One of the longer running, and apparently more popular kosher spots in the city, it's a place that…read moreI've thought about going to on and off for years. Why I never got there, I don't know. Maybe it was premonition. It is, as best I know, the only kosher restaurant in the city that offers both a meat menu and a dairy menu, and separate seating areas. Seating is all, as far as we could tell, outside, under two large tents, and the meat and milk do not mix. The latter menu is primarily limited to pizzas, with a couple of pastas, salads, and fish dishes (fish, for those who don't keep kosher, is allowed on either type of menu). The meat side is all pretty much classic Argentine steakhouse dishes, with a few options for those who don't want grilled meat.
We started off with the mixed hot appetizer selection. According to the menu, this would come with flatbread, hummus, keftas, crispy chicken drumettes, chicken in escabeche, meat stuffed olives, coleslaw, onion rings, eggplant dip, and something called basagrán, which for all my searching, I can't find any reference to other than as a pesticide. Given that we had neither of the chicken elements on the plate delivered, but two scoops of a sort of tomato infused bulghur wheat, I'm leaning towards that as what basagrán is. Overall, a little disappointing - nothing stood out flavor-wise. It was all perfectly edible, but no more than that.
A tortilla española, with beef sausage filling in for chorizo, was unseasoned, a bit dry on the outside, though the center was still creamy. However, it wasn't really an española, which ought to have some onions and/or garlic in it. It was just a simple tortilla de papas, a potato omelette, with some scattered slices of sausage. Given the upcharge from 220 pesos for the basic potato version to 350 pesos for maybe a dozen slices of sausage, it's a bit of a rip-off.
Likewise, in the "let us pluck some money out of your wallet in return for little to nothing", a half-order of sweetbreads, coming in at a another whopping 350 pesos turned out to be four, shirt-cardboard thin slices of the organ meat, grilled into submission to the point of being dry and crumbly, with no seasoning. Good thing we didn't order the full sized portion at 720 pesos....
All in all, this place is just overpriced and underwhelming. And that's not kosher.