Eating and Drinking in BA

We enjoyed a lot of great food and visited a lot of great bars and cafes while in Buenos Aires. I feel the need to mention some of the best. Argentina is known for large amounts of very high quality beef. Apparently, Argentinians eat three times as much beef as Americans, which is saying something, but pretty much all of it is very high quality meat from grass-fed cows. Restaurants that are labelled ¨parilla¨ offer different kinds of barbecued meat, but especially beef. We had a lot of good beef while in Buenos Aires, but the best was at a place called Las Lilas that had been recommeded by several people. It was down at the docks (Puerto Madero), and we stuffed ourselves there one of the last nights in the city.

Maybe our favorite restaurant was right in our own neighborhood, Palermo, and was called Olsen. It offered creative drinks and food of Scandinavian and local origin made with very fresh ingredients, and everything was delicious. We also liked the building the restaurant was in, and the funky signs for the bathroom.





One of our favorite bars was a place called Milion, which was located on all three floors of an old mansion. Every floor was different, with an outdoor patio on the first floor and several different rooms with different seating options on the upper two floors. It felt so cool to be inside an actual old home, and the place was packed both times we visited. Another favorite was again in our neighborhood, right on our block in fact. Mostly we liked it for the sign out front, but it also had interesting drinks and good music, and you can´t beat having a good drinking establishment half a block away.