Ceviche Project is the best seafood in Silver Lake

Silver Lake does not have a seafood culture, exactly, and that is what makes Ceviche Project feel like a genuine discovery. Tucked into a small counter space at 2524 Hyperion Ave, it is not a restaurant in the usual sense. It is a raw-bar tasting spot built around a marble counter and the kind of focused, honest cooking that comes from people who are serious about one thing.

That one thing is Peruvian-style ceviche, and everything on the menu extends from that center. Leche de tigre shots, aguachile, tiradito, oysters on the half shell, shrimp cocktail. The micheladas are made with fresh shrimp stock, which is the detail that separates a place that understands what it is doing from one that just has a menu. Nothing here is broad. Everything is precise.

The experience is built around the counter. You sit close to the food and close to whoever is making it, and that intimacy is not incidental, it is the whole point. A 4.7 rating from 134 reviews is a real signal at this size, where every table and every night counts.

This is the kind of spot that fills a gap you did not know the neighborhood had until you sat down. Silver Lake has plenty of places to eat. It has very few places where the fish is this fresh and the format this confident.

Go in the evening, sit at the counter if you can, and start with a leche de tigre shot before you order anything else.

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