The 100 Best Places in Argentina

The wine bottles covering the walls have handwritten notes from past diners, and there are 60,000 more in the cellar below. Don Julio is a Palermo parrilla where the beef is farmed, butchered, and aged in-house, then finished over white quebracho charcoal on a V-shaped grill. It holds a Michelin star and sits at number ten on the World's 50 Best list. Book months ahead, or join the queue and accept the empanadas.

A winery in Las Compuertas where you can arrive by helicopter, which sets the tone. The Durigutti brothers focus on Malbec but also produce natural, organic, and rare cuvées that reward the detour. Cycling the vineyard rows and ending up at a gourmet picnic is a gentler option. The on-site guesthouse, Finca Victoria, has wooden-beamed ceilings and open fires. Ranked 11th on The World's 50 Best Vineyards list.

The winery is built in the shape of a cross, which sounds like an architectural boast until you learn the four wings actually feed wine by gravity into underground cellars beneath the Uco Valley floor. Tastings happen down there, around a two-tonne limestone table pulled from a nearby quarry, with oak barrels and compass roses carved into the stone for company. Salentein holds a spot on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list, and the Andes looming outside make the whole thing feel slightly unreal.

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.

The Altura Máxima vineyard sits at over 3,000 metres, which means the vines are closer to the clouds than most commercial flights get above sea level. This remote Salta winery, a spot on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list, is fully biodynamic, with an organic farm and orchards feeding the onsite restaurant. Guests choose from four tasting options and can stay at the boutique mountain ranch if descending feels like too much effort.

Named for the part of Vietnam that was once a French colony, CoChinChina is a cocktail bar in Palermo where the drinks come from Inés de los Santos, a name serious bar people say without needing to explain. The interior runs deep, with distinct rooms to discover and a hidden private room somewhere in the back. Food leans Franco-Vietnamese, bánh mì and all. Ranked 26th on the World's 50 Best Bars list, it draws the kind of crowd that knows exactly where it is going.

Ten diners at a single cedarwood counter, watching a kitchen team work in near silence through sixteen courses: that is the whole idea at Trescha. The chef trained across Europe before returning to Argentina to build a fine-dining tasting menu around local ingredients, with a dedicated test kitchen driving constant change. It holds a Michelin star and a spot on Latin America's 50 Best. The converted Villa Crespo mansion means dessert lands on a glass terrace, which is a nice problem to have.

In a city where beef is practically a religion, this Palermo seafood restaurant holds a Michelin star and a spot on Latin America's 50 Best list while making the case for Argentina's coastline instead. The loft dining room runs on intimate lighting, charcoal smoke, and a glass wine cellar, and the oyster bar does Patagonian shells three ways before the menu moves on to wood-grilled fish and southern-coast shellfish. The rooftop garden supplies the kitchen.

A Michelin-starred tasting-menu restaurant in Mendoza where the region itself is essentially the co-chef. The kitchen works with local suppliers and a heritage food project tracing ingredients back to the area's earliest settlements, so goat, vegetables, and hyper-regional produce carry the menus rather than decorate them. Three tasting formats run from four to nine courses, and the sommelier's enthusiasm for what's in the glass matches the kitchen's for what's on the plate.

The wines age in an underground cellar called the Cava del Ángel, where Gregorian chants pipe through the walls on the theory that music helps them along. Whether or not that works, it sets the mood. Bodega Kaiken is a Mendoza winery and tasting experience, ranked on the World's 50 Best Vineyards, with vineyard walks, cellar tours, and Malbec pours framed by an unignorable view of the Andes. Francis Mallmann's open-fire restaurant is on site.

Paul Hobbs, one of the original Opus One winemaking team, built this glass and concrete winery in Luján de Cuyo to put Argentine Malbec on the global map, and it landed at #49 on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list. Small-group tours wind through the vineyards and underground cellar before settling into a curated tasting with food pairings. A second, more immersive experience runs up in the high-altitude Uco Valley, where the landscape does a lot of the convincing.

Buenos Aires' first listening bar hides a headphone-operated jukebox inside a Palermo Soho townhouse, where each guest can cue their own song without disturbing the room. The team behind Tres Monos fitted the space with wood paneling, leather seats, and mid-century modern lamps for a private-club feel loosely borrowed from 1960s Japanese audio bars. It ranks on the World's 50 Best Bars list.

Classical statues and ornamental fountains line the grounds of the Arizu family's historic Maipú estate, which Luigi Bosca has opened as a wine tourism destination. Guided tours move through some of the winery's oldest vines before landing at a tasting, and the neoclassical mansion makes the whole thing feel less like a winery visit and more like crashing a very elegant garden party where everyone is extremely focused on malbec.

A giant baby-shaped balloon floating above the entrance is how you find this Asian-Argentine restaurant in Palermo Soho, which tells you something about the room before you walk in. Everything inside is red, hung with lanterns, and loud in the best way. Argentine ingredients meet Japanese, Korean, and Thai technique, landing on a #21 spot on Latin America's 50 Best list. Sit at the bar facing the kitchen if you can.

The jars of homemade preserves and cured meats displayed in the back cellar tell you everything about what kind of place this is: a bodegón, Buenos Aires's answer to the neighborhood tavern, where Spanish and Italian-inflected classics have been feeding Palermo for generations. The team behind Don Julio runs it now, and the organic vegetables come from their own garden. It landed on Latin America's 50 Best list at number 24.

The dining room sits inside the Catena Zapata winery, a building shaped like a Mayan pyramid, and the kitchen takes the concept one step further: every dish is designed around wine, not paired with it after the fact. It's a Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant where the two chefs cook through the flavors of Mendoza, and the meal begins with a walk through the winery and a vermouth in the distillery, which is a hard opening act to follow.

In a corner of the Luján de Cuyo wine country that nobody would photograph on purpose, this intimate tasting-menu restaurant holds a Michelin star. The chef trained under Carme Ruscalleda and brings that precision to Mendoza's local larder, running two menus, short and long. The room is small enough that service feels like attention rather than performance.

The open kitchen lets you feel the fire from your seat on the covered terrace, which sets the tone for what follows. Cal is a tasting menu restaurant on a working organic estate southwest of Mendoza, where vegetables, meat, and wine all come from the land around you. The seven courses are organized around the landscape itself, from the kitchen garden to the Andes. It holds a Michelin star.

The dining room at this vineyard restaurant is inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, which sets a certain tone before you've even looked at the menu. Alejandro Vigil, the winemaker behind it all, has a Michelin star here and a reputation in wine circles that precedes him by several counties. The kitchen runs seasonal menus rooted in Mendoza produce, much of it from the property's own garden, with a staff that treats service as a competitive sport.

A Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant inside a converted mansion that was once a small hotel, with a cocktail bar and wine cellar tucked into what used to be the lobby spaces. The Colombian chef Aris Pabón runs a four-or-eight-course contemporary menu built around Mendoza's ingredients, with enough technique and quiet wit that one dish is named after a prawn's existential dread of the spoon coming for it.

You ring a doorbell, walk a corridor, and arrive at a 20-seat counter facing an open kitchen, with a traditional Korean costume dominating the far wall. Han is a fine-dining tasting-menu restaurant in Villa Crespo where chef Pablo Park runs two contemporary Korean menus, one seasonal and evolving, with wine pairing available. It holds a Michelin star, which tells you roughly what the evening costs and how seriously to dress.

A seven-course tasting menu whose chapters are named after stages of winemaking, Terroir through Ageing, tells you exactly what La VidA is up to. The glass-fronted kitchen and exposed beams give the dining room some texture, and the service starts before you sit, with a welcome cocktail at the bar. Pairings run exclusively through Susana Balbo's top labels. It holds a Michelin star.

Repurposed shipping containers set among old vines in Luján de Cuyo, which is either the most on-brand thing Mendoza has ever done or just a great idea. This Michelin-starred fine dining room, from the Riccitelli winery, sends chef Juan Ventureyra's tasting menus through Mendoza's culinary roots, with the kitchen's own gardens doing most of the heavy lifting. Vegetables lead, protein follows, and a winery tour comes with the meal.

Zonda sits inside the Lagarde winery in Luján de Cuyo, and what's on your plate was likely growing in the estate's organic gardens that morning. It holds a Michelin star for cooking that starts with that kind of simplicity and ends somewhere more refined, the regional Argentine pantry rendered through careful technique and delicate presentation. The dining room has that rustic-elegant winery feel, and the terrace looks out over the vines.

A 22-seat modern restaurant in Villa Crespo where the tasting menu shifts with what the chef calls micro-seasons, meaning the kitchen is chasing produce windows most places ignore. The open kitchen is visible from some seats, which gives you something to watch while the small team plates courses that photograph embarrassingly well. It holds a spot on Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants list. Dinner only, Monday to Friday, with a waitlist to match.

There's no sign on the corner concrete building in Núñez, which is either a statement or a test. Inside, a curtain parts onto an industrial loft where the kitchen and dining room share the same open air, and the chef cooks almost everything, starters through dessert, over fire. Portions run large and plates can be split, which suits the informal, sharing-everything mood. It holds a spot on Latin America's 50 Best list.

A few steps from the Jardín Japonés, Mishiguene, which is Yiddish for "crazy," fills every night with people eating their way through a contemporary take on Jewish cuisine rooted in chef Tomás Kalika's childhood and the immigrant traditions that shaped it. The pastrón, a prime rib cured, smoked, and steamed over the better part of a day, tells you the kitchen is not in a hurry. A tasting menu runs alongside the à la carte.

Galloping horse sculptures flank the entrance, and the polo theme carries right through to the leather-furnished Pony Line Lounge, which well-heeled Recoleta regulars treat as a personal living room. This Forbes Four Star hotel splits its 165 rooms between a modern tower and a Belle Époque mansion, the two connected through an outdoor pool and terrace. It holds a certain conviction that luxury and local character belong together, and the renovation made that argument in full.

A converted 1930s palace in Recoleta, built by a government minister who came back from France with big ideas and a fondness for Louis XVI excess. The silk curtains and crystal chandeliers are original to the spirit, if not always the fixtures. As Buenos Aires luxury hotels go, this one has the bones to back up the grandeur, with 165 rooms spread across the historic building and a modern wing tucked behind the garden.

Matías Michelini's biodynamic winery sits high in Gualtallary, close enough to the Andes snowline that you half-expect altitude sickness before the first pour. The visit starts in the soil, literally, with a farm walk through vegetable gardens and an herb-drying room, before moving into the cellar for tastings and a seven-course meal at the on-site restaurant. Named a World's 50 Best Vineyards discovery, it's a full-day commitment to the land-and-stars philosophy Michelini takes very seriously.

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.

A refrigerator door in the back of a flower shop swings open after 8pm, and suddenly you're in a large underground cocktail bar. The speakeasy conceit is well-worn by now, but the gin program gives it something real to say: a co-founder helped create Príncipe de los Apóstoles, the Argentine gin built on yerba mate and eucalyptus. It ranked on the World's 50 Best Bars list, which tracks for a room this committed to the bit.

Crystal chandeliers, white-gloved bilingual butlers, and Louis XVI furniture so gilded you feel underdressed just reading the menu: the Alvear Palace is Recoleta's grand old palace hotel, and it leans into every bit of that. The lobby bar is a long-running theater for Argentine high society. A Forbes Four Star property, it also has a rooftop pool and bar with city views, a spa, and the Alvear Grill for when you'd like someone to fuss over you at dinner.

The menu says "this is not for everyone," and that's not false modesty: Doppelgänger stocks no beer, no wine, just a serious collection of spirits and vermouths. The cocktail bar pulls its look from 1920s and 30s Paris, Berlin, and New York, and it carries the attitude to match. Over 70 house originals share space with the classics, made with seasonal fruit and local ingredients. Come knowing what you want, or come ready to be told.

The doormen wear top hats and long-tailed coats, which tells you everything about the register this luxury hotel is pitching. Inside, Philippe Starck went heavy on crimson and black marble, and the result feels more like a nightclub that happens to have rooms than the other way around. A Forbes Four Star property in Puerto Madero, it draws the kind of guests who don't need to ask where the pool bar is because someone already texted them.

A few Bollywood posters on palm-flanked walls are the only clue to what the chef is doing here, which is folding Asian flavors into Latin American ingredients in ways that don't have a tidy name yet. Gran Dabbang is a small-plates spot on a busy Palermo avenue, with a short menu of around ten dishes meant for sharing. The storefront is tiny and the silverware is unfussy, but the cooking has a lot on its mind.

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.

A repurposed alley, two meters wide and thirty-two meters long, squeezed between two old buildings and turned into a split-level tasting menu restaurant, with a sculpted flock of birds suspended overhead. The room alone does a lot of the heavy lifting, but the twelve-course menu holds its own. Thirty-six seats, Córdoba ingredients, and a chef whose suites upstairs let dinner stretch into something longer if the mood takes you.

The fire burns at the counter, not in some distant kitchen, and that proximity is the whole point. This Palermo Soho reservation-only asado restaurant runs a single nightly shift built around a tasting menu where the grill chefs narrate every choice, from wood provenance to cattle feed. It lands at number 22 on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which tracks: the format is less "order the ribeye" and more "let the fire decide the evening."

A cocktail bar in Palermo where Jules Verne sets the dress code: expect brass fittings, moody lighting, and a menu built around the cities Phileas Fogg visited in 80 days. The drinks do the traveling so you don't have to. Beer, wine, and gourmet hot dogs round things out for anyone who prefers to stay grounded. It draws a crowd most nights, so arriving early is the Fogg-approved strategy.

The unmarked entrance and exposed brick suggest a place that has been setting the template long enough to stop explaining itself. Gran Bar Danzón is a cocktail bar near the business district, which means the afterwork crowd fills the long, backlit bar early and the well-traveled hotel guests follow. The room tries slightly harder than it needs to, but the ambiance lands anyway, which is probably the truest sign of an old-school institution.

Every guest gets a personal butler, which sets the tone for this 23-story luxury hotel in Retiro, positioned conveniently close to Puerto Madero, Recoleta, and the Microcentro. The list of past guests, including Bill Clinton and a handful of European royals, suggests the staff has seen it all and remains unflappable. Two pools, clay tennis courts, and a round-the-clock concierge handle whatever the butler cannot.

Each of the seven suites here comes with its own massage table, soaking tub, and a "sensation shower," whatever that turns out to mean for you. It's a boutique luxury hotel in Mendoza wine country built around the name of Argentina's first female winemaker, so the cellar is encyclopedic and the tastings are the real curriculum. Heated deck loungers, fire pits, and wellness butlers round out a stay that leans hard into the fantasy.

A glass dome floods the dining room with light, the open kitchen anchors one wall, and the aging cabinets displaying different cuts of meat make the menu feel almost redundant. This is a contemporary steakhouse inside the Four Seasons Buenos Aires, where Angus and wagyu go over the Josper grill and the wine list leans hard on Mendoza and Patagonia. It ranks 54th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which the regulars probably know by heart.

Chandeliers hang over the long bar, and a private room done up like a library handles overflow for anyone who takes their Negroni seriously. Presidente is a cocktail bar operating at the polished end of Buenos Aires nightlife, where the classics share menu space with signature drinks served inside miniature hot-air balloons. The crowd dresses for it, and the room rewards the effort.

The menu fits on a napkin: eight dishes, sized like a clothing label from S to XXL, meant for sharing around the table. This no-reservations contemporary restaurant in Chacarita pulls from everywhere at once, landing Korean tteok in a cacio e pepe and not blinking. The room looks like a grandmother decorated it with enthusiastic grandchildren helping, which is warmer than it sounds. Arrive early or stand outside; the Michelin Bib Gourmand crowd figured this out before you did.

A steel scaffolding bar anchors the room at this casual fish-focused restaurant in Colegiales, where colorful maritime murals and a mid-room aging cabinet set the tone before you've ordered anything. The menu runs from tapas to whole fresh fish of the day, all handled with more precision than the relaxed industrial setting implies. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and you'll need a reservation well ahead to find out why.

An open grill and a cloud of smoke are the organizing principles at this casual neighborhood spot in Colegiales, where two chefs turned years of travelling through Australia and Barcelona into a menu that pulls from Asian, Mediterranean, and Jewish kitchens. The food is built for sharing, the wine list is taken seriously, and the whole thing runs on a low-key conviction that none of this needs to be a big deal. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand.

Tucked into a covered passageway full of boutiques, this bistro earns its Paris comparisons through sheer commitment to the aesthetic: globe lamps, long banquettes, high ceilings, and mirrors that have clearly been there since your grandparents were young. The menu runs contemporary French with a Patagonian accent, and the glass-fronted kitchen keeps things honest. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and shares a chef with the fine-dining room across the passage, which explains a lot.

Scones and artisanal bread stacked in the big front windows are your first clue about what Caseros is going for. It's a cozy, family-run spot in San Telmo serving traditional Argentine home cooking, the kind built around good ingredients treated simply. Tables sit close together, the decor leans retro, and there's a terrace if you'd rather eat outside. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, it draws a loyal neighborhood crowd who come back for the unpretentious lunch menu and generous à la carte.

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.

Every table at this Núñez neo-bistro comes with its own small lamp, which gives the room a glow that's either romantic or just practical, depending on who you came with. The open kitchen at the back anchors the liveliest corner, built around a communal table that doubles as a pass. The menu runs toward sharing plates with a modern edge, and the Michelin Guide has given it a Bib Gourmand. Expect a wait; the place fills early and stays that way.

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.

You ring a bell to get in, which sets the tone for this cozy Palermo tapas spot where the walls are covered in the chef's family photos and four stools face the open kitchen. Small plates blend local Buenos Aires cooking with Spanish tapas tradition, all made from fresh ingredients at prices that won't require advance apologies. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of unpretentious room that fills up with regulars who already know what they're ordering.

The old bread oven is still there, sitting in a former industrial bakery in La Paternal, the neighborhood half-ringed by train tracks and a cemetery. Kneading tables now seat guests beneath a collection of vintage TVs, bread shovels, and antique scales. The contemporary à la carte shifts with the seasons but keeps a bias toward spice and the tangy flavors the chef has picked up traveling. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and a local crowd that has clearly known about it for a while.

Smoked butter arrives with brioche-style bread before you've even opened the menu, which sets the tone at this snug Argentinian neighborhood restaurant in Palermo. The chef leans on escabeche and other traditional techniques to bring vegetables to the center of the plate in a genuinely rustic way, with meat dishes waiting quietly for those who need them. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, and the soft-lit room fills early with couples who booked ahead.

A Patagonian estancia-style lodge holding a Michelin 2 Keys distinction, EOLO sits on a sprawling ranch in the La Anita valley, well clear of El Calafate's glacier-tourist scramble. Suites mix antique vanities and plush beds with deep soaking tubs and picture windows over the windswept steppe. The restaurant runs traditional Argentinian fare, which lands well after a day on horseback or hiking near Perito Moreno, though the bathtub-with-Malbec option is apparently competitive.

Dome-shaped cabanas with private plunge pools, sitting on one of the largest wine estates in the world, with the snowcapped Andes as the backdrop. This intimate resort earns a Michelin Key, and the scale of the surroundings does most of the work: a thousand Mendoza wineries within reach, plus horses, mountain bikes, and a chef who handles the asado while you handle the Malbec.

Two sisters who started making pizza for private dinners now run one of the top contemporary Neapolitan pizzerias in Latin America, landing at number four on 50 Top Pizza Latin America and number 21 in the world. The room is cheerful and unpretentious, with a nice outdoor area and Maradona on the walls. The Margherita is what everyone orders, and the service stays warm even when the place is packed.

Backlit bottles and jars line the bar like an apothecary's shelves, except the contents are house-made distillates, syrups, and infusions destined for cocktails. Al Fondo is a speakeasy bar tucked upstairs inside a half-restored historic house in Nuñez, all bare brick and textured plaster, dark enough that your eyes need a moment. The cocktail list is compact and inventive, and the room feels like a good secret someone finally told you.

The black-and-white checkerboard floor and red banquettes give Café San Juan the feel of a Buenos Aires classic, and the open kitchen keeps things lively. It's a casual sit-down restaurant in San Telmo with a Spanish lean but Argentine bones, built around premium local ingredients. The terrace hums with the neighborhood's easy sociability, and the location near San Telmo Market makes it a natural stop for anyone already wandering that end of the city.

The building is modeled on a Mayan pyramid, which tells you something about the ambition before you've tasted a drop. Catena Zapata is a winery tour and tasting experience in Luján de Cuyo, and the family behind it did more than anyone to put Argentine Malbec on the world map. Tours take you into the barrel room, where you drink straight from the cask alongside charcuterie. Book ahead.

The walls, the neon sign outside, and the staff uniforms are all the same shade of aggressive orange, so you'll spot this gin bar on Pasaje Echeverría before you've finished reading the street sign. Everything on the menu is built around juniper, which is either a red flag or the entire point depending on who you're with. A Discovery pick from The 50, it draws a crowd that has strong opinions about their Negroni variations.

The oyster bar greets you before the candlelit dining room does, which tells you something about how this elegant Palermo restaurant operates. Chef Gabriel Oggero pulls ingredients from small producers spanning Patagonia to the Bolivian border, and the seafood handling is particularly sure-handed. À la carte and tasting menus both wander Argentina's geography with conviction. A spot on The 50 Discovery list reflects the kind of notice that follows that range.

The wine cellar is the new centerpiece after a recent move to Salta, which tells you something about how seriously this place takes itself. El Baqueano is a tasting menu restaurant where the chef, Fernando Rivarola, hunts down indigenous proteins, llama, caiman, and other things you won't find on most menus, sourced from small Argentine producers. Eight courses, seasonal, and proudly strange in the best northwestern Argentine way.

Posters on the walls, a few tables out front, and cocktails that require more thought than the room lets on. El Limón is a cocktail bar in Villa Crespo with a concise list that rewards attention, including a sous-vide Negroni that earns its place without making a fuss about it. The whole operation has that loosely assembled look that tends to mean the person behind it knows exactly what they're doing.

The door policy here is not a rumor. Frank's is a speakeasy in Palermo Hollywood that takes the 1920s brief seriously, with a polished wooden bar, flocked wallpaper, and chandeliers in the plural. It's only open Wednesday through Saturday, and booking is less a suggestion than a condition of entry. The cocktails lean boozy, which tracks. A Discovery on The 50 list keeps it on the radar of people who visit cities for their bars.

Stripped-wood floors, exposed brick, and enough grilled beef to make a vegetarian reconsider their life choices: La Cabrera is the Palermo steakhouse Buenos Aires visitors picture before they even land. The chef brings European fine-dining training to the country's deep devotion to fire and cattle, which is a polite way of saying the asado here gets taken very seriously. A moody indoor room or a balmy terrace, depending on the evening.

The name means butcher's shop, which is exactly what the dining room feels like, minus the sawdust and with considerably better wine. This tiny Palermo Soho parrilla riffs on Argentine steakhouse classics, grilling provoleta with pear and greens and finishing sweetbreads with honey, corn, and black garlic. The team behind nearby Niño Gordo runs it, and the place has the same instinct for knowing exactly which rule to break.

You enter through a sushi restaurant, give a password, and surrender your phone at the door. Nicky Harrison is a speakeasy cocktail bar in Palermo that commits hard to the bit: low light, live jazz, tarot readings, and Prohibition-era drinks named for the era's shadier figures. The no-photos rule means the crowd actually talks to each other, which feels both radical and deeply old-fashioned. Named for a real bootlegger, which somehow makes the theatrics feel earned.

Cafayate sits at one of the highest winemaking elevations on earth, and Piattelli makes the most of the thin mountain air, turning Torrontés and Malbec into wines with a particular intensity you notice on the first sip. This Andean wine resort pairs vineyard visits and tastings with views of the surrounding valley that do most of the selling. A Discovery pick from The 50, it draws visitors who treat the drive through Salta's red-rock landscape as part of the experience.

Seven different open-flame techniques give this beef-focused restaurant its name, and Francis Mallmann's kitchen uses every one of them. Slow fire is the whole philosophy: embers and patience rather than stoves and timers. The terrace dining room at the Vines Resort looks out over Uco Valley vineyards toward the Andes, which makes the wait for a slow-grilled ribeye considerably easier to bear. A Discovery from The World's 50 Best.

The concrete eggs and oak barrels are the giveaway: this is a biodynamic winery tour where the family leads you through the farm and cellar themselves, no guide with a laminated card in sight. The concentric vineyards and octagonal Brutalist bodega sit in the Andean desert valleys, and the philosophy, organic and minimal-intervention all the way, shapes everything from the animals roaming the estate to the wine you sip straight from the vessel.

A full New York subway carriage sits in the middle of this Palermo Hollywood cocktail bar, considerably cleaner than anything the MTA runs. The concept goes deep: metro tiles, graffiti, transit ads, and a drinks menu organized by subway line. The theming could easily tip into theme-park territory, but the bartenders actually know what they're doing, and the room slides from low-key to full party without anyone announcing the transition.

Zorzal sits high in Gualtallary, where the altitude and volcanic soils are the whole point, and the team is happy to let you feel that firsthand. Depending on the season, visitors can prune, harvest, or simply cycle the vineyards before settling in for empanadas and grilled meats on the winery grounds. It's the kind of place where the winemaker might pull up a chair, which is either charming or terrifying depending on how many questions you have.

The metal cupola crowning this stone-and-cement winery catches your eye long before you reach the door, and the building earns the attention. Zuccardi's tours of their Uco Valley estate have a way of making soil types genuinely absorbing, thanks to a research team that treats concrete fermentation vessels as a design problem worth obsessing over. The 50 Discovery recognized it, which tracks for a place that turns a winery visit into something closer to an architecture seminar.

Perched between two Patagonian lakes with the Andes behind it, this grand mountain lodge resort was built in the style of Canada's great railway hotels, all cypress timber, stone fireplaces, and Norman tile roofs. Golf, skiing in July, fishing, rafting, and condor watching keep guests occupied. Standard rooms are comfortable and well-appointed, and nearly every one looks out at water or snow-capped peaks, which does most of the decorating for them.

A concrete-and-glass wine resort poised beside a reflecting lake in the Uco Valley, with Andean peaks as backdrop and organic vegetables growing on the roof above your head. Rooms run from blonde-wood standards with mountain-view daybeds to suites whose terraces seem to float over the water, up to standalone villas with rooftop hot tubs. Horseback rides, a cedar sauna, and late steak dinners fill the gaps between bottles. It holds a Michelin Key.

Tucked into the Uco Valley on 1,500 acres of Andean vineyard, this modern resort holds 22 rustic-chic villas with private decks, stone bathrooms, and views of the mountains that make alarm clocks feel rude. Some have plunge pools or rooftop terraces; the two-bedroom comes with an outdoor clay tub facing the peaks. Francis Mallmann's open-flame restaurant is on-site, gauchos lead the horseback rides, and the infinity pool handles the rest. Getting here takes some doing, which turns out to suit the mood perfectly. The resort holds a Michelin Key.

Getting here means a van to the dock, then three hours by boat across Lago Argentino and up into its glacial arms, mountains rearing on every side. The reward is a remote Patagonian lodge, earning a Michelin Key, where four cottages hold twenty rooms, each anchored by a picture window facing the peaks. Treks to the Upsala glacier or on horseback fill the days; raw wood and warm textures handle the evenings. Everything but the drinks is included, which feels like the right priority.