Ceviche Arigato

Ceviche Arigato built its menu around a genuinely unusual pairing: Peruvian ceviche and Japanese sushi technique, blended into a single restaurant concept rather than kept as two separate cuisines sharing a dining room. Founded by Rosemary Maruyama, the restaurant grew out of a personal connection to both culinary traditions, and the menu reflects that history directly, built on family recipes passed down through three generations rather than assembled from a generic fusion playbook. That kind of specific, personal backstory is fairly rare among Weston’s food and drink businesses, most of which fall into more conventional single-cuisine categories.

The restaurant sits on Indian Trace, in the same general corridor as several of Weston’s other independent restaurants, and has been operating in the city for more than a decade. Nikkei cuisine, the term generally used for this Peruvian-Japanese fusion tradition, has a real history in Peru dating back to Japanese immigration there in the early twentieth century, and Ceviche Arigato’s approach draws on that legitimate culinary lineage rather than treating the combination as a novelty. Ceviche prepared with citrus-cured fish sits alongside sushi rolls and other Japanese-influenced dishes on the same menu, giving diners a way to sample both traditions in a single visit.

Ceviche Arigato has grown modestly beyond its original Weston restaurant, adding a second location in Lake Park near West Palm Beach, but the business has remained under the same family ownership rather than franchising out to unrelated operators, which keeps it firmly in independent, non-chain territory even with two addresses. Each location maintains its own online ordering system and its own social media presence, run more like sister restaurants than standardized outlets of a single corporate brand.

The restaurant supports both dine-in reservations and online ordering for takeout, giving Weston residents flexibility depending on whether they want the full sit-down experience or a quicker meal at home. Given the specificity of the cuisine, a genuine blend of Peruvian and Japanese technique built on family recipes, Ceviche Arigato occupies a niche that is not easily replaced by any of Weston’s other Peruvian or Japanese restaurants individually. It offers something none of them do on their own.

For Weston diners interested in South Florida’s broader Peruvian food scene, which has a real presence throughout Broward and Miami-Dade counties, Ceviche Arigato represents one of the more thoughtfully executed versions of Nikkei cuisine in the area, run by a family with a direct personal connection to both traditions rather than a restaurant group chasing a trend. More than ten years into its run on Indian Trace, it remains one of Weston’s more distinctive independent dining options.