Disappointed with Food in Argentina

[Ale65]

I have been in Uruguay for a week, missing migas,
A chivito sandwich here is fifteen to twenty dollars, most things are 1.5 or 2 times as expensive as Argentina. 8 dollar beers in most restaurants, five dollar cokes. Tha actually expensive restaurants are atmospheric in price. Mallman has a casual beach shack lunch place for $125 usd fixed price- salad, sandwich, dessert.
Tomorrow I am having a 3000 peso miga…at home in BA

If you are still in Uruguay have the sandwich de miga there. It's only 2200 pesos in Tienda inglesa.

 

[Ries]

If you are still in Uruguay have the sandwich de miga there. It's only 2200 pesos in Tienda inglesa.

I dont go to big box stores, and aside from Montevideo I didn’t see any Tienda Inglesas in the small rural areas I was in. But online, it says a miga at TI is 330 ur pesos, which is about 8$ us. I did go to a fresh market, which is part of the Devoto chain, and their sandwiches were all over ten dollars. I went to a tiny town, pop 100, dirt roads, the almacen was the size of a walkin closet. No tourists, its a half hour drivr to the nearest town with a ferreteria. We shared a burger, a half salad, and a coke. 1000 pesos ur, which is about 25$ us. Uruguay is expensive, for average rural urugayans.

 

[Ale65]

That price is for 9 units..
So every unit is 37 pesos which comes out at just under a dollar per unit.
I used big box store prices on purpose to eliminate the tourist factor..

 

[Ries]

Uruguay has many areas that are quite remote from big cities. Certainly there are higher and lower prices. But I was amazed at the everyday prices in non-tourist areas. We did not visit Punta, and in Montevideo we stay in downtown, not Pocitos or Punta Carretas or even Ciudad Viejas. Just observing prices at the average kiosko, or small coffee shop full of average urugayans, or at almacens in tiny towns far from the beach, prices are consistently higher than Argentina for just about everything except chinese imports and electronics.

 

[on the brink]

Prices in the "interior" are higher than in Montevideo. I regularly order from Tienda Inglesa or Devoto - better stuff, and slightly lower prices. Delivered by bus package service to the local bus station.

In Rosario, Colonia, grocery prices at the local, second-rate TaTa chain are twice what they are in Buenos Aires.

 

[Caribbean Cool]

A few nights ago we went to an old name restaurant in Buenos Aires, on Soldado de Independencia. Las Palmas. No we didn't as It was gone gone. Jacobs Bagels on Arce quit about 6 months ago. A loss for me. But in any case, restaurant prices here in Las Canitas are unaffordable and that is for food that is basically unremarkable and consistently boring.

Well, I should not complain about everything. I found sardines, yes plain old sardines, via Mercado Libre!

 

[Che1990]

A few nights ago we went to an old name restaurant in Buenos Aires, on Soldado de Independencia. Las Palmas. No we didn't as It was gone gone. Jacobs Bagels on Arce quit about 6 months ago. A loss for me. But in any case, restaurant prices here in Las Canitas are unaffordable and that is for food that is basically unremarkable and consistently boring.

Well, I should not complain about everything. I found sardines, yes plain old sardines, via Mercado Libre!

Imports are more readily available and cheaper is a win for sure.

But eating out is still ridiculously expensive for the poor quality.

The bagels I see are all like 20k, $14 USD for what will probably be a small portion, with shit quality bread and lacklustre at best mediocre ingredients. Not to mention the wait.

 

[Che1990]

Prices in the "interior" are higher than in Montevideo. I regularly order from Tienda Inglesa or Devoto - better stuff, and slightly lower prices. Delivered by bus package service to the local bus station.

In Rosario, Colonia, grocery prices at the local, second-rate TaTa chain are twice what they are in Buenos Aires.

How I miss Devoto. They were everywhere and have bakeries, so you can get fresh French stick bread quickly
And easily at 8am or 11pm.

Imagine that here.

 

[FlowerPot]

Imports are more readily available and cheaper is a win for sure.

But eating out is still ridiculously expensive for the poor quality.

The bagels I see are all like 20k, $14 USD for what will probably be a small portion, with shit quality bread and lacklustre at best mediocre ingredients. Not to mention the wait.

So far, haven't found the quality of food to be bad but I agree about the bread (not as fluffy as I'm used to, with a yeasty taste). But I guess that's just the Argentine way of baking bread not really a reflection of the quality.

 

[Paige55]

To all disappointed in bread/pastries: In Chacarita there's an incredible cafe called Anchoíta Panaderia (the hyperlink is to their Google Maps page). I stopped by today while on a walk. It's very expensive but I picked up a loaf of sourdough (which they asked if I'd like sliced for me), a chocolate croissant and a cafe con leche. All items have blown me away and the service was out of this world. It's a bit hipster, and prices are high, but as a treat once and again when my paycheck is padded with overtime...it's top of my list now. A tiny space but also looks a pretty chill spot to have lunch (they have ham and butter baguette on the menu, very Parisian style). The quality of the products is noted, coffee was the best I've tasted here in 13 years.