Pollos El Chevere

If you want true authentic peruvian food, this is the place to go. The food is delicious, the prices are extremely reasonable and the service is good. Although the location may not be the best, the food is definitely worth it.

Food, deserts, and Sangria are great! Big parking lot right next store, and great service as well!

This place has fallen! I haven’t been here in awhile ! The seafood dishes are lacking seafood. They everything with squid rings to make it look like a lot of food! The lomo has more fries then seafood or beef! I WONT BE COMING HERE AGAIN!

Food was served cold and when sent back it was microwaved !!! Service was good though. Oh, and the booze was good too !!!

Super tender chicken!
Be prepared to wait especially at Dinner time and weekends.
Street parking, it is hard to find a spot around the area but well worth the effort. All the meats are grilled. Besides the chicken, they offer steak and ribs and other delicacies such as beef heart kabobs, tripe, chicken hearts, liver, gizzards on the grill. Side orders too. Must try their home made salad with their special homemade dressing, also try the yucca fries.
The super tender falling off the bone chicken is the best around!

Terrible! Have a good review before but the food now is pretty bad. ordered the ceviche, chicken, and causa. the chicken, I can’t complain about. that’s still the only thing good in this restaurant. I used to frequent this place for years and always loved the food here. I’d I want good chicken, come here. if u want the other Peruvian food, avoid this place.

Really upset with customers service!
My orders were two half chickens for the family to go. What I got was two chickens with a decay smell. We used to eat in and order out from here often, so this was a first.
When my mother and I went back to question the cashier about our food we were received with nasty attitudes and insults. In the end we got insulted, kicked out, and are no longer welcomed to the restaurant.

Food came out fast it was ok. If u r born peruvian you can tell that the food is not made by a peruvian chef or didnt teach them right. Empanadas sucked, got our food before the drinks, forks n hot sauce. Wanted to ask the waiter if u was acting like a huevon o if he was one but fiancé stopped me from saying anything. check came out to be 50 but for that price i can take her somewhere authentic n legit which there are very few outthere

Good service. Great food. Peruvian dishes galore. Daily specials. Usually get it to go but sometimes go for the lunch specials. Make sure you use the green sauce, especially if you like spicy.

Just as all the other Cheveres I love coming here for their lunch specials. How can you go wrong with an app an entrée a drink and desert for $ 8?! They are very friendly and their service is extremely quick which is great when I only had 30 minutes to basically inhale my food. The only reason why I give them 4 stars instead of 5 is because unlike the other two Cheveres which are legit blocks away from eachother this one lacks in taste. It’s still good but the other two are great.

The food is very tasteful and at a very reasonable price. The portions are also very generous. I’ve had Peruvian food in Miami and NYC so this is not my first time. It was pretty crowded when we went for dinner but our waiter forgot to put one of our orders in and he did not notice until we flagged him down about 20 mins after getting everyone else’s food. Other than that, I had a good experience here.

I’ve been to a few El Chevere spots, but I will not return to this one. I ordered by phone for pick up. I will preface this by saying that when you walk in, there are two possible places that you can pick up an order, it’s not clear. I went to one side and stood behind a gentleman who was speaking to the man at the register. This conversation went on for a while and seemed more personal than business related. He saw me standing there and did not acknowledge me. I saw another customer was paying on the other side of the counter so I decided to go over there hopefully to get noticed. Well, the woman who had just taken the money from the previous customer decides to just walk off as I’m trying to get her attention. My food was sitting right there. So, I say «Excuse me, excuse me» to the man who has continued to have this personal conversation with the other gentleman and he ignores me. I repeated myself quite a few times and loud enough so I could get his attention. I then went back to the initial side of the counter and say «I have an order to pick up» pointing to where my food was. Can you believe he looked STRAIGHT AT ME and said nothing? I mean, we were looking eye to eye. Unbelievable. I went back to the other side and got another worker’s attention and she finally gave me my food. Because of this atrocious customer service, I will never set foot in this establishment again.
As for the food: The tostones were rock hard and the chicken was over salted. The only great thing was the hot sauce.

Excellent chicken (pollo) dishes & soups. Chibcha Morada purple corn drink reminds us of Peru.

#Bisteca
I’ll preface this by saying I am by no means an expert on Peruvian food. I’ve only tried it like 3 times. But, I know what I like, and I was able to find some of it here.
I’ll start with the good– server was super sweet and helpful. Restaurant was surprisingly busy for a random Tuesday so that was a good sign. I was overwhelmed by the menu so I went with what my friends had which was the steak with onions. For the price, it was a massive, juicy steak topped with onions and tomatoes and served alongside a mountain of white rice. I’ll get 2 – 3 meals out of it for sure. The green aji sauce was pretty good too. Not spicy, just kind of green. If I were Peruvian, I’d put that ish on everything.
Now, on to the not so good. See my disclaimer above, but I was not feeling the huancaina sauce on the potatoes and yuca we started out with. It seemed a little artificial and not like it was just whipped up in a blender. We also had white sangria, and I’m not exaggerating, the fruit in it was fruit cocktail. Like, grapes, pears, and whatever else in syrup.
Next time I’m in Passaic (for God knows what), I’ll stop by.

I stopped here because of the picture of papa a la huancaina which is exactly what I was looking for and THANK YOU to whoever posted that picture because I ordered to pick up on my way out of town and the papa a la huancaina was perfect. It had plenty of sauce like I liked, and it tasted delicious as it should, it was everything I hoped for. Yum!

Good Peruvian food at a modest price. The rotisserie chicken could be quiet dry at times. I frequent the El Chevere establishments 3 times a month for lunch. The Lexington Ave and Monroe Street restaurant gives better portions with much flavorful cooking.
Come dressed very casual, the decorum is laid back.

My favorite local Peruvian restuarant. The Pollo A La Brasa is the signature dish here, but their Chaufa, Llomo Saltado, and Jalea are also good. Ceviche’s are good but not the best I’ve ever had.
Pricing is good and service is very fast. As mentioned in some other reviews, every once in a while you may get a «dry» chicken but I go here every week and only happens about once ever few months.
The Aji and salad dressing are so good you can almost drink them lol

My friends and I are big fans of Peruvian food. Having been to Lima, Peru a few times I was amazed with the complexity and quality of the cuisine. There were plenty of five star spots there.
In the US, not so much. There are a few things from my perspective that will distinguish the real thing from the fakers.
1) Pollo La Brasa: Peruvians rock out a rotisserie chicken like nobodies business. In Lima, even the most average chicken spot surpasses 95% of the fakers here in the states. There is a specific spice and roasting component that makes the bird particularly tasty and succulent. Always moist (even the breast which is often a bit dry).
It is served with a side of a spicy thick green sauce that almost looks like avocado. It is to me what makes this dish. SLAMMIN! (A bit spicy for those sensitive to peppers).
2) Lomo Saltado: This is a great example of chinese influence on latin cooking. tender beef tenderloins sauteed with red onions, tomatoes, soy and other sauces, served over rice and fries (a lot of double starches in Peru). I am not a fan of such dishes personally but this one knocked me on my ass. VERY GOOD, smoky juicy flavors.
El Chevere delivered the goods here for us and I have been back a few times. I was very pleased with the consistency of the quality of the food.
It will be a permanent option in my repertoire of food spots. The location may be an issue for some but i am not hood squeamish so for me its GREAT!
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I’d come back here only a weekend where the turn over of food is fresher.
Stick to the roasted chicken.
Don’t be a fool and order the cilantro seafood soup like I did. The green base/​broth is not fresh.
They do take CC.

So there are multiple Chevere locations, this location is the only one that serves Ceviche. My fiancée & I came here for that reason, not expecting everything else to be awesome too.
It’s a large restaurant and even on a warm Monday evening it was still 40% full, so that’s a good sign. We ordered 2 purple corn sodas, super sweet and refreshing; the Ceviche Mixto, great flavor and freshness, enough for 4 people to share; Chaufa de Carne fried rice, perfect texture, not too oily, great flavors; the Bistek a la Chorrillana, but instead of beef we got chicken, great flavor and texture, the chicken was perfectly cooked that came with a choice of side, so we got the sweet plantains, AWESOME!!!
Overall great place to eat. The service is great, everyone is very helpful and attentive. The food came out within 15 mins after we ordered, which was awesome. We will most likely have leftovers for the next few days, which is even better!