El Sanjuanino ★ 4.3
Recoleta empanada institution since 1976. Salteña, tucumana and cuyana empanadas baked or fried, tamales and winter locro; family-owned three generations.
Try: Salteña and tucumana empanadas
Choripaneros de la Costanera Sur is a street-food stop in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires' classic choripan-cart strip along the Costanera Sur reserve. Open-flame grills, chorizo and bondiola sandwiches, paper napkins, cans of beer.
Address: Avenida Tristan Achaval Rodriguez, Costanera Sur, C1107 Buenos Aires
Recoleta empanada institution since 1976. Salteña, tucumana and cuyana empanadas baked or fried, tamales and winter locro; family-owned three generations.
Try: Salteña and tucumana empanadas
Pueyrredon empanada counter known for tucumana-style empanadas, fried or baked. Famous picante (spicy minced beef with potato); Tue and Thu locro at the bar.
Try: Tucumana empanadas
Sunday Mataderos fair on the old livestock-yard plazas. Provincial empanadas, asado off open coals, winter locro, tamales; gaucho displays alongside.
Try: Provincial empanadas, locro, asado
Balvanera counter specialising in the Tucuman regional canon: hand-formed empanadas of cuchillo-cut beef, humitas en chala and tamales. Cheap, fast, packed.
Try: Tucumana empanadas and humitas
Sunday San Telmo fair runs the length of Defensa. Choripan grills, churros stands, empanada carts and tango buskers between Plaza Dorrego and Plaza de Mayo.
Try: Choripan, churros, empanadas, helado
Pedro Pena and German Sitz upgraded the street choripan to chef-counter form: house-made sausages, ferments, pickled toppings and signature chimichurris.
Try: Choripan with house sausage