Empanadas appears as a signature dish in 1 Argentina cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Empanadas (porteñas, salteñas, tucumanas) · Buenos Aires
Hand-shaped pastry pockets stuffed with beef, chicken, ham-and-cheese or humita. Argentina's working lunch and national appetiser, regional variants differ in size, dough, spice and meat cut.
Empanadas arrived with Spanish colonisation in the 1500s and rooted regionally: Salteños fold a juicy beef-and-potato version with cumin; Tucumanos use cuchillo-cut beef and matambre fat; Porteños bake an oven-baked Buenos Aires-style with raisins and olives. El Sanjuanino in Recoleta has shaped them since 1976.
Where to eat in Buenos Aires:
- El Sanjuanino
- La Cocina
- El Hornero Tucumano
- Feria de Mataderos