A call to Picca last night mentioned that as of this coming Sunday, the restaurant would be “closed for renovation” for an undisclosed amount of time. That’s usually industry parlance for a true ...

Ricardo Zarate, the Peruvian chef who went from running a lunch counter at Mercado La Paloma to running three highly rated restaurants, has been kicked out of those eateries, according to a report in ...

Zarate's Picca may be this country's most perfect expression of upscale Peruvian, a glorious merging of the lime-, coconut- and potato-heavy cuisine of Peru with the loud, fun, bar-driven culture of L ...

Anticuchos are prepared behind an open glassed-in kitchen around which a dozen or so seats are positioned, allowing diners the option to eat and watch the kitchen show. As for design, Deborah Gregory ...

For those who’ve been tracking the progress of Ricardo Zarate’s new restaurant, Picca, with the intensity of lion stalking a wounded gazelle, we’re happy to report that a taste of Zarate’s signature ...

If you look at restaurants as movies, and sometimes it's hard not to, Picca is one of those places whose trailers seem to have been running forever. There's Mo-Chica, of course, where Ricardo Zarate ...

Matthew Kang is a correspondent for Eater. Previously, he was the lead editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. He has covered dining, restaurants, food culture, and nightlife in Los ...