Picanteria Palma

North Coast


This great little family-run restaurant in town looks unremarkable, but serves a couple of dozen different seafood plates, all of which are delicious. It only uses fresh produce from the Chicama dock – there's no frozen fish here – so if the fisherfolk aren't working, sometimes it closes up shop.


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