Est. Charleston, SC
Charleston's favorite
cevicheria.
Authentic Peruvian flavors with a Lowcountry twist, served through pop-ups, private events, and classes across the Holy City.
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Authentic Peruvian flavors with a Lowcountry twist, served through pop-ups, private events, and classes across the Holy City.
Fresh + Locally Sourced
A Peruvian cevicheria, built in Charleston — where the coastal cuisine of Lima meets the seafood and produce of the South Carolina Lowcountry.
CHS Ceviche began in 2024 as a pop-up — a partnership between Chef Esteban Diaz and entrepreneur Conor McMullen. What followed was a run of sold-out events, repeat private bookings, and a growing community of local partners — wine shops, breweries, cocktail bars, design showrooms — who wanted CHS Ceviche in their rooms.
Born in Chiclayo, Peru — a coastal town five hundred miles north of Lima — Esteban trained formally at Cenfotur College of Culinary Arts after a childhood spent cooking beside his mother and grandmother. He went on to own and operate his own bar-lounge restaurant in Chiclayo for fourteen years.
He moved to Charleston in 2022 and opened Pisco Mar, an eight-course Peruvian chef's table at Port of Call — earning coverage from Post and Courier, Charleston City Paper, Charleston Living Magazine, and participating in Charleston Wine + Food. CHS Ceviche is the distillation of that work.
Conor brings the operational half of the concept — years spent under the tutelage of the late Matt Haley, the James Beard Foundation's 2014 Humanitarian of the Year, and inside the restaurants of SoDel Concepts, the James Beard-recognized hospitality group that sets the standard for coastal dining along the Mid-Atlantic.
That environment shapes how CHS Ceviche runs — the same attention to kitchen, hospitality, and community that defines the restaurants he came up in, applied to a concept rooted in Peru and built for Charleston.
CHS Ceviche has popped up with some of Charleston's favorite wine shops, breweries, cocktail bars, and design showrooms — Downtown, Mount Pleasant, Sullivan's Island, and North Charleston.
Private events, ceviche classes, press, or general questions — the fastest way to reach us is a text or a DM. We read everything.