6 Best Restaurants in Gaiman, Patagonia

The young owners of this resto bar provide friendly service, a creative take on Argentine and international cuisine, and excellent microbrews.

For decades the Jones family, owners of this stately redbrick corner building, ran a hotel and bar (complete with a boxing ring in the basement) here, but switched to serving steaks, pizzas, and pasta in between the tea cakes. The decision has been a success: on weekends locals pack themselves around the wooden tables to devour the generous parilladas (mixed grills).

Homemade pastas are the specialty here, but locals also tuck into hearty dishes of grilled steak, pork, and chicken at this lively restaurant with exposed brick, low lighting, wooden booths, and a traditional pub-like atmosphere. Some come just for a beer, while others come to dine.

The oldest teahouse in Gaiman, opening in 1944, the old building and decorations are as much the attraction as the Welsh cakes and tartars.

Founded in 1974, this traditional Welsh tearoom caters to tourists with its delicious cakes, desserts, and homemade bread. Located in a warm house reminiscent of a chapel, every object has a story to tell: paintings and embroidery by local artists and tablecloths with recipes and words in Welsh. It is a veritable showroom for the family's antiques, including a wood-burning stove surrounded by utensils used by Welsh settlers to cook and heat the home.

The matriarch who presides over the kitchen here, Mirna Jones, is a proud descendant of the first woman born in Gaiman. Her ivy-covered teahouse on the main square looks like a knickknack shop: it's stuffed with doodads and hung with crochet, and there are gramophones, carriage lamps, and antique radios on display above the four original chimneys, which date to 1890, although Formica paneling detracts slightly from the old-world style.