La Soñada is a parrilla located off L.N. Alem in the Playa Grande neighborhood of Mar Del Plata. My first thought of L.N. Alem was to compare it to PB in San Diego. This main drag is loaded with bars/clubs and restaurants while many cars cruise the one way street. Many of the restaurants are either the type with pizza or the trendy type. Walking both L.N. Alem and Irigoyen in total I came across two parrillas which to me seemed lilke a small amount for the amount of establishments that are littered in this area. In the end, I chose to eat at La Soñada, a small place off L.N. ALem. The hyperactive waiter probably made the dining experience a fun time. I don’t know what it was, maybe he smoked some ice before work but this guy was all over the place and kept dinner entertaining.
La Rueda is a parrilla located in the central commercial area of Mar Del Plata. My experience with this restaurant was with doing take-out rather than sitting in and dining. I was actually very impressed with the whole operation of doing take-out orders. Even with the many people making orders I can confidently say that they didn’t screw-up my order and didn’t forget the chimichurri. I also thought that the prices were reasonable when opening up all the packages and seeing the amount of food that I’d received.
El Palacio Del Bife is a parrilla located in the central area of Mar Del Plata. Being centrally located within Mar Del Plata amongst the hotels, this restaurant’s clientele is predominately tourists that spent a few too many hours in the sun during the day. The menu is standard with their choices as with any other parrilla. Personally, the portion of one steak is enough for two people but as evident by the couple over on the next table there are those who will each eat their own well-sized steak. I thought the service was a bit shotty as the normal attentiveness of these male career waiters wasn’t up to par with other parrillas.
