The Best Argentine Food in Buenos Aires

A tasting menu restaurant tucked at the end of a cobblestoned passage in Recoleta, where chef Gonzalo Aramburu paints directly on eggshells and assembles spider crab to look precisely like a spider crab leg. The single menu changes with the seasons and leans hard into Atlantic seafood, with Argentine wine pairings to match. Dessert happens upstairs in a lounge with armchairs. It holds two Michelin stars and a spot on Latin America's 50 Best list.

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An open-pit barbecue and a clay oven anchor the dining room at this contemporary asado restaurant inside the Faena Hotel, where the kitchen runs almost entirely on fire and smoke. Aberdeen Angus beef is sourced from dedicated ranches in Pampas and Patagonia, aged up to three weeks, then finished over local wood. The sommelier holds a Latin America's 50 Best award, and the 400-bottle Argentine wine list makes a decent case for why.

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2. The 50 Latin America's Best Sommelier Award 2025, sponsored by Vik · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants · Maximiliano Pérez

An organic garden out back supplies the herbs and leaves, and the kitchen works outward from there, pulling line-caught fish and pasture-raised meat from as close as possible. It's a casual sit-down restaurant in the Buenos Aires suburbs where the wooden furniture and wall of plants feel less like décor and more like a hint at how the food is sourced. The place landed on Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants list, which the room makes easy to believe.

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Chuchú sits inside Buenos Aires's National Railway Museum, which means the dining room looks out at an old wooden carriage on one side and the towers of Retiro on the other. Tables are arranged like a train car, and a long marble counter runs through it all. The menu is casual Argentinian, with a dedicated section for grilled dishes. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place this relaxed and this committed to feeding you properly.

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Fire is the organizing principle here, not just a cooking method, and the tasting menu is built around it in almost philosophical stages. This intimate contemporary restaurant in Palermo Hollywood sends out dishes rooted in seasonal Argentine produce, with the chef pulling from childhood memory as much as technique. Vaporous curtains divide the room into something quieter and more considered than the neighborhood outside suggests.

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The open kitchen and counter grill at the center of this contemporary Chacarita restaurant mean you watch the fire do its work while you eat. The building was a siphon factory once, and the industrial bones are still showing. The menu is built for sharing, ranging from Guaraní-inspired dishes and river fish to serious cuts of meat cooked to a precise temperature of your choosing. The team also runs a wine bar and a bakery next door, which tracks.

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The open-view grill in the middle of the room is the whole point here, and in Puerto Madero it has been the whole point for a long time. This is a large, elegant Argentinian steakhouse where the beef comes from multiple breeds and the menu runs from ribeye to offal to a daily fish, with an impressive parade of sides. Famous enough that Macron and Federer have both turned up for dinner, which is either a recommendation or a warning about the room.

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The curved walls of La Casa Redonda, an art nouveau mansion in Palermo Chico, frame one of Buenos Aires's more atmospheric spots for a contemporary Argentine meal. The kitchen draws on local products with the occasional Italian lean, supervised by the chef behind Mendoza's Michelin-starred Riccitelli Bistró. The Dante-inspired interior is a lot, in the best sense, and the à la carte menu runs from breakfast through to dinner.

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The cheese room just inside the entrance does its work before you've even sat down. This is an Argentinian steakhouse inside the Park Hyatt, where the parrilla grill runs the show and portions lean toward the generous side of abundant. The wine list leans heavily local, in the best possible sense, and the arched doors open onto a garden terrace that makes the city feel very far away.

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The Milanesa Napolitana here follows the chef's grandmother Evelia's recipe, which is also the restaurant's name and its whole ethos in one neat package. It's a neighborhood trattoria-meets-Buenos Aires parrilla, sitting near the Estadio Monumental, turning out housemade filled pastas with doughs tailored to each shape alongside proper Milanesas. The open kitchen keeps things honest, and the Italian-porteño menu reads like someone actually cooks this way at home.

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A steakhouse on the Puerto Madero waterfront that has been feeding everyone from Louis Armstrong to Sophia Loren, and isn't shy about it. The room is formal and old-school, the kind of place where jackets feel right, and the parrilla does most of the talking. The Gran Baby Beef, cooked low and slow for up to an hour, is what regulars point to. Classic Argentine steakhouse, with the swagger to match.

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A bear riding a velocipede is the sign outside, which tells you something about the vibe within. Picarón is a small-plates spot in Chacarita doing contemporary Peruvian cooking with Argentine and broader Latin ingredients, plus the occasional detour through Asia. The open kitchen behind the bar, the glass wine cellar, the colorful facade, a pavement terrace: it's a bistro that takes its food seriously without taking itself seriously.

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The original tiled floors survived the renovation of this old Recoleta house, and the asado-smoke-and-cocktails vibe that fills it now feels like a lucky accident. It's a proper Argentinian steakhouse, relaxed and young in spirit, where premium cuts get serious attention over the traditional grill. The empanadas use hand-chopped meat, the cocktail list is longer than you'd expect, and sides are ordered separately, which the menu will remind you of, firmly.

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