Best Jewish Restaurants in Buenos Aires - IDEAS South America Travel

Posted on 2 September, 2021
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Best Jewish Restaurants in Buenos Aires

The Rosh Hashanah festivities are approaching and the Jewish community is already preparing the table with the best culinary delights. Some choose the privacy of their homes, while others choose to reserve a table in the best places that recreate the original recipes of their grandmothers. On the occasion of the arrival of the Jewish New Year 5782, we suggest the best places to eat Jewish food in Buenos Aires and to taste the flavors of the fascinating Jewish cuisine.

Mishiguene

Mishiguene, which means crazy in Yiddish, honors Argentina’s Jewish immigrant heritage by reinventing Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Israeli cooking. Here, nouvelle techniques are applied to old world recipes, using the highest-quality ingredients possible. Its most popular dishes include: varenikes, potato ravioli served with onion confit and schmaltz mit Gribenes (chicken skin rinds in butter with fried onion); pastrami; and gefilte fish in cold cooking broth, pickle salad, fish grabenes and carrot caviar.

Good to know: Every Friday night Mishiguene celebrates Shabbat, and the entire restaurant breaks out in song and dance, led by a klezmer band that plays live music. For the ultimate experience, request the special tasting menu and sit at the chef’s table inside the kitchen. It is not a Kosher Restaurant

* Dinner reservations are suggested at fine dining establishments, especially during high season and weekends.

Address: Lafinur 3368, Palermo, Buenos Aires
Phone #: +54 11 3969-0764
Website: www.mishiguene.com

Fayer

In Fayer, the owners unite the Argentine gastronomic culture and Israeli cuisine hand in hand with a careful culinary technique, through which they elaborate signature dishes where products and raw materials of the highest quality converge, such as organic pasture meat, fish of the day and seasonal vegetables from local producers.

The most popular dishes are the classic hummus, the white fish tiradito with both pineapple, labneh and sumac and the pastrami with bone, prepared with a pasture-fed rib of Pampa steer, cured for 10 days in a mixture of salt, sugar and 13 spices, cold-smoked for 8 hours and finally vacuum cooked at low temperature for 24 hours.

Good to know: Fayer entered the hot list 2021 of the prestigious travel magazine, Condé Nast Traveler. Today it is one of the 10 best new restaurants in the world.

Address: Avenida Cerviño 4417, Palermo.
Phone #: +54 11 4774-3313
Website: www.fayer.com

Eretz Cantina Israeli

Eretz Cantina Israeli is a place that invites you to discover the culture of the Middle East through a look inspired by Israel. Its proposal is authentic and unforgettable, and diners enjoy being carried away by the original and exotic flavors that emerge from the open kitchen in full view of the guests and are combined with native music and a young and cosmopolitan atmosphere, full of talks and smiles.

Good to know: The 3 most requested dishes are Tel Aviv Falafel, shawarma and Turkish kebab.

Address: Malabia 1583, Palermo.
Phone #: +54 11 2062-3810

Al Galope

No trip to Buenos Aires is complete without visiting a parrilla that specializes in grilled meats. Every barrio has its favorite parrilla (steakhouse). Al Galope is the steakhouse of the Once neighborhood. Serious fans congregate at “Al Galope” for juicy kosher steaks, milanesas (schnitzel), and the house specialty parrillada especial al galope, a sizzling tray overflowing with sausages, sweetbreads, tripe, ribs, tenderloin, and chicken.

Good to know: Al Galope is a Kosher restaurant.

Address: Tucumán 2633, Once. Phone #: +54 11 4963-6888

A word about Once Neighborhood

The neighborhood has the highest concentration of synagogues in the country, including “El Gran Templo de Paso”, Congregación Israelita (commonly called ‘Libertad’) and the Sephardic temple, Yesod Hadath. In Abasto shopping mall is the only Kosher McDonalds outside of Israel.

Hola Jacoba

Many people agree that the best options to order in “Hola Jacoba” are pastrami and large “Picada Jacoba”*. You will be served good apple strudels, gelato and baklava. This place is also famous for delicious wine as well as coffee.

Good to know: “The picada Jacoba'', which is the star of the house, includes hummus, tabbouleh, aubergine pasta, kippes, lahmayin, knishes, sambusak and bohios. As a second option, the varenikes, and the third most requested is the pastrami with farfalej. Food delivery is an important benefit of Hola Jacoba.

Address: Thames 1801, Palermo.
Phone #: 54 11 2266-6404

Benaim

In this restaurant you can taste dishes such as pastrami, kebab, kippe, falafel, Israeli salad, musaka, chicken shawarma, among others.

Among the three dishes that come out the most are falafel, the pita sandwich with chickpea meatballs, hummus, tomato, tahini, cucumber, and cabbage; the chicken pita, grilled marinated chicken pita sandwich, aioli, tomato, greens and the hummus, a chickpea puree with tahini.

Address: Gorriti 4015, Palermo. Phone #: +54 11 2102-7003

Glitter

Under the supervision of the Great Rabbi Yosef Chehebar, Glitter is the first deluxe glatt kosher restaurant in Argentina. Glitter stands out for putting a modern spin on Argentine fine dining steakhouse classics, like merluza negra (Chilean sea bass) and iron-grilled ribeye with roasted potatoes and chimichurri sauce. *This restaurant is kosher.

As of August 2021 this restaurant is temporarily closed. Check the website of the Alvear Icon Hotel for news regarding the reopening of this fabulous restaurant.

Good to know: Besides Glitter, you will find a trendy kosher dairy bar called “Milk & Co” and a Kosher Sushi Bar located on the terrace of the hotel. (both open)

Address: Aimé Painé 1130, Puerto Madero
Glitter Restaurant: alvearicon.com

Restaurant Requirements in Buenos Aires:

As of August 2021, diners must continue to wear face coverings even while seated waiting for food. Restaurant staff and bartenders are also required to follow the mask mandate. The city's updated regulations also highlight that residents still need to abide by the six-foot rule.

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