Whats the best restaurant in Buenos Aires?
 

Travelling to Buenos Aires on Tuesday.

Can anyone recommend a really good restaurant, the kind that you don't want to miss if you're in that city just once?


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For steak, Cabana las Lilas in the Puerto Madero neighborhood of Buenos Aires is a "not-to-be-missed". It's the first and last place I eat whenever there.

I loved Cabana as well. Another choice would be the restaurant at the Alvear Palace Hotel. Top-notch service, very elegant, we had outstanding chateaubriand there. It's a bit pricier. Cabana is a bit more of a factory, although the steak was fantastic.

The steak really is outstanding, maybe the best in the world. The rest of the food is OK but not great, however the steak more than makes up for it. Every flight crew in EZE seems to stop by to eat here, it gets busy after midnight. Lots of good food in this city, including some of the best ice cream in the world (located in the food court in the basement of the main shopping gallery (Galerias Pacificos)).

Thanks for everyone's imput!

I'll let you know how it went when I get back to Toronto in a week.

Cheers ;)

"Sinclair", on the corner of Sinclair and Cervino, in Palermo, is the best place I've been to. Gaucho100K originally recommended the place to me a while back and he knows his Buenos Aires better than anybody on this board.

Cabana is also an excellent steakhouse, for sure.

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I agree with Cabana las lilas for steak. Start with a "provoleta" to be shared at the table (they can split it 2/3/4 ways) it's a chunk of grilled (yes grilled) provolone.

Besides steak, Argentines excel at Italian food -- but you won't find red sauce or meatballs very much. I like Piegari, which is in the Posadas underpass under Av. 9 de Julio, next to the Four Seasons Hotel. Specialties include: Sorrentinos alla Francesa (big raviolis stuffed with Italian ham and cheese); Raviolis alla Scroffa (little spinach raviolis with a pesto sauce); Fideos de Morrones (Red-Pepper fettucine with a fresh sweet pepper-tomato sauce); they also make a good pizza. If you have to wait for your table, walk straight back to the stand-up bar. The girl there will pour you some champagne.

I think I could spend my life in Argentina going from ice cream shop to ice cream shop. They really have got the whole idea of ice cream shop down to a fine art down there.

Steaks; yada, yada, yada. Better steaks in Uruguay.

Then help me out with Montevideo, Punta or Colonia, all of which seem to struggle to provide as good steak in my perhaps unfortunate experience.

Again, Thanks to all who have posted!

Very enlightening, articulate and valuable information for a fellow hungry traveler.

Boarding my AC flight to EZE right now.


Cheers to all! :)

The quince ice creams are extra-ordinary. It is an Italian gelato style but better than any that I've had in Italy (and there are some great ice creams in Italy!). Some very interesting fruit flavours (the non-fruit are not as successful, for the most part, and chocolate is downright disappointing).