El Calafate
Featuring the rare treat of Argentine home cooking, this offbeat, low-lit eatery is a must. Its longtime owners are found cooking up buttery spiced…
Must-see restaurants in Inland Patagonia
El Chaltén
With tender steak in balsamic-reduction sauce, ultra-fresh trout from Lago del Desierto and red-wine glasses as big as your head, it's hard to go wrong at…
Inland Patagonia
Considered Esquel's best restaurant, Legua 50 is certainly the city's most elegant address, with ivory leather booths, cascading lights and stained glass…
El Calafate
This dynamic family-run enterprise brings a twist to Argentine classics. Start with a warm beet salad with balsamic reduction. The nut-crusted trout is…
El Chaltén
Bring your appetite. In a gingerbread house, this pasta specialist makes delicious stuffed panzottis and sorrentinos, with creative fillings like trout,…
Inland Patagonia
A welcoming husband-and-wife team serve up excellent home-cooked meals at this historic 20th-century house. Think ravioli stuffed with local lamb,…
El Chaltén
Local favorite Estepa cooks up consistent, flavorful dishes such as lamb with calafate sauce, trout ravioli or spinach crepes. Portions are small but…
El Calafate
This adorable coffee shop does croque monsieurs (grilled ham and cheese), fresh donuts and espresso drinks in a loungy pastel setting. It also uses whole…
Inland Patagonia
Of course, pasta is no novelty in Argentina, but the owner-magician performing tricks while you wait for your meal here is. The ambience is happy…
El Calafate
Inspired and intimate, Mi Rancho serves up oversized osso buco, delicious braided pastas stuffed with king crab, divine salads and sweetbreads with wilted…
El Chaltén
With local paintings on the wall, bright colors and a raucous, unkempt atmosphere in keeping with El Chaltén, this homespun cafe serves up abundant, good…
El Chaltén
With an avid following, this vegan, gluten-free cafe does mostly takeout, from adzuki-bean burgers to whole-wheat pizzas, stuffed eggplant with couscous…
Inland Patagonia
This busy restobar with leather banquettes and checkered tile has all the airs of a Buenos Aires cafe, serving everything from beer on tap to cafe con…
El Calafate
This sophisticated eatery, tucked away in a small space a few blocks off El Calafate's main street, is a relatively undiscovered gem and an excellent…
Inland Patagonia
With white linen on the tables and seating for a busload, this Argentine restaurant offers above-average fare. Meal-sized salads come fresh and well…
El Chaltén
That après-hike pint usually evolves into a night out at this humming pub with simpatico staff and a feisty female beer master. Savor a stein of…
Inland Patagonia
This stylish cafe and restaurant is the go-to spot for strong coffee and warm service. The menu offers fresh juices and salads, good gnocchi and steak…
El Calafate
For fresh milanesas, hot dogs and burgers in the off hours, this clean come-and-go counter flanked with bar stools is the way to go. Morphi means to chow…
Inland Patagonia
Serving organic pizza, pastas, fresh lemonade and artisan beer, Quillen might be more at home in Palermo, Buenos Aires, than the Andean foothills, but…
El Calafate
Steak and spit-roasted lamb are the stars at this satisfying parrilla that's popular beyond measure for good reason. For average appetites a half-steak…
El Chaltén
In a pleasant wooden house, a classic Argentine grill cooks up butterflied lamb over wood fires, plus beef and sausages. Vegetarians will have to satisfy…
El Chaltén
Patagonian to its wooden bones, with sheepskin stools that wrap around an island bar and cozy booths. There are Esquel microbrews on tap and a variety of…
Inland Patagonia
Overboard adorable, this pastel cafe serves big salads, baked goods and sandwiches with three kinds of homemade bread on mismatched china. There's both…
El Calafate
Decked out in children’s drawings, this cheerful cafe specializes in crepes but also offers great sandwiches with homemade bread (try the chicken with…
Inland Patagonia
With cappuccinos, snacks and wi-fi, this charming brick corner cafe is a godsend to RN 40. It's also a social hub, and the best place to get information…
El Chaltén
Serving 20 kinds of pizza, salads and wine at sturdy wood tables surrounded by huge picture windows, Patagonicus is a local favorite. Cakes and coffee are…
El Chaltén
For rib-sticking mountain food (think massive stir-fries, tenderloin stroganoff or trout with crisp, grilled veggies), head to this tiny outpost at the…
El Chaltén
Excellent homemade ice cream made with flavors like lemon ginger and berry marscarpone, with fruit harvested from a local estancia and calafate bushes in…
El Calafate
This friendly, family-run eatery specializes in piadinas, an Italian bread topped with cheese and fillings, taco-style. They're enormously filling, but…
El Chaltén
This pint-sized log restaurant is known for its good price-to-quality ratio. Bus drivers feed on oversized milanesas that could feed a family of four,…
Inland Patagonia
This chic rock 'n' roll restaurant-bar offers tasty spinach pizza, vegetable crepes, and heaped portions of steak and fries. The evening crowd spills out…
El Chaltén
Serving thick pizzas overflowing with toppings, oversized calzones and well-dressed salads, La Ruca is a longtime local institution with a homey…
El Calafate
Medialunas (pastries) and much more are available at this enormous bakery.
Inland Patagonia
Shoehorn yourself into this family nook decked out in lace tablecloths, and enjoy cheap gnocchi, homemade pasta and home-cooked classics like puchero …
Inland Patagonia
A favorite at this frilly cafe is waffles with dulce de leche. It’s good for breakfast, sandwiches and ice-cream sundaes, and also serves more substantial…
Inland Patagonia
Meals can be taken from Kaserita, essentially a fresh pasta kitchen with folding-chair seating.
