Lola’s Peruvian - Glendale

After reading the reviews I had to come here. My first exposure to Peruvian cuisine is through Mark Weins YouTube and IG channel 'Migrationology ' . In particular, Peruvian ceviche, which looks different from the standard Mexican ceviche that I love so much. I found this place which was walking distance from my office, and got here early. Matter of fact, on a weekday around 11:45AM, I was the first one in. I was pleasantly greeted by a server named Jared who was super friendly and outgoing. Another gentlemen brought me some olive garden style bread sticks, and 2 dipping sauces. One sauce was a mayonnaise mixture that was delicious. The other was a green sauce that had the tiniest bit of heat. I ordered the ceviche mixto, which was one of two available ceviches on their lunch menu which was cheaper than their dinner menu. $12.99 versus $15.99 I believe. My food came out in about 7 minutes, but I was still the only on in the store. My first mouthful of ceviche was pure Bliss. I had a piece of white fish, a Kerbal of roasted corn, a sliver of red onion, and a bit of the 'leche de tigre ' which is the sauce mixture of lime/lemon/seasoning dripping off the seafood. The dish actually comes with both steamed corn kernels, and roasted corn kernels, to add a bit of starch to the fresh seafood. Also on my plate was a dollar pancake sized cut of sweet potato, also steamed to perfection. It was a perfectly sweet starchy addition to an otherwise very clean, citrusy refreshing dish. I did get an additional 2 breadsticks to go with my plate of seafood, which was just an amazing combination. The 2 dipping sauces, the soft bread, the clean and crisp smelling and tasting seafood , the brightness of the red onions, the crunch and aroma of the corn kernels, all added up to one of my favorite lunches I 've ever had on Brand Blvd. And since I work here, I literally eat at every establishment south of the 134 down to the Americana on Brand. I found a winner here. 5 stars.

Generally good food but bad service. We were waiting 10 minutes before somebody asked us for drinks. There was not a lot of people and enough servers. Before we got 4 bread sticks, this time we came only 2 bread sticks. Management definitely is trying to save when the prices per dish are extremely high. I don’t think that’s a good business strategy and it’ll come back around

Ceviche plate got smaller while the price got higher, I came in 2021 was given a generous plate. Yesterday there was more corn then ceviche we are Peruvian ourselves so we were offended by the quality of the ceviche.

Great Peruvian cuisine in a nice setting. The staff was friendly and accommodating. I had the beef saltado and recommend it; my friend had the seafood(fish) saltado and also enjoyed it.

We went to celebrate my friend's bday on Halloween weekend. We had a great time, the severs were dressed up adding to the fun vives. The food was good, a bit better than ok, but not the most delicious I have had, I think the service was missing the punch, Peruvian ceviche can be delicious, the one I had was just ok. I also tried the Lomo slatado, it was good too. The service was lacking, we all got our meals at different times. Overall, I will give it another try.