years Portions are smaller I would give the food 5 stars for flavor but portions have changed. And the staff is not in a good mood every time I go, from management to workers I saw trash on the floor and I saw a male manager walk and see it 5 times and other workers walked over the piece of trash and then the manager picked it up after walking by it Food good service bad a waitress was really sick you could hear it in her voice and was not wearing a mask

This is a redo of experiencing dining at El Rocoto. About two years ago I had the worst encounter there, a waitress chased me and my wife out and demanded a tip that she didn’t see underneath the plates. I called the managers at all locations and no one did anything. Recently. I decided why not! Fortunately the waitress isn’t there( that I’ve seen) and the location looks even prettier than before. The food is amazing if not better. I just tried their seafood saltado and when I tell you OH MY WORD. It’s delicious! The calamari combined with clams and shrimp is so savory. The fries here aren’t drenched in oil. The rice isn’t mushy. You get what you expect. High quality food! To start they give you bread, I do think they can work on giving you a better setup for bread and butter. But other than that it’s very good and the staff is adequate.