If you're looking to journey into the sweet soul of Buenos Aires, the panqueque de dulce de leche (caramel-stuffed crêpe) is an excellent starting point. Sample it in its pure...

Eating steak at Cabaña Las Lilas is a little like taking tea at the Ritz. You know it's a tourist trap, you know you're being overcharged, but somehow you're still glad you...

Thrumming with that late-night good-time vibe for which Buenos Aires is famed, Cantina Los Amigos is a cracker of a traditional porteño eaterie. Packed every night with local...

Perched high and dry on a long wooden jetty jutting out into the river, The Club de Pescadores is part of the local fisherman's club, and one of BA's most delightful hidden...

Unless you get sexually aroused by laconic waiters in shabby tuxedos serving up fried food in a setting redolent of a 1970s union soup kitchen, Club Eros only half lives up to...

Cumaná is the kind of restaurant that makes you hungry as soon as you walk through the door, even if you only did so to use the bathroom. Surrender to the onslaught of...

It's very reassuring to know that certain bastions of familiarity remain in this fast-changing barrio; trends come and go, but Don Julio remains standing on the corner of a...

High on the list of fun things to do in BA is a late-night steak blowout at this legendary San Telmo parrilla. Staffing the grill are bloody-apron-wearing, knife-wielding cooks...

An Argentinian classic where happy locals mix with happier tourists from nearby hotels, cheered by the vast steaks that arrive flawlessly from the parrilla. There is a wide...

Since chef-owner Paula Comparatore moved El Federal from Palermo it has successfully established a name for top quality lunchtime grub. They serve up some truly creative and...

Settle yourself down at one of the pristinely laid tables in the light-filled covered patio at El Histórico - part of the same venerable old building as the adjoining Society...

Everyone - from U2's Bono to Wim Wenders - has discovered this museum piece in the heart of the old port (best to come by taxi and with company). The decor is busy with boxing...

Football and dining legend Diego Maradona cites this as one of his favourite BA restaurants; the shirt of 'El Diez' hangs on one of the walls. But it's meat, not memorabilia,...

Before new cuisines hit Las Cañitas, Señor Merinho and family were well established as hosts of the barrio beefery. It might seem odd for the Portuguese to take on Argentina in...