Peruvian restaurants have been popping up across the San Francisco Bay Area with delicious frequency, offering happy diners the splendid prospect of enjoying a Pisco sour, skewered anticuchos, empanadas and more nearly everywhere. These are some of our restaurant critics’ favorites.

La Costanera, Barranco and Parada

Chef Carlos Altamirano’s Peruvian restaurant empire has expanded across the Bay Area’s dining scene over the last several years, from Montara’s seaside La Costanera to Lafayette’s bustling new Barranco, Walnut Creek’s Parada and more. Tucked on the beach near Half Moon Bay, La Costanera offers ocean views along with its anticuchos, lomo saltado and the divine adobo. You’ll find those dishes — including the meltingly tender adobo, a Snake River pork shoulder braised in a Cusqueña-aji panca base — at Barranco and Parada, too.

Details: Find La Costanera at 8150 Highway 1, Montara; lacostanerarestaurant.com. Barranco is at 3596 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette; barrancokitchen.com. Parada is at 7001 Sunne Lane, Walnut Creek; paradakitchen.com.

Limon Rotisserie

With two constantly-packed restaurants in San Francisco and a third, which opened in Burlingame last year, it was high time for executive chef Martin Castillo’s sensational Limon to arrive in the East Bay. The newest Limon — in downtown Walnut Creek — has been a crowd fave it opened in July near the Lesher Center for the Arts. Don’t miss the Pollo A La Brasa, tender, juicy roast chicken served with an aji sauce or chimichurri.

Details: Find Limon Rotisserie at 1101 Burlingame Ave. in Burlingame and at 1524 Locust St. in Walnut Creek; www.limonrotisserie.com.

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San Francisco’s Town Hall restaurant pays tribute to Prudhomme’s culinary legacy Helmed by chef John Marquez — a native of Lima, Peru who has worked under culinary stars like Daniel Patterson and Thomas Keller — this new restaurant in Concord’s Todos Santos Plaza was worth the wait. Start with cebiche and perhaps some causa, delicate potato cakes topped with chicken, octopus or crab and seasoned with spicy aji amarillo and lime. And whatever you do, don’t miss the lomo soltado.

Details: 2151 Salvio St., Concord; www.limaconcord.com

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