Locro appears as a signature dish in 1 Argentina cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Locro · Buenos Aires
Andean hominy stew with white corn, white beans, pumpkin, beef, pork belly and chorizo, slow-cooked into a thick warming bowl and topped with a paprika-and-scallion oil (quiquirimichi).
Locro predates Argentina; Quechua-Aymara cultures cooked maize-based stews across the Andes for centuries. Spanish colonisation added pork and beef. The Buenos Aires version is eaten on national-feast days (25 May Revolution, 9 July Independence, 17 August San Martin) and at the Sunday Mataderos fair in winter.
Where to eat in Buenos Aires:
- El Sanjuanino
- La Cocina
- El Hornero Tucumano
- Feria de Mataderos