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But then you’d be missing the excellent causas, cold terrines of cooked, mashed potato layered with various fillings: tuna salad, shrimp. You could easily, happily order them all and a few pisco sours and call it a night. The co-owners of Celeste: JuanMa Calderón and Maria Rondeau. The dish reflects the influence of Japanese immigrants on Peruvian food, which resulted in the country’s nikkei cuisine (“nikkei” means Japanese ancestry). Tiradito de atún is essentially Peruvian-style tuna sashimi, the crimson fish served over avocado with a soy-based sauce, sprinkled with sesame seeds and topped with arugula, beside dots of ají amarillo on the plate. Then there’s a crudo of scallops, sliced thin, swimming in that tart ceviche juice and sprinkled with herbs. (You can also order it hot, in which case it will be made with the spicier rocoto pepper.) First try the version with mixed seafood - blue cod, shrimp, and tender rings of squid, artfully piled with slivers of red onion, bites of sweet potato, and kernels of Peruvian corn, some boiled, some toasted for crunch. It’s bright and refreshing, with a mellow heat from the Peruvian chile ají amarillo. It is certain that your meal must begin with ceviche, the definitive Peruvian dish of seafood “cooked” in citrus juice that is the cornerstone of the menu. The couple had never run a restaurant before, but they knew they could handle feeding that many. There the table, with extensions, accommodates 24. For the last few years, before opening Celeste (pronounced as it is in Spanish: Ce-les-tay) in March, Calderón and Rondeau ran a pop-up restaurant in their home. There is an open kitchen with chef Calderón at the stove, a small bar, a line of little tables, just 24 seats in all. The white walls are decorated with artworks and an aqua neon logo, a soccer match projected onto one.

It feels so intimate in part because of the size: The Union Square spot is 600 square feet. Here, it’s an expansive definition, a place where extremely interesting people continually rotate through, something good is bubbling on the stove, and there is always a bottle of wine ready to be opened. I’m fairly sure a version of this sentence will appear in anything written about the restaurant. The article says of the Bow Street eatery, "hospitality and home entertaining merge into an instant and intimate bash" and dinner there "is the most fun you'll have anywhere within twenty miles of Boston."Ĭeleste, which opened in March of this year, is known in part for its Peruvian fare along with its focus on the surrounding community including collaborations with local musicians and artists.įor a complete look at Esquire's list of best new restaurants for 2018, please go to the link below:Įsquire's Best New Restaurants in America, 2018įollow us on Twitter at Please join the Friends of Boston's Hidden Restaurants Facebook Group Page to get more info on dining spots and also chat with others about Boston-area restaurants.In more than one way, a meal at Celeste feels like eating in the home of partners JuanMa Calderón and Maria Rondeau. A popular men's magazine has posted its picks for best new restaurants in the United States for 2018, and a dining spot in Somerville has been included.Īccording to the article, Esquire Magazine has picked Celeste in Somerville's Union Square as one of the best new restaurants in the country, placing it at number 5 among the 20 mentioned.