The Bon Vivant Blog

This isn’t a review. This is just a ‘let you know how it is’.
We didn’t go to a restaurant, we went to an institution.
You don’t drive down the long drive into Stanford and rate the landscape architecture. You don’t go to the Salk Institute [...]

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There’s so much to say about this place. Where to start? The food, service, atmosphere, patrons, neighborhood, where?
Let me try to provide some background – the parrilla controversy. Maybe we researched it too much, but there is a lot of writing about parrillas [...]

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What a great find considering I was just searching on the web for a place to do an interesting wine tasting and this place fortuitously came up. I later found out that it is listed on guia oleo as one of the best places too eat in Buenos Aires.
First of [...]

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Short post:
We just finished our awesome tour of the beagle channel, saw some penguins, drank some maté, and had a great time. Hungry for lunch, we wandered across the street as this place had come recommended.
Inside, it is super-modern and very trendy. It wouldn’t be out of place anywhere in [...]

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After our experience at Cabana las Lilas, we wanted to figure out this whole Argentinian beef thing and knew that we had to visit a parrilla again to compare/contrast and see if we could find the ‘best steak of your life’ as some of the travel guides seemed to promise.
Located on [...]

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After we did an absolutely amazing 4×4 adventure in Ushuaia to lake Fagnano, our hilarious (and dead ringer for Andy Kaufman) tour guide, Chicho, took us to Villa las Cotorras for an afternoon lunch.

Who here as been on an organized tour? Remember those places that you stop off to use the bathroom [...]

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It was Sunday night, and the places that we wanted very much to try in Ushuaia weren’t answering their phone, so D had heard about this place – its thing was small, tapas-style dishes with a variety of accompanying sauces.
This review will be short. It was a pleasant, clean, restaurant, [...]

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