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Your Weekly Closed Door Restaurant Guide: June 5 – 7
By Kevin Vaughn. Buenos Aires is full of surprises waiting to be uncovered. And the closed door scene exemplifies that, with some 40 active projects and new ones popping up all the time. But from...
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Your Weekly Closed Door Guide: June 12-14
By Kevin Vaughn. This city sometimes feels like it is absolutely undiscoverable. No matter how much you know, there is always something new to find and fall in love with. The closed door restaurant...
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Your Weekly Closed Door Restaurant Guide: June 19 – 21
This list of weekly recommendations is compiled by our resident taste-setter, Kevin Vaughn. Club M Omakase Source: Club M Omakase The Onda Hidden away above Palermo’s popular Bar Du Marché sits Club M...
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Summer Sipping: Pineapple Tereré
Article by Kevin Vaughn. There are a number of tall tale signs that winter is far behind us and summer is quickly on the approach. The flower bush in my patio has bloomed, my overhead fan (and the...
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From Mumbai to Buenos Aires – Indian Food at My Spice
Article by Kevin Vaughn. Samosa. Tandoori. Masala. Curry. When was the last time you heard those words uttered in a sentence without wanting to punch whoever was humble bragging about all the delicious...
View Article5 Argentine Movies for a Lazy Sunday
Article by Kevin Vaughn. Sunday, November 3rd. 2pm. It’s raining gatos y perros outside (no one actually says that but shhhh). The streets are flooded enough to discourage any ideas about going outside...
View ArticleTwo Handfuls of Movies to Watch at This Year’s BAFICI
Article by part-time taco man and full-time movie snob Kevin Vaughn. All those movie snobs out there raise yo hands! *Raises hand* I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a culture snob. And you know what?...
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The Alternative Empanada, Vol 1: Chicken with Yellow Curry and Orange Sauce
Article by Kevin Vaughn, owner and taco mastermind at MASA My test for whether an empanada place is good or not is the chicken empanada. I don’t care how good your carne al cuchillo game is, I don’t...
View Article5 Best Lunch Spots in Microcentro
Article by Kevin Vaughn, owner and head chef of the Mexican supper club MASA. There is something about having to walk around Microcentro on a weekday that makes me wish for a second bubonic plague....
View ArticleJungle Gym: Exercise in the Open Air
It’s about 9:30 on a Tuesday morning. Not only am I out of bed but I’ve also eaten breakfast, gotten dressed and am (big breath) exercising. It’s an unusually warm May morning and I’m running laps...
View ArticleBrunch at M Palermo, or Give Me All the Shrimp
I’m not much of a bruncher. But before you light those pitchforks, let me explain. I’m not one to turn down salmon gravlax or eggs benedict (read: I don’t turn down food; read: cook for me!). I will...
View ArticleLa Pastronería: BA’s Pastrami Mecca
True to form, pastrami became a thing in Buenos Aires from one day to the next. No aviso previo, not a single heads up, just a hey guys, I’m here. Even a paro naciónal gives a brother some warning....
View ArticleFriendship Luncheon at Roux Resto
When I moved to Buenos Aires at the ripe age of 23, fresh out of college, mostly (read: completely) skill-less and ready to drink as much fernet and coke as it took to transform into a porteño, I was...
View ArticleAll the Soup in Buenos Aires
Gimme the soup, gimme the soup! I mostly wanted to write this article to make a Biggie reference, but also to thank the BA food gods for finally getting up on their soup game. As many long-term expats...
View ArticleLa Locanda, An Italian Love Song
I struggle to start writing about La Locanda, not because I disliked it (I loved it), not because of writer’s block, but because after half a bottle of merlot and two shots of Grappa (because we “did...
View ArticleThree Venezuelan Restaurants in Five Days
Three Venezuelan Meals. One article. 120 hours. This was the challenge I gladly accepted from my editor Vivi. The Feria de Gastronomía – Sabores Venezolanos is this Sunday (July 12th) and it only felt...
View ArticleFour Months Without Gas: A Survival Guide
It was a morning like any other. Mid-March, about 9am. I’m making eggs when the portera rings to say that they are turning the gas off for a minute to do some repairs. Edesur was working on new power...
View ArticleJungle Gym: Exercise in the Open Air
It’s about 9:30 on a Tuesday morning. Not only am I out of bed but I’ve also eaten breakfast, gotten dressed and am (big breath) exercising. It’s an unusually warm May morning and I’m running laps...
View ArticleTreat Yo Self to Nikkei at Osaka
For the love of baby Jesus and all that is holy, please don’t be wearing sweat pants, I frantically whatsapped my lunch buddy Freddie. To be fair, he looks fly in his workout gear but as I stood...
View ArticleYour Weekly Event Roundup, Aug 17th – 23rd
A hand picked selection of our favorite things to do this week. See An Art Show Two very different photography shows wrap up. Iluminaciones is a photography exhibit that features photos taken by a...
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