I had an email from one of my readers recently. Her name is Charmaine, she’s from England and is currently visiting Buenos Aires for the first time with her friend Samantha.
As they were keen to have authentic Argentine food, I recommended La Gran Parilla, my favourite place for steak, and they enjoyed that very much. Another staple of the food here, though, is the empanada, and El Sanjuanino is a little, very old, place quite near me that is famous for them. It’s also very old-world, and that’s why I love it. Here’s a photo of us there after our empanadas. They serve the house Malbec in these cute penguin jugs — and the quantities are quite generous!
The second picture is a sketch I did of El Sanjuanino last year, and the third is the selfie I took of us after breakfast this morning.
I set Charmaine up for a tango lesson with my lovely teacher, Alejandro, and she now plans to find a place to take lessons when she gets back home!
I’m always happy to help visitors have a great experience of “my” city!