Country dossier
Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries across Argentina in the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Argentina
Buenos Aires brings starred restaurants, tasting menus and grill cooking together across a handful of neighbourhoods. The city’s fine dining runs from Recoleta to Palermo and Villa Crespo.
Aramburu in Recoleta serves an 18-course seasonal tasting menu with an open kitchen and dessert service in a private first-floor room. It holds 2 Michelin stars and carries major rankings including #35 in Latin America’s Best Restaurants and #28 on Opinionated About Dining’s South America list.
Don Julio in Palermo is a parrilla built around grass-fed steaks cooked on a bespoke V-shaped grill over quebracho charcoal. It holds 1 Michelin star, the cellar runs to 60,000 bottles, and its awards include #19 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants and earlier World’s 50 Best placements.
Crizia in Palermo focuses on seafood, with tasting-menu, à la carte and counter formats, plus a wine programme noted for depth in whites and older vintages. It holds 1 Michelin star and gives Buenos Aires a seafood-led counterpoint to the city’s beef-heavy dining reputation.
Trescha in Villa Crespo serves a 14 to 16 course tasting menu to just 10 to 11 guests at a cedarwood kitchen counter. It holds 1 Michelin star and works in a contemporary Argentine style built around research-led technique and a tightly controlled format.
Buenos Aires pairs acclaimed cocktail bars with wine rooms and hybrids across Retiro, Palermo and Centro. The list runs from classic cocktails to natural wine.
Florería Atlantico in Retiro is a cocktail bar shaped by migration, Indigenous influence and Argentina’s Atlantic-facing history. It has appeared repeatedly on the World’s 50 Best Bars list, including #3 in 2019 and #90 in 2025.
Tres Monos in Palermo works with house-made spirits, in-house sake, whiskey and cocktails made only with Argentine ingredients. It ranks #7 in 2024, #10 in 2025 and #11 in 2023 on World’s 50 Best Bars, and its social training programme is part of the operation.
Gran Bar Danzon in Centro pairs cocktails with an exceptional wine list, extensive by-the-glass selections and older vintages. It holds Star Wine List recognition, and the wine list leans into Argentine breadth.
Pain et Vin in Palermo is a wine bar and sourdough bakery run by an Argentine sommelier and an Israeli chef. The list covers conventional and natural wine, and the counter format keeps Argentine regions, cheeses and wood-fired bread at the centre of the room.
Mendoza and Luján de Cuyo are the country’s most consistent wine-country dining centres. Here the strongest tables are tasting-menu restaurants, winery dining rooms and places where the wine programme shapes the entire meal.
Azafrán in Godoy Cruz is a Michelin-starred tasting-menu restaurant with an exceptional wine programme and sommelier-led pairings. Its contemporary Argentine style and consecutive Michelin stars place it among Mendoza’s most serious dining rooms.
Angélica Cocina Maestra in Luján de Cuyo is a wine-first tasting-menu restaurant tied to Catena Zapata wines. It holds 1 Michelin star and offers a 360-degree winery setting with dishes inspired by the estate’s premium wines.
Zonda Cocina de Paisaje in Luján de Cuyo serves a Michelin-starred tasting menu at Bodega Lagarde. Its format includes estate wines, garden tours and cooking classes, and the kitchen works with the agricultural character of its winery setting.
Brindillas in Luján de Cuyo is a modern Argentine fine-dining restaurant with a tasting menu and a wine list. It holds 1 Michelin star and sits within the small cluster of starred restaurants shaping the area’s dining profile.
Argentina’s wine-country visits run through Agrelo, Tunuyán, Paraje Altamira and Uco Valley. These are the places where cellar visits, winery restaurants and stays sit alongside one another.
Catena Zapata in Agrelo is one of the country’s reference wineries, known for its Mayan pyramid-inspired architecture and high-altitude Malbec focus. Its World’s 50 Best Vineyards history places it among Argentina’s most recognisable estate visits.
Bodegas Salentein in Tunuyán combines wine production, an art gallery, luxury accommodations, fine dining and a nature preserve. It has repeated World’s 50 Best Vineyards recognition, and the 2025 Decanter awards placed 13 wines in the medal tier.
Zuccardi Valle de Uco in Paraje Altamira is built from local stones and river materials, with gravity-fed concrete vessels and calcareous soils shaping the wines. It held World’s 50 Best Vineyards No. 1 in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
The Vines Resort & Spa in Uco Valley sits across 1,500 acres of private vineyards at the foot of the Andes. The property has 22 villas, Francis Mallmann’s open-fire restaurant Siete Fuegos and a private vineyard ownership program.
Palermo, Recoleta, Centro and Chacarita are the clearest Buenos Aires neighbourhoods for serious wine lists. In Palermo you have Pain et Vin and El Preferido de Palermo, Recoleta has Roux and Aramburu, Centro has Gran Bar Danzon, and Chacarita has Anchoíta and Lardito.
Argentina has 10 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, with 11 Michelin stars in total. Buenos Aires and Mendoza hold the starred restaurants we publish, including Aramburu, Don Julio, Crizia, Trescha, Azafrán, Angélica Cocina Maestra, Zonda Cocina de Paisaje, Brindillas, Riccitelli Bistró and Casa Vigil.
Buenos Aires and Mendoza are the main tasting-menu centres in our guide. Buenos Aires has Aramburu, Crizia, Trescha and Julia among the clearest examples, while Mendoza and Luján de Cuyo concentrate tasting menus around Azafrán, Angélica Cocina Maestra, Zonda Cocina de Paisaje and Brindillas.
Elena in Centro holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in our guide. Other wine-recognised places include Anchoíta in Chacarrita, Gran Bar Danzon in Centro, Pain et Vin in Palermo, VinoBien in Carrodilla, Lardito in Chacarrita and the Palacio Duhau hotel in Recoleta.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
City atlas
Argentina
Selected entries from the current guide for Argentina.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Don Julio holds a Michelin star and a top-ten World's 50 Best ranking, placing it at the apex of Buenos Aires' parrilla tradition. Booking two months ahead is standard; walk-in queues form close to opening time. The wine cellar runs to 60,000 bottles, and the beef, Aberdeen Angus and Hereford, dry-aged in-house, is sourced from the restaurant's own regenerative farm outside the city.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina's only two-Michelin-starred restaurant occupies a quietly tucked passage in Recoleta, where Gonzalo Aramburu's 18-course tasting menu reframes the country's ingredients through rigorous technique. Ranked in La Liste's global top 100 and a member of Relais & Châteaux, it represents the furthest point on Buenos Aires's fine-dining spectrum, and the clearest argument that Argentine cuisine extends well beyond the grill.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Inside the Four Seasons Buenos Aires on Posadas, Elena positions itself at the intersection of open-fire Argentine grilling and internationally informed technique. Executive Chef Juan Gaffuri's dry-aged beef programme, 200-label wine list focused on Mendoza and Patagonia, and a 2025 Michelin Plate make it one of the more seriously argued cases for modern Argentine cooking in the city.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Crizia holds a Michelin star in a city where beef still dominates most conversations about dining. The Palermo Hollywood address is the first signal that something different is happening: this is a fish-and-seafood-led kitchen working with seasonal Argentine products, open fire, and a wine programme that has drawn serious attention for its depth in whites and older vintages.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chef Tomás Kalika holds a 2025 Michelin Plate and ranks 26th on Opinionated About Dining's South America list.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Trescha holds a Michelin star for 2024 and 2025 and appears on Latin America's 50 Best list, operating from Villa Crespo with a tasting-format menu built around Argentine ingredients and research-led technique.
Mendoza, Argentina
Azafrán began as a deli on Avenida Sarmiento and evolved into one of Mendoza's most serious modern Argentine restaurants, earning consecutive Michelin Stars in 2024 and 2025 and a place on Latin America's 50 Best extended list. Under Chef Sebastian Weigandt, the menu reads as a considered argument for regional ingredients paired against a cellar that anchors the entire dining proposition.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Set along Ruta Provincial 15 in Perdriel, it operates within a sub-region that has defined Mendoza's premium Malbec identity for decades. For visitors focused on food-and-wine pairing in a structured estate setting, Norton represents one of the district's more complete propositions.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A Buenos Aires bodegón transformed into a fully-fledged restaurant in 2019, El Preferido de Palermo runs classic Spanish and Italian-inspired dishes through the same operational rigour as its sibling, the celebrated steakhouse Don Julio. Ranked 25th in South America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025 and recognised with a Michelin Plate, it operates in a different price bracket from its stablemate but holds its own on produce quality and craft.
Mendoza, Argentina
Angélica Cocina Maestra earned Mendoza its first Michelin star in 2025, operating from Cobos in Luján de Cuyo at the upper end of the city's creative dining tier. Chefs Josefina Diana and Juan Manuel Feijoo run a format grounded in regional produce and deliberate pacing, placing the restaurant alongside Casa Vigil and Azafrán in the small cohort of Mendoza tables where the cooking matches the wine country setting.
Mendoza, Argentina
Brindillas holds back-to-back Michelin stars (2024 and 2025) and sits among a small cluster of starred modern cuisine restaurants reshaping Luján de Cuyo's dining identity. Under chef Mariano Gallego, the kitchen applies contemporary technique to the Cuyo region's ingredients, drawing a reservation list that reflects Mendoza's rising profile as a serious fine dining destination.
Mendoza, Argentina
Tucked amid storybook vineyards at the foothills of the Andes, Casa Vigil distills the soul of Mendoza’s terroir into a quietly ornate dining experience. The kitchen composes seasonal, vineyard-driven menus that echo the cadence of the cellar—each course a dialogue with rare pours and coveted labels selected by Argentina’s most lauded winemaking talent. Sunlight filters through olive trees onto stone patios, the scent of wild herbs and warm earth perfuming the air as sommelier-led pairings trace the contours of altitude, soil, and time. For guests seeking an intimate immersion into the art of food and wine, Casa Vigil offers an atmosphere of understated elegance and polished hospitality where every detail—crystalline glassware, hand-fired ceramics, a whisper of smoke from the asador—has been tuned to sharpen the senses.
Mendoza, Argentina
At Las Compuertas, on the fringes of Mendoza's wine country, Riccitelli Bistró earned a Michelin Star in 2025 under chef Luc Mobihan, signalling a new tier of fine dining in Argentina's vineyard belt.
Mendoza, Argentina
Zonda Cocina de Paisaje holds back-to-back Michelin stars (2024 and 2025) under chef Augusto García, placing it in a small tier of destination restaurants that have reshaped Mendoza's dining reputation. Located in Mayor Drummond, just outside the city centre, the restaurant works with the agricultural character of its surroundings, translating Cuyo landscape and produce into a focused, traditional menu.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A Michelin Plate-recognised counter restaurant in Palermo, Fogón Asado seats twelve around a U-shaped chef's counter where a bespoke 360-degree open fire grill anchors a tasting menu built on wet and dry-aged Argentine beef. The format puts wood-fired technique front and centre, pairing each course with Argentine wines in a setting that positions the asado tradition inside a fine-dining structure.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A 22-cover restaurant in Villa Crespo, Julia Buenos Aires applies rigorous product discipline to Argentine ingredients, limiting each dish to five seasonal components. Recognised with a Michelin Plate in 2025 and a place on Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in South America list, it operates at the quieter, more considered end of Buenos Aires's modern dining tier.
Mendoza, Argentina
Set inside a 19th-century bodega in Godoy Cruz, 1884 Francis Mallmann is the Mendoza address most directly associated with Argentina's open-fire cooking tradition. Ranked among the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2002 and 2003, and holding a Michelin Plate in 2024 and 2025, the restaurant operates Tuesday through Saturday for dinner only, placing it squarely in the upper tier of the city's fine-dining circuit.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Niño Gordo occupies a particular position in Buenos Aires dining: a Michelin Plate-recognised restaurant on Thames in Palermo Soho that applies East and Southeast Asian grilling techniques to Argentine ingredients and the open-fire tradition of the parrilla. The result is a kitchen that reads as fusion without apology, backed by Germán Sitz and Pedro Peña, set inside a red-saturated space drawn from Asian pop culture references.
Mendoza, Argentina
Holding consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions in 2024 and 2025, La Vida brings contemporary cooking to Chacras de Coria, the leafy wine-country suburb southwest of Mendoza city. The kitchen works at the higher end of the local price tier, positioning it alongside the region's most serious dining addresses. For a region where the wine list often defines the meal, La Vida fits the pattern well.
Mendoza, Argentina
The kitchen focuses on plant-based preparations in a city better known for its parillas and Malbec pairings, offering a counterpoint to the region's dominant meat-forward tradition. Prices sit at the accessible end of Mendoza's dining spectrum.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anchoíta holds the Star Wine List #1 ranking for 2025 and 2026 alongside consecutive Michelin Plate recognition, placing it at the sharper end of Buenos Aires contemporary dining. The restaurant operates at the $$$$ price tier in Palermo, drawing a crowd that comes as much for the wine program as the food. For a milestone meal in the city, it is one of the few addresses that earns the occasion.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gran Dabbang operates without reservations in Palermo, serving sharing plates that draw on Indian, Thai, and Arab techniques applied to Argentine ingredients. Ranked #46 on Opinionated About Dining's South America list in 2025, it occupies a specific niche in Buenos Aires dining: technically grounded, globally informed, and built around a format that rewards early arrivals and repeat visits.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Roux holds a Michelin Plate and consecutive Opinionated About Dining rankings among South America's top restaurants, placing it firmly within Buenos Aires's compact tier of serious seafood-focused addresses. Chef Martín Rebaudino works a contemporary format at Peña 2300 in Recoleta, with a kitchen that prioritises raw preparation and crudo technique alongside cooked seafood. Open Tuesday through Saturday for both lunch and dinner, closed Sundays.
Adrogué, Argentina
Ti Amo has become the reference point for contemporary Neapolitan pizza in Adrogué, where sisters Victoria and Carola Santoro have built a space that wears its Naples tribute openly, from the team scarves on the walls to the Maradona imagery overhead. The Margherita and the citrus-forward Sorrento are particularly requested pies, backed by considered pours and service that puts the room at ease.
Argentina
Selected entries from the current guide for Argentina.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Opened in 1932, the Alvear Palace Hotel is Buenos Aires' most enduring address for grand European-style hospitality, anchoring the Recoleta district with 207 rooms and suites dressed in Empire and Louis XV interiors. A Leading Hotels of the World member with rates from USD 950, it draws a tradition-bound clientele for whom the city's social hierarchy still runs through its gilded lobby, its celebrated high tea, and La Bourgogne's French kitchen.
Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
Set in the Atlantic Rainforest on the Argentine side of Iguazú Falls, Awasi Iguazú is a 14-villa all-inclusive lodge where raised timber structures, private plunge pools, and dedicated 4WD guides define the format. Rates from US$1,975 per night position it at the upper tier of adventure-luxury lodges in the region, with access to the falls, jungle trails, and Guaraní-rooted cuisine included.
Mendoza, Argentina
Spread across 1,500 acres of Uco Valley vineyards at the foot of the Andes, The Vines Resort & Spa is one of Argentina's most purposefully conceived wine-country retreats. Its 22 villas, Francis Mallmann's open-fire restaurant Siete Fuegos, and a private vineyard ownership program place it in a different tier from standard Mendoza lodging. La Liste ranked it 91 points in 2026, and Leading Hotels of the World membership affirms its position among Argentina's premium rural properties.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The property's Elena restaurant, a two-storey courtyard space named for a historical figure tied to the original mansion, positions it as one of Buenos Aires's most serious addresses for dry-aged Argentine beef and seafood.
El Calafate, Argentina
For the adventurous there are plenty of good reasons to trek all the way down to the southernmost reaches of South America, but here’s one more: the dramatic three-mile-long Perito Moreno glacier. Countless hotels have sprung up in the town of El Calafate to accommodate the stream of foreigners eager to watch house-sized chunks of ice fall off the glacier and splash into the icy blue waters. Well removed from the town’s tourist bustle is EOLO - Patagonia’s Spirit, splendidly isolated on an expansive ranch in the pastoral La Anita valley. From the outside the stately lodge looks like a traditional Patagonian estancia (with vaguely Tudor echoes), but on the inside EOLO is a cool blend of minimalist sophistication and old-fashioned romance. The suites feature antique vanities and polished wood, yes, but also huge contemporary bathrooms with deep soaking tubs and picture windows facing out over the windswept Patagonian landscape. The rustic-chic décor, think indigenous weavings, plush king beds, and large, spotless glass panes, is done up in a palette of cream, beige, wine-red and dusty green. EOLO’s public spaces are also a study in contrasts. The sleek indoor pool and flat-screen TV room, complete with DVD library, attract as much attention as the collection of fly-fishing photography books and elegant afternoon tea service. The cozy on-site restaurant serves traditional Argentinian cuisine, a welcome service after a day’s worth of horseback riding, condor-watching, or hiking near the glacier. The point of coming to EOLO in the first place, after all, is access to the great outdoors, though it’s a toss-up whether the greater pleasure is hiking up the mountainside or just watching from your bathtub with a glass of Malbec.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Where Recoleta's Belle Époque architecture meets contemporary Park Hyatt service, Palacio Duhau occupies a 1930s mansion connected to a modern tower on Avenida Alvear. Ranked 91.5 points on La Liste Top Hotels 2026, its 165 rooms, butler service across all categories, and a tiered garden widely cited as one of Buenos Aires' leading outdoor drinking spots position it at the serious end of the city's luxury hotel market.
El Calafate, Argentina
Three hours by boat across Lago Argentino, Estancia Cristina sits at the edge of the Patagonian wilderness where the Upsala glacier meets impossibly tall peaks. Twenty rooms across four cottages face the mountains through wide picture windows, and the property operates on a fully inclusive model from mid-October through mid-April. Getting there is part of the logic of being there.
Tunuyán, Argentina
A concrete and glass wine resort on 320 hectares in the Uco Valley, Casa de Uco positions itself at the serious end of Mendoza's luxury wine-stay category. Rates from $1,075 per night cover 21 accommodations ranging from rooms to private villas, set against Andes views and a reflecting lake. Wine consultant Alberto Antonini oversees the estate viticulture program, which extends to private vineyard ownership for guests.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Set in Chacras de Coria, 30 minutes from El Plumerillo International Airport, Susana Balbo Winemaker's House & Spa Suites is a Relais & Châteaux property built around seven individually designed suites, each functioning as a self-contained spa. La VidA restaurant holds a Michelin Guide recommendation, and the property's wine program draws directly from Susana Balbo's four decades in Mendoza viticulture.
La Merced Chica, Argentina
A century-old estancia in the Andean foothills outside Salta, House of Jasmines occupies a landscape of red-clay cliffs and wide blue skies that the city itself cannot offer. Fourteen rooms blend original tile floors and four-poster beds with contemporary restraint, while the grounds run to a spa, Turkish bath, and unhurried al fresco asados. Rates from US$255 per night; open late October through late April.
Agrelo, Argentina
Sixteen dome-shaped cabanas on one of Mendoza's largest wine estates, Chozos Resort by AKEN Spirit trades scale for intimacy without sacrificing setting. Each chozo comes with a private terrace and plunge pool, with the snowcapped Andes forming the western horizon. At roughly $703 per night, it sits in the upper tier of Agrelo's wine-country accommodation, positioned as a base for winery visits, riding, and open-fire asado evenings.
San Miguel Del Monte, Argentina
A seven-room working estancia roughly 120 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, Estancia La Bandada converts the Pampas ranching tradition into a deliberately low-key retreat. Original wood-beamed ceilings, communal breakfasts, horseback rides, and family-style asados built around local produce define the stay. Rates from USD 357 place it in the mid-tier of Argentina's converted-estancia category.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A restored 1900s palazzo in San Isidro, Hotel del Casco operates twenty rooms across a historic building where antique chandeliers, exposed brick, and roll-top baths hold the character of another era. At $180 per night, the property sits outside Buenos Aires proper, which is the point: this is a hotel for repose, not sightseeing logistics, with a separate four-bedroom Casa villa and a conservatory breakfast for those who prefer architecture over amenity lists.
Mendoza, Argentina
A quiet eleven-room retreat in the village of Chacras de Coria, Lares de Chacras is built around the rhythms of a Mendoza day: strong coffee and pastries at breakfast, the shaded pool in the afternoon, and a fireplace in the evening. Guest rooms have wood-beamed ceilings and indigenous artwork, and the on-site restaurant handles steaks and Patagonian lamb for nights when you'd rather stay close.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Faena Buenos Aires occupies a converted red-brick warehouse on the Río de la Plata waterfront, where Belle Époque theatrics meet Puerto Madero's reimagined docklands. The hotel's 88 rooms and suites carry lapacho wood floors, red velvet curtains, and picture-window views of the river or the ecological reserve. Five food and beverage outlets run from estancia-style asado to the Rojo Tango cabaret show.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Casa Lucia occupies a beautifully restored early-twentieth-century building on Arroyo 841 in Recoleta, one of Buenos Aires' most architecturally significant neighbourhoods. Grand entrance halls, soaring ceilings, and light-filled salons set the physical register for an experience rooted in Argentine heritage. The address places guests within walking distance of the neighbourhood's major cultural landmarks and the high-end dining corridor along Alvear Avenue.
San Antonio de Areco, Argentina
A working estancia 110 km from Buenos Aires, La Bamba de Areco sits at Ruta 31 Km 7.5 amid century-old plane trees and colonial architecture built around a central courtyard. Rates from US$650 per night cover rooms and suites across three buildings, table d'hôtes dining in a regional tradition, and access to polo grounds and gaucho culture. Recognised by La Liste Top Hotels 2026 with a score of 90.5 points.
Ushuaia, Argentina
Perched above Ushuaia on Cerro Alarkén, Arakur is one of the few properties in Argentine Patagonia to hold Leading Hotels of the World membership, a credential that places it in a select tier of South American wilderness retreats. The architecture takes full advantage of its refined position, with design that orients guests toward the Beagle Channel and forested slopes. For travellers routing through Tierra del Fuego, it functions as both destination and base.
Villa La Angostura, Argentina
Operating since 1917 on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi, Correntoso Lake & River Hotel is one of Argentine Patagonia's oldest continuously run retreats. The property pairs historic Andean lodge architecture with a gourmet dining program and spa, placing it at the quieter, more contemplative end of the Villa La Angostura accommodation spectrum, a counterpoint to the newer design-led properties now entering the region.
Villa La Angostura, Argentina
Rates start from US$362 per night and the property includes an award-winning spa. The setting draws travellers seeking lake-access intimacy combined with proximity to the Arrayanes forest and Cerro Bayo ski area.
Bariloche, Argentina
On the Península Arriba shoreline of Nahuel Huapi Lake, Villa Beluno Hotel & Spa sits where the Andes drop directly to the water's edge. The property pairs the raw geography of Patagonia with a composed hospitality approach, making it a considered address for travellers arriving in Bariloche with time to stay, not just pass through.
Bariloche, Argentina
Three World Travel Awards in 2025, including World's Most Romantic Resort, confirm Charming Luxury Lodge & Private Spa's position at the summit of the Patagonian boutique property tier. Set on the edge of San Carlos de Bariloche, the lodge operates in the small-keys, design-led tradition that defines the region's most considered properties, pairing private spa access with the Andean lake-and-forest setting that draws travellers to this corner of Argentina.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
In Palermo Soho, Buenos Aires's most concentrated pocket of boutique hospitality, 1828 Smart Hotel delivers 14 rooms in a Deco-influenced contemporary style behind a frosted-glass façade. Serta beds, Italian marble bathrooms, 800-thread-count linens, and a heated rooftop pool place it squarely in the luxury-boutique tier. The surrounding neighbourhood provides immediate access to some of the city's better restaurants, bars, and cafés.
Bariloche, Argentina
Located in Villa Campanario on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi, Aldebaran Hotel & Spa holds a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025, placing it among a small cohort of Patagonian properties that have drawn international editorial attention. The design-led approach and lakeside setting position it firmly in the quieter, lower-density tier of Bariloche accommodation, closer in character to a boutique retreat than a resort complex.
Argentina
Selected entries from the current guide for Argentina.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Florería Atlantico is Buenos Aires drinking culture at its internationally recognised end: a cocktail bar whose programme draws on migration, Indigenous influence, and Argentina’s Atlantic-facing history. Its long run on the World’s 50 Best Bars list, including #46 in 2024 and #90 in 2025, makes it a reference point for visitors comparing the city’s serious cocktail rooms.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tres Monos sits at #7 on the World's 50 Best Bars list (2024), yet its Palermo address, graffiti-covered walls, and neon-lit interior read closer to a neighbourhood dive than a global cocktail destination. The bar's depth comes from serious local sourcing, including own-label spirits produced with Argentine grains and herbs, and a social training programme that puts community at the centre of its operation.
Mendoza, Argentina
Azafrán began as a deli on Avenida Sarmiento and evolved into one of Mendoza's most serious modern Argentine restaurants, earning consecutive Michelin Stars in 2024 and 2025 and a place on Latin America's 50 Best extended list. Under Chef Sebastian Weigandt, the menu reads as a considered argument for regional ingredients paired against a cellar that anchors the entire dining proposition.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ranked #22 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2024, CoChinChina occupies a converted Palermo space where Franco-Vietnamese aesthetics meet Argentine cocktail craft. The menu moves between inventive mixed drinks and kitchen dishes rooted in the same dual cultural logic, across several distinct room formats, from pavement deckchairs to an upstairs dining room..
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A founding address of Buenos Aires cocktail culture, 878 Bar has operated from Villa Crespo since the early 2000s, drawing the city's food and beverage crowd to its low-lit rooms on Thames street. Ranked No. 25 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2011 and still appearing in the Top 500 Bars in 2025, it remains a durable reference point in a city where the bar scene has grown considerably more competitive.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ranked #87 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2025, Victor Audio Bar in Buenos Aires operates at the intersection of serious cocktail craft and a genuine neighbourhood sensibility. Located on Soler 5130 in Palermo, it draws a loyal crowd that returns not for spectacle but for the quality of what's in the glass and the consistency of the room. Among Buenos Aires bars with international recognition, it occupies a distinct position.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The address on Cavia 2985 signals a residential-street setting that contrasts with the technical ambition on the plate, where global cooking methods meet Argentine produce.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anchoita Cava has earned Star Wine List recognition three consecutive years (2024, 2025, 2026), placing it among Buenos Aires's most credentialed wine-focused venues. Located in the residential Palermo district, the cava format signals a commitment to depth over spectacle, serious bottles, considered pairings, and a room that rewards slow evenings. It is the kind of address that serious wine travellers seek out before the city's louder dining rooms.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ranked #484 in the 2025 Top 500 Bars list, Boticario operates from Honduras 5207 in Buenos Aires's Palermo neighbourhood, sitting within the competitive tier of the city's craft bar scene.
Cafayate, Argentina
In one of Argentina's most remote and scenically arresting wine regions, Chato's Wine Bar on San Martín 223 functions as Cafayate's natural gathering point for anyone serious about Torrontés and the broader Calchaquí Valleys canon. A bottle-forward list, unhurried pacing, and a setting that frames the experience within the rhythms of high-altitude valley life make it a reference stop on any itinerary through Salta's wine country.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
It belongs to a Buenos Aires bar scene that has repeatedly drawn international critical attention, and its standing reflects the city's sustained ambition in serious cocktail programming.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Frank's earned a place at #36 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2012, and its reputation in Buenos Aires's Palermo cocktail scene has held since. Located on Arévalo 1445, the bar operates in a format that rewards those who plan ahead.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A fixture on Libertad in the Recoleta-adjacent stretch that separates Buenos Aires wine bars from their more theatrical peers, Gran Bar Danzon has been shaping how the city drinks for over two decades. The wine list leans deep into older vintages and Argentine breadth, and the room carries the kind of quiet authority that comes only from a long-standing local following.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Part of Buenos Aires's growing wave of wine store and restaurant hybrids, Lardito occupies a corner of Chacarita that rewards those who seek it out. The format pairs a bottle selection with a kitchen built to complement the wine list rather than compete with it. It is one of the neighbourhood's more considered addresses for an evening that moves between glass and plate.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The wine bar credited with sparking a wave of similar openings across Chacarita, Naranjo focuses exclusively on small-producer, low-intervention wines from Argentina's diverse growing regions. The room rewards unhurried evenings, and the list functions as a map of altitude, latitude, and winemaking restraint across the country's most interesting terroirs. Book ahead or arrive early.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Open since 2013, Pain et Vin in Palermo Soho has operated at the intersection of Argentina's regional wine culture and the kind of unhurried afternoon drinking that Buenos Aires does better than most cities. Every afternoon, a sommelier walks guests through the country's wine regions at the counter, making this a reference point for anyone serious about Argentine viticulture beyond the Malbec headline.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ranked as high as #19 among the World's 50 Best Bars, Presidente has spent several years as Buenos Aires' most internationally recognised cocktail address.
Mendoza, Argentina
Ruda sits in Gualtallary, the high-altitude sub-zone that has reshaped how Argentina's wine community thinks about Malbec and terroir. The address alone, La Costa S/N in Tupungato, positions it at the edge of the Andes where elevation and alluvial soils define what ends up in the glass. For visitors building an itinerary around Argentina's most talked-about wine corridor, Ruda is a logical anchor point.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Perched on the 19th floor of Av. Corrientes 222, Trade Sky Bar brings rooftop drinking to one of Buenos Aires' most central addresses. Ranked #464 in the Top 500 Bars 2025 list, it occupies the upper tier of the city's sky-bar scene. The setting makes it a natural choice for milestone evenings, when altitude and atmosphere do as much work as what's in the glass.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ranked #396 in the 2025 Top 500 Bars, Uptown occupies a measured position inside Buenos Aires's increasingly competitive cocktail circuit. Located on Arévalo 2030 in Palermo, the bar operates in a neighbourhood where craft drinking culture has deepened considerably over the past decade. A useful reference point for visitors tracking the city's bar scene beyond the well-worn tourist trail.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires's first wine bar to install pour-yourself dispensers, Vico in Palermo keeps 85 wines, drawn predominantly from Argentine producers, loaded into gleaming machines that guests operate with a prepaid card. The format turns the ritual of choosing and pouring into the experience itself, making it a practical entry point into the country's wine culture without the ceremony of a sit-down tasting room.
Mendoza, Argentina
One of Mendoza's few dedicated wine bars, VinoBien recently relocated from the city centre to an open-air market in Luján de Cuyo, placing it directly inside Argentina's most concentrated winemaking zone. The move has sharpened its identity as a place built around serious wine exploration rather than the tourist-facing pours that dominate the city's main plazas. A short cab ride from central Mendoza, it rewards the effort with a format that suits slow, deliberate drinking.
Puerto Iguazu, Argentina
Awasi Iguazu sits at the edge of the Yryapú reserve in Argentine Misiones, operating as an all-inclusive lodge where expert private guides and VIP access to Iguazu Falls define the structure of a stay. Chef Andrea Calstier leads the kitchen, drawing on regional Argentinian traditions in a setting where the jungle is as much a part of the experience as the food.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Selected entries from the current guide for Argentina.
Agrelo, Argentina
Catena Zapata sits in Agrelo, in Mendoza’s Luján de Cuyo zone, where altitude, dry air and alluvial soils have shaped Argentina’s modern fine-wine argument. The draw is not only the Mayan-pyramid architecture, but the way the visit frames Malbec and high-altitude viticulture as serious terroir rather than export shorthand.
Tunuyán, Argentina
Established in 1996 in the Uco Valley's Tunuyán district, Bodegas Salentein occupies a cross-shaped winery building that has become a reference point for Mendoza's high-altitude viticulture. The 2025 Decanter awards confirmed 13 wines in the medal tier, including seven Silvers, placing it firmly among the valley's most decorated estates. The property combines wine production, art collections, and a restaurant under one roof at kilometre 14 of Ruta 89.
Tunuyán, Argentina
Zuccardi Valle de Uco sits at the architectural and viticultural forefront of Argentina's Uco Valley, drawing visitors to its landmark 2016 winery at Paraje Altamira, San Carlos.
Molinos, Argentina
At 3,111 metres above sea level, Bodega Colomé operates at an altitude that defines everything the wines become. The Altura Máxima vineyard, among the highest commercially farmed plots on earth, produces Malbec and Torrontés shaped by ultraviolet intensity, wide diurnal swings, and soils that no lower-altitude appellation can replicate.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Durigutti Winemakers operates out of Las Compuertas, one of Luján de Cuyo's most closely watched sub-zones, where high-altitude growing conditions and old-vine material define the region's premium identity. For visitors interested in where Argentine fine wine is heading, this address is worth tracking.
Tunuyán, Argentina
Bodega DiamAndes sits at 1,000 metres above sea level in the Uco Valley foothills, part of the Bordeaux-backed Clos de los Siete group and owned by the Bonnie family of Château Malartic-Lagravière. The estate spans 130 hectares of Andean-facing vineyard in Vista Flores, Tunuyán.
Maipú, Argentina
El Enemigo (Casa Vigil) brings Mendoza’s high-altitude wine conversation into Maipú, where irrigation channels, alluvial soils, and long sun exposure define the glass as much as cellar technique. The appeal is strongest for travelers who want a winery experience framed by terroir rather than a generic tasting-room circuit.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Bodega Lagarde belongs to the old Luján de Cuyo wine belt, where irrigation, altitude, and alluvial soils shaped Mendoza’s reputation for structured Malbec long before the Uco Valley became the region’s louder export story.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Set along Ruta Provincial 15 in Perdriel, it operates within a sub-region that has defined Mendoza's premium Malbec identity for decades. For visitors focused on food-and-wine pairing in a structured estate setting, Norton represents one of the district's more complete propositions.
El trapiche, Argentina
One of Mendoza's most architecturally distinct wineries, Bodega Trapiche sits in Maipú with an Italian Renaissance building that reads as deliberately out of place against the Andean backdrop. For visitors to Argentina's wine country, this is a property that rewards time.
Mendoza, Argentina
Bodega Kaiken sits at Roque Sáenz Peña 5516 in Mendoza's wine country. The bodega operates in a region where altitude viticulture and Andean terroir define the competitive tier, placing it among a select group of producers whose practices and credentials draw serious wine travelers from across the Southern Hemisphere and beyond.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Viña Cobos is a Luján de Cuyo winery. Situated along Ruta Nacional 7 in the heart of the Cobos district, the estate is a reference point for allocation-level Argentine wine, drawing collectors and serious drinkers from across the region.
Cafayate, Argentina
Bodega El Esteco sits at km 4343 on Ruta 40, where Cafayate's high-altitude Torrontés and Malbec tradition meets one of Argentina's more formally recognized wine estates.
Mendoza, Argentina
Bodega Riccitelli operates from Las Compuertas in Luján de Cuyo, one of Mendoza's most consequential sub-appellations for high-altitude Malbec. It occupies a distinct position in the Mendoza premium tier: ambitious in quality, forthright in character.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
A Franco-Argentine joint venture between Cheval Blanc and Terrazas de los Andes, Cheval des Andes occupies the upper tier of Luján de Cuyo's prestige winery scene.
San Patricio del Chañar, Argentina
The property sits in one of Argentina's most compelling cool-climate wine regions, where Patagonian winds and high-desert conditions produce wines with a character distinct from Mendoza's warmer valleys. It earns serious consideration from anyone tracing Argentina's wine map beyond the mainstream.
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
The bodega sits within a competitive tier defined by long-standing estate operations and serious export track records, placing it alongside recognised names in the sub-Andean belt's upper echelon.
Agrelo, Argentina
Susana Balbo brings a polished Mendoza winery format to Agrelo, with vineyard and mountain views framing guided tastings, private tastings, and wine-and-food pairings. The draw is the combination of Andean setting, a broad varietal range led by Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon, and the identity of a family-owned house founded by Argentina’s first female winemaker.
Mendoza, Argentina
Terrazas de los Andes sits in Perdriel, one of Luján de Cuyo's higher-altitude growing zones, where the Andes act as both backdrop and climate engine for the estate's vineyards. For visitors planning a wine-focused stay in the region, it belongs on the short list alongside estates like Bodegas CARO and Bodega Kaiken.
Maipú, Argentina
It rewards visitors who want direct engagement with a working vineyard rather than a polished urban tasting room.
Tupungato, Argentina
Sitio La Estocada sits at altitude in Gualtallary, Tupungato, where biodynamic winemaker Matías Michelini farms close to the Andean snow-line. Visits move through soil study, vegetable gardens, a greenhouse, and an herb drying room before reaching the wines themselves.
Godoy Cruz, Argentina
One of Mendoza's most historically rooted bodegas, Escorihuela Gascón sits at Belgrano 1188 in Godoy Cruz, a short drive from the provincial capital. Visitors come for the architecture, the tasting format, and bottles that carry serious regional pedigree.
Tupungato, Argentina
Rutini Wines (La Rural) sits at RP89 Km 10.5 in Tupungato, one of Mendoza's highest-altitude wine subregions, where the Andes proximity shapes both the growing conditions and the visitor experience. For those tracing Mendoza's serious fine-wine geography, Tupungato's cooler terroir makes it a logical counterpoint to the valley floor.
