Casa Coya in Reynoldstown bills itself as a steakhouse, but Rough Draft Atlanta's dining team says you should focus on the Nikkei (Japanese-Peruvian) dishes. Their hamachi tiradito landed on the publication's March best dishes list.
The $26 dish features paper-thin slices of raw hamachi marinated in citrusy leche de tigre (tiger's milk), topped with charred avocado, chalaquita onions, and crispy sweet potatoes. It's a stunning plate that showcases the fusion cuisine that developed when Japanese immigrants arrived in Peru in the mid-19th century.
Casa Coya also does chaufa (Peruvian fried rice) and other Chinese-Peruvian dishes well. The steaks are fine, but the kitchen really shines when working with seafood and the immigrant culinary traditions that define modern Peruvian cooking.
