When it comes to food, Buenos Aires doesn’t do subtle. It’s a city that goes all in—grills overflowing with every cut of meat imaginable, pizzas smothered in molten cheese, and desserts dripping with dulce de leche. Recently, I had the challenge (and privilege) of narrowing down Buenos Aires’ essential dishes to just 12 for this […]
Picking Up the Fork, Again
After nearly three years of silence, Pick Up the Fork is back! Inspired by my recent SAVEUR Magazine article on the essential dishes of Buenos Aires, I’m diving back into the world of food blogging and reconnecting with the joy of sharing Buenos Aires’ culinary scene. Let’s talk stories, restaurants, and my chaotic return to blogging—because who needs TikTok when you can have good old-fashioned food content? – Written by ChatGPT.
Where to Eat in Buenos Aires: The Next Generation Pastry Hit List
Where to Eat in Buenos Aires: 5 Great New-ish Restaurants
Do people still read food blogs? Are we supposed to do substack newsletters now? Incessantly post on Instagram? Tweet threads? Make restaurant voice-over TikToks? Get into crypto NFTs on the metaverse? (I know the last one is nonsense, but somehow feels accurate.) I don’t think blogs are still a thing, but I’m feeling retro and […]
The Sarkis Experience: What to order at BA’s most popular restaurant
If you ever stood outside the corner of Thames and Jufré waiting over an hour for a table, you have already completed the first stage of the Sarkis Experience. The 250-seat Armenian restaurant on the Villa Crespo-Palermo border is open every day, for lunch and dinner, and almost always packed to capacity. Many will quibble whether or not Sarkis’ serves the best Middle Eastern food in the city, but I’m not going to engage in that debate because as one of the most popular and iconic spots in all of Buenos Aires, Sarkis deserves our respect.
Recipe: Gran Dabbang’s Pakoras de Acelga with Carrot Chutney
I remember the first time I tried the swiss chard pakoras at Gran Dabbang. The year was 2014, the genesis of BA’s new food renaissance. I had heard about this Palermo café serving Indian and Southeast Asian food that was actually supposed to be spicy. So naturally, like many young and inexperienced food bloggers who […]
Tegui En Casa: How a top Argentine restaurant fits inside one box
The other night my doorbell rang at around 8 pm. “Allie?” a voice said on the intercom. “It’s Tegui.” A few months back, it would be ludicrous to think that one of Argentina’s top fine dining restaurants would be delivering food to my door. But alas, we are living in a different era now. One […]
Updated: Delivery & Takeaway Guide
Support local businesses! But for real. Restaurants need us more than ever in order to survive this pandemic. This is an on-going list of restaurants, cafés, bars, markets, butcher shops, vegetable shops, etc., offering takeaway and delivery services in Buenos Aires during the quarantine. If there’s a spot you LOVE that you’d be totally crushed […]
Innovation and Community: 5 Ways the Food Industry is Adapting to a New COVID-19 Reality
Buenos Aires restaurants in the coronavirus days: what we can do to help, and a running list of spots open for delivery and takeaway
UPDATED MARCH 19, 2020, 9pm We are in lockdown mode! The government issued a mandatory quarantine until April 1 April 12 May 10. That means you should stay in your damn house! Most stores will be closed except shops that sell food and “basic necessities”. I’ll be updating the food database below of what will […]
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