TableConversation.com is taking off for Argentina to report on great food and wine and the upcoming vintage in Mendoza, the main wine-producing region. The seasons are reversed, so it's summer there now, and the grape harvest takes place in what we think of as spring.
Media coverage in the United States concentrates on flashy, trendy, upscale restaurants in Buenos Aires, but I'll stick to my favorite haunts—a neighborhood bistro so tiny you have to come early to get a seat, a café that serves the rustic dishes of northwestern Argentina along with spectacular desserts, and a "restaurant" that operates in a private home, where the host, a chef and sommelier, applies his expertise to pairing wine with imaginative food.
I'll also go to a steak house where the sweetbreads and French fries are legendary, an old fashioned Italian restaurant where crusty waiters can't hide the twinkle in their eyes, and as many other places as possible.
The charm of eating in Buenos Aires isn't just the food and wine but the enthusiasm for the good life, for art, music and conversation that permeates the atmosphere. So hasta luego--until many fine meals later.
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