Food and drink in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is a challenging city, with a wide range of restaurants, cafés and bars. Argentina is a country that has historically been characterized by immigration, and this has of course influenced its food.
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View the original article here.Examples of traditional Argentine food include empanadas, milanesa, alfajores, and steak.
Milanesa is a type of thin, deep-fried cut of meat, inspired by the German schnitzel. If you order this in Buenos Aires, you’ll usually get a huge portion with lots of French fries on the side, enough to fill several people.
Alfajores are sweet biscuits that usually have some kind of filling inside, inspired by French macarons. If you want to try the restaurant scene in Buenos Aires, I have some recommendations for you!
If you feel like spending some money on a fancy and lovely Argentine steak experience, I would recommend Madre Rojas.
They had excellent service and incredibly tender steak, with really good starters. Dua Lipa chose this restaurant when she was in Buenos Aires! It’s a bit expensive, but worth it.
Burger Joint has some of the most delicious burgers I’ve ever tasted, with plenty of food for the price!
If you want a cheap burger after school, Saint Burger is just around the corner, and it’s great quality for a low price!
Che Taco sells delicious tacos in San Telmo at a good price! It’s authentic, with Mexican owners.
For lunch at a very aesthetically beautiful place, covered in climbing plants and with pretty tiles, go to Atis Bar! At some restaurants they charge for cutlery in Argentina, including this one. We ordered a cheese platter and left the cutlery untouched...
Paquito bar has very delicious tapas and a really lovely venue! Recommended if you enjoy trying different small dishes.
Go to Saigon for heavenly Vietnamese food, where you can sit at the bar and watch the food being prepared. This is probably my favorite restaurant, and I ate there many times! They have restaurants in both Palermo and San Telmo.
For Asian food, check out Barrio Chino! Specifically the Japanese restaurant, Fujisan, which has excellent sushi, ramen and other Japanese dishes. I recommend trying their chili roll if you like spicy food.
For the best choripán you should go to La Boca! Proper Argentine street food. Sit down at Resto Bar Las Gemelas for an authentic choripán.
A fun weekend activity in Buenos Aires is to go on a bar crawl. I recommend a street with lots of bars in San Telmo called Bolívar!
I always started with my favorite, El Banco Rojo, which has the best Tinto de Verano in town. After that you can just walk down the street and find the next bar for your crawl. In the same neighborhood you’ll find Pier 54, which is a cool bar where you can find lots of pool tables.
Soria bar In Palermo there’s an amazing atmosphere, and sometimes they have free concerts!
Uptown is a trendy bar that looks like a subway station. Free entry, and in the evening it turns into a dance floor!
Conchinchinais ranked as one of the world’s top 50 best bars! The drinks here are expensive but very good, and it’s a memorable experience to be here.
There are lots of great cafés in Buenos Aires. One of the things I liked best to order was pistachio lattes! They were really good. In San Telmo I used to work on my studies at Donna Cafe. They have good deals and delicious milkshakes.
Otherwise, there was good food at Naturaleza Sabia, and they had the best, freshest cinnamon rolls I’ve ever tasted!
Something that was very hard to find in Buenos Aires was oat milk. At Modular in San Telmo you can enjoy both delicious food and a coffee with oat milk, if that’s something you like!
Cafecito is a cozy little coffee bar in Palermo, with high-quality coffee – perfect for coffee lovers! When my dad was visiting Buenos Aires, this became our regular café.
Another café we grew fond of was Sankalpa Café Botánico, a café with lots of plants and great coffee!
If you haven’t tried pistachio coffee yet, it’s something that should definitely be on your list!Arena Café, had such good pistachio coffee that I ordered another one as soon as I finished the first!
Cafe y Chocolate is located one and a half blocks from the school and also sells pistachio coffee.
In Buenos Aires, ice cream is both cheap and good! They have a great variety of gelato shops.
The cheapest chain is called Niccolo’s, and they have a branch close to the school, as well as stores all over the city. Although Niccolo’s is very good, you get even higher quality if you go a bit up in price.
Rapanui sells delicious ice cream, and my favorite flavor is brownie! They are, by the way, the suppliers of Franuí, the frozen, chocolate-covered berries you can buy in stores. A delicacy!
Lucciano’s became very popular among those of us who lived there, and their pistachio cheesecake flavor is some of the best ice cream I’ve ever tasted!
I always like to taste as many flavors as I can when I buy ice cream, and that’s what I recommend doing at the latter ice cream shops!
Buenos Aires also has an ice cream shop that’s ranked as one of the best in the world! I never made it there myself, but I really recommend you take the time to go!Cadore.
