Excellent food and service! Will definitely come again! Really enjoyed the live music on Saturday!

Peruvian food done right is my favorite. They have an amazing ceviche and the rotisserie chicken with plantains is my go to with a side of their black beans. Great service and great food. read more

I ordered Ceviche mixt and really disappointed, the food was overwhelmed with lemon juice, I could hardly eat it and my teeth got sensitive, I had a bed experience with this place, when I told the waiter about it, he just told me he was sorry but didn't offer to fix the problem and walked to the back. I don't know if I ordered the wrong dish and I don't think if I will fuve it another try. read more

The service was ok but the food was poor. My friend had the fried seafood and was really disappointed. The seafood tasted like those frozen seafood packs at the grocery store. Nothing was fresh, everything tasted the same fried and overcooked. I had friend fish with yellow sauce and rice. The fish didnt flaked and tasted spongy. The sauce was good but we couldnt get pass the horrific seafood. So we asked for a doggy bag after 3 bites and put it in the garbage on our way out. read more

Great spot if you're hungry for hearty Peruvian fare! We had a delicious and moist tamal with a yummy onion salsa, followed by aguadito de pollo (chicken and rice soup with lime, carrots, peas and hominy). Main courses of lomo saltado and aji de gallina were good sizes and very flavorful...just like Peru. Daughter enjoyed salchipapas (fries and hot dogs) and chicha morada drink. Wish we had saved room for milhojas or alfajores for dessert but maybe next time...we'll be back. read more

I would have given it a 4 stars but the place looks like an old rundown bar and restaurant in a shady part of town. Dark and dimly lit interior, old dark-stained country style tables and chairs that has seen better days. It seems like this restaurant is alive with latin dancing at night as there seems to be a large dancefloor. The food is nice though. read more

Very good Peruvian food with melt in your mouth chicken. This was a wonderful dinner after a long day at Carowinds.

I think every person who works in this restaurant should learn how to speak english! after all they are located in America. I wanted to try their food since their menu looks good but when I called the guy does not understand english at all. I wonder how many customers they lost because of this read more

I'm a huge fan of Peruvian ceviche and so far this is the only place I've come across in Charlotte that has it. While it doesn't quite compare to the adventurous takes on ceviche that I'd find in a Miami restaurant, they have the basics down solid & it more than satisfies my cravings. If you've never tried ceviche, the idea of it might put you off but it's well worth trying & sharing. The Papa a la Huancaina (potatoes with a cheese sauce) appetizer is another simple yet tasty dish - also a great vegetarian choice. read more

Best Peruvian here in Charlotte thus far. Even Better than the place I ate at in Miami! I have went back twice. Service is kind of slow they don't really pay you much attention but the food is worth it... Piña colada is amazing read more

We went there with a Groupon, we were really impressed, we had the stuffed potato with beef it was delicious, The portions were very generous and the food was pretty good, I will be going back again. read more

This place is awesome! Drinks are good prices and well made, food was so fresh an yummy, service was so friendly and welcoming. Best food I have had in a while a chain restaurant has nothing on this place, Definitely coming. Back soon read more

We went for lunch and used a restaurant.com certificate. We would not have ventured to eat here otherwise. We were pleasantly surprised at how busy the place was on a Saturday afternoon. The service was great and the food was outstanding. we had a shrimp dish for an appetizer and fish and chicken for our meals. The taste and presentation was great. My husband raved about the 1/4 chicken that he had. We will be back. read more

The ambiance and look of the place is very nice, clean open space. Ordered the Tallarin Verde, Bistec a la pobre, an order of yuca bread, and a cup of Chicha which is an ethnic Peruvian Drink. So lets begin with the Tallarin Verde, the flavor was good, but the type of pasta used was not my favorite and a bit on the soggy side, they add chicken to it but, I do not like meat. The Bistec a la Pobre looked decent, but the taste tester (yeah, im so fancy, I have taste testers) Subject stated the Bistec or the steak was not good, actually on the hard to chew side and lacking in flavor. The rice was not very nice on the palate, either. The only good things were the french fries and the fried plantains. Moving on to the Yuca bread, that is the reason why I might come back to this place, only for the Yuca bread, hmmm nummy! Hey you got something right! The Chicha was pretty good, but come on, if you can't make Chicha, then there is no way you are a true Peruvian Restaurant. read more

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The food might be good but the wait time is atrocious, no one checks on you to see how many people are in your party when you walk in. I have literary been standing here for 25 minutes and the hostess has not acknowledged me. Horrible, when I told the host that no one had talked to me in 30 minutes he rolled his eyes! Hire more people or train your hostess better. read more

Called , placed the order I wanted and confirmed my food at 11 . ( closes @12) while I was outside the restaurant the whole time . The waitress said I'll call you in 15 mins for your order when it's ready . 30 mins passed and nothing . Waitresses started leaving and my husband decides to go in and ask about our order and the waitress said we never made the food because the orders were wrong and lied about calling me 3 times when they never did and if the order was wrong she could've told me thru the phone instead of saying ok ok ok like wow and the thing was bugs me is it was all a lie becuase they wanted to leave already and be lazy and not make any food. I'm definitely not wasting any more money here. read more

Food and rice cold nasty they dont know how to do dishes that good overly priced also never again me and my whole family went here was throwing up for week stay away trust me if i can give it 0 stars i would read more

The 1/2 chicken was amazing. So flavorful. I would come back to this restaurant for the Black beans alone. Slightly salty, but it went well with the chicken. For the appetizer, try the grilled octopus. I will definitely be coming back to this restaurant. read more

Best roasted chicken ever. Plantains are just right too! Service is always quick and friendly, great restaurant! read more

My bf and I were driving by and randomly decided to try Machu Picchu. This is my first time ever writing a review, but had to because I was so impressed!! I ordered the ceviche and it was amazing!! We spoke to the server about all of the food we ordered and the owner even came out to talk to us about it. The service and the food were outstanding. Our server was very friendly and I was impressed the owner came out to talk to us. He spent at least 10 minutes at our table talking about different dishes and how they prepare the food (my boyfriend is a big foodie and had a lot of ?'s). As I came on here to write this review, I read another one that said the ceviche was terrible. I don't know if they went in on a bad day or I went on a good day, but the ceviche was the best I've ever had! The server also told us that people come in all the time for the ceviche! My boyfriend had some sort of steak with eggs on top. I forget what else, but we enjoyed everything we ordered. We decided we will definitely be going here again soon! read more

Great service, delicious food. Wished this place was in the triad....must try!

Out of all the Peruvian spots in Charlotte this has to be my favorite. Incredible seasoning. Huge portions at a not so huge cost. Only thing I didnt like, and Im nitpicking here, it seems a bit dark and gloomy on the inside. The staff is great, I just mean the lighting. But who cares right? As long as my belly is happy. read more

I honestly love the food here but what kills me is the lack of structure on running the restaurant and customer service here at this establishment. My boyfriend and i have been long time customers of this restaurant from the days when they were located off of E Independence and have always loved their food. However after my past few dining experiences here haven't been the greatest so I'm going to back off for a bit. What brought it home for me on backing off of this place was when i went to grab lunch last Sunday there with my girlfriends. We walk in the doors and the front lobby was packed full of people. There was no hostess to be found anywhere to even help direct the traffic of people. Everyone was scattered everywhere just anxiously waiting to be seated or have their name put down on a wait list. Hell no one knew where the line began or ended, people were just making their own lines. From the time i walked in to the time i finally got to put my name down on a wait list was literally about 10 mins of just waiting for a hostess to greet us. The hostess was fine with my group, but i watched her interactions with other customers and it made me cringe. She was rude and would have an attitude towards them. We were told it'll be a 25 min wait which ended up being 45 mins but who's keeping count haha. I could tell the frustration grew with other clients as well because the hostess would come out and then go missing for long periods of time. Some people weren't even greeted as they were standing there waiting and waiting. Again no form of structure and it drives me off the walls because i come from working in restaurants. It's just unprofessional and poor customer service. For the 45 mins that i waited to be seated, I literally watched people walk in and walk out because again no staff to be found to greet them or inform them of what's going on. I would see them stand there for 5 to 10 mins and then just walk out because they couldn't deal with the madness Fast forwarding to when we finally get seated, our "hostess" ended up also being our server which was just madness to me. Hence why she would go missing for long periods of time since she was "hostessing" and "serving". On that note, service was just slow, our orders got messed up. My girlfriend and i spoke up and our server/hostess had the audacity if we still wanted our order corrected. I was just so taken back by the ignorance. Again, i dont necessarily take the mentality that the customer is always right but seriously?!?! If you made the mistake then fix it, point blank. I just couldn't believe she was seriously asking my girlfriend if she still wanted her side that she didn't receive. Like hello we're paying for it and if we ordered it then yes i would like what we ordered. As i keep repeating just the lack of customer service kills me. Anywho, it was 2 hr lunch that was honestly a waste of time. I wish i listened to my gut and had gone elsewhere to dine cause honestly all we received was ok food and hands down horrible customer service. They have some serious issues to work on so until they get all their kinks worked out, I'm backing the hell off for a long while on dining here. read more

All i wanted was a table for two for the independence day of Peru (july 28) so knowing it would be busy, we called to make reservations and got a "oh just come and we will seat you itll be fine" answer only to drive to the restaurant and be told that there was no more space and that nobody was leaving because of the show that they were going to have so they couldnt sit us... When on the phone they said it would be fine. Also saw an officer standing waiting for someone to place his take out order and one person asked if he had been helped which to he said no.. And was told that the hostess would attend him.. Which she didnt, and he ended up leaving. i get that its a big event, but the people here obviously dont know what's going on around them while they're super busy read more

I went today to have lunch/dinner in a nice sitting place with a nice service; I got all the above but I ordered a 1/4 of rotisserie chicken and surprise I got a baby chicken like a dove, I complained with my very sweet and nice server and nothing happened from the manager to fix the situation; I paid the money for it and I also ordered a chicken Peruvian soup and this one came way back after I almost finish eating the very small bird. Poor management. I avoid going to Viva chicken or any Colombian rotisserie restaurant just to have a different dining experience and I did not get it. Total disappointment with the Machu Pichu Peruvian rotisserie chicken. read more

One side of my family is Peruvian, so I'm no stranger to this cuisine. After changes they've made during the past year or so, this place is by far my favorite for traditional Peruvian. Our party sampled several items, including roasted chicken, lomo saltado, maduros (plantains), and the best yucca (fried) I've had at any Peruvian restaurant anywhere. Try this place! read more

The worst service I have ever had in a restaurant! The waiter took ten minutes to get to us, the food came out cold because he was too busy, another waitress brought it out, I asked for a refill it did not happen, the manager was concerned asked who my waiter was and still no results. Getting the check was a task itself, I had to get up and ask the other waitress could you please get my check. Finally he came and delivered it. When he gave me the check he tried to slip a fast one and put a more expensive dish on the check to bump the automatic added gratuity on the check. What restaurant automatically adds gratuity for a $30 meal? So yeah I caught it, I maybe white looking but I speak Spanish buddy. Def heard your little "gringo" comment as I left the restaurant too. Growing up in New York and eating at all the authentic Peruvian restaurants in North Jersey, place is nowhere near as good. Best of luck and I will never return! read more

Reasonable prices, nice atmosphere, out-of-this-world food. I was unfamiliar with most of the Peruvian dishes and ingredients, but you can't go wrong with this menu. The next time I'm in town I want to come back to this restaurant. read more

This was my First time eating Peruvian food in Charlotte. My mother is Peruvian so I always have the taste for it. It was great! I ordered papa la huancaina and lomo saltado. The food was very flavorful, I will definitely be back. read more

Food was excellent. Service was a bit sketchy, but they were super busy. I would certainly go back. The aji de pollo was amazing as was the ceviche. read more

The waiter's English was so poor that he could not understand our request for a drink menu, which we retrieved from the bar ourselves. Then he could not understand my order (Pino Grigio), even after my husband accompanied him behind the bar to point the bottle out. I finally ordered a beer since he seemed to understand that. When I later asked for a glass of water I received just that: a glass of water. No ice. Later I noticed the couple behind us being delivered their entrees. The woman waited a few minutes then called her waitress over. It turned out she had received my meal. Which was then removed from her table and then delivered to me. Unsanitary. Later we had to ask three times before receiving our check. Finally it arrived, and our plates, along with my unfinished drink, were removed. I had to yell across the room to ask the waiter to return my drink. Horrible experience. read more

Worst dining experience I've ever had. Went for Mother's Day. Tried to call ahead, but they would not take a reservation. On the way in, a guy tried to warn us to go somewhere else. We should have listened. With a party of 10, we waited an hour. No big deal. After we were seated, we sat for 30 minutes before someone came to get our drink order. We tried ordering a bottle of wine. The waitress dissapeared for 15 minutes then came back to say there were no more bottles of any red wine and they could only do by the glass.... why put it on the menu? We put in our food order. We got one dish at a time spaced over a period of three hours. By the time the last dish arrived, everyone else had already eaten long ago. One dish and one appetizer never came. My plate was decent but I really didn't even care what it tasted like after waiting three hours. It wasn't good enough to be memorable. The check took forever to come. The kids in our party were running around screaming by the end and we let them do it hoping it would hurry up the waitress. Had to ask for silverware. Had to adk for a pen to sign the check. Drinks never refilled. Waitress looked miserable and never smiled. Never offered to comp anything or even give an explanation for why everything took so long... 4 1/2 hours total. I could have gone grocery shopping, gone home, cooked for everyone, and cleaned up in half the time for half the price. Absolutely horrible. read more

The waiter's English was so poor that he could not understand our request for a drink menu, which we retrieved from the bar ourselves. Then he could not understand my order (Pino Grigio), even after my husband accompanied him behind the bar to point the bottle out. I finally ordered a beer since he seemed to understand that. When I later asked for a glass of water I received just that: a glass of water. No ice. Later I noticed the couple behind us being delivered their entrees. The woman waited a few minutes then called her waitress over. It turned out she had received my meal. Which was then removed from her table and then delivered to me. Unsanitary. Later we had to ask three times before receiving our check. Finally it arrived, and our plates, along with my unfinished drink, were removed. I had to yell across the room to ask the waiter to return my drink. Horrible experience. read more

I am Peruvian, born and raised, and I was craving a ceviche, so I decided to go to this place for the first time. I've never had a ceviche that was so tasteless, the fish was cut into very small pieces and it was lacking that kick, the combination of acidity and spice, that is basic when you eat a decent ceviche. Very disappointing. We were offered some free yuca tempura-style fries at the beginning, that apparently were heated in a microwave since they had the texture of a piece of chewing gum. My friend had a seafood chaufa, which had pieces of uncooked rice and it was not even appealing to the eye. Please don't go to this place if you appreciate good food! I just moved from California where there are several good options for Peruvian restaurants (even though they are never like the ones in Peru); unfortunately, there are not many options around the area that serve fine and a more variety of Peruvian dishes. I hope this changes in the near future. read more

Delicious tamal and spicy sweet sauce, served with pleasant smiles. Wish I could afford to try the whole menu it looks delicious but it averages $12-15 a plate. The staff was polite and aimed to please, will definitely head back to enjoy that exotic Peruvian cuisine! read more

The lomo saltado was phenomenal. The service was prompt, efficient and friendly. I will do it again soon.

Some of the best food I've had in a LONG LONG time!! Very Latin America atmosphere which is nice and they start you off with fried corn to munch on while you decide which awesome entree you'll be eating. They have a ton of different options to choose from but the potatoes and rice are consistent with almost all the meals. I give 4 stars because me and my girl friend came here for Valentine's Day dinner which I thought would be a great idea because they're kind of hidden away in pineville and didn't think it would crazy busy. I was right about them not being crazy busy but unfortunately they were crazy slow. Took an hour to get our appetizer and about 30 more minutes after that to get our food when parties of 4 that were seated after us were getting their food way before us.. Just didn't make sense. They still receive 4 stars because the food is amazing here there is no denying that, but the service side has A LOT of room for improvement. Received a free 3 dollar dessert for the wait (which wasn't enough in my opinion) but it is what it is. Maybe I'll do carry out next time and we'll see how that goes! read more

Ordered grill salmon. Disappointed. Salmon is not fresh and over cooked and dry. Not worth the price even with Groupon.

The staff was very friendly and the food was really good. I would recommend the fried fish or the lomi saltado.

We had a great experience dining here. The food was affordable, delicious and authentic (we showed the menu a Peruvian friend for confirmation, who is a regular at their Chicago restaurant ). The atmosphere was very much Peruvian. The fish in particular was incredibly soft and fresh. It was a great success with our daughter who is a picky eater these days. We received fantastic service. Would definitely return and highly recommend. read more