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Pick Up The Fork

A Serious Eater's Guide to Buenos Aires and Beyond

Argentine Food Glossary: The Most Popular Foods in Buenos Aires

Posted on May 12, 2017 10 Comments

Argentine Food Glossary: The Most Popular Foods in Buenos Aires

If you’ve ever ventured into unknown Porteño food waters and stepped inside a random Buenos Aires bodegón-parrilla-restaurant-resto-bar-restobar-café-cybercafé-etc., you probably had some trouble deciphering the menu. It most likely resembled an encyclopedia, except with scratched off prices and grease stained paper tucked inside plastic binder sleeves, serving anything (and everything) from pizza to pasta to sweetbreads to steak. Don’t you […]

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The Scrambled Egg Breakfast Empanada

Posted on April 5, 2012 11 Comments

The Scrambled Egg Breakfast Empanada

They have the breakfast burrito and the breakfast sandwich, what about the breakfast empanada? Fill it with whatever tickles your breakfast fancy, here is just another way to reinvent the Argentine empanada favorite. Argie-fying my Yanqui food ways, that’s what I call a cultural exchange.

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Patagonia in Buenos Aires: The Other El Federal

Posted on January 22, 2011 5 Comments

Patagonia in Buenos Aires: The Other El Federal

I’m always in search for a certain type of restaurant that falls into a unique category: Argentine food but not parrilla, milanesa or empanadas. It’s tough to find that restaurant that is still considered Argentine, but served in a non-traditional way, with inventive combinations presented in a thoughtful fashion – and of course, all at a moderate price. El Federal (San […]

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Product of the Day: Oreo Alfajor

Posted on September 12, 2010 6 Comments

Product of the Day: Oreo Alfajor

When I was little, I was never allowed to eat crap.  While my friends had pantries and freezers full of fruit by the foot, gushers and bagel bites, I only had matzah, health cereal and a bottle of diluted Mott’s apple juice, because apparently the regular kind has “too much sugar.” Since all food containing […]

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Best Buenos Aires Restaurants Under 30 Pesos

Posted on November 1, 2009 8 Comments

Note: This article is waaaay out of date. It was written in 2009 and updated again in 2011, but I’m sure when you are reading this, the prices will have increased many more times in this ever inflating economy we live in. The restaurants, however, continue to be cheap good options. For a more elaborate […]

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