Food and wine ... Today is all about sampling the local delicacies and varietals. We take the subway to a neighborhood ("barrio") of BA called Palermo. We will meet up with a guide to go to three restaurants, but we arrive early enough to walk around on our own for a couple of hours. We go into a bakery called Bellas Artes where we buy a couple of empanadas to tide us over until lunch. Fun, again, to get the transaction done with a shopkeeper who only speaks Spanish -- success!
Then we and another couple from Dallas spend three hours in three restaurants enjoying, first, chorizos (an Argentine sausage) and a local fermented drink that is apparently quite popular. At the second place we enjoyed empanadas carne picante plus a wonderful white wine from Mendoza (the Napa of Argentina), followed by steaks and Malbec at this really mysterious restaurant that reminded us of a Chicago speakeasy: no name on the outside, a nondescript barred door, entry only if they know you, and so popular that whatever this place is called, it changes its name every few weeks to avoid publicity. It is apparently so popular they just can't take any more business. It's owned and run by Tito (above, manning the grill emblazoned with "Secret Parrilla" -- "parrilla" means grill or steakhouse). The steaks we're really quite wonderful.
Tomorrow we hope to visit another barrio, San Telmo, then we have a 9pm flight home!
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