Review on Casita Andina

Casita Andina is the latest offspring from Martin Morales set on Great Windmill Street in the heart of Soho, just minutes from Piccadilly Circus station. It joins a small stable of Peruvian restaurants that Morales has successfully established with Ceviche in Old Street and Soho, as well as Andina in Shoreditch. Billed as London's first picanteria which are cosy family run restaurants in Andinas that serve traditional Andean dishes and snacks.

Laid out over two floors, the ground floor has a ceviche counter with a takeaway area, a pisco bar and further seating towards the rear of the room. Upstairs is the main dining room which leads out onto a small turquoise open air terrace. The restaurant pays homage to Peru with specially commissioned Peruvian art and textiles displayed throughout the restaurant. Andean weaving and embroidery decorates the seating and carved cedar wood patterns feature on the doors, with walls displaying hand-crafted Peruvian tin mirrors and artworks.

The vibrant menu of Peruvian dishes are gluten free, ingredients are sourced with care and more than 90% comes from sustainable local produce, with less than 10% from organic fair trade produce from Peru, and meat is supplied from high welfare and Red Tractor affiliated farms.

Among the delights on offer there's British farmed trout, trout caviar, amarillo chilli tigers milk, violet potatoes and amaranth or maybe lamb sweetbreads, coriander and dark beer sauce, carapulcra potatoes and peanuts. Other options worth considering are skate wing, rocoto lasagna and fresco cheese or Annatto-marinated lamb sirloin, Andean uchucuta herbs, olluco Andean potato, and spicy cancha powder. To close the show the Peruvian Alto El Sol chocolate ball, elderberry gel and chocolate crumble is highly recommended.

The food is matched by a thoughtfully chosen wine list as well as Peruvian inspired cocktails, and their own exclusive beer created in collaboration with Islington-based Hammerton Brewery.

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Cuisine

Peruvian

Restaurant Opening Times

Lunch: 11.00am (10.00am Sat & Sun) through until
Dinner: 11.00pm (11.30pm Fri & Sat, 10.00pm Sun)

Accepted credit cards

Visa, Master Card

Online Booking Availability for Casita Andina

Facilities at Casita Andina

  • Childrens menu
  • Alfresco dining
  • 58 covers
  • Family Friendly

Address

Casita Andina
31 Great Windmill Street
Piccadilly
West London
W1D 7LP

Nearest tube station: Piccadilly Circus

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Casita Andina Sample Menu

SAMPLE ALL DAY MENU

NIBBLES
Cancha (v): Crunchy Peruvian corn 2.5 Torrejas (ve, gf): Carrot fritters, maca powder, avocado uchucuta 4 Yawar Croquettes (gf): Morcilla, yuzu mayonnaise, pickled chilli 4 Cruditos (ve, gf): Raw seasonal vegetables, ocopa sauce, viola flowers 5 Sabogal Duck Wings: With panca chilli BBQ sauce 8

CEVICHES & TIRADITOS
Beetroot Tiradito (ve, gf): Salt baked heritage beetroot, smoked tiger's milk, confit fennel and black quinoa 6 Artichoke Ceviche (ve, gf): Jerusalem and Globe artichoke,
Japanese sweet potato, Rocoto chilli tiger's milk, purple potato dust 6 Ceviche Andina (gf): Our much-loved sustainable sea bass ceviche, goldenberry, avocado, sweet potato, Amarillo chilli tiger's milk 10 Tuna Ceviche (gf): Yellowfin tuna, blood orange tiger's milk, avocado purée, heritage tomatoes 10.5 Scallop Tiradito (gf): King scallops, carrot miso tiger's milk, green chilli, pickled onions 11 Celador (gf) King prawns, Roscoff onions, green chilli, frisée lettuce, prawn tiger's milk 11

HOT KITCHEN
Ode to Corn (v): Corn steamed dumpling, choclo corn succotash, sweet kale pesto, crushed cancha corn 8 Tacu Tacu Quechua (v, gf): Braised aubergine, quinoa tacu tacu patty, crumbled feta 8 Puka Picante (v, gf): Olluco tubers, heritage purple potato, beetroot panca sauce, smoked fresco cheese, Huacatay herb 8 Pork Shambar: Pork belly, rich crackling, mixed pulses 8 Pato Santiago (gf): Panca chilli braised duck leg, butterbean and pumpkin purée, smoked shallot 12 Pulpo Chancón (gf): Grilled octopus, butterbean and lúcuma purée, spicy chancaca syrup, tomato and red onion salsa criolla 14 Green Cod (gf): Cod fillet, fish and herb broth, cauliflower purée, broad beans 14 Maca Lamb (gf): Marinated lamb loin, Uchucuta herbs, olluco potato, spiced cancha powder 14

SALADS & SIDES
Ocopa Chips (v, gf): Mixed heritage potato chips, ocopa herb and Amarillo chilli sauce 4 Broad Bean Causa (ve, gf): Rocoto potato mash, broad bean salsa, avocado purée 5 Field Salad (v): Corn varieties, braised radicchio, fennel shavings, wild rocket, rocoto dressing 6 Cantaloupe Salad (v): Chilli-pressed cantaloupe melon, black quinoa, almond and lemon vinaigrette, queso fresco, watercress 6

LUNCH SPECIALS

Locro and Brown Aromatic Rice (ve, gf): Peruvian olluco potatoes and butternut squash stew, brown aromatic rice, baby watercress 8 Celeriac Seco and Brown Aromatic Rice (ve, gf) Celeriac and panca chilli stew, Peruvian black olives, brown aromatic rice, celery cress 8

DESSERTS
Picarones Doughnuts (v): guilty-pleasure pumpkin doughnuts, sticky chancaca honey, vanilla ice cream
Pequen?o (2 doughnuts) / Grande (4 doughnuts)
5/9 Peruvian Ice Creams & Sorbets (v, gf) (3 scoops): please ask for our current flavours 5 Dulce de Papaya (ve, gf): Coconut cheese cream, poached papaya, nutty crumble 5.5 Strawberry and Avocado Pot (v, gf): Strawberry preserve, avocado cream, yacón Chantilly, lime meringue 6 Choco Sauco: Chocolate mousse, elderberry gel, chocolate rice puffs

Restaurant menus often vary from day to day, so the above should be treated as examples of what to expect in terms of cuisine and price.

Casita Andina Christmas Menu

Restaurant menus often vary from day to day, so the above should be treated as examples of what to expect in terms of cuisine and price.

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