Spanish restaurants in South America
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Oviedo
The sole and sea bass at Oviedo are so fresh they’re practically still flopping around. Prepared with contemporary Spanish flair and paired with cold white wine, fish takes center stage at this fine dining institution –although melt-in-your-mouth pork dishes are also worth writing home about.
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Museo del Jamón
There's something comforting and inviting about old-school Spanish eateries such as Museo del Jamón. Perhaps it's the hanging hams that you know are soon destined to be carved for a delicious plate of crudo (raw proscuitto), or it's the thought that as you wait a delicious paella is being prepared for you while you graze some tapas. Perfect for a rainy BA day.
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Tasca La Tertulia
Highlights include the empanada de bacalao (salt-cod tart) and baked lamb; portions are huge.
In general, tascas (Spanish-style bar-restaurants) serve traditional dishes from tapas to seafood, often in a separate dining room, while most activity focuses on long, lively bars for knocking back a wee dram or three.
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La Tasca de Plaza España
With excellent Mediterranean and Spanish tapas (mostly seafood), great wines, intimate atmosphere, good art and friendly service, La Tasca is one of Mendoza’s best.
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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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El Burlador de Sevilla
Giant bulls' heads mounted to the wall stare down at you as you dine on some excellent Spanish treats, including paellas, tapas and jamónes (hams).
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El Hispano
Tired of the same old steak? Head to BA’s Little Spain neighborhood in Congreso, where this classy and atmospheric 50-year-old Spanish restaurant offers choices from octopus cazuela (stew) to frogs Provençal to snails a la Andaluza…or even just paella. Unsurprisingly, it’s really into seafood, including grilled trout, mussels, oysters and fried calamari. Don’t forget desserts like natilla (custard) and arroz con leche (rice pudding) to round off your special non-steak meal (though it’s got them on the menu as well).
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La Vinería de Gualterio Bolívar
Furnished in minimalist white and not much larger than a studio apartment, La Vinería feels like a foodie’s laboratory – fitting, considering the inventive molecular gastronomy that chef Alejandro Digilio concocts in the open kitchen. His cutting-edge eatery, which offers a nine-course tasting menu paired with several pours of high-end local wines, has attracted international attention since opening in 2007.
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Shirley
The aroma of succulent paella hangs in the air as waiters hurry to and from the kitchen, bearing platefuls of fresh seafood. Shirley, opened in 1954, is one of the few Spanish restaurants in town, and attracts a local following in its small Leme dining room. In addition to paella, the mussel-vinaigrette appetizer and the oven-baked snapper in white wine sauce are also recommended.
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Sangria
An excellent addition to the dining scene in the Microcentro, Sangria simply does what it says on the label: 'Authentic Tapas'. The food, from the gazpacho through to a classic paella de pollo y frutos de mar (paella with chicken and seafood), is hearty and the extensive tapas menu is perfect for grazing. To up the Spanish theme there is flamenco on Thursday nights.
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Casal de Catalunya
Unsurprisingly big on seafood, this excellent Catalan restaurant offers garlic shrimp, mussels and clams in tomato sauce and fish of the day with aioli (garlic mayonnaise). Other typical Spanish dishes include jamón serrano (prosciutto-like ham), seafood paella and suckling pig. Don’t miss the luscious crema Catalana for dessert.
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Café San Juan
Aside from the gleaming open kitchen, this petite restaurant isn’t overly impressive to look at – the focus is firmly on the food at the family-run Café San Juan. A constantly changing chalkboard menu of tapas and main dishes is built around flavorful cheeses, seasonal vegetables like zucchini and eggplant and perfectly al dente pasta.
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Restaurant Terra Park
Bow-tied waiters shout orders at thunderous volumes at this bustling open-air Spanish restaurant on a broad, breezy ground terrace beside the Torre Oeste. It's a great place to chow down in the Parque Central; the menú del día will leave you contentedly stuffed.
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Jockey Club
Strangely empty of pint-sized horse riders, the staid atmosphere of the Jockey Club belongs to another era but belies the quality and welcome variety of its cuisine. Elaborate and tasty creations with a Spanish touch are accompanied by cordially formal service.
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Rincón Español
It's almost unnoticed in a tucked away cul-de-sac, but classic Spanish dishes draw a loyal clientele to this intimate, pleasant restaurant, complete with the obligatory stuffed bull's head within. The chef's recommendation? Why, paella, of course.
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El Horreo
Dangling vines, low lights and crisp linens add spark to this historic Sociedad Española building with a pleasant upstairs bar. It's the kind of place to see and be seen; while you're at it you can try Spanish specialties.
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Sociedad Española
The Spanish Society is always worth hunting down for traditional Spanish dishes, including seafood. It's a grand old place, worth the trek for some fine dining and formal service. It opens late for dinner, around 21:30.
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Las Cuevas de Luís Candela
Built in the vaulted cellar of an old-time building, this atmospheric and windowless Spanish/Ecuadorian restaurant has been around since 1963. Bullfighting greats Manolo and Manolete both ate here.
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Cantina Vasca
Eat among the card-players at this cozy 2nd-floor Basque social club overlooking a leafy street. Daily seafood specials, pasta and paellas are complemented by glasses of house wine.
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Las Cancelas
This tasca (Spanish-style bar-restaurant) breathes tradition, with a bullfighting gallery and an extraordinarily long bar, and serves some of the better paellas in town.
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Taberna Española
The energetic ambience of this 'food museum' with dangling bottles, cooking implements and bells is only the backdrop for good-value Spanish set-price meals.
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Tasca Rías Gallegas
The horseshoe-shaped bar and various wood-paneled salons here overflow with chattering caracaqueños at lunchtime or after work.
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Rincón de Cantuña
Inside the Hotel Patio Andaluz, this upscale restaurant serves both gourmet Spanish and Ecuadorian fare to a foreign clientele.
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La Casa de la Esquina
This homey good-value Spanish restaurant serves some adventurous dishes inspired by recipes from Madrid.
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La Paella Valenciana
Serves knockout Spanish seafood plates including excellent paella. Portions are gigantic.
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