Peruvian Food Guide

Inca Kola, Chicha Morada & Maracuyá: A Guide to Peruvian Drinks

Three drinks carry Peruvian meals here. Prices below are before tax, and one of them is a pitcher, not a cocktail.

Chicha morada

Chicha morada on this menu is a non-alcoholic drink. It is purple corn boiled with fruit and spice, not a fermented drink. A glass is $3.99. The menu describes it as Peru’s beloved purple corn drink: deep purple corn boiled with pineapple, cinnamon, cloves and sugar, sweet, tangy and uniquely Peruvian.

A half pitcher, the 1/2 jarra, is $6.99. The menu calls that half-pitcher the same purple-corn drink boiled with pineapple, cinnamon and cloves, sweet, tangy and made for sharing. The full jarra is $13.99, a full pitcher of purple corn simmered with pineapple, cinnamon and cloves, sweet, tangy, made for the table. If you are seating four people, the jarra is the size that matches a shared meal. A single glass is the right call for one plate.

There is a full page for the drink at chicha morada, including whether it has alcohol (it does not). Picarones, the sweet fritters at $9.99, are a popular pairing with a glass. So is a rich plate such as anticuchos, at $14.99. Those are pairings guests like, not a rule.

Inca Kola

A single Inca Kola is $2.99 before tax. The menu describes Peru’s legendary golden soda as a uniquely sweet, bubblegum-like flavor that has been Peru’s number-one soft drink for decades, and it notes that the soda is more popular than Coca-Cola in Peru.

The 2 liter bottle is $9.99 before tax. It is the same golden soda in a size that sits in the middle of the table the way a jarra of chicha does. A popular pairing is the 2 liter with a whole pollo a la brasa, especially the $31.99 bird plus two large sides, when the table would rather open one bottle than four cans of the same soda.

Choose the bottle the way you choose the bird. A solo plate is usually the single. Two people splitting a half chicken can share that single or each take one. A family sitting down with the whole pollo and its two large sides often wants the two-liter instead, so the soda stays on the table and nobody waits on a second can. Both bottles are the same golden soda. Ask for it cold.

Maracuyá

Maracuyá is $3.99 before tax. The menu calls it fresh passion fruit juice, vibrant, tangy and tropical, and one of Peru’s most beloved fruits. There is no pitcher size listed for it, so order it by the glass. It is the sharp, fruit-forward choice when chicha feels sweet and Inca Kola feels like soda.

A popular pairing is a glass of maracuyá with fish ceviche ($17.99) or with jalea ($22.99), because the juice is tart and those plates are bright.

Drinks to go

Every drink on this page can go home with a pickup order. Only the daily specials stay at the restaurant.

When the drink should leave with the food, pick a size that already has a menu price: chicha by the glass, the half pitcher or the full pitcher, Inca Kola as a single or a two-liter, and maracuyá by the glass.

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