"Few restaurants in Boston (Somerville, technically) have ever had as meteoric a rise to notoriety as Celeste. This Peruvian spot is the lovechild of creative couple JuanMa Calderón and Maria Rondeau, whose insiders-only pop-up dinner series eventually outgrew their home, so, naturally, led to the opening of a restaurant instead. Celeste captures all the intimacy and atmosphere of a private dinner party (there are just twenty-four seats in the house), and cooks up some of the city’s best Peruvian in the process. Come for the shrimp and mango ceviche and the cilantro lamb stew, and stay for the vibes. In a food scene that often skews towards coastal Italian or all-American concepts, Celeste proves that Boston has an enormous appetite for global flavors." - Todd Plummer, Shannon McMahon
