It’s shocking how tiny the kitchen is at Celeste. If you’re seated at a bar stool you will feel the heat from the stove. Also shocking: the consistently excellent Peruvian dishes being pumped out of that postage stamp-sized room. Originally set to be open for just five years when they started in 2018, the team ended up having so much fun they decided to just keep going and quickly became a neighborhood institution. Come here with friends after wandering through nearby Bow Market, or with a date who’s open to doing a shot of pisco with the server. Get the blue cod ceviche that’s been marinated in the Peruvian-style leche de tigre and a glossy lomo saltado with perfectly cooked steak under onion slices. If it’s available, the mousse de lucuma is the way to end a meal, washed down with a purple pisco drink.