If 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 […]
Prediction 2013: The Year of the Food Trucks in Buenos Aires
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 […]
A Happy Caipi at Boteco do Brasil
There’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 […]
Aipim: A Latin American Gem
AIPIM IS NOW CLOSED BUT THE CHEF HAS REOPENED A NEW SPOT IN SAN TELMO: CHOCHÁN Relatively new to the Palermo Soho restaurant scene, Aipim is one of those special gems where everything on the menu looks like something you’d want to order. All the factors that make a restaurant great are there: attentive service, a […]
This Is Why You’re Fat: August Edition
Quests for bloody Marys, a gastro-trip to the Ukraine, new closed-door restaurants, sandwiches and brunches galore, here are some food highlights (and low lights) of August eats. Oh, and a big RIP to my camera. It’s broken (probably caused by too much food inside the lens), which means I must take a food porn hiatus. […]
Horneando Up A Storm At Baking BA
There’s a new breed of healthy fast food options sweeping the city. Tiny shops selling a wide range of tasty treats that will put any traditional kiosco sorry ass sandwich to shame. Exemplifying this new concept, Baking BA in the microcentro is all about the food: simple, natural and rico. Reinventing lunch on the go, […]
Shakshuka For Breakfast
Israeli breakfast might just be one of my most favorite-est things in the world, and shakshouka my even more most favoritestest parts about Israeli breakfast. A cheap, flavorful, one pot wonder, Shakshuka is my new best friend breakfast brunch lunch linner lupper dish of choice. It’s basically eggs that are poached in a spicy tomato […]
Making Naan At Home: Homemade Naan Bread Recipe
The Best Things I Ate in Israel
Israel, the fruitful land of milk and hummus, where the Israeli salads flow like Kosher wine and tender balls of fried falafel grow on trees. After I fell in love with Israeli food porn for the first time, our relationship has blossomed in a deep and meaningful way. Just like Tim Whatley converted to Judaism for […]
Pop Up Like It’s Hot: Pop Ups Popping Up in Buenos Aires
POP UP RESTAURANTS ARE STILL THE RAGE, BUT MANY OF THESE PARTICULAR TRANSIENT DINNERS HAVE NOT FIZZLED AND MOVED AWAY Watch out puertas cerradas, a hot younger gastronomical sister has hit the Río de la Plata. All the rage in the United States and Europe about five years ago, pop-up restaurants have finally managed to travel […]