Feria de San Telmo (food stalls) ★ 4.2
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
El Hornero Tucumano is a street-food stop in Balvanera, Buenos Aires.
Balvanera counter specialising in the Tucuman regional canon: hand-formed empanadas of cuchillo-cut beef, humitas en chala and tamales. Cheap, fast, packed.
Address: Avenida Cordoba 1857, C1120 Buenos Aires
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
Buenos Aires' classic choripan-cart strip along the Costanera Sur reserve. Open-flame grills, chorizo and bondiola sandwiches, paper napkins, cans of beer.
Try: Choripan from grill carts
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