Wandering Argentina is a blast, even if you don't speak Spanish. Unless of course you're trying to…read morefigure out what's vegan, as I've been doing all week with little success. Speaking frankly it can be kind of a bitch unless you're cool with massive quantities of bread, fruit, and nuts. But I knew that going in so whatever, I friggen love bread anyway.
So when I found this completely vegetarian restaurant less than a mile from my apartment thanks to Yelp, I kind of freaked out with excitement. I used Google Translate while on wifi at my place and saved how to ask, "Lo que no tiene leche, sin mantequilla y sin huevos?" (What has no milk, no butter and no eggs?) and then headed to Bodhi for lunch. All I can really say is... HOLY SHIT IT WAS SO GOOD.
This is the lunch spot for my time here in Cordoba, no question. It would be for dinner too if they had dinner hours. A quaint little spot, no decor or fanciness, it's a perfectly 100% vegetarian buffet with dozens of options. Noodles, tofu steaks, quiches, seitan dishes, rices, salads, glorious chunks of avocado, desserts, stir fries, and a TON of things I couldn't even put a name to. My mind was blown, I had accepted I'd be on a bread diet my two weeks here. The staff are stellar, I showed the young man my translation and he happily walked me through while pointing out everything free of dairy and eggs. I would say maybe 40-50% was vegan which was more than plenty.
The food was delicious. I mean no joke, I've had far worse vegan food back home. They charge the buffet by weight here, it's not an all you can eat situation because really it's probably only fat Americans that think they need endless piles of food. So I loaded up my plate without being a glutton, got everything that looked good, and it turned out to be 280 Argentinian pesos.... YOU GUYS, that's like $2 American. If I had that same plate of food anywhere in California it would've been $15 American or more. The seitan was on point, the tofu and noodle dishes had great flavor without being overly salty, I couldn't have been happier.
If only they were open for dinner... I'll add some quick pictures that I snapped, they aren't very good but people look at you weird here when you take random food pictures I guess. But I'm here to help the Yelp community and poor quality photos of solid food is better than no photos. I tried to tip 10 Argentinian pesos which again is like $1 American and they were so insistent that I didn't need to I had to put it on the counter and run out the door screaming, "Muchas gracias, todo era increíble!" Hopefully I got that Spanish right but if not, I'll see them tomorrow for lunch anyway.
PS- I really need to learn Spanish.
