Underground Restaurants in Buenos Aires
Everybody wants to feel in the know, right? Just as Buenos Aires (belatedly) caught the private club bug, Argentina's capital has also taken to clandestine/ underground/ private restaurants. We recently dined at Casa Saltshaker, where Dan Perlman serves no more than 12 people themed dinners twice a week (the tasty cheese-and-beet plate pictured here comes from the Great Moon Hoax dinner). He is far from alone. Behind a signless door in an old warehouse, bakery/restaurant Providencia serves complex vegetarian food in a city with very little of that (but only for three lunches and two dinners a week), while Almacén Secreto serves Thursday-to-Saturday dinners of northern Argentina cuisine in an equally unmarked flat. There are more, many more. But you're going to have to find them yourself.
Note: Quick change on the schedule on one of the retaurants. (Being clandestine, they're not so scheduled, ya know). Providencia now serves lunch Monday through Saturday and isn't serving dinner at all, until summertime, when they'll go back to two dinners a week.
Casa Saltshaker [Official site]
Great Moon Hoax Dinner [Saltshaker.net]
A tocar el timbre (Ring the Bell) [Página 12]
Providencia [Guía Oleo]
The Mysterious Saltshaker [Bacanal magazine]
Previously: Fear of Flying, Casero Prison Art Breakout, BA Burritos, Polo Anyone?, Tango Dancers for Rent, Palacio Duhau
