Chicharron De Mariscos
Raymi

Raymi

43 W. 24th St. New York, NY 10010, 10010-2748, United States

Wine • Tapas • Coffee • Peruvian


"We went with high expectations hoping to find a place as good as Brooklyn’s Llama Inn in Manhattan but came out very disappointed. Maybe they were overwhelmed because of Restaurant Week. We had booked a standard dining table for pm which was not available when we got there. At pm they offered us seats at the high tables. When we pointed out that OpenTable lets you select which type of seating you prefer, first they tried to argue that that was not true and then finally moved us to the dining room.Service in the dining room was mediocre. Our water glasses were not refilled, I finished a cocktail with the appetizer and asked to see the wine list to order wine for the rest of the meal, somebody brought the list and the waiter never came to take the wine order. They never took the list or the empty cocktail glass off the table. The dining room was very full and it looked like there was only one waiter available so he clearly could not keep up.The food was OK not great. We ordered ceviche which was bland and crispy dumplings which were good except that the sauce was salty to the point of being inedible. For entrees we ordered the seafood risotto, which was the best dish of the evening, and the arroz con pato, recommended by the waiter and also quite bland and flavorless.The quinoa brownie desserts were entirely forgettable.So we are back to trekking to Brooklyn for great Peruvian food"

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu

315 S Polk St, Pineville, United States Of America, 28134

Soup • Fish • Meat • Seafood


"This place was a disappointment. I visited with family for Mother's Day and the experience was definitely underwhelming and we really wished we had gone somewhere else. First for food, the flavor was decent but it's so overpriced. I ordered a Jalea, and for $20+ I expected a great Jalea... instead got a few small pieces of fish and some pieces of Yuca. They gave me fried fish strips and called it Jalea. I could've gotten a MUCH better serving of fried fish at Showmars for $8 For service, this was plain terrible. They seated us and never brought over any menus, we kept waiting and no server was paying any attention. We had to get up and ask them for menus. Then we kept waiting and waiting for someone to come over and take our order... they didnt, we had to get up and ask them to come take our order. For atmosphere, the location itself was a normal decent restaurant. However, they had a live singer singing to music tracks. The music was SO loud we couldn't have a conversation because we had to keep screaming over the music. It was so loud, we had to wait in between songs to get a word in. I know live music is great, but it can be great without be ridiculously loud. Also,the singer would go to each table and sang an entiiiire song. It felt like he wouldn't leave unless you gave him a tip, if felt so uncomfortable, like when someone comes up to you on the road asking for money and they're just looking at you in your car... same experience. We even said thank you and gestured with a smile during the first couple of verses to acknowledge him... but then he just stayed singing. About midway through the song we gave him a tip, hoping that would cue him to go to the next table but he stayed there singing the whole thing. It was awful."