A restaurant that has me addicted ( First Time in BA )

[Napoleon]

To be frank I find this post harsh and completely opposite to my and many of my friends experiences and we are all foodies with very high standards in food, quality, service and ambience.

I have eaten in Sipan 10 times and every time...

I don't think it was "harsh." It was my experience, and while I may not be as much of a "foodie" as you and your friends, I have managed to eat at some of the best restaurants in New York on quite a regular basis.

The food was passable, but by no means worth the price when, IMHO, there are numerous better options.

I almost posted originally after I first read the "To be frank I find this post harsh..." post.

I know that Pericles likes his food, but I have found absolutely no one in Buenos Aires that is more honest and has less of an agenda (because he has NO agenda) than "Sleuth". He has had a blog or two about Buenos Aires since I first met him 2 1/2 years ago and every post was sharing something that he had encountered with an open mind.

I have been known to throw in my opinion here or there when simply "reporting" my experiences, but Sleuth absolutely does not. He samples, analyzes, and then shares. That's it. And after having sampled several bocaditos that he personally picked out on Friday night, I would say (at least as far as my taste buds are concerned) he has excellent taste in food.

So if his review was harsh, then it was only because his personal experience didn't match up to the personal experiences of others.

I tried the sushi at Saipan . I thought it was the best in the world.

I can only assume this is *sarcasm* since I have never heard "best sushi in the world" and Buenos Aires mentioned in the same sentence before, regardless of the restaurant.

Obviously Buenos Aires doesn't have the "best sushi in the world", because if someone ever produced it here, they couldn't sell it because the locals wouldn't like it... pero bueno.

An expat amiga of mine, who rarely cooks even though she and her husband are total foodies, recently ordered delivery sushi from Benihana and was blown away at how much like real sushi (or at least her American vision of "real sushi") it was.

That's not to say that it was "the best sushi in the world", but the photo that she posted on Facebook showed nary a glop of cream cheese. Take a look.

BENIHANA





Viste?!? Did you see how pink/red that tuna was? Here in Buenos Aires?

And she posted these photos AFTER she ate the stuff, so she obviously was still impressed with what she had eaten.

Which brings me to another point.

PLEASE TAKE PERSONAL PHOTOS OF YOUR FOOD AND POST THEM WITH YOUR REVIEWS!!!

I'm a visual person, as are many others, and seeing ACTUAL PERSONAL PHOTOS, rather than just the ones on a website, are at least as good as 1,000 words/photo. Maybe more.

 

[perry]

I almost posted originally after I first read the "To be frank I find this post harsh..." post.

I know that Pericles likes his food, but I have found absolutely no one in Buenos Aires that is more honest and has less of an agenda (because he has NO agenda) than "Sleuth". He has had a blog or two about Buenos Aires since I first met him 2 1/2 years ago and every post was sharing something that he had encountered with an open mind.

I have been know to throw in my opinion here or there when simply "reporting" my experiences, but Sleuth absolutely does not. He samples, analyzes, and then shares. That's it. And after have sampled several bocaditos that he personally picked out on Friday night, I would say (at least as far as my taste buds are concerned) he has excellent taste in food.

So if his review was harsh, then it was only because his personal experience didn't match up to the personal experiences of others.








Obviously Buenos Aires doesn't have the "best sushi in the world", because if someone every produced it here, they couldn't sell it because the locals wouldn't like it... pero bueno.

An expat amiga of mine, who rarely cooks even though she and her husband are total foodies, recently ordered delivery sushi from Benihana and was blown away at how much like real sushi (or at least her American vision of "real sushi") it was.

That's not to say that it was "the best sushi in the world", but the photo that she posted on Facebook showed nary a glop of cream cheese. Take a look.

BENIHANA





Viste?!? Did you see how pink/red that tuna was? Here in Buenos Aires?

And she posted these photos AFTER she ate the stuff, so she obviously was still impressed with what she had eaten.

Which brings me to another point.

PLEASE TAKE PERSONAL PHOTOS OF YOUR FOOD AND POST THEM WITH YOUR REVIEWS!!!

I'm a visual person, as are many others, and seeing ACTUAL PERSONAL PHOTOS, rather than just the ones on a website, are at least as good as 1,000 words/photo. Maybe more.

I have to say that the photos are very entincing . I am going to order this tonight for delivery . I will post my comments afterwards.

Guia oleo rates this very low by the way but I am willing to give this a try based on your recommendation.

http://www.guiaoleo.com.ar/restaurantes/benihana/

 

[mini]

Guia oleo rates this very low by the way but I am willing to give this a try based on your recommendation.

http://www.guiaoleo.com.ar/restaurantes/benihana/

You are forgetting that GuiaOleo is used primarily by Argentines and we all know they have different tastes. I don't even bother looking at GuiaOleo any more.

 

[jp]

Fair point on guia oleo. Lots of places score badly for having "foreigners" in there. If I put people off their dinner, I'm not really interested in their taste in food.

 

[Napoleon]

You are forgetting that GuiaOleo is used primarily by Argentines and we all know they have different tastes.

Guia Oleo Review of Benihana:

Comida: Donde estaba El Queso Filadelfia?
Servicio: Parecían chinos, pero no sé.
Ambiente: Yanquis!

Comentario: Viva El Queso Filadelfia!!!

 

[perry]

I tried Benihana with two expats last night and we found it fair but not good nor great. We tried various dishes and some of them were plain disastrous like the lemon chicken and others ok like the teriyaki beef and the tuna sashimi.

The sushi visually looks impressive and it is is generous in its serving size but I found it flavourless including the tuna which looked fresh but lacked that briny tuna flavour.

I have had better sushi in many places including To Restaurant Arevalo and Costa Rica, Little Rose Armenia and Honduras, Makisushi Billinghurst and Arenales and Sipan Paraguay and Florida.

 

[mini]

Fair point on guia oleo. Lots of places score badly for having "foreigners" in there. If I put people off their dinner, I'm not really interested in their taste in food.

That' wasn't what I was talking about really. I mean the food the Argentines like is not the food that most of us, foreigners of all varieties, like.

The only restaurant I've seen score badly for having "yankis" was the one that Napoleon just posted! lol. But I have been to restaurants that scored well and were not good or ones that we really liked and they scored really poorly, especially if the food has any sort of spice to it.

Anyway, I'm sticking to consistency, well and price/quality, being the biggest problems with restaurants in BA. Oh, and cream cheese in the sushi! bleh.

 

[jp]

That' wasn't what I was talking about really.

Nah, I understood your point. People are cut from different cloth. I'm not really interested in reading someone's opinion of a restaurant if their idea of gastronomic paradise is eating shoe leather, followed by a kilo of dulce de leche in an environment free of ethnic undesireables.

 

[Napoleon]

Nah, I understood your point. People are cut from different cloth. I'm not really interested in reading someone's opinion of a restaurant if their idea of gastronomic paradise is eating shoe leather, followed by a kilo of dulce de leche in an environment free of ethnic undesireables.

That's SALTED shoe leather. Extra salted shoe leather in fact. And it's RRRRRIQUISIMO!!!

 

[TomAtAlki]

I'm confused. Is the "best sushi in the world" at Sipan or Benihana?