andina restaurant

excellent food, and service. you must try the pisco sours. the prices are a little steep, but worth it. we have had lunch, and dinners there with no complaints.

have been a fan of peruvian food and been in many p. restaurants but this one was it. elegant looking and services but extremely friendly, attentive staff. the lay out allowed customer to see the kitchen and all activities there. beautiful!we walked in and were seated near the bar. beautiful! saw the female bar tender making mix drink non-stop literally which meant that the place did well. my mojito was excellent. the appetizer yellow potatoes with spicy tuna and crab meat and the lamb chop were...delicious, colorful, and beautiful. i wish i could try all the dishes there. menu was pretty long!

we had a super good experience here!!! the food was amazing, our server doreen was amazing, and the restaurant gave us tons of free food because they were a bit slow a couple times. i was surprised at how much i was able to eat!

had a fantastic night at andina's with delicious peruvian food. i was absolutely new to peruvian food and the server guided is well through the menu. the cocktails were interesting and fabulous! the food was even better. my favourite was fish ceviche and duck confit. reservations are highly recommended.

we finished off our portland trip at andina, a fantastic peruvian restaurant. it was happy hour so we were able to try some very interesting drinks including the sacsayhuaman, which was habanero pepper vodka with passionfruit and cane sugar, what a kick! the ron-yki-on was ginger rum with grapefruit, lime, and a cardamom-sugar rim, also fantastic. the pisco sour was lime, egg whites, bitters, and sugar, really fantastic. the empanadas were also on the happy hour menu and were some of the best empanadas i have ever had! the entrees and dessert were great as well. we were worried about not having reservations but were able to get our party of seven seated with just a couple minutes’ wait. highly recommend!

best peruvian food i've eaten outside of peru. excellent cebiche, seared tuna, pisco sour, and creme brûlée. we had great service, excellent atmosphere with live music.

andina. i have been reading all about this restaurant months before my trip to portland.

i know i want to come here: lunch, happy hour or dinner or whatever but my request fell into deaf ears... until the last day of my weekend in portland and my friend casually said oh andina is just down the street and we should go there!

made my reservation via opentable and 30 minute later, we were studying the menu and try to decide what to eat.....

everything?

i have to say andina's food are just so photogenic! the plating, the use of contrasting ingredients with different texture, the interesting combination of different colours! the taste is as interesting as the food looks!!

we shared:

anticucho de pulpo - grilled octopus kebobs w/chimichurri and caper majado de papa ($10.50)

anticucho de corazon - marinated beef heart kebobs w/spicy salsa de rocoto ($10.50)

solterito - yukon gold potato with green beans, fresh corn, cotija cheese, tomatoes ($10.50)

de pescado "5 elementos" ($17)

portion though small but they were really tapas dishes and i just love to have a bit of taste of everything!

service here was wonderful from the cheerful hostess that greeted us to the patience/helpful/charming server!

i will be back again! maybe for happy hour next time with or without my friend!

two hours after amtrak deposited team mago (amazingly on time) in the city of roses, we were seated in andina drinking chilean beer and oregon pinot while listening to our earnest waiter describe three different dipping condiments that came with the restaurant’s whole wheat and quinoa bread. it marked the start of a very nice lunch.
the bread was light, airy, and just slightly chewy. each dip was not only very nice by itself, but the sum was greater than the parts as they provided distinct contrasts. the jalapeno and mint puree (on the left) sported a very decent hit of heat that played nicely against the mango dip’s refreshing acidity. perhaps the most interesting condiment, however, was a rocoto (on the right, a peruvian pepper that provided subtle heat in addition to an interesting flavor profile) and peanut sauce thickened with breadcrumbs.

my previous encounters with peruvian cuisine stretch back a couple decades to el polo rico, a roasted chicken franchise that took northern virginia by storm in the 90s. their repertoire consisted of fairly good rotisserie chicken, steak fries, rice, and coleslaw served with jalapeno and mayonnaise sauces. none of this food was particularly peruvian, but the price was right and the staff spoke spanish (although i suspect most of them came from mexico and central america along with the rest of just about every commercial kitchen in the us). so i never felt the siren call of this incredible cuisine, until the 2014 winter tour rolled into the portland.

andina serves authentic traditional and novo-andean peruvian dishes that are from a completely different universe wherein the laws of culinary physics simply do not apply to cut rate rotisserie chicken purveyors that can be found in most of the world these days. the extensive sunday brunch menu listed 34 tapas and 13 entrees. we never got past the tapas, which can be ordered in small, medium, or large portions. we found that four small portion

wow this place is overrated. my pork was tough and bland. my guest's chicken was okay but he left most of the rest of the plate alone. we won't be going back.

we chose to join them for happy hour. not only can you partake in a few items at happy hour pricing, you can also order off the whole entire menu. kind of the perfect combo. we took advantage of the happy hour drinks and a few appetizers. from there we just started ordering. here is sampling of what we enjoyed. happy hour at andina needs to start with a habanero drink right?

horrible service experience ruined evening. our hotel recommended andina restaurant and we were excited to go from reading the reviews. we arrived on sunday, october 19th, at the time of our reservation and were promptly seated. after we ordered, we received our first courses and they were delicious. but then something happened. it was as if the service abruptly stopped. tables all around us who were seated after us were receiving their first courses, and finishing up their main (second) courses while we were sitting there waiting for our main courses to arrive. we couldn't even catch our server's eye to see what was happening. some tables were being cleared off for their dessert selections. after approximately 25 minutes i finally had to go up to the front desk and see what was happening with our meal. no explanation was given, but i was assured that our meals were on their way. our server finally brought out our main courses without any explanation whatsoever. by that time we were turned off by the whole experience. it was my husband's birthday and i had arranged a dessert with a candle to be delivered, but we didn't even feel like sticking around. we asked our server for the bill. he never came back. we had to go up to the front desk again to ask for and pay our bill. one of the managers gave us an adjusted bill. she took off the first round of drinks: one glass of wine and one iced tea. too little way too late as far as we were concerned. this was our last evening in portland and it was ruined by andina.

lunch at andina. as always, the food at andina was wonderful. i had a very tasty quinoa salad and, of course, had to have their pisco sour. had a table for two in the middle of the dining room which was a bit noisy but still, i and my companion were able to hear, so it was ok. only negative was a little confusion about service as it appeared that more than one waiter was serving our table - both were lovely and friendly and helpful but a few things seemed to fall through the cracks. nonetheless, i'll return whenever i have the chance.

amazing peruvian food!. we tried andina when in portland recently and what a place! we went to peru recently, so knew what to order and what to expect, and it did not disappoint. we are partial to peruvian food, one of the up-and-coming cuisines in the world, but what a place this is! this may have been one of the best restaurants we have been to in the last few years. the décor, the service and especially the food were spectacular. we wish we could eat there every month, but i guess that's one more reason to visit portland.

great experience and food. the service we received was phenomenal. my wife and i treated her sister, husband, and children to a nice meal, and andina delivered. my sister in law, who cannot have any gluten, was nearly in tears at the end of the meal as they have never eaten that well before; and because she cannot have gluten, was so shocked that food could be this good.

out of the 5-6 tapas that we shared, the only one i was not crazy about were the mussels; but that was more my fault. i love mussels, but the topping that it comes with had corn kernels in it, which i have never been fond of. everyone else at the table loved it though.

must try drink is the the one that has a habanero vodka base. phenomenal!

amazing food coupled with great service. priced reasonably - definitely will go back!