Korean Barbecue in Buenos Aires – Who Knew?

Almost everyone knows about Buenos Aires’ Chinatown (check out Palitos for some of the best Chinese food in Buenos Aires), but do you know that Buenos Aires also has a Koreatown? Smaller than its Chinatown counterpart, Koreatown is further off the beaten path and less well known.  From Wikipedia: Buenos Aires’s ‘Barrio Coreano’ is in … Read more

June 1, 2010: D-Day for Imported Foods in Argentina

According to a verbal decree issued  on May 6, 2010  by Argentina’s interior secretary, Guillermo Moreno, today was to be the day that Argentina banned the import of foreign food products that had a domestic equivalent. This was another ill-thought-out plan by the government without any written guidelines regulating what would or would not be … Read more

The Quest for Sushi

While we love so much about Buenos Aires, we’ll be the first to admit that we have been less than enthusiastic about the sushi here. For a major cosmopolitan city, we expected more options and choices even though we realize that beef is the primary food here.  Luckily, our complaining about the sushi is now over. Last … Read more