No boos or hisses, please, but I am a vegetarian. Any recommendations for me, please?

Very good salad bars in many restaurants, including the one where we have dinner after my "The REAL Buenos Aires" tour.

But boooooooooo, anyway! LOL!!!

OH NO. Even a boo from you doesn't discourage me. I remain a fan.

My apologies avrooster, it was indeed dr.dawggy's comments I referred to. I guess sometimes my eyes cross when reading through these threads. Sorry for the mistake!

There are some very good vegetarian options in BA, even if they're not the most common of restaurants. Plus, if you don't mind being surrounded by omnivores and carnivores, most restaurants offer some kind of vegetarian options - like pastas, salads, and even sojas milanesas (breaded tofu "cutlets"). I've started reviewing a few of the vegetarian options on my site, saltshaker.net, and more will be added as I get to them and try them out!

I have you bookmarked, Dan. Great site.

Giovana,

AV does not drink wine, so he has no idea what he is missing....as for me, I find both the steak and the Malbec special in Argentina!

Some good answers here. We were down in BA in November 04 and love it. The food and wine were great. We're planning on going again in less than two week and we are including Mendoza this time.


Now for our report. We had read about Cabana Las Lilas and it was the first place we went. It was good and we really enjoyed the atmosphere, but there are so many good restaurants in Argentina. It's relatively expensive for BA. We spent about $80USD while most places were about $30 USD for the same thing.

We also went to 1880 on Sunday during the antiques fair. Very good food, fun atmosphere, and great wine on their wine list.

La Brigada (San Telmo). This was an outstanding parilla (steak house). It is a small family run steak house that was very reasonably priced. The lomo here with salad was 16 pesos. We had Luigi Bosca Reserva Cabernet 2001 for 48 pesos and it was terrific. We knew we were in for a treat when the waiter brought our steaks and cut them with a spoon to make sure they were done correctly. Argentine beef is very tasty. Jackie is very fussy about beef and will cut away any (no matter how small) standing fat. She cut nothing away at any of the restaurants. I would highly recommend this restaurant.

La Caballeriza. Located next to Cabanas Los Lilas, this was a place with great food and a nice atmosphere. We order Salentein 2002 Cabernet (one I had found as a recommended wine and one we brought back with us). La Caballeriza is a very nice restaurant with a lovely atmosphere for lunch or dinner. Again I highly recommend it.

We made the shift from eating our big meal at lunch rather than dinner on our second day. We were over by Teatro Colon and were hungry. We ate at Tribunales Plaza (Talcahuano 610). We had a; a quarter chicken, a tenderloin steak (very good) and a demi bottle of Norten Cabernet all for 28 pesos. Pretty good food and you get free internet access too. Tribunales is a very bright and nice place to eat.

One day we were seeking a restroom and found a nice restaurant Capriattis at Corrientes 1302. The bathroom was very clean and to make us feel okay about using it we had a cappuccino and a piece of cake. The pastries were very good and again very cheap. It was about 9 pesos for both the cappuccino and the pastry.

Hope this helps.

dr.dawggy:

We enjoyed the Malbec on our recent visit and I have been looking for it now that we are home. I found a bottle of La Boca Malbec last weekend while shopping. It has a stylized label with Los Caminitos on it. We can only hope it tastes as good as it looks. LOL Chilean wines are plentiful here, but I will continue to search for the Argentine wine. We hope to visit Mendoza and some wineries on our next trip to Argentina.

Giovanna,

I cannot find good Malbec in my area, but there are several on-line sources.

www.winezap.com is a search engine for on-line purchases....I have bought several times from www.capitalwine.com. They have a good selection of Malbecs available for reasonable prices ( Nieto Senentier, Alamos, Acheval Ferrer, etc). The cost for shipping is partially offset by not paying local taxes....
Hope this helps.

ttt for US board poster

Bar 6 for breakfast

Kayoko for sushi and authentic Japanese food (owner and chef had 2 restaurants in Japan for 25 years).

Cala or Romario for empanadas and beer.

Meridian for almond-crusted codfish (to die for).

Bereber for Morroccan food and Green Bamboo for Thai food.

Armenian Society and Syrian Society for lots of good quality middle-eastern cuisine. I'm sure I'll think of more later.

Kaycee, Nice list!

Where is Meridian? In case I get a craving for codfish

Drdawggy, are you in Argentina now?

Doc Holliday is coming to our wild town in May, I believe.

Thank you, AVROOSTER.

topping for tina

We were in Buenos Aires for a week at the end of February - beginning of March. Our absolute favorite restaurant was Casa Cruz on Uriarte (Palermo Soho) -- it was one of the top meals we've had anywhere in the world and very interesting to watch the Portenos glitterati. We also loved Sirop (Vincente Lopez in Recoleta), La Parrollacia (Puerto Madero) and ate at Bar Uriarte (Uriarate in Palermo Soho) for lunch twice and really enjoyed it. We tried to go to La Brigada for lunch one day during the week while we were browsing the antique shops, but got tired of waiting after 30 minutes and decided it was way too much food for us at lunch. We found a delightful place (unfortuantely, I can't remember the name) very close to Plaza Dorrego that had terrific grilled provoleta and good salads, and, of course, a nice Argentinian red wine.

Agentinian beef is the BEST!!!!!!
Try the restaurants in the "Puerto Madero" area. They are a little expensive but oh.... my God!!!!!