La Royal

Hoy en El País , todos somos celeste

Celeste, un hogar peruano en Boston: “Voy al restaurante a llorar de alegría” JuanMa Calderón y María Rondeau pasaron de hacer cenas en su casa a abrir un restaurante con las recetas de su madre. Sus tres establecimientos son un referente en la ciudad y en Vermont

La Royal turns TWO today! 2.22 is the day that marks the beginning of this beautiful adventure, conceived of and built during pandemic uncertainty, named by Nobel Laureate poet and dear friend Louise Glück, anticipated by , selected as Best New Restaurant by , included among Best New Restaurants in America, nominated as Semi-Finalist for Best New Restaurant Award, and lovingly adopted by our community as the local neighborhood spot, we are grateful beyond words. 🙏 Thank you to the work and dedication our team delivers day after day to serve this wonderful community in a neighborhood that truly is home. Gracias to everyone for your love and support! ❤️Please come by and see us to celebrate! La Royal continues to shine with double love and double joy!! ⚡️⚡️ A celebrar familia Celeste-La Royal!

Mezcal Negroni snow day special ⚡️ open today from 5pm - 9pm, come by to warm up with a smoky negroni 🔥 walk-ins welcome or reserve through 📸

Plan your next event with us! ⚡️ ‘Tis the season! Holiday parties, birthday celebrations, intimate weddings, rehearsal dinners, baby showers, or any special occasion, we’d love to celebrate with you! ❤️ Private dining room available for lunch or dinner. Please reach out to discuss your next event 💥 DM us or link in BIO 📸 chef

Gracias , what an honor!!!💥 Gracias for the love and the support, we’re beyond grateful to be included in this incredible list of restaurants, and to be part of this beautiful community 🙏 Gracias for the brilliant art direction and 📸 for the stunning photo! 🔥 And gracias to our fearless team, our familia Celeste-La Royal for making the magic happen, cada día! ⚡️ #19

Introducing.... La Royal OUTDOOR PATIO! ⚡️ All stars most definitely aligned when our neighbors, Austin Architects, approached us with a brilliant idea, a dream Jonathan Austin has had for years - to see his office's beautiful front patio transformed and enjoyed by the neighborhood. In their design of places and spaces that help build community, they are totally aligned with our own vision of bringing people together, and so we joined forces to transform the space (which doubles as parking during office hours) into a dreamy and secluded outdoor dining area during the evenings.

Many months, conversations, and permits later, we finally achieved it! Please join us THURSDAYS thru SUNDAYS on our new outdoor patio, and enjoy a pisco sour al aire libre! Here's to beautiful neighbors, and the joy of living in a community where people truly look after each other in meaningful ways, we feel very fortunate, indeed!

And as we grow into our new space, embraced by our community, we welcome you to stop by to enjoy our NEW LUNCH MENU during the weekdays, or visit us on the weekends to delight on our new patio! And stay tuned for WEEKEND BRUNCHES on the patio, coming soon…!! Walk-ins welcome, or reserve thru

Dear Friends, La Royal is NOW OPEN for LUNCH! Our dream of having a neighborhood spot open throughout the day is now a reality! Open MONDAY thru FRIDAY, 11:30am - 2pm, serving Peruvian sandwiches, ceviche, fresh salads, gazpacho, home-brewed drinks, as well as beer and wine.

Our line-up includes home-made chicharron, breaded smelts, lomito al jugo (stir-fried sirloin beef au-jus, a Peruvian-style dip sandwich), choripan with home-made chimichurri, our famous Hamburguesa La Royal - alpaca-lamb+beef burger with fresh Guatemalan cheese, and our Bello Burger with grilled portobello!

Please come by to enjoy our new lunch menu - eat-in or take-out, walk-in or reserve thru , come hang out or plan your next event - we look forward to seeing you soon!

Gracias for the honor of Best Peruvian award! We are so proud to be ambassadors and explorers of such a complex and delicate cuisine, recognized worldwide as unique and truly explosive, a beautiful synthesis of cultures that spans centuries and ingredients that grow in a wide range of micro-climates, now evolving throughout the globe, and very much alive in our very own neighborhood! Gracias to our team for keeping the flame burning strong 🔥, and gracias to our entire community for lighting up our space with your love and your beautiful energy! ⚡️A celebrar!! 💥 Chef

Boom! 💥 Bon Appetit gazes deep into The eye of the Tiger…. ⚡️ swoon! Get the skinny on La Leche de Tigre, with never-before-seen coverage on each player - meet The essence, The Salsa Madre,The Fish, The Corn, and The Toppings, all coming together in a powerful elixir, only at La Royal! Gracias 🙏 and 📸 by for this stellar portrait of one of our very faves! ❤️

Arroz con Pato / A classic dish from Chiclayo in northern Peru, cilantro rice with duck is a recipe that can be traced back to the pre-Incan Moche culture. To this day, it is considered the most emblematic dish of the North. Its base, cliantro, is blended with chicha de jora (Peruvian corn cider) or in some cases, cerveza negra (dark beer, the secret ingredient!) The duck breast is marinated in the cilantro mix, seared and sightly charred on the grill before serving. The rice is simmered in the cilantro blend and served as the base to the duck. The dish is topped with salsa huancaina (yellow pepper cream sauce) and salsa criolla - julienned onions, lime, tomato and olive oil, to complement the tastes and textures.

First introduced at as a Tuesday special served with chicken (arroz con pollo), this dish was later perfected by Chef at our dinner series, and included at on the original menu, still a favorite today. We worked closely with artist and ceramicist to design the ideal plate to hold the rice and spread the duck generously across its length. Custom-made for La Royal, the beautiful green hues compliment the dish and offset the dark context within the space, bringing it all together. And pairs perfectly with a glass of wine, of course ⚡️

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Hoy celebramos!! One year!! One year full of excitement, happiness, hard work, growth, inspiration, and LOVE. ❤️ Gracias to our incredible team who makes it all happen, each and every day! Gracias to each of you who join us and bring light and love into our space! Gracias to our friends and neighbors for welcoming us into this incredible community! ⚡️Please join us tonight to celebrate and try out our Greatest Hits Tasting Menu and toast on this joyous occasion!

Dear friends, this week we'll be celebrating our first year anniversary, and to mark the occasion we've put together La Royal's Grandes Exitos Tasting Menu featuring our Greatest Hits! 💥 On Wednesday 2.22.23, as we celebrate one year of being open to the public, we'll be offering the option of a 9-course Chef Tasting Menu ($75); drink pairings, too, of course! The selection will include our faves, as well as new dishes Chef JuanMa has been working on! ⚡️No need to pre-purchase tickets ahead of time, we'll continue offering our a-la-carte menu, but wanted to alert you about the Tasting Menu Option as well! Reservations thru . Gracias to everyone for making this year truly memorable, can’t wait to celebrate together! 📸 / horseradish-infused pisco martini

Gracias James Beard Foundation, what an incredible honor to be a award semi-finalist for Best New Restaurant! We are humbled and grateful beyond words. Ours is a labor or love, and we are beholden to our team, our familia celeste/La Royal, for the hard work and dedication in making it all happen! 🙏 Mucho amor to everyone, y a celebrar!!! ❤️

New year, new schedule! Starting tomorrow, will be open on MONDAYS!! Excited to announce that we’re now serving dinner seven days a week! ⚡️ We’ve been slowly gearing up towards this, building up our team to serve the neighborhood on a daily basis. It’s been a beautiful journey getting to know our neighbors and becoming part of this vibrant community; our dream for 2023 is to be more present, day and night, a space to gather, to linger, to explore, to study, to relax, to observe, to enjoy! We’re working on a lunch menu and hope to launch daytime service in the next few months, so stay tuned! In the meantime, see you mañana!!

It’s 2023 and we're very excited to announce that this coming MONDAY January 9th we'll be hosting the first (of many!) KRIOLLO ROYAL dinners, a shared meal experience at communal tables at La Royal, with a special menu prepared by Chef ! Many of you know that María and JuanMa started cooking at their home in what was known as the KRIOLLO REAL supper club, where friends and friends-of-friends came over to enjoy a home-cooked meal together. Now we open our doors at La Royal to keep the tradition alive! We believe 2023 is a year to experiment, to return to our roots, and to find new ways to meaningfully connect. What better way than by sharing a slow-paced meal with friends and neighbors? And - most exciting! - proceeds will help fund JuanMa's new film (in the works!). Please join us and hear all about it!
Limited seats available, tickets go on sale at NOON TOMORROW through ! 7-course meal and wine+cocktail pairings available. KRIOLLO dinners are back! 📸 by

Feliz Thanksgiving, grateful for all your love and support 🙏

Closed Thursday
See you on Friday!

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Gracias por el honor y la felicidad of being included in this amazing list of Best New Restaurants in America 2022!!! 🙏 gracias ❤️ y gracias equipo for making this dream a reality

Everything you need to know about La Royal… 🥰 Gracias for this beautiful piece focusing on what it's all about - the love of cooking, the joy of collaborating with friends, the importance of a team, the excitement of the everyday spectacle as guests come together and imbue the space with new energy, and the temptation of falling for the irresistible... We celebrate eight months since we opened, learning something new everyday, getting to know our neighbors, experimenting with new flavors, introducing new dishes, and dreaming of new ways of bringing us all together... LINK BELOW 📸 ⚡️


https://blog.resy.com/2022/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-la-royal-best-peruvian-cambridge/

Chupe de Camarones is back on our menu, a traditional prawn soup from Arequipa, made with fish stock, squash, potato, fava beans, huacatay (black mint), fresh cheese, cream, poached egg, rice and prawns. Decadent and delicious, and oh-so-warm! Now on our menu 💥chef 📸

When approached us with the idea of a show about food, art and design, we said, OH YEAH!!!! What could be more in synch with how we approach our projects than to celebrate the design and artistic collaborations that are at heart of what we do? We are honored to be part of - a series that explores the conceptual and artistic premises that makes the dining experience be part of something much larger when sharing a meal together. Gracias Ben Hundreds and the entire team for the vision, and for the EXQUISITE portrait of La Royal! Please join us in celebrating the power of art in this Episode dedicated to Boston, including conversations with friends and neighbors and LINK IN BIO

We welcome another month at , approaching our half-year anniversary, remembering where we started, and dreaming of what’s to come! But most importantly, celebrating our team, the real stars at La Royal, the movers and shakers, most of them with us from the very beginning, now strong leaders and kind mentors, continuing to grow our little family. We’re so lucky, and we're so grateful 🙏

In order of appearance:
Our very first employee at Celeste, Jose Saravia (aka Joselin) (2018),José Armando Pérez (aka Roro) (2018), Teo Heredia (aka Julio) (2019), Yessenia Rivera (aka La Niña) (2019), Gender Milla-Henriquez (aka Ivancito) (2019) Natalie Mejia (aka Naty) (2020), Gabriella Malina (aka Doctora Gaby) (2021), Julie (aka La Pink) (2022), Rigoberto (aka Rambo) (2022), JuanMa Calderon y Maria Rondeau (2018)

This series of photographs were taken the night before we opened our doors to the public at La Royal. Gracias artist/ photographer/ friend Theodore Samuels for so beautifully capturing the giddiness and excitement of a new project about to launch, surrounded by so much love and such strength in the confidence that everyone here has your back, and everything will be all right 🥰.

happy happy solsticio! mucha luz! ⚡️ 📸

tiradito de hongos / portobello sashimi nikkei style 📸

Patarashca, traditional cooking method in the Amazonian jungle region from the Quechuan word “to fold, to wrap” / whole branzino wrapped in plantain leaves and grilled, seasoned with Mishquina, an amazonian paste made of ground garlic, turmeric, cumin and anatto seed oil and fresh onion and peppers 📸

✨South American wine! Chile and Argentina get a lot of love for well known international varieties, but there’s a lot more out there! Come by to try native red and white País from Chile grown on 200 yr old bush vines, dry farmed Cinsault reds and rose, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from high-altitude Patagonia, carbonic Malbec from Tupungato, or mesmerizing, floral orange wines made from Muscat. We’ve got ‘em all, and we’re excited to share them with you! ✨

La Royal Sour, Pisco Martini and Xandu, the first in a series of portraits beautifully captured by in the spirit of love, friendship and collaboration . These photographs in particular embody the joys of collaboration that make this project so dear to us, for we are honored to have worked with Darra Goldstein on a series of pisco and mezcal macerations that led to our namesake cocktail La Royal Sour - a delicate and exquisite version of a classic pisco sour, infused with pomegranate, hibiscus and all-spice; a Pisco Martini made with a horseradish-macerated pisco by .goldstein ; and Xandu (named after the extravagant plant in the W***y Guhl planter above the bar), featuring Matacuy, an Andean elixir extracted from 55 Andean herbs, a collaboration with our dear friends based in the Sacred Valley in Cusco.

The Xandu was also the point of inspiration for artist Daniela Rivera who used a copper tip to trace the shadow of the plant on the wall extending beyond it. This subtle piece is a meditation on light, darkness, and impermanence, for the plant will continue to grow, but the trace of the original shadow will always be a marker and reference point to it’s flourishing and the passage of time.

The first photograph also embodies the celeste / La Royal family, for the gentle hand appearing in the photo is that of Joselin our first hire who started as a dishwasher and now leads and trains our service team , and also happens to be our bartender par-excellence, with the most delicate touch for details that make every cocktail a work of art.

Officially open for one month, it’s been intense, exciting, overwhelming, and SO absolutely wonderful to be in the neighborhood! Gracias and for the beautiful portrait of , before we even had a sign on the building! Our team has grown, our menu has expanded, and our community is stronger than ever! We can’t wait to see you all at La Royal, any night is a perfect night for a La Royal burger con queso! And a pisco sour, of course. 💥Reservations thru / walk-ins welcome at bar 5-7pm, or text us ❤️⚡️

NOW OPEN! So thrilled to be in the neighborhood!! Gracias for the ❤️❤️What an amazing week it’s been!! ⚡️
Open TUESDAY-SATURDAY, and… special dinner tonight, SUNDAY, to celebrate our first week! Stay tuned…. lunch coming soon…! 💥 Reservations thru

Dear friends, it is with great excitement that we announce that LA ROYAL is now officially open, as of 2.22.22!! Double love, double gratitude, double ways to connect with each and every one of you; it's been an overwhelming show of puro amor!! We are so grateful to for the beautiful recount of where we've been, and the projections for the future. A labor of love, La Royal is a dream come true made real by our familia Celeste, which continues to grow and evolve, but is deeply rooted in where it all began. Gracias to our community for your love, for your support, and for being a part of this new adventure !!! LINK IN BIO. Reservations thru , walk-ins always welcome!
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