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Inca Latin Cuisine (Closed)
3929 N. College Ave.Bethany, OK
Inca Latin Cuisine is an offshoot of the very popular Inca Trail Restaurant in Oklahoma City,
which closed in 2014. Some web sites show this restaurant as the new location of Inca Trail,
but I believe it has a different owner, and I have found that the menu has changed somewhat.
It is going to be fairly easy to review Inca Latin Cuisine, because the food has not changed
appreciably from what I tried at Inca Trail. Some items seem to have been dropped from the
menu, but the items I have ordered have tasted the same as at Inca Trail.
Inca Trail was the Peruvian restaurant I considered to be the best in the city. Since that
time some new Peruvian places have opened that I have not yet tried, so assuming that
Inca Latin Cuisine is a continuation of Inca Trail (which it seems to be), I will just say that the
food is very good. At Inca Trail I particularly liked the rice and side dishes, and so far this
has been the case at the Bethany restaurant.
Peruvian food is not particularly spicy, and unlike Mexican food, does not include chips
and salsa when you are first seated. Many of the flavors are very similar to Mexican food,
though, and at Inca Latin Cuisine customers seem to get a true taste of Latin American that
has not been Americanized.
Even though there are no chips and salsa, all customers are treated to a complimentary
bowl of Chicken Soup (the same soup which was served at Inca Trail, although
other appetizers served on a rotating basis at Inca Trail are not available at Inca Latin
Cuisine). I believe the chicken soup is a good choice to start out the meal, since it is
flavorful, and is just filling enough to get me ready for the main meal.
Some of the side dishes I like can be ordered from the menu, including the delicious
Plantains, which provide a sweet and flavorful treat. They are also very filling,
though, which is the reason I usually just stick with the side dishes that come with each
dinner.
Arroz con Pollo was one of my favorite dishes at Inca Trail, and it continues to be
just as good here. To me the best element of this dish is that it comes with flavorful
drumsticks (the best part of the chicken when it is done right, as it is here). The perfect dish
might combine the Asian style rice served with the pollo saltado (a dish I tried several
times at Inca Trail), but the rice with this dish filled with peas and other vegetables
had enough flavor and variety to be satisfying. This dish was non-spicy, as is the case
with all of the food I have tried at Inca Trail/ Inca Latin Cuisine.
I have never been able to fully appreciate the side salad which tastes much like
pico de gallo (without being spicy), but this South American version of it does
provide some extra flavor to the meal.
Pollo a la Brasa is a rotisserie style chicken that comes in a whole, half, or quarter
chicken (the dish in the photo was a quarter chicken). The meat was marinated for two days,
and it is normally served with an aji amarillo sauce and a green cilantro sauce. The way
this is cooked makes it one of the best choices for chicken at Inca (and it is also the least
expensive chicken dish if you get the quarter chicken).
The french fries are excellent, and there are several other items from Inca Trail which I
have added to my list of "Best Items" here (since the food at Inca Latin Cuisine has not
really changed any from the old restaurant). Some items from Inca Trail have been
deleted from the new menu, and I think these are mostly appetizers (but for now I have
listed all of the items in the "Special Ratings" which I tried at Inca Trail).
Both "Inca" restaurants have been a little on the upscale side when it comes to serving
large portions of what I consider to be "special occasion" types of meat (such as the steak,
adobo de puerco, and fish). The chicken is more downscale, but the pollo a la brasa is
also a rather upscale type of meat (except that the order of a quarter chicken is less
expensive than the other meats). The result of all of this is that I am able to enjoy it as
both an upscale and a "regular" restaurant, depending on my mood, level of hunger, and
budget.
Chicken soup
Plantains
Arroz con pollo
Pollo a la brasa
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RESTAURANT DETAILS
RATING: 23
Cuisine: Peruvian
Cost: $$
Hours: Open Daily except Sun. dinner
Smoking: No Smoking
Accessible: Yes (but parking is on the street with
no designated handicapped spaces)
Most Recent Visit
Nov. 1, 2014
Number of Visits: 3
Best Items
Adobo de Puerco, Arroz con Pollo, Sudado de Pescado, Anticuchos, Pollo a la Brasa,
Plantains
Special Ratings
Pollo Saltado: 
Lomo Saltado:
Adobo de Puerco:
Ceviche de Pescado:
Arroz con Pollo:
Pollo a la Brasa:
Plantains:
Beans:
Chicha Morada: 
Deleted Items
Items from Inca Trail which I believe have been dropped from Inca Latin
Cuisine's menu
Anticuchos:
Sudado de Pescado:
Pollo a la Brasa Salad:
Tamal Peruano:
Papa a la Huancaina:
Maracuya: