About Ají & Limón, a Peruvian kitchen in Adelaide
A Peruvian restaurant on Henley Beach Road, Brooklyn Park, cooking the flavours of Lima for Adelaide and for everyone who misses home.
Our name
Chilli, lime and everything in between
Ají is the Peruvian chilli: golden ají amarillo, smoky ají panca, fiery rocoto. It gives our food warmth and colour. Limón is the lime that "cooks" a ceviche in minutes and wakes up every dish.
Together they sum up how we cook: bright, generous and full of flavour. Our kitchen covers the Peru we grew up with, from the coast's ceviches to the criollo dishes of Lima's home kitchens and the Chinese-Peruvian wok.
Our dining room is warm and simple, with wooden tables, Peruvian art and room for long family lunches. It's a place to eat well, celebrate and feel at home.
Peruvian cuisine
One country, many kitchens
Peruvian food blends Andean ingredients such as potatoes, corn and ají chillies with Spanish, African, Chinese and Japanese influences. You'll taste all of them on our menu.
The coast
Fresh seafood and lime: ceviche, leche de tigre, jalea and parihuela.
Criollo
Lima's home cooking: ají de gallina, seco con frejoles, causa and tamales.
Chifa
Chinese-Peruvian wok cooking: lomo saltado and arroz chaufa.
Nikkei
Japanese-Peruvian fusion, like our makis acevichados.
The Andes
Native ingredients: yellow potato, Peruvian corn and lúcuma.
First time eating Peruvian?
What to order at a Peruvian restaurant
- You love seafoodCeviche carretillero
Fish "cooked" in lime, topped with crispy chicharrón.
- You prefer meatLomo saltado
Peru's best-known stir-fry, where wok cooking meets Peruvian beef.
- You want a starter shotLeche de tigre
The zesty ceviche juice in a glass.
- You want comfort foodAjí de gallina
Creamy, mild and golden.
- You're feeding kidsMostrito or salchipapa
Broaster chicken or sausages with chips.
- You saved roomTres leches or lúcuma
Our most-loved desserts.
Peruvian food glossary
- Ají amarillo
- Peru's golden chilli: fruity and warm rather than fiery.
- Leche de tigre
- "Tiger's milk": the citrus, chilli and fish marinade of a ceviche.
- Chaufa
- Peruvian fried rice from chifa, the Chinese-Peruvian kitchen.
- Criollo
- Home-style dishes from Lima and the coast.
- Cancha & choclo
- Toasted corn kernels and giant-kernel Peruvian corn, served with ceviche.
- Lúcuma
- An Andean fruit with a caramel-like flavour, loved in desserts.
Community
A meeting point for Peru in Adelaide
From Fiestas Patrias to Inti Raymi, our celebrations bring together the Peruvian and Latin American community and everyone curious about our food.
- 17K+
- people follow our kitchen on Instagram
- 4
- Peruvian celebrations a year with set menus
- Live
- Peruvian music on celebration nights
- 2
- languages spoken: English and Spanish
Reservations
Book your table, ¡buen provecho!
Shop 10, 329 Henley Beach Road, Brooklyn Park. Book by WhatsApp or phone. We'll confirm your table.