Veggies should make a pilgrimage to this divinely cramped boho café in Palermo Hollywood - or pull up a seat in the street for more enjoyable, spacious viewing. Formerly known...

It's a family affair at this enormously popular Spanish eaterie: chef Leandro Cristobal is busy fashioning inventive tapas from sun-dried tomatoes and brie, his mother pours...

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...

Kitsch and colourful Chan Chan has already attracted a devoted fanbase with its lengthy menu of Andean classics - ceviche (raw marinated fish), papas a la Huancaina (spicy...

At Retiro's stripped-down Club Danés, the 12th-floor location brings the river into view over simple, economical Danish food. There's nothing fancy about the cuisine here -...

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...

Had enough of steak? Then let the technicolour-waistcoated waiters at this cool cantina bring you a short, sharp, citric shock in the shape of a plate of ceviche and a brace of...

Two pasta cooks quickly shuttle back and forth from the kitchen to two flour-covered worktables just inside Don Chicho's main entrance, rolling out, cutting, and hand forming...

This pizza joint dates from 1934 and is still one of the best in town. The walls are covered with ancient framed photos of everyone from the ubiquitous Diego Maradona to a host...

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...

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...

Is it by chance that the kitchen greets you as you roll into Il Matterello? Or is it a neat metaphor for the centrality that the food (the food!) takes in this crisp, clean,...