February 28th, 2008, late in the whored-out afternoon while still at work
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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 - Mar Del Plata Restaurant Review
February 28th, 2008, late in the whored-out afternoon while still at work
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El Palacio Del Bife: Córdoba 1857
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.
February 28th, 2008, late in the whored-out afternoon while still at work
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Hotel Presidente: Av. 9 de Julio y Córdoba
The Hotel Presidente is conveniently located in the Retiro neighborhood of Buenos Aires on Av. 9 de Julio within several blocks of the Obelisco. Under normal circumstance I won’t stay at a hotel in Buenos Aires because renting an apartment is such a big market that only the untrained tourist would pay for a hotel. In this case, I had an extra night in Buenos Aires and needed to find lodging. After walking up and down Av. 9 de Julio this was the only place that had a room; and just conviently it was their version of a suite; $180 USD per night. Now it was only for one night and I had no other options so sometimes you just gotta do it.
February 28th, 2008, late in the whored-out afternoon while still at work
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Paladar is a upscale market in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires specializing in meats and antipasto. Antipasto is your cured meats and cheeses that go well as a starter for a meal to wet your appetite. I make specific note of Paladar because I consider this place as the Lexus of meat markets because the place is not cheap by normal market standards but the quality is unmatched.
February 28th, 2008, late in the whored-out afternoon while still at work
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Katmandu: Córdoba 3547 in Palermo Viejo
Katmandu is an Indian restaurant located in the Palermo Viejo area of Buenos Aires. You’d be surprised but Katmandu serves up some pretty tasty authentic Indian dishes. The restaurant is not cheap by Argentinian standards but worth trying as an alternative to the parrillas and fancy fusion type restaurants. From the tandoori to the curries, the biryani and samosas; Katmandu has many choices that’ll satisfy anyone or just completely stuff a person beyond sufficiency.
February 28th, 2008, late in the whored-out afternoon while still at work
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Los Porteños: Las Heras 2101 in Recoleta
Los Porteños is a restaurant/bar located in the Recoleta neighborhood. I met up with a couple of friends to have pizza and beer after they’d gone to a concert over at the Buenos Aires Design. This was simple place that kept the beer flowing and didn’t mind our loud banter as we ended up staying there for hours without ever getting the notion from the restaurant employees that it’d be best that we leave.
Parrilla Pollos Minutas - Buenos Aires Restaurant Review
February 28th, 2008, in the middle of the damn afternoon
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Parrilla Pollos Minutas: Guatemala y Carranza
Parrilla Pollos Minutas is a small local neighborhood restaurant that was located very close to my apartment and so therefore the convenience had me try it out a couple of times since I’d walk by it everyday. The man who runs this place was always out early in the morning setting up, getting the grill going, working the counter during the lunch hours, cleaning-up afterwards, and back at it again for the dinner hours. The one thing that I can say about this place is that it is cheap. Cheap but not terrible. By no means is this a 5 star dining experience but it’s a simple operation with good food and prices that locals can truly appreciate.
La Gran Hollywood - Buenos Aires Restaurant Review
February 17th, 2008, in the weewizzle hours
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La Gran Hollywood: Guatemala y Bonpland
La Gran Hollywood is a parrilla located in the Palmero Hollywood neighborhood. This parrilla is really crowded at night and very reasonably priced. However, with the crowd comes slow and unattentive service. But one plus was that the clientele was predomiately locals so that was a nice indication on my part. This place was so popular that there’s another parrilla next door and while people were waiting to be seated at La Gran Hollywood, the place next dorr was damn near empty.
February 16th, 2008, late in the damn evening, after tantric sex
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El Trapiche: Paraguay y Humboldt
El Trapiche is a parrilla located in the Palermo Hollywood neighborhood. We went here for lunch and I’ll have to say this place falls under the Rio Alba status. The place is pretty good but I didn’t find anything exceptional about it to make it necessary for me to go back again when there are many other restaurant choices within the Palermo Hollywood neighborhood.
February 16th, 2008, around evening with martini & women in hand
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El Fogón: Juncal y Godoy Cruz
El Fogón is a small parrilla located near Rio Alba in Palermo near the botánico area. I found this place while walking around on a Sunday afternoon and decided to grab a quick lunch. I really liked this place because it was mostly local people and I’ll admit I was given a quick stare by the old couple on the next table because I guess they don’t get many tourist looking guys around here.
