The Best Italian Food in Buenos Aires
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The best Italian food in Buenos Aires, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide and 50 Top Pizza have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. La Alacena Trattoria comes out on top.
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Atte. Pizzeria Napoletana and Casa Veltri hold the next two places. The Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with 50 Top Pizza next.
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Rank 1. La Alacena Trattoria
Italian
Julieta Oriolo's trattoria on Gascón runs on the logic of family cooking: handmade pasta rolled with durum wheat and free-range eggs, antipasti, and a polpette dal sugo that regulars tend to order without looking up. The room has the informal ease of somewhere that genuinely doesn't care whether you know the right wines. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and two blocks away the team runs a pastificio where you can take the pasta home.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 2. Atte. Pizzeria Napoletana
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The wood-fired oven sits in plain sight, the way it would in Naples, and the pizzas that come out of it are properly leavened and blistered in the Neapolitan tradition. This Palermo pizzeria pairs that orthodoxy with Argentine wines by the glass and a menu that quietly folds in local ingredients alongside the Italian ones. Service runs quick without feeling rushed, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.
The awards
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #14 · 50 Top Pizza Latin America
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Rank 2. Casa Veltri
Italian
An old Recoleta mansion that spent decades as an art gallery before someone had the better idea of filling it with pasta. The Italian restaurant inside keeps the elegant bones and adds shelves of imported goods near the door, so you leave with a jar of something you didn't plan on buying. Homemade orecchiette and risottos stirred to order set the pace, while the set lunch brings it down to earth a little.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. Chuí
Vegetarian Pizzeria
A cabinet of growing mushrooms and another of preserves and pickles sit in plain view of the open kitchen, which also houses both a clay oven and a pizza oven. This vegetarian and vegan restaurant occupies a vast, semi-open industrial warehouse beside the railway tracks, with a rustic garden making it feel like an unlikely city oasis. Wild mushrooms anchor much of the menu, and the pizzas come with fermented touches that are hard to leave alone.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. Raggio Osteria
Italian
A Bologna-born chef running an Italian osteria inside a Palermo Soho hotel, cooking with Argentinian zero-mile ingredients as if the two countries had always been in on the same secret. The pasta is made properly, the braised beef cheek goes six hours at low heat, and the panna cotta comes from the family recipe. Unpretentious, unhurried, and a little warmer than the neighborhood usually manages.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 2. Siamo nel Forno
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The name translates to "we are in the oven," which tells you exactly where priorities lie. This Palermo pizzeria turns out wood-fired Neapolitan pies with a crust that's soft, a little puffy, and easy to eat three slices in before you notice. The menu keeps creativity on a short leash, leaning on a handful of classics done precisely, plus a three-cheese-and-walnut pie that earns its place. Italian wines and a good beer list round things out.
The awards
- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza: #21 · 50 Top Pizza Latin America
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Rank 7. Nuvola
Neapolitan Pizzeria
The staff uniforms pull their blue from the Neapolitan flag, which tells you exactly how seriously this pizzeria takes the source material. The menu runs from the classics to pies built around regional Italian ingredients, with local vegetables and cheeses doing the heavy lifting. Fried starters and Italian desserts round things out, and the drinks list leans into Italian staples. Named among 50 Top Pizza Latin America's Excellent Pizzerias.
The awards