Fiesta Westside

Fiesta Westside Bringing Fiesta, Fairfield County's premiere Peruvian food to Stamford's popular Westside community.

What makes Peruvian food so special? It’s not one culinary tradition—it’s many worlds meeting on one plate. 🇵🇪Peru’s ext...
08/11/2026

What makes Peruvian food so special? It’s not one culinary tradition—it’s many worlds meeting on one plate. 🇵🇪

Peru’s extraordinary geography helped shape completely different food traditions across the coast, Andes, and Amazon. Over generations, those traditions also absorbed influences brought by Spanish, African, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and other communities.

The result is a cuisine where something as fresh and bright as ceviche can share a culinary home with lomo saltado, anticuchos, ají de gallina, arroz chaufa, and countless regional dishes.

At Fiesta, that diversity is exactly what we love sharing with our customers.

If Peruvian food is already part of your life, tell us the dish you can’t live without. And if you’ve never tried it, come see us—we’d love to make your first Peruvian meal one you remember. ❤️🇵🇪




Some people order the safe thing. You're not most people. 🔥🇵🇪 So let's talk about the boldest bite of your life.Peruvian...
08/06/2026

Some people order the safe thing. You're not most people. 🔥🇵🇪 So let's talk about the boldest bite of your life.

Peruvian food was made for eaters who lean in. Parihuela — a seafood soup so deep and briny it practically roars. Jalea piled high with crispy fried fish, shrimp, calamari, mussels, and squid. Anticuchos grilled over open flame until the edges char just right. This is the food of people who never played it safe at the table, and the reward is always the same: a flavor you didn't know you were missing. 🌶️

Here's the secret the adventurous already know — bold doesn't mean scary. It means alive. It means textures and combinations that a lifetime of the usual takeout never showed you, served the authentic way by a cuisine that's been perfecting the daring stuff for thousands of years. All you have to do is say "I'll try it."

So settle a friendly debate in the comments 👇 — what's the boldest thing you've ever ordered off a menu? Tag the one friend who always dares you to go bigger.

A sauce so good it turned a humble potato into a national treasure. 💛Papa a la huancaina blends aji amarillo, fresh chee...
08/03/2026

A sauce so good it turned a humble potato into a national treasure. 💛

Papa a la huancaina blends aji amarillo, fresh cheese, and a little milk into a silky golden sauce, then pours it over tender boiled potato with a wedge of egg and a black olive on the side. Legend ties it to the vendors who fed travelers along Peru's central railway, and one taste tells you why it stuck around. 🇵🇪

You will find it at all of our Norwalk and Stamford restaurants, listed below. Is a great starter the thing that decides a restaurant for you, or is it all about the main plate?

Fiesta Westside is next to ShopRite at 1990 West Main Street on the border of Greenwich
Fiesta on Main is downtown at 249 Main Street in Stamford
Viva Restaurant is in Shippan and Cove Area at 323 Shippan Ave in Stamford
Fiesta Limeña is in the Best Buy Shopping Center at 330 Connecticut Ave in Norwalk

Here's something that stops first-timers in their tracks: one of Peru's most beloved drinks is a deep, glowing purple. 💜...
07/19/2026

Here's something that stops first-timers in their tracks: one of Peru's most beloved drinks is a deep, glowing purple. 💜🇵🇪
It's called chicha morada, and no, there's nothing artificial about that color. It comes from purple corn — maíz morado — an ancient Andean variety that's been grown in Peru for centuries. The corn is simmered with pineapple, cinnamon, and clove, then chilled and served sweet and refreshing. One sip and people always ask the same thing: "Wait… what IS this?" 😄
That's the joy of discovering Peruvian food and drink. Just when you think you know what to expect, something completely unexpected shows up — a purple drink, a lime-cured fish, a pepper you've never heard of. Peru has a way of delighting people who thought they'd already seen it all, and chicha morada is one of the most charming surprises of them all.
So tell us in the comments 👇 — had you ever heard of chicha morada before today? First-timers, we can't wait to see your reaction to that first purple sip.

Some dishes don't need a big introduction, they just need to be done right. Milanesa de Pollo is one of those. 🍋A chicke...
07/17/2026

Some dishes don't need a big introduction, they just need to be done right. Milanesa de Pollo is one of those. 🍋

A chicken breast pounded thin, breaded, and fried until the crust turns deep golden and stays crisp all the way to the last bite, served simply with lime and a little side salad. It's the kind of dish that feels familiar the first time you try it, wherever you grew up.

At Fiesta Westside, 1990 West Main Street in Stamford, it's a lunch and dinner regular for a reason.

What's the simple, no-frills dish you always trust to be good?

Lomo Saltado is the dish most people already know. Lomo Saltado Especial is what happens when we make it with skirt stea...
07/17/2026

Lomo Saltado is the dish most people already know. Lomo Saltado Especial is what happens when we make it with skirt steak instead. 🔥

The technique stays the same: a screaming hot wok, red onion, tomato, and a splash of pisco vinegar, all tossed together fast enough to keep every ingredient's character intact. But skirt steak brings a deeper, beefier bite that turns a familiar favorite into something worth ordering on purpose.

Fiesta Westside was the first Fiesta built entirely from scratch, and this is one of the dishes we're proudest to serve at 1990 West Main Street in Stamford.

What's the upgrade on a classic dish that made you a believer?

Cos Cob, Riverside, and Old Greenwich — this one's for you. 🛒🇵🇪 You're closer to authentic Peruvian food than you ever r...
07/11/2026

Cos Cob, Riverside, and Old Greenwich — this one's for you. 🛒🇵🇪 You're closer to authentic Peruvian food than you ever realized.
Fiesta Westside sits right next door to ShopRite, which means the neighbors just over the Greenwich line are practically steps away from an incredible dinner. Order your Peruvian takeout before you shop, cruise the aisles while we fire up the kitchen, and grab your hot, fresh meal on your way out the door. One trip, zero stress, and dinner's already handled. 😎
Think about it: lomo saltado, ceviche, a rotisserie chicken seasoned the real way — ready and waiting exactly when you are. For everyone in Cos Cob, Riverside, and Old Greenwich, we're not some far-off destination — we're the easiest, most delicious detour tucked right into the shopping center you already know.
So tell us in the comments 👇 — which neighborhood are you rolling in from? Order first, shop second, and let dinner take care of itself.

Cos Cob. Riverside. Old Greenwich. 👀 We need to talk.There is a plate of lomo saltado — pepper steak, sautéed onions, to...
06/13/2026

Cos Cob. Riverside. Old Greenwich. 👀 We need to talk.

There is a plate of lomo saltado — pepper steak, sautéed onions, tomatoes, crispy fries, the kind of dish that makes you put your fork down just to appreciate it for a second — sitting less than ten minutes from your front door. Fresh ceviche marinated in lime and aji amarillo. Parihuela, Peru’s legendary seafood stew, made from scratch every single day. An entire menu of bold, authentic Peruvian dishes that most of your neighbors have somehow never discovered. It’s right there. Just over the Stamford line, inside the ShopRite shopping center on the Westside. Fiesta Peruvian Restaurant has been here the whole time. 🇵🇪🔥

The best-kept secret in lower Fairfield County is officially out. You don’t need a reservation at a Manhattan restaurant or a forty-five minute drive to eat something genuinely extraordinary tonight. You just need to know where to look — and now you do. Come in this week, tell us you’re from the neighborhood, and let us show you what you’ve been missing right in your own backyard. 🍽️✨

Drop a comment if you had NO idea we were here — and tell a neighbor who needs to know! 👇

🔥 Some dishes arrive at the table and you just know. Before you’ve taken a single bite. Before the fork even touches the...
06/11/2026

🔥 Some dishes arrive at the table and you just know. Before you’ve taken a single bite. Before the fork even touches the plate. The smell hits first — smoky, savory, alive — and something in you wakes up.

Lomo Saltado is that dish. Strips of pepper steak seared at screaming-hot heat, tossed with blistered tomatoes and charred onions, served over a pile of crispy fries with white rice on the side. It sounds simple. It is anything but. The technique is a 150-year-old collision between Peruvian cooking and Chinese stir-fry tradition — brought to Lima by immigrant workers and never let go of since. Every bite carries that history in the smoke.

If your Friday night has been feeling a little too predictable lately, this is your sign. Come in. Order the Lomo. Let us remind you what it feels like to be genuinely surprised by dinner. 🇵🇪🍋

There are dishes that feed you. And then there are dishes that represent something. 🇵🇪✨ Ceviche is not just Peru's most ...
05/31/2026

There are dishes that feed you. And then there are dishes that represent something. 🇵🇪✨ Ceviche is not just Peru's most beloved recipe — it is a declaration. A statement about who Peruvians are, where they come from, and what they are capable of creating with nothing more than the freshest fish, the sharpest citrus, and the kind of instinct that cannot be taught in any culinary school on earth. It is ancient and modern at the same time. It is simple and staggeringly complex. And when it is made right, it stops you completely.
At Fiesta Westside, we make it right. Every single time. The leche de tigre is bright and fierce and layered in a way that builds from the first sip to the last. The fish is chosen with the same care that a sculptor gives to selecting stone. The choclo, the sweet potato, the ají — nothing on that plate is an accident. Everything earns its place. Because ceviche at this level is not just cooking. It is craft. It is heritage. It is the accumulated knowledge of generations of Peruvian hands, passed forward into a bowl that arrives at your table and quietly asks you to pay attention. 🔥❤️
We want to hear from you. 👇 Have you had the ceviche at Fiesta Westside yet? If you have, tell us in the comments what it did to you the first time. If you haven't — what are you waiting for? Follow our page and come experience the dish that put Peru on the culinary map of the world. It is waiting for you. 🌿🍋

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1990 West Main Street
Stamford, CT
06902

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