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  1. #97
    One Tree Hill,
    Correction - The place is called 'La Bisteca'

  2. #96
    Pte Madero:

    La Bifsteak

    Very nice place along the water. Lots of locals celebrating birthdays etc. This place has grilled meat and homemade pastas and lots of buffet items.

    I went with my friend and our 2 chicas on a Sat night very late at like 1130PM.

    I dont know if they have a regular menu or what. There is a large buffet with everything one could want: Salads, Cheeses, Fruits, hot items, Veggies, dessert etc.

    Then you go to the grill area and they have the normal meats on the parilla. They also will make pasta to order.

    The four of us had full meals - desserts from the menu, a bottle of wine for the chicas and 4 beers for the guys. Total bill was 120 pesos! About $10 USD each. I expected it to be about double that.

    Very classy inside, the chicas liked it and the cost was great. I reccommed it. Good value.

  3. #95
    Was in BA last month and here's my report on my other faforite hobby!

    Le Sud (Sofitel Hotel): This hotel is fairly new (within last 12 months) and Le Sud is one of the top restaurants in BA. We had a terriffic meal, excellent service, good size portions and fab. wine and a great place to take a chica. I went with an old GF. The bill came to 160 pesos.Compared to most reports on this site it is expensive but in Europe you'd pay around $us 160. What made it a super evening was that on the last friday of the month all the art galleries in that street (Arroyo, just off 9 de Julio and 5 minutes from Recoleta in a cab) have an open evening with music, drinks and a great street party atmosphere. Worth keeping an eye out and make a booking for friday 26th December.

    La Bourgogne (Alvear Hotel) Rated as the top restaurant in BA. A bit more stuffy than the Sofitel but a really excellent meal. Price again 200 to 250 pesos. Quite a few well known people (eg film stars...I was wearing dark glasses!) so your chica would be quite impressed.

    La Cabana in Rodriguez Pena 1967, tel 4814 0001, near Recoleta. The old La Cabana in Entre Rios closed down many years ago, was very famous and was THE place to go for bifes. The new one is a lot smarter and appropriately priced and now owned by Orient Express Company of London. It has kept some of the famous items from the old menu, for example their Baby Bifes two sizes 450gr. at 38 pesos and 1100gr. at 72 pesos!! The latter they suggest is para compartir (to share)...they must be crazy! i wouldn't share mine with anyone !!!!The younger chicas won't remember the old La Cabana but a more mature chica may. Again, pricey but an experience not to be missed.

    Moving on to more reasonable priced places, not to say that the above 3 are not reasonable. They are very reasonable.

    El Kozako Junin 1460, tel 4804 3527. Russian, Ukranian,Polish,and Slav cuisine. Opened last month. Very good food and an interesting alternative from the normal restaurant scene. Music at weekends and worth visiting. Price 100 pesos for two.

    La Cabrera (Cabrera 5099 corner Thames St) in Palermo Viejo. A busy restaurant...must book...and specialising in meat. Start with a chorizo...fab. Very close to Splendid already reported on on this site which I also visited on my previous trip and also great.

    Spirit (Serrano 1550, 4833 5331) Tapas and Oyster Bar. The oysters were big. It's a busy place in a busy area. If oysters are supposed to be an aphrodisiac.....well, I had 12 and am ashamed to say that only 10 worked!! 120 pesos for 2.

    Circulo Av. Libertator 15731 in San Isidro. Quite an "in"place. Nice people, excellent food, not too big, intimate.

    Piegari. Already reported on here. I like it. It's got a buzz. Good size portions. Service not as good as in April.

    Finally, Gran Bar Danzon. www.granbardanzon.com.ar This is on Libertad between Arenales and Santa Fe. A very cool place. Great Bar, fantastic wines, super dining, a very good Sushi bar at one end of a very long bar, and open till 2.3 or 4 in the morning depending on how busy they are. It is super-cool and your chica will love it. See Roxana's section....she knows it and she certainly knows what's what and who's who in BA....hey R. we must meet up next time. I'm just soooooooo pissed off that I only discovered it on this trip as I live just one block away when I'm in BA.

    Well, that's it for now. I can recommend all the above to you. Happy Christmas!

  4. #94
    Tequila, Costanera Norte...a dinner and dance club is a great experience....lots of 20 and 30 something Argentinos out for a night on the town...go early..11 or so...if you want to get in, especially on Wed or the weekends....Some stunning women wandered in the evening I was there....models, tv personalities, etc....food and drink are very reasonable, and you will be the only gringo in the place....

  5. #93
    here is a new restaurant for our list....highly reccommended

    LaCorte.Arevalo 2977. las canitas....a trendy neighborhood in Palermo, near the Polo fields....tel 4775-0909.

    Extensive wine list....appetizers including duck and langostinos are outstanding....my friend had a carne dish made of very thin strips of meat served in a swirl....I had a flat green pasta and clam sauce.....The menu is not long, but every thing is fresh and the presentation is outstanding...great place to impress chicas ......

  6. #92
    POLO is actually:
    La Fonda del POLO
    Baez 301 c/o Arevalo
    Las Canitas Palermo
    4772 8946

    It is located just below the polo stadium

  7. #91
    SOME RESTAURANTS chosen by my chica in ba where middle class trendy people go which I went to last week include:

    LOMO, Costa Rica 4661, Palermo telefono 4833 3200 This is a trendy place that looks like high design out of SoHo in New York City. Models and TV people go here. THE food is primarly meat: cow, lamb, wild game. main dishes are generally US$4 to US$6. This place has the best food that I've had in BA---elegant!!

    POLO is near the Polo fields by the border between palermo and belgrano in las canitas. very, very good steak house with better prices than recoleta or puerto madero. There are no tourists here and no millionaires--upper middle class people with good taste. our waiter got another guy to help me with the menue who spoke sufficient english to get the job done with no misunderstanding and a great meal resulted. I tried different Argentine cuts of beef than the standard lomo or ojo de bief or biftec de chorizo.

    ROSA NEGRO, San Isidro, just past San Vicente, is in an wealthy enclave 30 minutes from Recoleta by car. There is an English and spanish menu. The waiter spoke good English. Elegant decoration and great food. Many different styles of dishes including fish with different local sauces.

    This was my third trip to BA in 18 months. I'm getting outside of the tourist zones and just beginning the scratch the surface as to what makes BA a great world class city and why it's inhabitants are so proud of their city.

  8. #90
    Lexton and Stoly, I already discussed the same principle on hotels. In other words, a US$100 suite is impressive but if the girls who come up only worth 100 peso, she may be impressed but whatīs the point to impress her? Swallowing some 50 peso worth of food and service with you isnīt a pleasant thought for her.

    By the way, donīt you know that given the choice, girls donīt like to dine. Thatīs almost universal. For some young girls who never saw the best resturants in town they may be interested. Girls with some brains eat very carefully to stay in the business as long as possible. I had a Thai girl and let her pick where to eat. Sheīs totally uninterested. For most of the day I only saw her only had a glass of water. Most hostess donīt like to drink. If you donīt force them, they only sip a mouth out of every drink. Madahos included. The only exception is the Brazilian girl in Black, whoīs into heavy spirits.

  9. #89
    On my last day of mongering in BA in late October, I wanted to finally try a Puerto Madera restaurant in between visiting chicas. Given the bewildering array of choices (this time I mean the restaurants, and not the chicas ), I decided to simply take my chances and ask a taxi driver to drop me off at Puerto Madera. I walked back and forth a number of times and finally went inside what turned out to be a wonderful restaurant.

    Reading the previous posts on this section, and referring back to the brochure I was given when there, I now realized that this restaurant was the previously mentioned "Sorrento". It is a chain of three restaurants (Sorrento City, Sorrento Puerto, and Sorrento Recova). For 48 pesos, their most expensive "priced fixed" lunch menu was a tastefully presented 4 course meal with a choice of three well prepared appetizers, a salad, a choice of four main dishes (two meat dishes, 1 fish, and 1 pasta dish), and a choice of three deserts. It even included half a bottle of one of their better Malbecs or Chardonnays!

    It was late for lunch (about 3:45), and the restaurant was almost empty. The waiter, a very well mannered gentleman in his 50's, stopped by my table at the end and we had a half-hour long conversation! Great service, and what a bargain for only 17USD!

  10. #88
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    El Palacio de la Papa Frita
    Corrientes Av between Montevideo St and Rodriguez Peņa St

    Their "papas souffle" are really good.

  11. #87
    Otto, my local Argentinian friends also recommended "Casa de la papa frita" which they claim is now almost 80 years old and not only has the best french fries in BA but also some of the best bife de churrasco. I forgot where they said it was but I believe it's not far from el Microcentro but you can't hold me to that.

    Otto, are you in BA now or are you going to be there sometime this week? I arrive Wednesday morning, if you're going to be around perhaps we'll share a bottle of fine Malbec and a nice parillada, what do you say? DownBA

  12. #86
    La Caballeriza is a chain parrilla, with the converted-stable motif. There is one in Village Recoleta beneath Hooters and next door to McDonalds. I've eaten there, and think it is OK. However, I think it is not quite up to the standards for steakhouses set by El Mirasol, Estilo Campo, or La Brigada, all of which are reviewed here also.

    -Uncle Otto

  13. #85
    Guys, I've been trying to get the name of a restaurant that I went to in '98 for the longest time and finally I got it from a local Argentinian businessman I met here in the states recently. The place is called La Caballeriza and if memory serves me it's near the old Hipodromo. The place literally used to be a stable and now there are actually dinner tables in each of the former stalls and there are beautiful floral arrangements everywhere and the wine list is superb, literally hundreds of wines to chose from. I remember the food being top notch as well as the clientele but the check won't set you back at all. I highly recommend this place for something a little different with great food and ambience. DownBA

  14. #84
    Stoly, you make an excellent point here and I want to strongly second it. You are absolutely right.

    For all of the big spending, heavy tipping people: What kind of message do you think you are sending when you negotiate a woman down to $100ar short time or $300arTLN and then proceed to take her out and blow $100-$200ar on food and drink? It is a slap in the face. When you tip the bartender $5 or $10ar for a bar tab of $30-$100ar, what do you think you are doing to her expectations of the tip SHE deserves? What did the bartender do for you that the clerk at McDonald's doesn't do? I usually don't tip bartenders at all. My current favorita(a 22YO Paraguayan) doesn't let me tip over 5% in a restaurant. But I once paid her over $1400ar for an AWFUL LOT of time in one week, all in bed.

    Many of these women have trouble affording $500ar/mo for an apartment. If she was from the class of people that could afford luxury, she generally wouldn't be doing this. She would be trying to charge someone their monthly paycheck like the other women in that class, through marriage.

    I believe you will have your greatest success if you can make the women feel that you are making a little stretch to pay them, and that they are making more doing this than they could possibly make any other way. If they feel it is a lot of money for you, it will feel like more to them.

    I met some of the internet girls that cater to Americans for the first time after the Thanksgiving dinner. You can easily see a difference in their attitude. That may be why I have yet to take a woman from Madaho's, and no longer go to Black.

    By the way, if you insist on doing this, spend a LOT. Then the woman will just think you are crazy and it won't affect the market as much. The people who affect the market most are the ones who insist on paying 20%-50% more.

  15. #83

    Santa Fe 2587

    I've been to this tenedor libre today and found it has a great selection of meats, fishes and pastas, on top of excellent cold dishes and desserts. The place is super-clean and nicely decorated in estancia style, and I really recommend it. Just few steps off the green-line subway at Puerreydon and Santa Fe. $10 everyday, a bit more on weekends.
    I also want to give my own defense about the superior logic that there is in dining frugally in BsAs, even when in company of a fine chica.
    First of all, when going to a good place like the above mentioned, the quality and selection is really the same than the one in any other restaurant. Consider that the Argentinean cousine is not built on sophisticated dishes but rather of robust servings made of first-class ingredients. So a free buffet and parrilla comes out naturally enjoyable as opposed to, e.g., Italian cousine that has hundrends of first and main dishes that must be individually prepared just to taste right and poorly matches the buffet presentation.
    Second, believe it or not, you're hardly impressing anyone (except yourself maybe) just by dining in an expensive restaurant. That gringos have money and (some have) sophisticated tastes, is already a given for the chicas here. And expecially to the eyes of the ones that comes from the poorest areas, any money spent on superfluous things like luxury foods, is really wasted. Expecially because youīre eating it, rather than potentially giving to her. Many times it happened to me that mentioning the price of something, I was be told by the girl how she know where to get the same for less. Because their culture and common sense, be willing to save a little will gain you more respect than a tendency to dissipate money. And I think that makes a lot of sense, as you will be able to decide later how to spend the savings, with repeats, side-trips or whatever.

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