takeoverba said:
Hi, the above list contains a few "average" restaurants (i have tried them all- most are terrible tourist traps, others merely just average food and overpriced). The only restaurant I can really recommend in the whole of BA is Chez Nous in the Algodon hotel in Recoleta. Service is impeccable and the food an presentation are amazing. The tasting menu really is the best dining experience I have had in this country. PERIOD
Welcome to BAexpats. For a newbie, you sure come on like gangbusters. Unfortunately for you, anyone with even the slightest familiarity with the restaurants in my post above would know they are anything but tourist traps. You are obviously incredibly ignorant or a troll. Oh well. It takes all kinds.
For the more serious minded, here's a review I wrote on your favorite restaurant which is located around the corner from where I live. Of course, the prices are probably siginificantly higher now than they were back in Oct. 2010 when we dined there. What was the cost of the menu de gustacion when you last ate there TOBA?
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Chez nous, the restaurant in the recently opened Algodon Hotel Mansion in the Recoleta (Montevideo 1647), is the newest entry in the ultra fine dining genre. The hotel is owned by a conglomerate that also owns a bodega of the same name in Mendoza, but chef Antonio Soriano has worked in Michelin 2 and 3 star restaurants in Paris. His food reflects that pedigree, but at 285 pesos for the menu de gustacion (w/o wine), frankly, I expected better. A couple of preliminary observations raised suspicions that the restaurant is a work in progrees.
The dining room is simply, but pleasantly decorated. I would have expected to see a bouquet of flowers and or flowers on the table. None were present. The recorded music was way too loud when we entered and I had to ask that it be lowered a lot. When the wine list was presented to me the waitress advised no malbecs from the host winery were available. Late shipment or something or other. Hello?
I was somewhat surprised to see that all the servers were young women -not typical for haute cuisine establishments especially in BA. Our servers were competent, but not as polished as I would expect in a place where the main courses, portioned for one, cost more than 100 pesos.
We ordered one menu de gustacion and a main of duck breast (about 110 pesos). The amuse bouche was a scrumptious large prawn on a bed of creamy sauce the exact nature of which now slips my mind. Not all that followed was as good. The goat cheese tart appetizer was a disappointment - it seemy rubbery. The rabbit pate was unexceptional. The mahi mahi was excellent. The lamb was very good, but not sauced as I would have expected. The duck breast, served rarer than I have had it before, seemed awfully tough and not as well sauced as I expected.. I did not enjoy it. A chocolate dessert concoction consisting of several consistencies recommended by our server was excellent, but lets face it - is chocolate ever really bad?
We shared 3 glasses of house wine (28 per). With tip the tab came to 500 pesos for the two of us. I left feeling not at all 'stuffed." On the contrary, I think I ate a Vauquita Light upon arriving home.
I'll give Chez nous another chance, but I'll wait a while before returning.
