Lomo Arigato

When they first opened the quality as top notch! Everything was so flavorful and seasoned really well. Their green sauce is to die for! The quality very slowly started to go down since then.
Fast forward to about 5 months ago… the food was barely edible. I ordered a lomo saltado and a tofu saltado. The rice and beef were dry. There was zero flavor in both dishes. It was obvious that the standards have slipped. I tried going back to try their food again (I personally know the head chef and it hurts me to write this review), but nowhere to be found.
I am not sure if they closed down or not. Their face book and twitter activity has been absolutely nonexistent for months. I heard from a friend that went to DinDinaGoGo South Bay and the organizer said that Lomo Arigato just stopped showing up… no contact whatsoever.

For a while there, I was eating at food trucks pretty often, seeking them out from time to time when they congregated in lots. I came across Lomo Arigato in a lot on Vermont, walking distance from my house. It was in a cluster of trucks that popped up on Mondays. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it since.
The menu was pretty straightforward, and I got the signature lomo saltado with beef. I’ve had lomo saltado a few times, and I like the dish almost on principle — it has meat, and fries, and rice, with a Peruvian/​Chinese take-​out flavor profile. Lomo Arigato’s version was pretty standard and satisfying. It had nice seasoned beef over limp fries and fluffy rice, mixed with crunchy grilled onion and tomato. The green sauce was spicy and fantastic, and the rice absorbed all those lovely flavors.
Service was fine, but when I asked for water to drink, the cashier charged me for a bottle without bothering to clarify. Kind of annoying.
Anyway, I liked my lomo saltado, and I thought I would go back and explore more of the menu. I’m starting to think, though, that that’s not really going to happen. Lomo Arigato was solid but not extraordinary, and it doesn’t seem to come around much anymore. I’m too lazy these days to bother chasing even the best food trucks around town.

One of the best food trucks I’ve had, and I think the whole food truck thing is quite overrated. At the end of the day folks, you’re still eating food out of a truck that usually is about $ 12 – 15. Yikes. Anyway, they only have about 3 options, but had a protein special that day of garlic shrimp and bacon that sounded too good to pass up. I had them toss that in with their class fried rice and they topped it off with a fried egg. They put it in a container that weighed about 5 lbs. it was so much food, and then sent me on my way with a cup of green creamy hot sauce that was hotter than anything I’ve ever tasted. I mixed just a bit in with the rice, and it was the PERFECT lunch/​dinner. Hope I can come across these guys again one day…

I got to experience Lomo Arigato for the first time at DinDinaGoGo South Bay, hosted at Narbonne HS on Thursday night. Based on the reviews and my love for Lomo Saltado at El Pollo Inka, I figured this would be a knockout. I ordered the Tallarin Saltado with no onions because my wife isn’t a fan of red onions and they use both red and brown onions chopped together. I paid $ 10 and headed off to order from other trucks in parallel.
After a little while our order was ready. I picked it up and took it to our table. Inside our box were a ton of noodles and some thinly sliced pieces of steak (similar to Mongolian BBQ). No tomatoes, no cilantro… nothing else but those two ingredients and some sauce. I figured it must be underneath everything since it was kind of dark and I could see the food too well, but after digging through more nothing else was found.
The noodles were cooked properly. Not too soft and not too hard. The steak was a little fatty in some bits, which made it chewy. Most disappointing was the flavor, though. The food was bland and boring. Then we busted out the spicy green sauce, which I so love at El Pollo Inka, and we dumped it onto the noodles and mixed everything around. Instant awesome! That stuff is fantastic. It definitely salvaged the dish. Still I can’t help but be a little bummed that the food didn’t come out as expected and without the sauce there is just not as much to love.

Lomo Arigato is AMAZING. I tried it once when it was in Highland Park and was immediately hooked. It claims to be Peruvian-​Japanese fusion, but I don’t really see where the Japanese cuisine comes in at all. No matter, still delicious!
They have a small menu, so you expect them to have perfected each dish. And they have. The Tallarin Saltado — oodles and oodles of noodle deliciousness! The noodles are slightly larger than spaghetti size, and they sauté it with beef (or your other choice of meat), onions and tomatoes.
The portions are huge, so you can definitely save some for another meal. Track down this truck, you won’t regret it!

This truck is bomb. I love Peruvian food and Japanese food, so this was the perfect combo. I got the steak saltado with no egg. It was $ 9. Meat was very flavorful and the noodles were on point. But my favorite part was the spicy green sauce I got 2 extras before I left ($.50 each) but totally worth it.

One of my favorite food trucks in the Los Angeles area. Although it claims to be Peruvian-​Japanese fusion, it seems to be strictly Peruvian to me. No matter how it’s classified, the food is always cooked perfectly and I’m always satisfied after chowing down on the lomo saltado or tallarin saltado.
I don’t find the green sauce as spicy as people have said, but I love the flavor and can go through a few cups of it if I’m not paying attention. Be sure to ask for it when you pick up your plate. As for the portion size, it’s not as good as what you’ll get at a sit-​down Peruvian restaurant, but it’s bigger than what you’ll get from most food trucks. Food truck fans know that feeling of paying $ 6 – 10 for 3 tiny sliders, inhaling them, and getting back in line for a real meal at another truck. Not so with Lomo Arigato. You’ll pay $ 10 for the lomo saltado and actually be full afterwards.

Quite possibly THE best food truck ever. I try and eat here once a week if i’m lucky. You’ll find delicious food here in generous portions. Their aji sauce (green sauce) is incredible! I always get extra. Eric and all of the staff are all super friendly. Great food, great people, great experience!

Lomo is one of our favorite trucks here at work.
It is full of flavor, no matter what dish you get! You really can’t go wrong at Lomo.
The rice, as opposed to the fries is more filling, and it’s cheaper. I haven’t tried the noodles yet, but I have a feeling those will be my fav!
I wish more of the creamy green sauce was provided, as there’s never nearly enough. The dishes tend to be on the drier side, so the sauce is much needed. If you want more, you have to pay more. :/​
Also, the dishes are definitely enough to feed more than one, so for the cost, it’s worth it. If you are getting it for only yourself, it runs $ 10, so it’s no cheap lunch meal.
Don’t plan on stopping my lunch meals here.

I’ve been wanting to try this food truck for some time, especially since my boyfriend raved about it the first time he tried it. The idea of Japanese/​Peruvian sounded very appealing to me and luckily Lomo Arigato stopped by my hood one day. I ordered the Lomo Saltado, which is basically a beef dish with french fries and veggies, served with rice and aji sauce. The dish had very good flavors, almost like a mongolian beef with more emphasis on the soy sauce, veggies and french fries haha. With the green aji sauce… it was sooo good. The sauce gives it a fresh cilantro yet very spicy kick to the dish. Oh also, I got an Inca cola (Peruvian as well) to go with the food, which can be described as like a bubblegum soda haha.
The guys at the truck were very friendly and were also blasting Nate Dogg, so you know they are awesome by default. Big portion, reasonable price, overall great food… easily one of the very few food trucks I enjoyed here in LA :)

ohhhh yaaaah. Simple menu not far from simple tasting food! Eric Nakata, the visionary, chef, founder of LA. is not just any other Food Trucker. He’s known t/​o the City of Angels with quite a resume. Not that it matters. Good food is good food is good food. But go ahead and look him up.
His peruvian-​japanese influenced fare is not your typical food truck grub. :) There’s the Lomo Saltado — tri-​tip beef/​chicken/​tofu, onions, tomatoes, cilantro, and french fries sauteed in red wine and soy sauce, and served over white rice…
The Tallarin Saltado — the «peruvian spaghetti» served with tomato, onion, cilantro, red wine, and soy sauce…
And then there’s my fav, as well as others’ — the chaufa (ala fried rice) with beef/​chicken/​tofu, red bell peppers, cilantro, onions, eggs, and soy sauce. Oh, AND, the special LA Aji sauce, a creamy green, jalapeño-​based sauce. Mmmm. Pour that baby on anything they serve up here!
Until they get a permanent venue, I shall follow them around town… and you should too!

Stopped by Rowland Heights Truck Fiesta this past Wednesday and sampled a few of the trucks, one being Lomo Arigato. The lomo saltado with shrimp and a fried egg was an OK amount of food for $ 11. I say that because if this was a restaurant, I’m sure you’d get a much heftier portion for that money. But, the food was hot and made to order, and the egg really topped it off nicely. I wasn’t really feeling the sauce that they gave with it (this light green color, not sure what it was) — I ate several bites with and without, and it didn’t really make much difference.
I don’t think I’d seek this truck out again, but not because the food wasn’t good. It made me want to try and re-​create the dish at home actually. It just isn’t something that I would be craving for, or something THAT special. Their customer service is actually what stood out to me most. I hadn’t anticipated spending more than $ 10 so when the total came out to $ 11, I asked if I could take the egg off to make it an even $ 10 but the guy taking my order said it’s cool, and let me keep the egg. I ended up coming back with the $ 1 I owed and he even said no one more time. We did a short version of the Asian battle (you know when your relatives go out to dinner and fight over the bill? It was a little like that). He ended up taking it, but I just thought that it was cool and not something you experience every day.

I LOVE this truck. It’s the only food truck I’d actively go and drive to find and eat at. Their portions are GREAT, and the green sauce is amazing. I’m very partial to cilantro so their food is amazing. I recommend the Tallarin Saltado with double meat.

In my humble opinion, Lomo Arigato should change its name to «Romo Arigato,» because the unmet expectations and overall disappointment that I experienced while dining at this food truck strongly resembles pretty much every NFL season for Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys:
— Both seemed to be outstanding and exemplary on paper, as Lomo Arigato offers diners both Chaufa (a staple and normally-​highly-​flavorful Peruvian fried rice dish that typically occupies a lofty spot on my list of favorite foods) and Saltado, a scrumptious stir-​fry of onions, french fries, tomatos, and your choice of meat. Mouthwatering, no? (Similarly, because Tony Romo currently possesses the second-​highest QB passer rating in the NFL, one would be led to believe that he would be a Super Bowl-​winning quarterback — or maybe even a winner of multiple playoff games — at this stage of his career; sadly, this revelation of mine has yet to come true.)
— Like the Cowboys, where Lomo Arigato really struggled for me was in the execution of their specific product. Being that their menu isn’t too diverse or lengthy, you’d think that they’d pull off their Peruvian cuisine without missing a beat. Unfortunately, the truck’s generous portion sizes (my styrofoam container was literally brimming with chicken chaufa) fails to mask the fact that the chicken was heavily over-​salted and that the rice itself had a consistency that I could really only compare to that of straight-​up GLUE. I was legitimately wondering if some hunks of undercooked calamari had found their way into my fried rice, knowing fully well that calamari wasn’t even offered on the menu! Not a good thing.
— As a big big fan of Peruvian food myself (shout out to El Pollo Inka, my absolute gold standard for tasty Peruvian fare), I was gambling on the possibility of my entire meal being saved by the aji verde sauce. Aji verde is a green chili-​based condiment that can potentially elevate any Peruvian dish to new heights of flavor… I typically douse any Peruvian food that I ingest with this tasty stuff, but it saddens me to say that Lomo Arigato’s take on aji verde was shallow and uninspired. The sauce itself was purely sweet and lacked that spicy kick that I so look forward to when dining on Peruvian food. Much like Tony Romo in Dallas, it was partly Lomo Arigato’s lack of a substantial clutch factor that ultimately doomed it in my book.
In closing, I would like to extend a warning to you, my fellow diners: don’t be fooled by the heaping portions and reasonable prices (about 7 – 9 dollars an entrée); your money would be much wiser spent at any number of the amazing Peruvian establishments in and around the LA area. Here’s hoping that Romo Arigato can perhaps get back to the drawing board on their product and ultimately triumph in the long run; in this same vein, let us have a moment of silence for Romo and the ‘Boys, who may someday (however unlikely) fulfill their potential to become the kings of the NFC East, and maybe even the NFL!

I’m a foodie and I love food trucks. I finally tried Lomo Arigato for the first time at the LA On The Lot in Los Feliz. I’m a Peruvian food lover also.
Lomo Arigato didn’t have their prices displayed (or I was just blind and didn’t see it). Food trucks aren’t cheap and and Lomo wasn’t cheap either. My Lomo Saltado was $ 9 for beef. The food smelled good but when I received the Lomo, it was more of a Chinese stir fried dish over rice and soggy French Fries. There were a lot of grill veggies also and big tough pieces of beef. Big tough pieces of beef is hard to eat when you’re at the food trucks and trying to manage it with 2 forks. I should of went back for a plastic knife. I’ll have to give L.A. another shot since I rarely give food trucks a low review. I might try the noodles next time with chicken or something. But for now, be prepared for tough big pieces of beef, over rice with soggy fries and lots of grilled onions. I did like the Aji Verde though… nice kick over rice!

I was always fairly indifferent about this truck anytime I heard it was near; I really have no idea why. I could have enjoyed its tasty morsels long before, had I listened to Steve B. or read the reviews!
Jason K. and I shared the Tri Tip Lomo Saltado and it was super yummy! Lots of beef, onions, crisp fries (how do they stay so crisp!?), and tasty spicy green sauce! And, just so you know, this spicy sauce is definitely hot. I eat some crazy spicy things and this one packs a nice dose of heat!
The service was friendly and fairly prompt. I would definitely enjoy this meal again!

$ 9 is kind of steep for the Lomo Saltado, then we added the extra $ 2 for more meat which turned into $ 11. However, we split it between the two of us and there was more than enough.
Their aji verde (green sauce) has a nice, spicy kick to it so if you can’t handle the heat, be aware. It is almost a must (actually it is) to use it though so toughen up weakling, your bowels may hate you later though. That sauce is bomb-​dot-​com worthy.
I could care less about the fries that was in the dish because sometimes I’m a carnivore like that. I will make note though that the texture of the fries were still crispy even though they were drowned in the sauce. *Take some notes Wing Stop, your soggy fries are pathetic*
If you’re on a budget, just do what we did with a buddy and it only comes out to $ 5.50 each. Plus it’ll leave you room to try something else as well.
Arigato for the grub!

I am going to chow down on some ChowFa more often!
I can not even count the amount of times I have seen this truck and have not stopped to give them a try. I always stop to enjoy their cooking show though as their full panel of windows lets you in on all the fiery action of this kitchen on wheels. I regret now every time as the Chaufa (CHOW FA) was TASTY!!! And that spicy green sauce… don’t even get me started on that spicy green sauce. It really needs a Unilocal profile page all in itself!
Lomo Arigato was on my radar as the other night they were to be at SouthBayDinDinAgogo and the owner Eric was celebrating a birthday. It was posted all over twitter as GeA was also to be at SBDDAGG celebrating their 1^st bday.
After my GeA dinner Craig R and I were cruising the other trucks and I saw the guy (Eric) that was posted in some pics via twitter in the truck. I walked up to the window and asked if he was the one who was celebrating a birthday and he said yes so I wished him a Happy Birthday.
We stopped by another truck for some eats and after we finished that round off I mentioned that I wanted to give Lomo a try. Kim replied with «ooooo are you thinking about getting the rice». I said yes and then it was a no brainier. Craig and I were off to another truck to get more eats.
Bc we are lame and have no idea how to pronounce it we ordered «the rice». The dude that took our order was totally cool and told us the correct pronunciation when I asked him.
Our food was up in no time and we were off to eating.
The portions in my opinion are very generous for the $ 8 price tag. I’m talking eats there, midnight snack and lunch the next day and maybe even a mid day snack. We enjoyed the Tri Tip Chaufa and like i said already it was tasty. Of course the dish is mostly rice as it always is in most «fried rice» dishes. The meat was diced small but was flavorful and tender and I felt that there was a good amount.
*I took a Chicken one home with me and there was tonsO chicken*
The dish is delicious as is but it’s kicked up a million notches when you add the spicy green sauce. OH MY GOD I want to bathe in that sauce. It’s dare I say… EPIC. Move over ranch dressing there is a new Americas condiment in town.
Of course we had to get extra sauce. Extra will cost you $ 0.50 but like i said in my quick tip «it’s worth both shiny quarters». It’s really some kind of awesome.
Lomo has a new fan and I’m going to end this review now so I can finish off the rest of my Chicken ChowFA as it’s 1:35am and time for a snack.

It’s not every day that a LA food truck ventures down behind the Orange Curtain. So when I learned that the Lomo Arigato truck was going to be at the recent OC DinDin-​A-​GoGo in Irvine, I just had to go.
But now that I’ve tried it, I’m kind of left wondering why I even bothered. The Tofu Lomo Saltado was satisfying, but tasted almost exclusively of soy sauce. I mean, these guys really know how to put the «salt» in saltado! What’s more, the dish was loaded down with a disproportionate amount of onions; it was really kind of ridiculous. A few more tomatoes, tofu, fries, or anything (!) would have been welcomed. The only thing that helped to cut the sodium was the spicy green sauce, which is excellent. The «Peruvian» rice helped too, but to be honest, it just tasted like regular steamed rice to me.
For $ 7, I think the food is too pricey for food truck fare. But the guys who run it seem really cool and nice, and they play good music for you to enjoy while getting your salt on. Just don’t bring a date, unless she digs spicy, salty onion breath.
2 ½ stars

I got to try these guys when they were in the MDR/​PDR area. They also are in El Segundo near my work. but I forgot that day :)
Anyway, I got to try the Pollo — Lomo Saltado and the Pollo — Chaufa.
— Lomo Saltado —
It was good. It came with Rice, Fries, Onion, and Chicken. It also came with the green sauce. Not sure why people like the green sauce… IT was good, but it wasn’t that good. But. it may be because I don’t usually eat spicy food. The sauce was a little spicy. The dish itself however was good. Although, I felt that there were more carbs in it… And not enough protein. Next time, I will order double meat… and pay extra for it. (I overheard someone ordering it that way. and with less onions)
– Chaufa –
I like this more than the saltado … Although, both are good! This dish however, reminds me of fried rice. It is very very similar. Maybe next time, I will order it with less red bell peppers. and double meat as well. There wasn’t as much meat in here either.
The good thing though, is that their plates are big enough for two meals. I had the saltado for lunch and then again for dinner. They were good both times.
I would come back here. .. if I’m able to track them down ;)