Two cultures fell in love. Andina is what grew from it.
Andina is a family-owned Peruvian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, born from the meeting of two cultures.
In the late 1960s, Portland native John Platt traveled to Peru with the Peace Corps and met Doris Rodriguez. He fell in love with Doris—and with Peru. They eventually made their home in Oregon, where their son Peter grew up between his mother's Peruvian culture and his father's Pacific Northwest roots.
In 2003, Peter opened Andina as a place where those two worlds could meet.
More than two decades later, Andina has grown into something larger than a restaurant. It is a gathering place, a cultural home, and an experience shaped by food, Pisco, music, art, storytelling and hospitality—a place where Peruvian culture is shared, celebrated and continually brought into conversation with the Pacific Northwest.
What does Peru in the Pacific Northwest look like?
More than two decades later, that meeting of cultures still guides us.
Our cooking begins upstream—with the seeds, farms, waters and people behind our food. We work with growers in Peru and Oregon, local fishermen and family producers, building relationships that have grown over years.
One of those relationships led to an eight-year effort with Oregon seed farmers to grow fresh ají amarillo—one of the essential ingredients of Peruvian cuisine—here in the Pacific Northwest.
What makes Andina more than a restaurant?
Andina has never been built around a single chef or the trend of the moment. We are still family owned and operated, and for more than 23 years we have grown alongside Portland.
To us, Peruvian culture is more than what arrives on the plate. It lives in food, Pisco, music, art, storytelling, hospitality and gathering.
Andina is the ongoing conversation between Peru and the Pacific Northwest—and everyone who has become part of that story along the way.