Mercado de San Telmo ★ 4.5
Italianate-facade market opened 1897 by Juan A. Buschiazzo, a national historic monument since 2000. Butchers, fruit, food stalls and antiques under one roof.
Go for: Empanadas, Asado, Antique browsing, Picada
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Buenos Aires shops, snacks and lunches.
Markets to wander
Mercado de Belgrano ★ 4.2
Belgrano's covered neighborhood market on Juramento. Produce, butchers, fishmongers and a clutch of small food counters; locals shop here for daily groceries.
Go for: Produce, Butcher, Empanadas
Mercado del Progreso ★ 4.3
Caballito covered market opened 1889. Old-school produce, butcher and fishmonger stalls; the morning shop where Caballito families fill the weekly trolley.
Go for: Produce, Butcher, Fish, Cheese
Feria de Mataderos ★ 4.4
Sunday folk-and-food fair on the historic livestock-yard plazas. Provincial empanadas, locro pots, whole-lamb al asador and gaucho displays; Apr-Dec season.
Go for: Provincial empanadas, Locro, Asado al asador, Gaucho crafts
Feria de San Telmo ★ 4.4
Sunday street-fair the length of Defensa from Plaza Dorrego to Plaza de Mayo: antiques, leather, food carts, choripan smoke and tango buskers; weekly event.
Go for: Choripan, Antiques, Buskers, Sunday picada
Mercado de Pulgas Dorrego ★ 3.8
Indoor antiques and flea market on Dorrego in Colegiales. Vintage Argentine kitchenware, hand-painted crockery, old advertising signs from porteno bodegones.
Go for: Antique food crockery, Vintage kitchenware
Barrio Chino (Chinatown grocers) ★ 4.3
Buenos Aires' Chinatown along Arribenos. Asian groceries, dim sum on Sunday, imported produce; the city's deepest Asian-pantry shopping strip.
Go for: Asian groceries, Dim sum on Sunday, Imported produce