Type: Seafood counter (cevichería)
District: Surquillo
Hours: Lunch only
Payment: Cash

A counter on Angamos, not a dining room

Al Toke Pez opened in 2011 on the eighth block of Av. Angamos Este, in Surquillo. It's a seafood bar in the literal sense: a counter with room for ten or twelve people (the first version fit six), and a kitchen you can see from your stool. The cook behind it is Tomás Matsufuji, who buys whatever the sea sends that day and builds the menu around it.

No reservations, no parking, and the smoke extraction isn't great. People queue anyway.

Ceviche, sudado, and the combinado

The board changes with the catch, but the regulars are ceviche, a sudado (fish stewed in an onion-and-tomato broth), chilcano (a light fish broth), arroz con mariscos and fried mixed seafood. The combinado, a plate with a bit of several of those, is what most people order the first time.

If you don't eat seafood, there's nothing here for you.

How much

When El Comercio's critic Paola Miglio reviewed it in 2017, the combinado was S/17, the chilcano S/5, and the average ticket about S/25 a person. Prices have moved since, so take those as the order of magnitude: this is a cheap lunch, and it's cash only.

Going there

  • Address: Av. Angamos Este 886, Surquillo.
  • Hours: lunch only, roughly noon to 15:30. Arrive early; once the fish runs out, the day's over.
  • Payment: cash.

Miglio gave it 16/20 and complained about the same things you'll notice: the smoke, and combination plates that don't always land at the same time. What the review praised was the fish: whatever the boats brought that morning, and nothing else.

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