Eat well in Buenos Aires for under €15 a plate: the places locals on a budget actually use.

Food tour in Buenos Aires

Vibrant Palermo Food Tour with 5 Tastings

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Cheap eats worth seeking out

12 places

El Cuartito

Try Pizza al molde (cuarta de muzza)

Stand-up pizza al molde since 1934. Order a cuarta de muzza or fugazzeta at the counter, fold and eat with a tin of moscato. Sit-down dining at the back.

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Eat your way around Palermo Soho

2 of the budget eats on this list are in Palermo Soho. So are these tours and tastings.

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El Obrero

Try Bife de chorizo and mashed potatoes

La Boca bodegon since 1954. Soccer scarves on the walls, simple parrilla, daily specials chalked up; a famous Bono and Bourdain pilgrimage stop.

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Chori

Try Choripan with house sausage

Chef-driven choripan counter from Pedro Pena and German Sitz: house-made sausages, four pickles, three chimichurris; the cheapest meal at Palermo quality.

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El Sanjuanino

Try Empanadas salteñas and tucumanas

Recoleta empanada institution since 1976. Order a dozen mixed (salteña, tucumana, cuyana) and take them away to the cemetery park for a working-lunch budget.

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La Cocina

Try Tucumana empanadas

Pueyrredon empanada counter famous for tucumana-style and the picante (spicy minced beef and potato). Winter Tuesdays and Thursdays bring locro at the bar.

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Try Paella de mariscos at Sunday lunch

San Cristobal Spanish-Argentine bodegon since 1948. Paella on Sundays, weeknight classics; one of the city's last big wood-panelled rooms at bodegon prices.

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Albamonte

Try Cannelloni rossini

Chacarita Argentine-Italian bodegon since 1953. Hand-rolled noodles, baked pastas and cheap Sunday family lunches under wood-beam ceilings on Corrientes.

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El Imperio de la Pizza

Try Stand-up cuarta de muzza

Almagro pizzeria on Corrientes for the classic cheap-and-fast porteno move: a cuarta of mozzarella plus a slice of faina, eaten standing at the counter.

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El Hornero Tucumano

Try Tucumana empanadas, humitas

Balvanera empanada counter doing the Tucuman canon at lunch-budget prices. Stand-up service, half-dozen empanadas plus a humita at working-lunch cost.

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