In the land of beef, wine, and eating disorders, a guide to Argentine good food, not so good food, restaurant reviews, food-related shopping and my own creations made from a tiny Buenos Aires kitchen.
From a very young age, I’ve had a passion for food – intensely devouring it like a possessed chubby demon child. Since I spend my days planning my next meal, it was only fitting to channel this unhealthy obsession in the form of something a bit more socially acceptable: a Buenos Aires food blog, filled with restaurant reviews, an eating guide and recipes.
Follow the drama of my 5 year love-hate relationship with Argentine food, culture, and daily ridiculousness. I also get off on reading comments, so feel free to tell me if you want to be my new best friend or if you think I’m full of shit.
All the photos on the site are mine (unless otherwise noted/linked to), so please don’t steal them. Or if you do, give me credit for being the fab food photog I pretend to be.
I work for food and do accept culinary bribes. Questions, comments, complaints all welcome. Email me at imhungry@pickupthefork.com
what an adorable little girl! …and why all the singing? what a swinging party!
LOVE your blog – Argentine food is def worthy of lots of discussion!
Glad you’re enjoying… I could go on and on about my love-hate relationship with Argentine food.
Hey, I write for a tour company, and we’re launching a new website. We want to include some interviews of local bloggers on our site. I love your blog and would love to interview you if you’re interested! Let me know! mybeautifulair@gmail.com
Hi,
I am one of the founders of Guia Oleo, we would like to invite you to Oleo’s Party in November, please send me your email address.
Thanks Guy, Looking forward to the GuiaOleo party!
I love this blog, was searching for a decent pizza joint in Bs As (there’s a lot of rubbish out there – I’ve been living here for a while myself) and stumbled across your blog! I, as a vegetarian living in the city understand exactly what you mean by the love-hate relationship you share with argentine food!
I’m glad someone else can lament and share the same feelings of this love-hate relationship with Argentine food
Hola from Auckland!
I stumbled upon your blogs when I was looking for BA restaurants and I love them! Im a big fan (if you didnt know you had fans you now have one, which is one away from a fan club)
Hey I just found this website while looking for some nice restaurants to eat at over the next few days. Great blog!! Can’t wait to try some of these places out!
so glad I stumbled upon your blog… I just started mine a few weeks ago, but I feel like I’m all over the place right now. Seeing your blog, made me really see the direction that I want to go in.
I’m leaving for my semester abroad in Buenos Aires on Feb 22. I’m so glad I found your blog before I take off!
Love this blog.
Love your point of view… refreshing…
I’m so happy to have found your blog. Though as a vegetarian in this city my relationship to Argie food tends more to the hate than the love end of the spectrum, some of your posts are giving me hope!
Glad you like it.. keep hope alive, there are plenty of veggie friendly options in the city. One of my favorites is Los Sabios on Corrientes y Bulnes, I haven’t been there in a few years, but when I lived in Almagro I was there at least 3 x per week.
Yeah, I love Los Sabios!
Thanks for the information and I definately use it.
I think this blog is great.
MMM MMM MMM got to love everything about your blog!
Would love to go with you to your favorite place next time I come to visit MADI!!!
Hi Madi’s mom!!! I love everything about your daughter, next time you are in town – it’s on!!
You are HILARIOUS! I can’t stop laughing over here……. thank you thank you thank you!
I’ve left a note on your equally terrible blog on ‘life in Buenos Aires’. You do not live porteña life, ‘Forkyou’. You are so condescending, and you clearly don’t like Argentina. A plausible reason would be that Buenos Aires, los porteños and Argentina probably don’t like you either.
I just don’t get you silly yanquis, travelling across the world only to critize and claim ‘bay-ack houhm, in the stades, it’s ahl soo much beda’. I say – off you go, back houhm.
thanxxxx fer yer adviiiize. iz gunna hop on dat flyin’ train in da sky aynd goze backz to my homez. YANQUI GO HOME!
haha you know you’ve made it big when the haters come out to hate on you!
Wait…I’m confused…you say this is a “guide to Argentine good food” but all the food you recommend is distinctly UN-Argentine (mostly American things like burgers, bagels, french toast but also food from other cultures eg the Korean bbq place & Asian noodle recipe). I’m not complaining but I’m genuinely puzzled why you call this a guide to Argentine food? Especially when you seem to dislike typical Argentine food immensely!
(You wrote: “food in Buenos Aires S-U-C-K S at times can be very disappointing due to a lack of variety and affordable ethnic food.” This is a great guide but I think it’s misleading because I don’t see that you appreciate or recommend “Argentine food” anywhere. Just my opinion.)
Hi Antoinette,
Thanks for your opinion and hopefully I can clear up some of your confusion. From my point of view, the blog is about food in Argentina, which I consider to be the same as Argentine food. The majority of the blog is about restaurants you will find in Buenos Aires and while it’s true that I have included food that is not just from Argentina (USA, China, Peru, Mexico, Japan, just to name a few), in no way does that mean I don’t appreciate traditional Argentine cooking. On the contrary – if you take a look at the restaurant guide (http://pickupthefork.com/restaurant-guide), you’ll find more than HALF of the restaurants included are considered “comida argentina” ex: empanadas, parrilla, pizza, minutas, comida del norte, de patagonia, etc.
The first 3 years of living in BA I loaded up on “Argentine” food (the cuisine) – loving (almost) every minute of it. But in recent years, just as I was starting to get frustrated and bored with the lack of variety, there has been a great influx of new restaurants popping up, which has really been an exciting and positive change to the Buenos Aires culinary scene, and thus fun for me to eat and share with other readers who are interested in all culinary aspects of the city. Who wants to eat (and read about) strictly traditional Argentine cuisine? That’s not interesting to me and probably not to other followers of the blog.
I see, got it. Thanks so much for taking the time to respond!
Love the blog, I’m so happy to have found it, you have no idea! Photos are great and you are a hilarious writer. Really talented. But PLEASE update more!!!
such nice words, but if you met me in person, you would realize how nonfunny and untalented I really am
Your blogs are great! Keep it up. I like hearing an authentic and funny voice about BsAs from a fellow estado-unidense. I live in NYC, but own a place here and come back when I can … So I try to keep up on things here … Almost all the blogs about Buenos Aires by expats, about the food or whatever, are either a dorky embarrassment or an incredible annoyance … Yours is far from either! Dale!
jajajaj calling me non-annoying is probably the best compliment I could get!
Wow…I’ve only just begun reading your blog and I am excited! It seems my husband I are moving to BsAs after the beginning of the year. I have talked to many down there but no one with as an extreme passion for food as Rafa and I. So thank you! I guess I am kinda doing the same thing here in Costa Rica (if you are interested in reading too). I am hoping maybe I can bend your ear about a few food concerns we have. Would that be to presumptuous? Let me know. In the meantime, I am gonna tuck in and read the rest of your blogs.
Dawn
Thanks Dawn! How are you liking the food in Costa Rica? I have fond memories of it when I was there years ago.
Hey girl!!
Just love your blog! your pics are great and you’re giving me a very long list of places to visit….and some other recipes to try. Cheers
PS: Merry Xmas and Happy 2012
thanks for stopping by Xema… and I have a list about 5 pages long of places that I want to try…
hola . lei la nota que te hicieron ayer en clarin y me parecio muy interesante. mi hermana tiene un emprendimiento gastronomico de cata de vinos y cocina goumet que se llama espacio gasset.
Podes encontrarlo en Facebook . Quizas te interese dar una visita por el lugar. Saludos.
Christian Pineda
http://www.facebook.com/chpineda82
http://www.twitter.com/chpineda82
Honestly girl, 30 seconds before I clicked on your A/S/L (22/F/BK,NY btw…) I said aloud “I want to be this girl’s best friend.” . So heres your ego stroking comment you asked for.
In all seriousness though, I must have visited your blog via google links 15 times this past week. Every time my boyfriend or I have googled any restaurant or cuisine we’ve been interested in eating your blog has popped up. We’ve taken your advice on places such as Malvón and La Crespo. After reading about Melão here we’ve been not-so-patiently awaiting their return from vacation and are going to eat the shit out of that place tomorrow for lunch. And then there was just now a few minutes before we leave for Bi Won I google it and you show up yet again. So, really, THANK YOU!
P.S. I’m here until Saturday evening if you’d like to grab a drink sometime before then!
xx
Ella Fitch, fellow food blogger and maybe soon to be fellow ex-pat?
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You are my new favourite food critic.
I somewhat agree with your SushiPOP review, although it’s priced to be POP.
Great read; subscribed now (I hope I can collaborate with “test omnoming” in the future)
You are my new favorite comment-er. And Sushi Pop is just terrible, sushi colors is much better for cheap sushi.
Gracias por este blog! Soy argentina, porteña porteña… y hay lugares que ni conocía!!!
Buena data para divulgar también a nuestros alumnos!!
Saludos y que disfrutes en BA!
Wow, this was a actually quality blog.
Que chica tan hermosa y dulce que sos!!
Love this blog, ur pics are amazing!
thanks so much!
Estaria bueno que empiece a hacer las criticas en Espanyol así la gente de España o países de habla española puedan empezar a saber a que restaurante ir.TE FELICiTO por tener el coraje se comensal una vida nueva en un país totalmente desconocido… Saludos
gracias Facundo! Si, la idea es empezar a escribir en español para que mas gente en Argentina pueda entenderlo. Lo malo es que tarda mucho mas tiempo escribir en castellano y muchas veces no es tan facil traducirlo!
Have you been to Pani? http://www.pani.com.ar/
Si! Es un lugar muy hermoso con buena pasteleria! http://pickupthefork.com/2011/01/18/the-pan-at-pani-2/
Hola, no has ido a El Palacio de la Papa Frita? Me gustaria mucho que revindicaras o destruyeras a uno de los mitos porteños. Sorry, i don´t speak english.
Nunca tenía ganas de probarlo porque si voy a comer la comida que ofrecen ahi, me parece que hay muchos lugares mejores donde hay comida parecido, a un precio mas razonable.
Que tal una vueltita por la zona de San isidro? Nos vendría bien
Dale!! Recomendaciones??
Te vi en el noticiero del 13 , me encantó tu nota , felicitaciones por lo que hacés !!.
Gracias Lili!