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Read the full story »You finally are in a Buenos Aires steak house. You have been told many times about how good beef is in Argentina, and you are ready for it. So before you get lost in a Spanish menu with a funny English translation (if you are lucky) let´s go over the most popular steak cuts in Buenos Aires.
First of all, remember that unlike Americans, people from Buenos Aires do not care that much about tenderness. They like tender beef of course, but when it comes to choose they will prefer the flavor over the tenderness. So please do not be my last week client, complaining in a great restaurant because the Bife de Chorizo was far from tender. The waiter was quite funny when replying to my client if he would prefer a soup instead.
1 – Bife de Chorizo
I don´t know how many times I have had to explain this to my clients: the bife de chorizo has nothing to do with chorizo, does not have chorizo on it and nobody has a clue of why on Earth it is called that way. The bife de chorizo is a beef cut that you will find in every steak house in Buenos Aires, and it is very similar to the sirloin strip steak that is popular around the world. The good parrillas (local name for steak house) will give you a big, thick and juicy portion, and sometimes you will have two options in the menu, small and big, that actually means big and Godzilla size. Read the whole story »
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You finally are in a Buenos Aires steak house. You have been told many times about how good beef is in Argentina, and you are ready for it. So before you get lost in a …
Touring Buenos Aires using local buses (locally called “colectivos”) can be an adventorous way of visiting some of the areas of the city. Adventorous not because it is dangerous (it is not) but because knowing …
At BA Private Tours we are happy to say that we have now a US phone number to receive calls from our clients from USA and Canada.
The number is 347 903 4999
We would love to …
