Disappointed with Food in Argentina

[steveinbsas]

I have only been "dissapointed with the food in Argentina" five times in the past fifteen years: they were all of the five times I consumed food in restaurants. Three of those times I had pizza at the same joint and the other two times I had almost inedible beef in the two most "popular" restaurants in Punta Alta.

 

[on the brink]

Every time I have eaten in "the north" its pale and tasteless imitations of miami food.
Burger 57, Kansas, bad pizza, and coffee shops.
I am sure there are a few good restaurants past General Paz, but they are not numerous.
But the cars in the parking lots are very expensive, to be sure.
And the young men riding ducati's are very handsome.

Kansas is for tourists, and for snobbish Argentines yearning to live in Miami. Most Northern residents prefer smaller, non-chain restaurants hidden away in back streets.

However, the names of those restaurants are a well-guarded secret of the locals, eager to avoid floods of tourists and "foreigners", i.e. non-residents.

Sorry, but that's the way it is. Took me a couple of years to break into the close-knit community, but it was worth it.

 

[FrankPintor]

There are some nice restaurants in Zona Norte, at the risk of a bunch or foreigners descending on us, here are some options:

Gamboa, off R9 after the Cardales intersection, is interesting (it’s a vineyard). Estancia Vigil at that intersection is supposed to be good. There’s an Italian restaurant on the Sofitel grounds (I ate at their other restaurant in Campana). In Los Cardales village you have Aurum and Chizzi, both well spoken of.

There are second tier options, like Los Ceibos in Los Cardales village, and places along the green like Trevi and Di Yorio, as well as Pipa’s Bar at weekends a bit further on.

No Porteño will ever admit it, but there is life on the other side of the General Paz.

 

[on the brink]

No Porteño will ever admit it, but there is life on the other side of the General Paz.

On the other hand, my fellow San Isidrenses feel compassion for those not lucky enough to live in San Isidro, or at least in Vicente Lopez.

 

[chris]

Kansas is for tourists, and for snobbish Argentines yearning to live in Miami. Most Northern residents prefer smaller, non-chain restaurants hidden away in back streets.

However, the names of those restaurants are a well-guarded secret of the locals, eager to avoid floods of tourists and "foreigners", i.e. non-residents.

Sorry, but that's the way it is. Took me a couple of years to break into the close-knit community, but it was worth it.

Floods of tourists? These days?

 

[FrankPintor]

Floods of tourists? These days?

I don't know the tourist / snob breakdown, but there was a 30-45min wait time for a table at Kansas in Pilar del Este at 2:30pm las Saturday.

We passed on it and went on to Maru Botana in La Aldea a few mins further on, which was quite nice. There are a couple of restaurants in La Aldea, must go back sometime.

 

[on the brink]

Floods of tourists? These days?

"Tourists" mean anyone NOT FROM SAN ISIDRO or nearby privileged neighborhoods.

On weekends, Porteños stampede to have lunch along the river, anywhere from Vicente Lopez to Tigre.

 

[sergio]

I don't know the tourist / snob breakdown, but there was a 30-45min wait time for a table at Kansas in Pilar del Este at 2:30pm las Saturday.

We passed on it and went on to Maru Botana in La Aldea a few mins further on, which was quite nice. There are a couple of restaurants in La Aldea, must go back sometime.

Tourists in Pilar? Not likely. There aren't many in CABA these days

 

[Bajo_cero2]

On the other hand, my fellow San Isidrenses feel compassion for those not lucky enough to live in San Isidro, or at least in Vicente Lopez.

No, I mean Maschwitz, Escobar, Loma Verde, Nordelta.

 

[FrankPintor]

No, I mean Maschwitz, Escobar, Loma Verde, Nordelta.

Ingeniero Maschwitz is quite nice, the Paseo Mendoza and Mercado Maschwitz have some restaurant options. It gets very busy at weekends, though. Escobar has always seemed a bit disappointing to me, especially considering the Japanese immigration to the area.