Buenos Aires is a city that rarely sleeps.
The locals love their red wine and their red meat as much as they love their tango and football - and often they do not head out for dinner until 10 or 11pm.
Here are two very different wining and dining hot spots that should be on the itinerary of anyone visiting the Argentina capital.
Floreria
Atlantico
From
the outside, Floreria Atlantico looks like a busy flower shop that
also sells wine. But the people milling around are not wanting to buy
flowers, they are waiting to be admitted down a set of stairs to one
of the most popular cocktail and wine bars in the capital – an
after-work hangout for chefs and hospitality workers that is open
until 4am at weekends. In addition to Argentine tapas (think dishes
like barbecued kidneys cooked over fire wood, frog's legs, morcilla
sausages and char-grilled octopus), are huge steaks on the parrillada
and patrons drinking shots and colourful cocktails (the local
specialities are listed as “criollos”). This basement speakeasy
is long, narrow – and extremely vibrant. The later it gets the
busier it becomes. Floreria Atlantico was named among the world's top
50 bars for 2015. Main courses $20-30; tapas from $10.
Uco
Restaurant, Hotel Fierro
Take
an Irish chef, home-made ingredients and a garden setting in one of
Buenos Aires' most funky boutique hotels and you have the unique
ambience of Uco, a new eatery that is drawing sellout crowds to the
Palermo Hollywood quarter of the Argentine capital.
It
is named after one of the wine districts in the Mendoza region and
has a wine list curated by Andres Rosberg, one of Argentina's leading
sommeliers. The food here is thoroughly modern. Chef Ed Holloway
serves up dishes like ceviche-style salmon carpaccio with crispy
fried plantain and mango salad, or perhaps crispy-skinned suckling
pig with roast butternut puree and pickled vegetables, or maybe an
18-hour-cooked shoulder of Patagonian lamb. At dinner a seven-course
degustation menu is on offer for $68, and each course can be paired
to an oustanding Argentine wine.
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