Anticucheria Parrilladas Dany
Anticucheria Parrilladas Dany
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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I think for anyone who is serious about food, they all have personal "watershed" dining experiences, where it opens up their palate to something they've never had before, redefines all past and future experience, and recalibrates their gold standard for a particular dish or cuisine.
For me, Dany's was a watershed moment for me and Peruvian cuisine, and more specifically ceviche and Chifa (or Peruvian-Chinese cuisine). Authentic, generous portions, and moderately priced, the white fish ceviche and chaufa (Peruvian-Chinese fried rice) are a must. The ceviche is melt-in your mouth tender with a vibrant acidic note of citrus that is counterbalanced by the sweetness of large kernel corn, sweet/regular potato with additional spice notes of cilantro and red onion. Simple yet impossibly addictive. The chaufa or the Peruvian take on Chinese fried rice with a unique combination of spices, is outstanding with an excellent char from the wok, perfectly fried and seasoned rice, and further enhanced with their spicy pepper sauce on request. On our most recent visit, one of my sister in laws' mother who is a Cantonese restaurant cook, commented that even she is unable to make fried rice this good, which is about as high a compliment as I can think of. I also highly recommend the soups, especially the seafood soup, which is like a less acidic and more buttery cioppino with a velvety briny broth loaded with mussels, fish, squid, and shrimp. Add a fresh squeeze of lime to further enhance the natural sweetness from the seafood.
Other popular items include the hand-blended milkshakes with fresh fruit, the large mixed grills including offerings such as beef heart/liver that I would imagine what it would be like to attend a backyard barbecue in Peru, and traditional dishes like lomo saltado, causa, and chicha morada (purple corn drink).
From being one of the first meals I shared with my better half to having them cater for post-wedding brunches and baby showers and many more family get-togethers to come, a meal at Dany's will never cease to be anything short of a personal benchmark of Peruvian food past, present, and future.