La Costena Restaurant Authentic Peruvian Cuisine

I highly recommend you stay away from this place. My family just went to this restaurant today and they tried to charge for an extra plate that they didn’t even order. They even tried to convince her that SHE was wrong and that she did order it (which they can clearly see on there table that they only had the ones they ordered). She asked for the receipt to see all the charges and at first they wanted to charge her right away. Come to find out they added a 20% tip on her check as well without her knowledge. They were refusing to give her a check until finally they gave up and gave her the check. They took out the extra plate that WAS NEVER ORDERED at least. Unfortunately, they made her pay for the 20% tip. We tip our servers every time we go out, but when that’s added on the check without our knowledge that’s what pissed me off. I’ve checked Yelp and other sites and there are others who’ve had the same issues with this restaurant. Also, we checked the menu and the door to see if the 20% was ever mentioned and it was not, nor was it mentioned to my family.

Service: 1

Authentic delicious Peruvian food. Diverse menu, family-owned.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

I live in Harrisburg, and every time we get to go to Lancaster we always try to make it to this restaurant! The food and the atmosphere is all amazing! The most delicious food ever 🇵🇪❤️

One of the best steaks I have ever had. Everything was incredible and the portions are huge!

Food is good. Not much option for Peruvian food.

Great food

Service is slow and poorly managed. Food was great!

I loved the traditional ceviche here, but the other food I've had (I usually get seafood) is not fresh which makes everything taste off. As a chef myself, I'll also say that it's pretty bland and barely seasoned. It could be good if better seasoned and fresh. It's a bit expensive for the quality.

The food that is mentioned on the menu and what they actually serve you is not what is indicated. The seafood is not fresh that they use in the seafood rice and the smell was very bad.
The prices are definitely very high for the quality of service and food you get.
I only gave it one star to be able to submit this honest review.

And I have to add that the churrasco they indicate on the menu is not churrasco!! It was a different steak and it was not good quality especially for the price we paid....

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Flan, Arroz Chaufa De Mariscos, Coke Products, Tostones O Maduros

Papas rellenas, anticucho, and aji de gallina were incredible! A wonderfully established peruvian restaurant I will definitely be visiting again.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food taste vey authentic to me. If that’s important then this is place to try.

Food: 5

Enjoy your food, thank you

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

I love the poor-style steak and the ceviche, God, it's delicious.

Kid-friendliness: Everything is exquisite

Food: 5

Recommended dishes: Tacu Tacu, Ceviche de Pescado

I am a big fan of Peruvian food and every time I travel to other states I try to look for Peruvian restaurants because where I live there are none. We came to this place for lunch, a fairly simple little restaurant but it smelled like delicious food. The chicken was tasty, the ceviche spectacular but very small for the price and the seafood rice had a perfect flavor! The only thing I didn't like was that we ordered the appetizers, loin empanadas, which were very good, but they arrived after the main dishes. Everything was very delicious, the only thing is that I found the prices a little high, it was a small and quite simple place. But the important thing was the food, it was spectacular. We will definitely return there every time we visit Lancaster.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

The food was ok, but I ate in other peruvian restaurants that were much better. The place was nice, a little darker.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Kola Inglesa Y O Inca Kola 2l, Inca Kola 300 ml