I’ve always had a few places I like to go to eat steak, but my friend Venetia has raved about La Gran Parilla in San Telmo and I just hadn’t been yet. Now I have — and it’s my new favourite!

My friend Linda goes home to California today (sad, I’ll miss her), and she took me out to dinner last night to celebrate our new friendship. We went to La Gran Parilla because she had also heard Venetia rave about it, and we had a fantastic steak dinner. Tender, juicy, succulent beef with some garlicky french fries and great chimichurri.

As you’ll see from the photo below, the steaks are huge. They take their steak seriously here, but fortunately they don’t mind if you take home what you can’t eat there, so this steak was last night’s dinner, tonight’s dinner — and possibly tomorrow’s lunch!

The place itself was charming. Typical old-worlde Buenos Aires parilla with the black and white checked floor and walls full of bottles of wine. There was a pleasant buzz of conversation. We thought about sitting outside because it was a lovely night, but they don’t have many outside tables so we sat inside.

Great night — thanks Linda! I look forward to doing some traveling with you next year!