Lunch In La Boca

[Styleles]

Any suggestions of something decent in the middle of a milion expensive tourist places?

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Last time I went I ordered something simple, like a sandwich de lomo and a beer, it was fine, there was a gaucho show, the price was OK. All much of a muchness.

If you don't want that, eat after you leave or before you go because 2 hours in la boca is plenty ! Not my favourite place.

 

[TomAtAlki]

As long as you are going to Boca, spend some time at Proa (museum), I think there is a good show on now and you can have lunch upstairs. Pricey but nice place.
Nancy

 

[Styleles]

Yeah i'm mainly going there for Ron Mueck's exhibition, will check out the museum cafe!

 

[French jurist]

This one is a bit outside La Boca (don't go there by yourself, take a cab). Great place, very authentic, very few tourists, the restaurant exists since decades
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g312741-d1012355-Reviews-El_Obrero-Buenos_Aires_Capital_Federal_District.html

Inside La Boca, I've also been to a great restaurant I've been unable to find again later (! if anyone knows).
It's in an old house, typical of La Boca, with funny looking seats, etc. There's a courtyard behind you need to cross to go to the bathroom (if that helps anyone to find the name of this place, I want to go there again)

 

[RichardP]

El Obrero. Right around the corner from my mother-in-law.

 

[Ries]

El Obrero is great, not touristy- but its only like 3 blocks- you take a taxi for that? We just walk. At night, maybe a taxi, but during the day?

 

[nledec]

El Obrero is fantastic. The word has started to get out though amongst some tourists. Last time I was there in warm weather there was a decent wait for a table due to the number of European tourists wanting to be seated. Still totally worth it, but get there perhaps early.

 

[French jurist]

4 in a row to recommend Obrero, lol

 

[La Marlina]

Take a cab. Myself and two friends were mugged walking those three blocks on our way back to El Caminito after our lovely lunch. We took a cab there, but thought, "well, it's just three blocks, what could happen?" The answer - my friends were physically assaulted, pushed up against brick wall by a pair of 15 year olds, threatened, hit, purses stollen, and were very rattled. I saw it coming and ran, the guys didn't catch me, por suerte, but I saw the attack on my friends, and I felt horrible that I couldn't help them.

Bottom line - better safe than sorry.

PPS. My husband is from a different part of La Boca, and he told me not to walk to or from El Obrero. I wish we had listened.