After the wine tasting I wasn't sure if I wanted to try another steak house or try an Italian place recommended by What's Up Buenos Aires, Moreila. I was won over by the ambiance of the place and decided to stay after poking my head in.
This is the individual sized pepperoni with two types of olives-excellent.
I found an article from What's Up Buenos Aires and saw that a couple of the recommendations were in Palermo (the area where I am staying). Miranda, in particular looked good, and since I didn't know if I would get around to visiting there for dinner decided to stop by for breakfast since they were open early for that.
I really liked the simple modern decor inside with big windows.
I got a set breakfast with orange juice, cafe con leche, and scrambled eggs with toast. My second egg breakfast in which they only provided salt-what do they have against pepper here?
A friend who was recently in Buenos Aires recommended Don Julio as the parilla (steak house) to beat. Since it was in Palmero not far from my hotel, I decided that would be where I started. And I am glad I did, it was great. I had the Bife de Loma (Sirloin), mashed potatoes, and a couple of glasses for 2010 Die Angeles Malbec (which was more expensive than the steak! 2 X 58 pesos = 116 to 99). I wasn't really that hungry and should have bypassed the potatoes, but he steak was high quality and cooked to perfection.
Bread and two sauces for the steak, I preferred the one on the left.
I started out my tour ofMonserrat and San Telmo at Plaza de Mayo.
This is the Pink House (House of the National Government) at the Plaza de Mayo.
On Defensa street in San Telmo on Sundays there is a market taking place selling arts & crafts and food like the choripan (chorizo sandwich) here-more on this later.
I decided to sit down and eat a choripan at this open air shop in the courtyard of a colonial building on Defensa.
Choripan with sauce and Quilmes Cristal lager.
Empanadas for sale.
There was a large covered market area off Defensa and this is one of the bakeries there.
A fruit and vegetable stand in the market.
One of the several restaurants in the market.
Mural on San Lorenzo street.
Here are some shots in El Zanjon, a museum of colonial housing and an events space on Defensa.
Here is the side view of the Teatro Colon, one of the four most important theaters in the world.
The entrance to the Teatro.
The Obelisk at Plaza de la Republica.
Plaza Geal. Lavalle.
Helado=excellent ice cream.
The 18th century colonial style Bascilica de Pilar located nearby Palmero in the Buenos Aires Recoleta neighborhood.
Outside the Cementerio de La Recoleta.
Inside the cementary.
Here's the grave of the infamous Eva Peron whom I first encountered in Thomas Elroy Martinez's excellent The Peron Novel that I read in a literature class, which also was my introduction to Borges.
Recoleta has an old world Parisian like charm that feels very different from Palermo.
I am in Argentina for about eight days for tourism and to present at the 2013 ARTESOL Conference in Plata del Mar. I'll spend the first five days in Buenos Aires. Palermo (a nieghborhood in Buenos Aires) is essentially divided into two sections Hollywood and Soho. The Hollywood is so named because of the all the TV and radio companies that were housed there over the years. Gentrification stands side by side with neglect and decay.
My first stop was a little brunch at an outdoor cafe on the way Serrano Plaza in Palermo Soho.
A toasted ham and cheese panini-like sandwich with cafe con leche (like a cafe latte) and a small pastry as service.
One of the cafes surrounding Serrano Plaza where crafts artists sell their wares.
Serrano avenue becomes Jorge Luis Borges, one of my favorite Argentinian writers, after the Serrano Plaza. Apparently he lived here in his childhood. I like how the city honors famous latinos and gives homage to other latins countries and places in the naming of public works like plazas and streets.
An open Catholic church in Palmero.
Like Peru, decadent pastries and cakes are all the rage at bakeries in Argentina.
This is the main entrance to the Jardin Zooligico.
European influenced architecture abounds.
There are monuments, plazas, and green areas all-over in Palmero. It was a great day for a walk to take it all in.
The entrance to the Jardin Japones.
Apparently this giant sculpture flower's petals close up at night-Floralis Generica.
The Facultad de Derencho y Clencias Sociales.
My first Aregentian beer, Imperial larger back at Serrano Plaza.
A bookshop with some intersting titles in Spanish (Vonnegut Jr., Celine, Murakami, etc.) and wine!?
I loved the logo for Sonoman.
There's a lot of graffiti in Palermo.
As you can see much attention has been paid to the bike lanes going two directions on the same side of the street with defensive curbs to keep them off the street. A bit dangerous though as I almost got hit as a pedestrian a couple of times.
Being a burger enthusiast and feeling the need to have some grease after a big night out, I decided to give Bangkok Burger Company a go to see how it stacks up against Japanese gourmet burger joints. I ordered The Bacon Cheese, triple crispy bacon, cheddar cheese and a burger cheese slice. However, you then need to make several choices after that; 1: Australian wagyu, ribeye, and aged sirloin or pork fillet and smoked bacon. I choose beef of course. 2: Then you chose the size regular (110g) or large (180g). I got the regular size. 3: There are three bun choices: homemade fluffy white, whole heat oat-flaked, or home made olive oil and Italian herb foccacia for an additional 40B. I went with white. 4: steak house fries or curly fries for an additional 40B. I go the curly fries. The burger had quality ingredients (including the bun) and American style bacon is a bonus--in Japan it is usually thick ham instead of traditional American-style bacon. As you can see in the burger isn't very dark, the meat didn't taste right somehow. In Japan it is so greasy that you need those little grease paper wrappers to collect the grease when you're eating. Also, the curly fries were great.
I'm on holiday so I couldn't resist a vanilla shake as well.
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