Buenos Aires

Amazing but it is very difficult to find a restaurant that cooks a steak evenly throughout the meat. It was mouthwatering and melted like butter in my mouth and for half the price of the steakhouses throughout Manhattan. Well worth the wait.

As a native NYer i do some research before trying a new restaurant. So i looked into Buenos Aires, and this is what i found. Zagat liked it, NY Press liked it and the Village Voice said it was a great deal for the price. I took some friends out for dinner, and we had a great time, yes there was a wait for a table, find me a really good restaurant in NY that doesnt. The food was great, the steak was done just as i liked it, and the fried potatoes were really crunchy and hot. The service was very friendly. When the check came i was amazed at how little it cost for such a wondrfful meal. Will i go back, you betcha, and if you take my advice you will too !

We were eager to visit Buenos Aires to celebrate a birthday. When we arrived, we were told ther would be a 50 minute wait (perhaps less, but the hostess wanted to be conservative on the estimate). Over one hour later (we were waiting at a bar nearby, luckily having fun) we were told the evening had been complicated, but we should be seated within a half hour, and only had two tables of four ahead of us. The food was good, but the dishonesty of the seating arrangements were unlike my usual experience in the real city of Buenos Aires. Perhaps we were not part of the frequent clientele of the restaurant. I do know this was a very frustrating experience, and the meal and subsequent attention were not sufficiently good to compensate for the astonishingly poor and insincere service of the restaurant --clearly not at a par with the usual honesty of a true porteño restaurant. It is too bad, given that the quality of the food and the range of wine choices in their menu is quite good by NY standards. But in my view, the restaurant does not meet true and basic porteño standards of hospitability.

SERVICE: My friend and I came early for a celebratory steak dinner. The place was empty at 6pm. Although they offered us a small table, when we requested a 4-person table they were gracious. The service was warm, friendly, attentive even as the place got really busy. There were reservations waiting for our table but just as we were about to leave it started pouring. We were not rushed or treated rudely and because of that we felt fine about leaving into the rain because we didn't want to hold them up. FOOD: Not since BA have I had steak like this and I visit my partner and family in BA quite a bit and barely eat anything but steak while I'm there. My friend had the bife de chorizo and I had the skirt and we shared with each other. Every bite was perfection. The parsely fries weren't like BA home but close enough. The desserts were lovely but I won't indulge again. I had a nouveau interpretation of an alfahore and the calories and the cost may have been worth it but I am much more into steak than dessert. ATMOSPHERE: It was lovely quiet soft music when we arrived at 6, but got louder as the evening wore on. It filled with multi-generational groups, lots of Argentineans and it felt like home just a bit. If you like the coziness of a happy noisy place, go late and if you like quiet go early.

Interesting place. Went there on my birthday with my man- arrived as the sun was settling. The ambience was very soothing and comfortable. Soccer was on the tube, so you were either laying back, or at the edge of your seat interested in the game. Whatever the mood, the food and service were GREAT!

Nice place. Steak was fresh and good. Not steakhouse quality, but then again not steakhouse prices. The chimichurri helps. Service was friendly, but off. Had to wait for our water, then the bottle of wine, then a really long time before ALL our food came out at once...salad, empanada, and steaks? Then the plates were cleared and we waited again for the check, then again for our waiter process the check. Would probably return, but not on a crowded night.

My girlfriend and I discovered Buenos Aires recently thanks to the village voice review of best steakhouse in NYC and we loved it! On our first visit we had the empanadas and the chorizo, which were superb, and then I had the shell steak with the special fries with garlic and parsley and my girlfriend had the rib eye. Both steaks were cooked to perfection and very tasty. I think that was the best steak I've ever had! Be sure you save some space for dessert because they have a large selection of delicious treats (we had the banana panqueque topped with strawberry ice cream) We liked our experience so much that we decided to put them to the test when we went back this week with 6 friends for my girlfriend's birthday party and boy did they deliver! Everything was perfect, the service was great and our waiter was very knowledgeable and recommended a malbec (typical argentine wine variety) that was a perfect match for our steaks, that were unbelievable delicious. Everyone loved the food and the atmosphere. Buenos Aires was a great find and we will definitely be back for more soon.