CLOSURE: A restaurant for Peruvian food just shuttered its doors in Oakville
Published October 15, 2025 at 2:04 pm
A restaurant that was a source for Peruvian food in Oakville has now closed its doors.
Pisac is a restaurant serving Peruvian food with locations in both Oakville and Toronto, but now the restaurant has taken to social media to announce that the Oakville location has been closed.
The restaurant serves a traditional Peruvian menu with smaller plates, larger plates and a range of ceviches. Ceviches include seafood such as Mahi Mahi, calamari, shrimp, octopus and tuna with traditional accompaniments like leche de tigre and sweet potato.
Smaller plates on the menu include anticuchos of beef and octopus, plus options like chicken wings, deep-fried calamari and steamed mussels. Larger plates on offer include classics like lomo saltado, an iconic Peruvian dish with flank steak, red onions, tomato, soy glaze, yukon gold fries and garlic rice.
“Chef Renzo Galleno (born in Lima, Peru) arrived in Toronto in 1983. His career in the restaurant industry started soon enough, working as a dishwasher at his sister’s restaurant The Boulevard Cafe – one of the first Peruvian restaurants to open in Canada. Here he managed to learn all aspects of the restaurant business; he worked in the kitchen as a chef assistant, shortly after he worked at the front of house as a server, and then from there became assistant manager,” reads the official website for Pisac.
“In 1992 he left The Boulevard Cafe to acquire more experience in different hotels and restaurants. Ultimately in 2000, he returned to The Boulevard Cafe and partnered with his sister Lirio Peck as co-owner for 9 years. His passion for the culinary world goes back to early childhood when he would watch in admiration how his father Jose Luis Galleno (an Italian descendant born in the northern coastal city of Chiclayo, Peru) would thrive in the kitchen and create the most amazing Peruvian dishes.”
The site continues, “Renzo learned his love of cooking through his father, who taught him about Peruvian cuisine. The inspiration of Pisac Peruvian Bistro is to share Chef Renzo’s culinary story and heritage using authentic Peruvian ingredients.”
The social media post announcing the closure of the Oakville location of Pisac simply reads “Goodbye Oakville.”
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Fortunately, it appears that the Toronto location of Pisac isn’t going anywhere for the time being. You can still find them open at 195 Carlton St. in Toronto to get all that tasty Peruvian food.
Pisac posted about the closure of their Oakville restaurant about a week ago.