Other restaurants in Argentina
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Familia Weiss
A popular family restaurant offering good-value regional specialties such as venison, trout and goulash. The picture menu’s handy for the Spanish-challenged, there’s a good atmosphere and nightly live music.
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El Brigadier
Half a block from Plaza 25 de Mayo, this refurbished restaurant offers an elegant interior and tasty cuts of meat and river fish that win out, despite a few strange quirks in the service department.
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Las Rías de Galicia
An upscale Spanish restaurant with the best value set lunch in town. Going à la carte gets you all sorts of goodies, including some excellent seafood selections.
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Pura Vida
Whole grains and abundant vegetarian dishes make this ambient eatery a traveler’s treat. The tables are candlelit and the kitchen serves healthy food in huge portions. Try the gnocchi with saffron, rabbit with cream or pumpkin stew served in an enormous gourd. It’s a 10-minute walk west of center.
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La Fábrica del Taco
You might just feel like you’re back in a Mexican beach town at this very casual, colorful taco joint. Authentic Mexican cooks hover at the front grill, slapping together those tasty and familiar tacos (al pastor, carne asada, pollo con queso, vegetariano). There are even aguas frescas de tamarindo and jamaica. Chimichurri (sauce made of olive oil, garlic and parsley) on the menu, however, brings you back to BA.
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José Balcarce
Exposed stone walls, ambient music and solicitous service set the scene for a satisfying gourmet dining experience here. Starters like llama carpaccio could be followed by sea bass with passionfruit and ginger, or other highland-type dishes involving lamb or trout. The wine list sees each grape variety described in human terms – merlot is a sensitive listener, with gay tendencies. Close to Salta’s best.
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Don Pichón
For dinner with a view, it’s hard to beat Don Pichón, perched high above the lake on the outskirts of town. The casual but classy lodge-style dining room features high wood-beamed ceilings and huge panes of glass revealing sweeping scenic views; the melt-in-your-mouth lamb is a huge hit with travelers. Call ahead to ask about complimentary shuttle pick-up.
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La Cuadrada
A wonderfully eclectic place with a personality disorder – it’s a tea house, cultural center, restaurant and theater. There’s a wide range of teas, along with pastries, for your afternoon enjoyment, and the restaurant has good, well-priced food. It also does dinner shows with folklore, tango and murga music (among many other kinds).
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Arco de Las Cuevas
In the nearby settlement of Las Cuevas, 10km east of the Chilean border and 15km from Puente del Inca, Arco de Las Cuevas has extremely basic bunks (AR$50) and only two bathrooms (which everyone in the restaurant uses as well). The restaurant, however, serves what one traveler called the ‘best lentil soup ever.’
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Color
This remodeled pizza’n’parrilla packs them in to its tightly spaced tables, so don’t discuss state secrets. But the prices are fair for this strip, and the meat comes out redolent of wood smoke; try the picaña, a tender rump cut. Parrillada for four comes to AR$90; a mixed grill of river fish is AR$70.
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Lo Mejor del Centro
When this parrilla went bust, the staff were left high and dry, but the local government let them reopen it as a cooperative, and what a great job they’ve done. The meat’s as good as you’ll taste in Rosario, but there’s also homemade pasta, creative salads and a warm, convivial buzz at the tightly packed tables.
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Setimio
Wall-to-wall wine bottles decorate this smart wine shop and restaurant, whose short menu features a pair of posh salads, chicken stirfry, crusted salmon and other toothsome delights. Several wines are available by the glass, and you can pick any of the several hundred bottles from the shelves for a AR$6 corkage fee.
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La Casa
This attractive conversion of stately house to restaurant also has streetside seating. It has many different interesting wines (you can also buy to takeout) and, as well as fairly-priced parrilla offerings, has more imaginative specials like pork on a bed of mustard mash, sundried tomatoes and spinach.
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Salón Iturrioz
This charming brick corner cafe is the temporary home of antiques and photographs that will eventually be on display at the Museo Regional Cueva de las Manos (being built across the street.) Check out the artifacts, including a gorgeous old silver cash register, while waiting for your hot chocolate.
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Juanes
With outdoor seating wrapping round a corner of the Plaza San Martín, this offers classy licuados, salads and lomitos to keep the snackers in business, and more substantial meals with decent wine selections. Good tragos until quite late make it a solid all-round favorite.
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María Preta
The indoor-outdoor eating area and evening guitarist make this a popular dinner choice, whether it’s for steaks that are actually cooked the way you want them, for a wide range of typical Argentine-Spanish dishes, or for something a little snappier: caiman fillet. Sometimes a pun’s just got to be.
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La Céfira
This handsomely styled dining room a few blocks south of the center is a cut far above the usual gnocchi-with-four-cheese-sauce joints. Delicious homemade pasta includes such temptations as squid-ink ravioli with crab, or spinach fettuccini with salmon and caper sauce. Tasty salads seal the deal.
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Madre Tierra
This place is a standout. The vegetarian food – there’s a daily set menu – is excellent and the salads, crepes and soups can be washed down with fresh juice. It’s an earthy place where the simple, home-cooked food makes a welcome change. The bakery out the front does a range of wholesome breads.
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Jovi II
A long terrace overlooking the palms of Plaza Güemes is just one reason to like this popular local restaurant that does a huge range of dishes well, without frills and in generous portions. Several rabbit dishes, tasty fish and a succulent plate of the day are backed up by excellent service.
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Entre Indyas
This intimate little spot transcends its shopping-arcade location with tasty vegetarian cuisine, blending Indian and Peruvian traditions. There’s no menu as such, just three or four daily specials, which might include shitake ceviche, stirfried vegetable chapatis, or quinoa and corn salads.
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Plácido
This sleek new addition to Madryn’s waterfront serves beautifully presented versions of traditional dishes such as shrimp in garlic and cordero patagónico (Patagonian lamb) in a minimalist setting. Try the shellfish sampler paired with a bottle of white from Bodega Fin del Mundo.
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Manos Jujeñas
One of Jujuy’s best addresses for no-frills traditional slow-food cooking, this fills up with a contented buzz on weekend evenings. There are several classic northeastern dishes to choose from, but it’s the picante – chicken, tongue or mixed – that’s the pride of the house.
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Los Colonos
Depending on your perspective, the design of this corner restaurant – resembling an old wooden ship, complete with a mini lighthouse near the entrance – is either corny or festive. We vote for the latter, but maybe that’s just because the seafood is fresh and classically prepared.
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Viva El Viento
This stylish new cafe and restaurant – boasting fresh salads, strong coffee, free wi-fi and warm service by the Dutch owner and his Argentine girlfriend – is a traveler’s oasis. The menu offers gourmet versions of classic dishes like milanesas, burgers, grilled salmon and steak.
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