AsadoAdventure

23/05/2026

The reservation system at Anchoita is theater. The platform tells you it's fully booked through next year, no matter when you check.

We showed up at 7:15pm instead, rang the bell, and asked. They said yes.

New post on the blog — everything we ate, what it cost, and why those two cubanitos at the end said it all. Link in the first comment.

08/05/2026

Most people who visit Buenos Aires try one Argentine wine region. They sit down at a parrilla, order a Malbec from Mendoza, and go home convinced they understood the country.

Argentina has 24 provinces. At least 17 of them produce wine. Most of it never leaves the country.

Last Saturday I walked over to Palermo Hollywood to find out what Argentine wine looks like when someone who really knows it gets to do the curating. Four small-production bottles, four regions, four food pairings made from scratch — and a 2016 Malbec that surprised everyone.

Full post on the blog. Link in the first comment.

30/04/2026

On April 16th, a sitting Argentine senator stood up in the Senate and enthusiastically promoted donkey meat as an alternative to beef. The memes were excellent. B***o King. The burrito/burro joke. 746,000 views on one tweet alone.

What the memes were about was not funny.

I've been running food tours in Buenos Aires since 2016. Beef is my primary cost input. I watch these prices every week. Asado de tira was 1,616 pesos per kilo when Milei took office. Today it's 18,617. Across seven cuts, the average increase is 941%.

For the first time in recorded history, Argentines consumed more chicken than beef last year. Beef consumption in early 2026 is the lowest in over 20 years.

The economists are celebrating a turnaround. The carnicería is telling a different story.

I wrote about all of it, including the factory closures, the IMF debt nobody is talking about, and what a Milei cultural advisor said that should give everyone pause.

Link below.
https://www.asadoadventure.com/post/argentina-s-cost-of-living-crisis-when-the-economists-celebrate-and-the-rest-of-us-pay-the-bill

26/04/2026

Buenos Aires already had a burger moment. La Birra Bar won the Dubai Burger Championship. The Flour Store makes a Spicy Apple Pie burger that sounds impossible and works completely.

The city figured out beef in a bun some time ago.

This is something else. Smaller footprint, stripped-down menus, smash technique, and a precision that suggests someone cared about getting it right rather than getting it everywhere.

My friend Dan Perlman has been reviewing burgers in this city since 2006. He remembers what a bad hamburguesa looked like here, and he knows the difference. He pulled me along for two stops near my house in Palermo and Villa Crespo. I went back to Guita a second time on my own, which should tell you something.
Full write-up is on the blog, link below. If you're visiting Buenos Aires and you want to eat well outside the asado rotation, these two places belong on your list.

Buenos Aires has serious burger history. La Birra Bar won the Dubai Burger Championship. The Flour Store has a Spicy Apple Pie burger that works better than it has any right to. But the smash burger is the latest chapter, and two spots near my house in Villa Crespo and Palermo are making a strong ca...

16/04/2026

Someone sent me a reel.

An Argentine historian making the case that Argentina's N**i reputation is overblown. It sounded reasonable. A friend asked if I was sure.

I wasn't.

What I found connects a 1938 stadium rally in Buenos Aires, a military torture room, a 1994 bombing, and a retired general's tweet in January 2026. It took me three weeks to untangle.

Full piece at the link below.

Antisemitism in Argentina didn't start with the N**is and didn't end with Perón. A historian's reel sent me down a rabbit hole — here's what I found.

10/04/2026

Buenos Aires is not a city you associate with Indian food. Bharat in Puerto Madero is making a case for itself. I went on a Wednesday night with no agenda other than craving something that was not beef.

The butter chicken was excellent, the samosas were the real thing, and the Saint Felicien Chardonnay paired better than I had any right to expect.

Full honest review on the blog, including real prices and what to order: https://wix.to/UpgSEHL

Looking for authentic Indian food in Buenos Aires? Here is my honest take on Bharat, the Indian restaurant in Puerto Madero that is doing something genuinely worth talking about.

09/04/2026

Netflix just announced a wave of new Argentine productions coming in 2026 and 2027, and a few names caught my eye immediately.

Santiago Mitre directed Argentina, 1985, a film I recommend to every guest after the tour because it brings the dictatorship trials to life in a way no history book can. His next project, still untitled, centers on a military officer who infiltrated groups of families searching for their disappeared relatives. If it's anywhere near as good as his last film, it'll be essential viewing.

Vanessa Ragone, who produced The Secret in Their Eyes, is back with a documentary about Yiya Murano, Argentina's first female serial killer, dropping April 23rd.

And El Eternauta, already one of the most talked-about Argentine series in years, is moving into its second season.

If you've been on the tour, you already know why these stories matter. If you haven't, this might be the right moment to start with the films I recommend and then come see the streets where this history actually happened.

The roster includes top stars like actor Ricardo Darin and director Santiago Mitre, as well as upcoming documentaries on popular Argentine figures

07/04/2026

PumPum never shows her face in public. When I asked her for a photo with her mural, she covered it. These two heard that story and decided they wanted to do the same.

That's the thing about good street art. It doesn't just hang there. It starts conversations, passes stories down, and sometimes turns a courtyard into a small ceremony.

30/03/2026

Something came up this week that I could not let pass without a response.

A viral post declared Argentine beef "one of the worst in the world," citing a blog interview with a rancher from around 2010 as evidence. What the post did not mention: that rancher was a personal friend of mine. We co-founded Democrats Abroad in Buenos Aires together. And the blogger who interviewed him also interviewed me around the same time.

I have been living in Argentina since 1999. I have sourced, exported, cooked, and served this country's beef to thousands of guests from around the world. I know what it is.

So I wrote about it. The full story covers what actually happened with the China beef story that started everything, what the Argentine beef industry actually looks like, and how one news item became three very different political arguments — none of them quite honest.

Link in the comments. 👇