Restaurants

Garufa

Argentinian food near the Arsenal

Highbury: 104 Highbury Park, N5 2XE

Gaucho Tower Bridge

Having already given London it’s smartest steakhouse in W1, Gaucho naturally had to have a restaurant among the glass towers near London Bridge and the view as you...

Tower Bridge: 2 More London Riverside, SE1 2AP

Taqueria

With its real-deal tortilla-making machine from Guadalajara, this place shows what Mexican street food is about. The menu explores the versatility of masa (maize...

Notting Hill: 139-143 Westbourne Grove, W11 2RS

Boho Mexica

Mexican cantina in Spitalfields

Shoreditch: 151-153 Commercial Street, E1 6BJ

El Vergel

For the perfect lunch here, arrive late when most of the local office workers have returned to work. Then, armed with a magazine or book, indulge in a tortilla...

London Bridge: 8 Lant Street, SE1 1QR

Gaucho Piccadilly

Piccadilly: 25 Swallow Street, W1B 4DJ

Green & Red

Tequila bar Green & Red is miles away from the world of studenty tequila slammers. The staff’s knowledge may be patchy, but only 100% agave tequila is served....

Shoreditch: 51 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA

La Constancia

New Argentinian nails it

Bermondsey: 52 Tanner Street, SE1 3PH

Mestizo

Mestizo isn’t far from the kind of sleek hotel restaurant you might find in Cancun, with neon Aztec artwork and backlit shelves displaying colourful bottles of more...

Fitzrovia: 103 Hampstead Road, NW1 3EL

Santa Maria del Sur

When Alberto Abbate opened this steakhouse in December 2006 (originally as a sister to Buen Ayre, see right), it looked like a high-risk investment: the block he chose...

Battersea: 129 Queenstown Road, SW8 3RH

40 Degrees

Brazilian meat grill

Wandsworth: 40 Upper Richmond Rd, SW15 2RX

Amber Grill Rodizio

Brazilian all-you-can-eat buffet

Willesden: 47 Station Road, NW10 4UP

Benito's Hat

Budget Mexican caff

Fitzrovia: 56 Goodge Street, W1T 4NB

Buenos Aires Café

Reinaldo Vargas was once a paparazzo and the high walls of his parrilla (grill) restaurant are decked with shots of Hello! stars, as well as photos of his beloved home...

Blackheath: 17 Royal Parade, SE3 0TL

Buenos Aires Café & Delicatessen

Greenwich: 86 Royal Hill, SE10 8RT

Burrito Bros

Newest burrito café

Farringdon: 17 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5RD

Café Sol

This cavernous restaurant with its Latin beats, bold multicoloured mosaics and black-and-white movie pictures is always packed with Claphamites. Locally it’s known...

Clapham: 54-56 Clapham High Street, SW4 7UL

Casa Brasil

Casa Basil is a labour of love. Owner Roy, who lived in São Paulo for four years, has kitted out the small, immaculate interior with just six tables – each covered...

Finchley: 289 Regents Park Road, N3 3JY

Coma y Punto

Little has changed at this friendly Colombian café and local gathering spot on the edge of Brixton market. The bold, fake red brick fascia still welcomes from afar...

Brixton: 94-95 Granville Arcade, Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8PS

Comida

Brazilian meat-grill in Mayfair

Mayfair: 46 South Molton Street, W1K 5RX

Daddy Donkey at Leather Lane

Burrito takeaway

Clerkenwell & Farringdon: pitches 100-101, Leather Lane Market, EC1N 7TE

El Gaucho

This fun Chelsea Market restaurant occupies a plain rustic building not unlike the traditional quinchos(shacks) where Argentinians eat their steaks semi-alfresco when...

Chelsea: Chelsea Farmers' Market, 125 Sydney Street, SW3 6NR

El Gaucho

South Kensington: 30B Old Brompton Road, SW7 3DL

Exquisito

Though not on a stretch of the street saturated with fine restaurants, it's worth hunting out this amiable Mexican joint on Blackstock Road. There's a...

Highbury: 167 Blackstock Road, N4 2JS

Floridita

Vaguely modelled on the Havana original, Floridita London is a combination of theme park and expensive restaurant, frequented by after-work drinkers, parties and...

Soho: 100 Wardour Street, W1F 0TN

Gaucho Broadgate

City: 5 Finsbury Avenue, EC2M 2PG

Gaucho Canary

Docklands: 29 Westferry Circus, Canary Riverside, E14 8RR

Gaucho Chancery

Holborn: 125-126 Chancery Lane, WC2A 1PU

Gaucho City

City: 1 Bell Inn Yard, off Gracechurch Street, EC3V 0BL