Lawrenceville Restaurant Guide

Los Recuerdos sits in Suite 807B of a Pleasant Hill Road strip center in Lawrenceville, the Gwinnett corridor between I-85 and Sugarloaf Parkway that's become one of the densest concentrations of Latin American restaurants in metro Atlanta. The restaurant's own website lists a founding year of 1997 — making it one of the longer-running Colombian kitchens in Gwinnett — and the menu reflects a sit-down Colombian repertoire rather than the empanada-counter format that dominates the corridor. The dish that anchors the menu is the bandeja paisa, the traditional Antioquian platter (rice, beans, ground beef, chicharrón, fried egg, plantain, avocado, arepa) that Yelp and Tripadvisor reviewers consistently flag as the order to make. Other house orders surfaced in reviews include ajiaco (the Bogotá chicken-and-three-potato soup), mondongo (tripe stew), churrasco, and empanadas. The Restaurantji page shows roughly 129 reviews and the bandeja paisa lists at $11.49 — entree pricing here is closer to neighborhood-comfort than special-occasion. The "Resturante & Taberna" naming is meaningful: this is a kitchen with a bar program, sports-watching TVs, and live music or DJ nights, and the schedule reflects it — the kitchen runs to 9 PM most nights, 10 PM Friday, but Saturdays go all the way to 3:30 AM, which is a tavern-hour close, not a restaurant-hour close. Reviewers note that the late-night Saturday DJ scene can be loud, so the room runs as a quiet family dinner Sunday through Thursday and as a Colombian late-night spot on weekends.