Mikhuna

• Japanese technique, Peruvian flavor
• Ceviche Peruano & tiradito
• Pisco sours & sake cocktails
• Outdoor seating
• Catering & private events
• Reservations on OpenTable

Mikhuna brought Nikkei cooking — the Japanese-Peruvian cuisine born in Lima's immigrant kitchens — to the Rio Grande Valley, and it did it in a room that looks like nowhere else in McAllen: moss-green walls, a wall-length mural of a geisha over the Andes, and an arched back bar stacked with pisco and Japanese whisky on North Main Street.

The menu moves between indigenous Peruvian recipes, Japanese-influenced Nikkei plates and the modern street food of Lima. Ceviche Peruano and tiradito arrive in leche de tigre; Nikkei rolls come crowned with crispy sweet potato; anticuchos, lomo and tallarín saltado, tacu tacu with a fried egg and seafood rice cover the grill and the pan; conchitas a la parmesana and acevichado crab tostones are the starters regulars mention first. Pisco sours, sake cocktails and a short list of wine and beer round it out.

It is a small, welcoming room from Behave Hospitality that works as well for a casual dinner as an anniversary — reserve on OpenTable for weekend evenings, and ask about catering and private events if the group is bigger than a table.

Mikhuna is part of DTXENT's curated Rio Grande Valley dining guide — the tables we recommend when someone asks where the night should start. DTXENT curates this listing; menus, hours, and reservations are handled directly by the restaurant.

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