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The skewers come off the grill marinated in aji panca and cumin, beef heart or chicken breast, plated with a golden potato and a house sauce — and at Fork You, Anticuchos are the dish the kitchen points you to first. Joe Mosselli grew up around his family's anticuchos restaurant in Lima, and the menu carries that lineage forward as the chef's house special. Fork You is a family-run Peruvian restaurant on River Road in Niagara Falls, a short walk from the Rainbow Bridge, and it opened in 2022 with the same name Joe and Jelena Mosselli had already built into a following.
The order path runs from those skewers into seafood. Pescado a lo Macho is the centrepiece — fried fish under a creamy Peruvian-spiced sauce loaded with scallops, shrimp, calamari, and mussels, available with a whole branzino when the table wants the full version. The ceviches sit alongside it: Ceviche de Pescado built on snapper with lime, cilantro, and onion, hot or mild, and a Ceviche Mixto that brings scallops and calamari into the same bright citrus. From there the comfort lane opens up — Lomo Saltado with its sirloin, onions, and tomatoes over fries and rice, and the chifa fried rice of Chaufa, the Peruvian-Chinese thread that runs through the menu. The Pan Con Chicharron, a Peruvian-style porchetta sandwich with deep-fried sweet potato and onion sauce, carries the casual end.
What that range adds up to is a kitchen cooking from a specific place rather than a broad one. Niagara Falls does not have many restaurants built this clearly around Peruvian food, and the specificity shows in the details — beef-heart skewers, the aji peppers behind Aji de Gallina, the Nikkei-Peruvian Tiradito, the seafood soups of Parihuela and Chupe de Camarones. These are not gestures at Latin American cooking in general; they are the dishes a Peruvian table would recognize, set down on a tourist-route street that mostly trades in something more generic.
The biography behind that is the reason the food reads as personal. Joe Mosselli was born in Peru and is of Italian descent, and local reporting at the time placed him among the Top fifty contestants on the first season of MasterChef Canada. Before the River Road dining room, Fork You was a Peruvian food truck, and when the space came available earlier than the couple had planned, they took it and fell for the view. Joe and Jelena Mosselli kept the name, the recipes, and the customers who had followed the truck, and folded all of it into a full restaurant.
A table that knows the menu tends to build the meal in a sequence. Ceviche de Pescado sets things off bright before the heavier plates arrive; the Pescado a lo Macho or a Lomo Saltado anchors the middle; and anyone not chasing seafood first can fall back on the chifa, the Chaufa or the Pollo Chi Jau Kay, which keep the meal Peruvian while bringing in the Peruvian-Chinese side. Starters fill in around the edges — Papa a la Huancaina under its yellow-pepper cheese sauce, Choritos a la Chalaca with diced onion, tomato, lime, and corn over mussels, deep-fried Yuquitas with Huancaina on the side. It is a long enough menu that a mixed table rarely has to compromise.
The food-truck DNA is still legible on the plate, which is what keeps Fork You from blurring into the River Road strip around it. A visitor crossing from the Rainbow Bridge can sit down to anticuchos and a whole branzino; a Niagara local can come back for the Chaufa or the Pollo a la Brasa, the rotisserie chicken the kitchen recently added for dine-in and pickup. The catering and the larger seafood mains make it work for a group as easily as a couple. The same hands that ran a truck are running the dinner service, and the menu has not lost the conviction that came with the smaller operation.
Joe and Jelena Mosselli carried the Fork You name from a Peruvian food truck into the River Road restaurant. That gives the place a clearer identity than a generic tourist-district Latin restaurant.
Pescado a lo Macho, Ceviche de Pescado, Ceviche Mixto, Tiradito, Jalea, Arroz con Mariscos, Choritos a la Chalaca, and Conchas a la Parmesana make seafood the strongest ordering lane.
Joe Mosselli is identified as owner/master chef, with a public backstory that runs through Peru, a Lima family restaurant, MasterChef Canada, and the food truck. Jelena Mosselli is part of the ownership story, which keeps the restaurant framed as personal rather than corporate.
This is Restaurantica’s own read — synthesized from publicly available sources across diner signal and editorial research, last updated June 2026. It’s our interpretation of the evidence, not a crowd average — and placement is never for sale.
Fork You gives Niagara Falls a clearly Peruvian meal: anticuchos, ceviche, aji sauces, chifa, Inca Kola, chicha morada, seafood, and a family story that starts in Peru rather than in a generic tourist-district concept.
Anticuchos, Pescado a lo Macho, and Ceviche de Pescado form a strong first hand: skewers for the chef's house-special read, seafood for the centerpiece, and ceviche for the bright Peruvian opener.
This is a chef-led family restaurant, not a faceless concept. Joe Mosselli's Peruvian background, Lima family-restaurant exposure, MasterChef Canada note, and food-truck-to-restaurant path give the kitchen a real point of view.
Adventurous eaters get beef-heart anticuchos, Ceviche Mixto, Tiradito, Pescado a lo Macho, Chupe de Camarones, Parihuela, and chifa dishes, all with enough specificity to move beyond familiar comfort food.
For Niagara Falls visitors, Fork You is useful because it sits near the River Road and Rainbow Bridge path while offering a meal with sharper identity than another broad tourist-route dinner.
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