Tickle My Pickle: The Lazy Impatient Pickling Fool

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

_MG_8519Once a master pickler tried to teach me how to make pickles. Brining, canning, sterilizing, waiting for weeks until it was ready. Way too much work for my impatient stomach, I royally messed it up by prematurely opening the jar, which ultimately left me with a mighty flaccid dill. I needed instant pickle gratification. I set off on quick pickling kick: cucumbers, onions, beets, eggplant, red peppers and hot peppers. Continue reading →

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Bar du Marché: A Glass of France with a side of Nikkei

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

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Part wine bar, part cheese bar, part French bistro and part closed door Japanese restaurant, Dear Bar du Marché, here’s a big fat sloppy wet beso bienvenido to the neighborhood. Praise to the sashimi-loving charcuterie gods, this adorably charming go-to spot breaks from the Palermo Hollywood bruncheando-café Nicaragua street norm and offers a petit piece of Paris with a secret sushi sampling on the side. Continue reading →

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The Chinese Dumps Spot: Shandong Restaurante

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

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Little pillows of Chinese lovin’, dumplings dipped in some sorta sweet, salty and tangy dipping sauce might just be one of the better two bite wonders to pop in your mouth. There’s nothing like a no frills Chinese restaurant with a family style vibe — where a mom and daughter cooking crew whip up affordable, greasy and wonderfully flavor-packed (ahem MSG?) Chinese food. Continue reading →

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Top Buenos Aires New Restaurant Picks of 2012

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

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It has been quite the exciting year for the Buenos Aires food and restaurant loving community. Once was a subpar food city, Buenos Aires has quickly taken the spot for one of the world’s rising star food destinations. 2012 put Buenos Aires on the food map with young talented cooks emerging, great new restaurant openings, innovative and adventurous chefs doing what they do best, sommeliers and mixologists taking the spotlight and food fairs and markets receiving widespread attention. While top ten lists of 2012 are soooo 2012, here are the best new Buenos Aires restaurants, cafés and bars of 2012. Continue reading →

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This Is Why You’re Fat: Spring Edition

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

IMG_0111.JPG - Version 4Summer is finally here, and even though the world didn’t end, I’m still eating like there’s no tomorrow.  Spring was filled with food fairs, chef stalking, bar hoppings, educational cocktail courses, urban gardens, computers breaking, hamburger discoveries and lots of Toddy cookies. Here’s a recap of the good, the bad and the butt ugly of my favorite time of the Buenos Aires jacarandá year. Continue reading →

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The Great San Telmo Coffee Hut: Coffee Town

Posted on December 19, 2012 by

_MG_6643The San Telmo market just got A LOT bit better. Coffee snobs, coffee lovers and coffee addicts can now flock to the infamous mercado for a quick shot of this liquid gold. A small coffee hut nestled in between a vegetable stand and a hoarder’s antiqued-out dream, Coffee Town, the new love hijo of the Centro de Estudios del Café, is brewing up a coffee storm. Continue reading →

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Spice Me Up, Green Curry

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

DSC_0247.JPGIf you take a city wide expat poll, I bet most would agree on what kinds of foods are wished to be more readily available in Buenos Aires. Spices, picante, mouth burning sauces; while once a bit of food sweat was nowhere to be found, these days restaurants are popping up with the spicy aderezo option that goes far beyond the liberal cranking of cracked pepper. Green Curry in the microcentro is one of those spots that not only offers tongue inflamed options, but makes a damn good curry. Continue reading →

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The Great Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe with a Toddy Cookie Crust

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

I love cheesecake. I love Toddy cookies. So why not collide worlds for the ultimate cookie crusted cheesecake dessert? An easy cheesecake recipe, calling all mega fatties, this one’s for you!  Continue reading →

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Prediction 2013: The Year of the Food Trucks in Buenos Aires

Posted on December 7, 2012 by


It was only a matter of time the gourmet food truck trend that ravished the United States in 2011 make its fashionable trucker debut in Buenos Aires. Many thought it wouldn’t happen. Restrictions, regulations, habilitaciones municipales, there were just too many laws in place that strictly forbid any type of mobile kitchen (unless it served choripán and bondiola). But just like the closed-door restaurant-supper club craze and the pop-up hybrid rave took over the city, food trucks will be the next big BA thing.

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A Happy Caipi at Boteco do Brasil

Posted on December 5, 2012 by

_MG_7296There’s something about a good caipirinha that just makes me happy. It’s like a sip of Ipanema in a short glass, minus the sand and hot Brazilian bodied thonged sungas. Despite the close proximity of the two countries, and the large number of Brazilians in Argentina, for some strange reason Buenos Aires only has a handful of Brazilian restaurants, most of which do not do Brazilian food justice. But now little Brazil has reached Palermo Hollywood, making Boteco do Brasil a solid spot to get your dose of Brazil on a plate, with some extra cachaça on the side. Continue reading →

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