Disappointed with Food in Argentina

[FrankPintor]

It also adds umami.


I think some places might use cremoso as a cheaper alternative if it doesn't explicity say mozzarella, but I'm not sure.

Yes, cremoso can be bad. We generally get Serenísima mozzarella rolls.

Something that’s particularly nasty is Brazilian Catupiry, should you ever come across it.

 

[LuckyLuke]

Would add only one comment about the cheese quality in pizzas, Empanadas and tostados. The cheese is like a piece of Rubber that makes you choke one piece in your mouth still connected to the other down your throat. Must cut pieces of the cheese to swallow it. Different mozzarella ??

Yes I've noticed that with Pizza here, where you can see the thick strips of cheese still intact and half melted on top when it's served. Is it too much to shred a cheese so it melts evenly?

I've been doing a lot of traveling this summer with the family in San Luis & Cordoba and the inconsistency in just about everything is stunning sometimes. Everything is a hit or miss. Rabas, empanadas, pizza, pure de papa, any pasta salsa. Every dish is a gamble from one place to another. Aside from perhaps a Bife or Trucha it's a toss up. Could be the best you ever had or the worse you ever had. I suppose that's what makes flavor regional.

 

[FrankPintor]

Looking at things from the other side, Mrs. Pintor was the only customer in our local butcher's shop this morning, and so she got an earful from the owner about how she was so disappointed by her holiday in the Dominican Republic, she was only served pork and fish, not a decent milanesa to be had anywhere

 

[LuckyLuke]

Looking at things from the other side, Mrs. Pintor was the only customer in our local butcher's shop this morning, and so she got an earful from the owner about how she was so disappointed by her holiday in the Dominican Republic, she was only served pork and fish, not a decent milanesa to be had anywhere

When my wife's family from San Luis came to see the birth of our daughter in Los Angeles, my Suegra lost 7 kilos because the only things she ate during the trip was bread and coffee. Even the deli meats she found gross. You should have seen the scandal when I took them to a known local BBQ spot. "The meat is too smoky", "too sweet", "too cold", my cuñada ran out of the joint gagging because the "garlic bread was oily". What can you do...

 

[Ries]

Would add only one comment about the cheese quality in pizzas, Empanadas and tostados. The cheese is like a piece of Rubber that makes you choke one piece in your mouth still connected to the other down your throat. Must cut pieces of the cheese to swallow it. Different mozzarella ??

This is true for what they call queso de maquina. But the cheese on McDonalds Hamburgers is no better.
I find that fast food, anywhere, has the cheapest ingredients, especially corporate fast food.
(buying blue corn Tlacoyos in Mexico City being a prominent exception to this rule, but you buy them from individual abuelas and their little shopping carts)
There are pizzas, empanadas, and tostados all around CABA which use better, more expensive cheese.
Guess what- they cost more.
The fugazeta at Bar Roma Abasto, for example, has both quality mozzarella and blue cheese, along with white, green, and red onions.
The same thing applies to empanadas and tostadas. There are good ones, with quality ingredients, and, they cost more.
I find the same thing happens in rural US towns- crappy ingredients, horrible food.
I once spent a week travelling across rural Utah, and every single food item had tons of white sugar in it- BBQ sauce, Chicken dishes, every salad dressing was sweet, vegetables had sugar sauces on them, and coke only came in giant plastic cups.
If you want quality ingredients, you have to go to quality places to eat.
This is true worldwide.

 

[nikad]

I have had fantastic and terrible meals both here in Arg and in the US. Imho consistency=food chain (not a big fan).

 

[Ries]

A couple of weeks ago my son and his girlfriend came to visit, and they work in the restaurant industry- we had amazing meals at Gran Dabbang, Picaron, Nino Gordo, and several other restaurants here. They seemed to thing everything was, if not cheap, very reasonably priced compared to the places they work and eat in Seattle. They went out a bunch on their own, and found a lot of things they liked. They had a meal they really enjoyed at La Carniceria, as well.

 

[Che1990]

A couple of weeks ago my son and his girlfriend came to visit, and they work in the restaurant industry- we had amazing meals at Gran Dabbang, Picaron, Nino Gordo, and several other restaurants here. They seemed to thing everything was, if not cheap, very reasonably priced compared to the places they work and eat in Seattle. They went out a bunch on their own, and found a lot of things they liked. They had a meal they really enjoyed at La Carniceria, as well.

You can get great food here, the difference is they are - presumably - on vacation, so have the time to go out and eat in nice places.

The challenge, at least for me personally, is when you have busy daily schedule of work, sports, hobbies, eating a healthy and varied diet and good quality food is practically impossible without spending a fortune or compromising taking hours to cook (buy it all, one ingredient at a time, cook, wash the dishes etc)

 

[Rich One]

The fugazzeta at Bar Roma Abasto, for example, has both quality mozzarella and blue cheese, along with white, green, and red onions.

@Ries


Glad you mentioned the pizza a la Fugazzeta my favorite , for years when I order a Fugazzeta pizza I ask the waiter to make sure the onions are roasted golden brown.. The waiter makes a note, says sure, but the onions turn out white...

Last weekend went to La Academia at Coronel Dias and Guemes ordered a Fugazzeta, the waiter agreed that the onion would be browned. The Pizza had little onions and the onion was white, as usual. Plus the dow border of the pizza, was burnt black hard to cut with a knife .

Will check the Bar Roma Abasto to try out if their Pizza a la fugazzeta

 

[SlowWalker]

You can get great food here, the difference is they are - presumably - on vacation, so have the time to go out and eat in nice places.

The challenge, at least for me personally, is when you have busy daily schedule of work, sports, hobbies, eating a healthy and varied diet and good quality food is practically impossible without spending a fortune or compromising taking hours to cook (buy it all, one ingredient at a time, cook, wash the dishes etc)

Isn't this the same challenge globally?