Tuna and avocado, layered into a tall tartare, are a good starting point for a seafood meal at Piruw Grill. Add mixed ceviche and the order has a clear focus before you reach the restaurant’s longer list of grilled meats, stir-fries and rice dishes.
Piruw is at 12562 SW 120th Street in Kendall, in South Kendall Square. Keep the address in mind when planning the day: this is a restaurant for a meal in the southwest of Miami, with a Peruvian menu broad enough to accommodate a table that doesn’t all want the same thing.
Start here
Tuna tartare, with avocado between the layers
The Tuna Tartare combines diced raw tuna and avocado, finished with sauce and sesame seeds. The upright presentation keeps the two main ingredients distinct. Take a forkful through the layers to bring them together.
Choose it as a shared appetizer before the ceviche, or make it one part of a table of seafood dishes. It keeps the first order centered on the fish without asking you to commit to a whole platter immediately.
There is plenty more on the menu, but the tartare gives you a useful place to begin. Decide what follows once you know whether the rest of the table wants another seafood plate or a hot main.
The Peruvian order
Mixed ceviche and something fried
For a mixed seafood order, choose Ceviche Mixto. Fish, shrimp, octopus and squid come with citrus, onion and cilantro, with sweet potato and Peruvian corn alongside. It gives you more variety than the fish-only version without taking the order away from ceviche.
If you want fried seafood as well, Jalea del Mar is the menu choice to add for the table, with fish and seafood under salsa criolla. Share it alongside the ceviche so each person can choose between the citrus-marinated and fried preparations.
Put the ceviche between diners and serve the jalea beside it. That gives everyone a way to try both preparations, with corn and sweet potato to eat alongside the fish.
For the rest of the table
Leave room for a hot main
A seafood-focused order doesn’t have to apply to everyone. Lomo saltado gives the table a beef option from the wok, while pollo a la brasa offers a different main to build the meal around. That range is useful when you’re choosing a restaurant with several people rather than planning one person’s lunch.
Our starting order would be tuna tartare to share and Ceviche Mixto, with jalea added only if the table wants another seafood preparation. There is enough choice to return for a different meal instead of trying to fit everything into this one.
Keep Piruw for a Kendall meal
Check the current menu and head to SW 120th Street with a short order in mind. For a Cuban meal in the same part of Miami on another day, Sergio’s London Square gives you a different reason to return to the area.
Save Piruw Grill in Plateback with the tuna tartare and mixed ceviche. Add the exact seafood combination you order and your own photos afterward, so your next meal starts with a useful reference.
