The Top 15 Places to Eat Near Julia
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Rank 2. Don Julio Parrilla
Argentine Steakhouse
- 50 Best 2025 · #10 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best #3 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 8. Madre Rojas
Argentine Steakhouse
A parrilla in Villa Crespo where the chef also raises the cattle, which means the beef actually has a biography. The Wagyu-Angus cross is dry-aged in-house, then finished over wood fire with real restraint. The room is stone, timber, and glowing coals, drawing the kind of crowd that wants to understand what they're eating. It's landed on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, and honestly, once the team walks you through the breed and the pasture, a regular steakhouse feels like a lie.
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Palermo's answer to "what if asado was a tasting menu around a live fire" is right here. Fogón Asado seats you at a counter facing the grill, so the whole meal unfolds in front of you as a guided sequence, beef, vegetables, bread, and wine chosen to move with the fire rather than around it. It's intimate, unhurried, and genuinely precise. The crowd tends toward curious food people who want the real thing, not a steakhouse.
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- 50 Best Latin America's Best Sommelier Award 2025, sponsored by Vik · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants · Maximiliano Pérez
- 50 Best #27 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
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A proper wood-fired parrilla on the banks of the Río de la Plata, and one of the places Buenos Aires locals would be quietly offended if you skipped. Dry-aged beef cooked over fire with the kind of assurance that only comes from doing it for generations, served by a room full of staff who've been here forever and know it. Families, regulars, and the occasional out-of-towner who got the right tip all share the same easy, generous space.