# Best Argentine Restaurants in Madrid

> Thirteen Madrid restaurants worth booking for Río de la Plata cooking, from Lana's house-aged parrilla to an empanada shop and a wood-fired Argentine pizzería.

- **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-argentine
- **City:** Madrid, Spain
- **Published:** 2026-09-27
- **Updated:** 2026-10-04
- **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder
- **Reading time:** 13 min

## Introduction

Martín and Joaquín Narváiz age their own beef up to 350 days at Lana, their Ríos Rosas parrilla, and it's the most-cited Argentine name in Madrid's food press. It's one of thirteen restaurants here that work the Río de la Plata tradition in some form, from Ceferino's asado en cruz to Tita de Buenos Aires' handmade empanadas across from the Retiro and Picsa's wood-fired Argentine pizza on Ponzano.

## Key picks at a glance

- **Best overall / most-cited** — [Lana](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/lana): the Narváiz brothers' house-aged beef, two Repsol soles and a Michelin Selected listing.
- **Best asado en cruz** — [Ceferino](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ceferino): cross-roasted meat under grill master José Antonio Figueroa, in an estancia-styled Recoletos room.
- **Best empanada shop** — [Tita de Buenos Aires](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/tita-de-buenos-aires): handmade empanadas and sándwiches de miga from its own obrador, across from the Retiro.
- **Best pizzería porteña** — [Picsa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/picsa): Argentine-style wood-fired pizza on Ponzano, holding a Repsol Solete.
- **Best cheap eats** — [La Choripanería](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-choripaneria): housemade chorizo and choripanes in Lavapiés, most dishes under €20.

## A guide to Argentine and Uruguayan in Madrid

### What is a parrilla?

Parrilla is the Argentine and Uruguayan word for a live-fire grill, and restaurants built around it tend to serve individual cuts by breed and origin rather than a single roast.

### What is asado en cruz?

Asado en cruz, cross-fire roasting, is a Río de la Plata technique where whole cuts of meat are staked on iron crosses and slow-cooked beside an open wood fire rather than over a flat grill. Ceferino, in Madrid's Recoletos barrio, builds its menu around it.

### What's the difference between milanesa and a breaded cutlet?

Milanesa is the Argentine and Uruguayan take on a breaded, fried cutlet, usually beef, served on its own, napolitana-style with tomato and cheese, or built into a sandwich.

### What is dulce de leche?

Dulce de leche is a thick, caramelised milk spread that shows up across Argentine and Uruguayan desserts, from alfajores to flan, rogel and coulants.

> "Madrid's Río de la Plata restaurants split between parrillas built on aged beef and cuts by breed, and the empanada shops, pizzerías and sharing-plate rooms working the same food away from the grill."

## How we built this list

We read Madrid's own food press for Argentine and Uruguayan cooking, including a Time Out Madrid feature published in February 2026 and IFEMA Madrid's own city guide, and cross-checked every name against its own menu, about text and Michelin or Repsol listing, because a restaurant only qualifies here if Argentine or Uruguayan cooking, or the Río de la Plata dishes that come with it, empanadas, milanesa, asado, dulce de leche, is a real, stated part of what it serves, not one stray menu line. That's why we've included the non-steakhouse side too: an empanada shop, a wood-fired Argentine pizzería, and sharing-plate rooms, alongside the parrillas and asadores. A handful of names that come up often in Madrid's Argentine coverage, including Brazza, La Dorita, Che Mendieta, Che Pibita, Fayer, El Camoatí and La Vaca Argentina, don't have a Guidavera page yet, so they're left off rather than guessed at. Prices are only stated where a venue's own menu gives them, or where a source we could verbatim-check does.

## The 13 best Argentine & Uruguayan, compared

| # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Lana](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/lana) | Ríos Rosas | €€€ | Michelin Selected · Repsol 2 Soles | Knife-cut beef empanada |
| 2 | [La Cabrera](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-cabrera) | Castellana | €€€ | — | Bife de chorizo |
| 3 | [La Cabaña Argentina](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-cabana-argentina) | Cortes | €€€ | — | Argentine Angus beef carpaccio |
| 4 | [Gurisa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gurisa) | Almagro | €€€ | Michelin Selected | Argentine wagyu on the plancha |
| 5 | [Nacha](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/nacha) | Conde Duque | €€ | Michelin Selected | Molleja de corazón (heart sweetbread) |
| 6 | [Piantao Legazpi](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/piantao-legazpi) | Chopera | €€€ | Repsol Recomendado | Criolla Empanada (2 pcs.) |
| 7 | [Ceferino](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ceferino) | Recoletos | €€€ | — | Asado en cruz |
| 8 | [Picsa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/picsa) | Ríos Rosas | €€ | Repsol Solete | Muzza |
| 9 | [Tita de Buenos Aires](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/tita-de-buenos-aires) | Ibiza | € | — | Traditional Beef Empanada |
| 10 | [El Viejo Almacén de Buenos Aires](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-viejo-almacen-de-buenos-aires) | Peña Grande | €€ | — | Wagyu Cecina |
| 11 | [La Choripanería](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-choripaneria) | Embajadores | € | — | Trio of homemade empanadas |
| 12 | [Pampa Beef](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-pampa) | Cortes | €€ | — | Provoleta Pampa |
| 13 | [La Divina Bohemia](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-divina-bohemia) | La Latina | €€ | — | Beef Empanada |

## The 13 best Argentine & Uruguayan in Madrid

### 1. Lana

*House-aged beef and an all-Argentine wine list*

- **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas
- **Address:** Calle Ponzano, 59, 28003 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin Selected · Repsol 2 Soles
- **Website:** https://restaurantelana.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/lana

Martín and Joaquín Narváiz opened Lana in Ríos Rosas in 2022, and it's grown into the most-cited Argentine grill in Madrid's food press. The kitchen ages its own beef, some cuts held up to 350 days, working Argentine cuts alongside Spanish Rubia Gallega. The menu runs from a knife-cut beef empanada and an 18-month aged Wagyu cecina to a Hereford ojo de bife and a Rubia Gallega chuleta aged 250 days, all priced by weight. Beyond the grill, Marta's vitel tonné and charcoal-grilled suckling lamb croquettes round out the starters. The wine list is exclusively Argentine, organised by region: Mendoza, Patagonia, Salta. Lana holds two Repsol soles, a Michelin Guide Selected listing, and took the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's international-cuisine award in 2025. It's closed Sundays.

**Order:**
- Knife-cut beef empanada (9)
- 18-month aged Wagyu cecina (38)
- Angus Ojo de Bife (100)
- Lana Selection Buey Chuleta (280)

### 2. La Cabrera

*A stated tribute to Río de la Plata grill culture in Salamanca*

- **Neighbourhood:** Castellana
- **Address:** Velázquez, 61, 28001, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Website:** https://www.lacabreramadrid.com
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-cabrera

La Cabrera bills itself as a tribute to the culinary culture of the Río de la Plata, on Calle Velázquez in Salamanca. It's a parrilla working classic cuts over charcoal in the Argentine asado tradition: bife de chorizo, ojo de bife and asado de tira, plus a terrace and a strong wine list in a room that reads stylish and industrial. It's part of the Argentine grill franchise founded by Gastón Riveira. In 2023 it won second prize for hospitality at Meat Attraction, the trade fair run by IFEMA Madrid. It's open Monday to Saturday from noon to 11:30pm and Sunday from noon to 9pm, and runs around €51 to €100 per person.

**Order:**
- Bife de chorizo
- Ojo de bife
- Asado de tira

> "cautiva a sus comensales con la esencia única de la cultura gastronómica del Río de la Plata" — IFEMA Madrid

### 3. La Cabaña Argentina

*An Argentine grill in Barrio de las Letras, a cited Madrid mainstay*

- **Neighbourhood:** Cortes
- **Address:** Calle Ventura De La Vega, 10, 28014, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Website:** https://lacabanaargentina.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-cabana-argentina

La Cabaña Argentina is an Argentine steakhouse on Calle Ventura de la Vega, in the Cortes barrio of Centro. The menu runs on the grill: Argentine Angus, short ribs, skirt steak and sweetbreads, plus provoleta, grilled vegetables and octopus over quebracho charcoal, alongside Argentine Angus beef carpaccio and grilled artichokes with black truffle caviar and egg yolk. It's a big, group-friendly room with cocktails, open daily from 1:30pm to 11:30pm, and it runs on the higher end, around €30 to €70 per person.

**Order:**
- Argentine Angus beef carpaccio (17.50)
- Provoleta (10.90)
- Octopus on Argentine quebracho charcoal (32.50)

> "Desde que abriese sus puertas en 1994, este restaurante se ha convertido en una de las mecas de la buena comida argentina en Madrid" — IFEMA Madrid

### 4. Gurisa

*Fire-led Argentine asador in Sergi Arola's old two-star room*

- **Neighbourhood:** Almagro
- **Address:** Zurbano, 31, 28010, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Distinction:** Michelin Selected
- **Website:** https://gurisamadrid.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/gurisa

Gurisa is chef Lucas Bustos's first Madrid project, an Argentine asador in Almagro set in the former home of Sergi Arola's two-Michelin-star Arola Gastro. It opened in June 2025. Fire runs through the whole menu, not just the mains: Iranian Beluga caviar with soft Galician potato crackers and 100% acorn-fed jamón ibérico open the market-starter section, before Argentine wagyu on the plancha, an Argentine Angus ribeye cap and a six-hour cooked blonde beef picaña. Dessert closes with a rogel made with Río de la Plata dulce de leche. There's à la carte and a tasting menu, an open kitchen, and a serious wine and cocktail list, in a room that's intimate and elegant. It's listed in the Michelin Guide, and open Tuesday to Saturday.

**Order:**
- Argentine wagyu on the plancha
- Argentine Angus ribeye cap
- Six-hour cooked blonde beef picaña
- Rogel with Río de la Plata dulce de leche

> "Son argentinos, toda la propuesta gira en torno al fuego, pero Gurisa no es una parrilla argentina" — Time Out Madrid

### 5. Nacha

*Michelin-listed sharing plates, grilled molleja de corazón included*

- **Neighbourhood:** Conde Duque
- **Address:** Conde Duque, 32, 28015, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Distinction:** Michelin Selected
- **Website:** https://www.covermanager.com/reservation/module_restaurant/nacha/spanish
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/nacha

Nacha serves Argentine food on Calle Conde Duque, in the small, self-contained Conde Duque pocket of Centro. It opened in October 2024, opposite the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque. It's listed in the Michelin Guide, a listing rather than a star, and the format is sharing plates rather than courses: the kitchen's own Instagram has singled out a whole grilled molleja de corazón, heart sweetbread, and a smoked labneh among its plates. The room is small, warm-lit and intimate, with rustic decor and warm service. It's open Monday to Thursday from 20:00 to 00:30, and Friday and Saturday from 13:00 to 17:00 and 20:00 to 01:00; closed Sundays, with lunch a weekend-only thing. Prices run €26 to €50 per person.

**Order:**
- Molleja de corazón (heart sweetbread)
- Smoked labneh

### 6. Piantao Legazpi

*Where the Piantao grill business began, opposite Matadero Madrid*

- **Neighbourhood:** Chopera
- **Address:** Paseo de la Chopera, 69, 28045 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado
- **Website:** https://piantao.es/en/piantao-legazpi-restaurant/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/piantao-legazpi

Piantao Legazpi is where the Piantao Argentine-grill business started, on Paseo de la Chopera across from Matadero Madrid, before the group opened a second branch in Chamberí. It's listed in the Guía Repsol as Recomendado. Chef Javier Brichetto runs the grill: a Piantao Experience tasting menu runs starters like a criolla empanada and vitello tonnato into a bife de chorizo or Argentine skirt steak main, closing with a cheesecake made with dulce de leche. On the à la carte side, cuts run from chorizo criollo and Angus sweetbreads up to a 50-day-matured New York steak and a 30-day Ayrshire beef T-bone, priced by weight. It opens Wednesday to Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday.

**Order:**
- Criolla Empanada (2 pcs.) (12.90)
- New York Steak, 50-day maturation (78.00 / 500g)
- Ayrshire Beef T-Bone, 30 days (108.00 / kg)

### 7. Ceferino

*Asado en cruz, cross-roasted meat, in an estancia-styled room*

- **Neighbourhood:** Recoletos
- **Address:** Calle de Jorge Juan 27, 28001 Madrid (Barrio de Salamanca), Spain
- **Price:** €€€
- **Website:** https://parrillaceferino.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ceferino

Ceferino opened in January 2024 in the Recoletos part of Salamanca, backed by an Argentine group: Marcos Mc Cluskey, Mariano Menéndez and Felipe Williamson, with Emilio Souto directing operations and Jorge Campos designing an interior meant to evoke an Argentine estancia, in wood, marble and bronze candelabra. Chef Jorge Maximiliano Danilewicz runs the kitchen, with José Antonio Figueroa as master parrillero handling asado en cruz, cross-roasted meat, as the main focus, alongside a beef tenderloin milanesa, baked semolina gnocchi with mushroom ragù and sorrentinos with mozzarella and ricotta. Meat is sourced from Argentina, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Holland and the United States. A basement speakeasy, Malevo, sits below the dining room, and the wine list runs through Argentine regions like Salta, Patagonia and Mendoza.

**Order:**
- Asado en cruz
- Beef tenderloin milanesa

### 8. Picsa

*Argentine-style wood-fired pizza, holding a Repsol Solete*

- **Neighbourhood:** Ríos Rosas
- **Address:** Ponzano, 76, 28004, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Distinction:** Repsol Solete
- **Website:** https://casapicsa.com
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/picsa

Picsa takes the traditional Argentine pizza recipe and builds its own dough around it, baked in a wood-fired oven built by Jumaco & Maestro, a fourth-generation Madrid oven-maker, fired with controlled-felling holm oak. Much of what goes on top is made in-house too, including the cooked ham and a cheese blended from Galician varieties plus a couple the house keeps to itself. The picsas are built for two, from a simple Muzza up to specialties like Calabresa with 'nduja or confit duck and figs, alongside wood-fired oven empanadas and Porteño mezze like vitel tonné and baba ganoush. It holds a Repsol Solete, a lower distinction than a Repsol Sol, and coffee comes from Toma Café on an Italian machine brought from Milan.

**Order:**
- Muzza (19.00)
- Confit duck and figs (31.00)
- Vacío beef empanada (4.00)

### 9. Tita de Buenos Aires

*Handmade empanadas and sándwiches de miga across from the Retiro*

- **Neighbourhood:** Ibiza
- **Address:** Av. de Menéndez Pelayo, 17, Retiro, 28009 Madrid, España
- **Price:** €
- **Website:** https://titadebuenosaires.es
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/tita-de-buenos-aires

Marcelo Settimo and Ana Antolini, an Argentine couple who moved to Madrid in 2020, opened the first Tita de Buenos Aires shop on Avenida de Menéndez Pelayo in 2021, across from Parque del Retiro. The business now runs several locations off its own obrador, handmaking Argentine empanadas: traditional and sweet beef, spicy shredded beef, BBQ rib, curried chicken, and vegetable and vegan versions made with Heura, among others. Beyond the empanadas, it makes sándwiches de miga, crustless Argentine sandwiches, and homemade Argentine desserts like alfajores de maicena, chocotorta and cheesecake. By its own account it took an honourable mention in the best gourmet shop category at the Premios Gastronómicos Metrópoli. Opening hours and prices aren't published; check the shop's own channels.

**Order:**
- Traditional Beef Empanada
- Cooked Ham and Cheese Sandwich
- Chocotorta
- 6 Mini Cornstarch Alfajores

### 10. El Viejo Almacén de Buenos Aires

*Forty-plus years of asado, live tango and a Maradona shrine*

- **Neighbourhood:** Peña Grande
- **Address:** Calle Cadalso De Los Vidrios, 20, 28035, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Website:** https://elviejoalmacen.com/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-viejo-almacen-de-buenos-aires

El Viejo Almacén de Buenos Aires has served Argentine food in Peña Grande, in the Fuencarral-El Pardo district, for more than forty years, holding onto the porteño feel it opened with. César Ruda, the second generation, runs it today, and the empanadas are still made to his mother's recipe. The dining room doubles as a shrine to Diego Maradona, and live tango runs most evenings. The grill is the draw: Argentine-origin ojo de bife and bife de chorizo, Uruguayan-origin medialuna de vacío and colita de cuadril, and old-cow cuts like a chuletón sold by the kilo, alongside Wagyu cecina, chorizo criollo and achuras. Empanadas follow a recipe dated on the menu to 1977, and desserts run to alfajores and a dulce-de-leche coulant. It's closed Mondays and Sundays.

**Order:**
- Wagyu Cecina (32.50)
- Ojo de Bife Ribeye 350g (29.50)
- Medialuna de Vacío 350g (Uruguayan origin) (25.95)

### 11. La Choripanería

*Choripanes, empanadas and milanesa fugazzeta in Lavapiés*

- **Neighbourhood:** Embajadores
- **Address:** Calle del Ave María, 15, 28012 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €
- **Website:** https://choripaneria.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-choripaneria

La Choripanería brings an Argentine parrilla to Lavapiés, on Calle Ave María in the Embajadores barrio. Time Out's own write-up, published in February 2026, found it already four years into serving choripanes as a business founded by Argentines. The grill runs cuts like skirt steak and beef flank steak, plus a trio of homemade empanadas, provoleta with tomato and oregano, and a choricroquetón, alongside a milanesa fugazzeta. It's closed Mondays, opens evenings Tuesday to Thursday and from lunch Friday to Sunday, and it's one of the cheapest entries on this list, running roughly €10 to €20 per person. Desserts include a flan with dulce de leche and cream and a pancake with dulce de leche.

**Order:**
- Trio of homemade empanadas (11)
- Provoleta with tomato and oregano (9)
- Milanesa Fugazzeta (20)

> "Hace ya cuatro años que este negocio fundado por argentinos llegó a Madrid" — Time Out Madrid

### 12. Pampa Beef

*Charcoal-grilled Argentine meats near Plaza de Santa Ana, open every day*

- **Neighbourhood:** Cortes
- **Address:** Calle Principe, 3, 28012, Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Website:** http://www.pampabeef.es/
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-pampa

La Pampa, trading as Pampa Beef, is an Argentine grill on Calle del Príncipe, in the Barrio de las Letras between Plaza de Santa Ana and Puerta del Sol. The kitchen runs on charcoal-grilled meats: an Argentine-meats section lists ribeye, chuletón, sirloin and peppered sirloin, alongside a separate Spanish-meats section of flank steak, short rib strip and skirt steak, plus starters like provoleta, chorizo criollo and a creole empanada. It also runs a handful of pizzas and pastas alongside the grill. It's a popular, group-friendly spot open every day from 13:00 to 23:00, with a daily menu alongside the à la carte.

**Order:**
- Provoleta Pampa (15.00)
- Creole Empanada (4.00)
- Chuletón (50.00)

### 13. La Divina Bohemia

*Signature Argentine cooking with vegan options under a big mural*

- **Neighbourhood:** La Latina
- **Address:** Calle de Don Pedro, 4, 28005 Madrid, Spain
- **Price:** €€
- **Website:** https://ladivinabohemia.com/en
- **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-divina-bohemia

La Divina Bohemia sits on Calle de Don Pedro in La Latina, pairing exposed brick and a large mural with warm lighting for an intimate, bohemian feel. The kitchen cooks signature Argentine dishes from fresh, seasonal produce, with vegetarian and vegan options built in: a spinach and cheese empanada sits beside a spicy vegan pad thai, and the milanesa comes classic, napolitana or fugazzeta, in quarter, half or whole portions. There's also a dry-aged sirloin and a thin skirt burger, and desserts run to chocotorta and a flan with dulce de leche foam. It's closed Tuesdays, open late the rest of the week, and dog-friendly.

**Order:**
- Beef Empanada (5.90)
- Milanesa Fugazzeta (quarter) (18.50)
- Chocotorta (7.80)

## Honourable mentions

- **[Casa Brava](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-brava)** (Universidad) — An Argentine-leaning bar at the top of Calle Valverde, empanadas and milanesa before the room turns into live music and DJ sets.
- **[Ancho Madrid](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/ancho-madrid)** (Almagro) — A Chamberí kitchen that doesn't badge itself with a single cuisine, but its carta runs to empanadas, milanesa, faina and alfajores.
- **[Parrilla El Gaucho](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/parrilla-el-gaucho)** (Sol) — An Argentine grill just off Puerta del Sol from the multi-branch El Gaucho group, working bife de chorizo, ojo de bife and a mixed parrillada.
- **[Dantte](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/dantte)** (Almagro) — Chef Dante Liporace's Bastard Italian Cuisine on Santa Engracia runs milanesa de solomillo, ojo de bife and empanadas alongside its pasta; it's badged Italian, not Argentine.
- **[Biri Biri](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/biri-biri)** (Chueca) — Argentine-Spanish fusion in Chueca, open Wednesday to Saturday evenings only; it has no website of its own, so check its Instagram for what's on.

## The Argentine and Uruguayan scene in Madrid

Madrid's Argentine and Uruguayan scene splits across a few pockets. Ríos Rosas and Chamberí carry the Ponzano grill cluster, Lana's house-aged beef a few doors from Picsa's wood-fired Argentine pizza, with Gurisa's fire-led asador over in Almagro. Recoletos holds Ceferino's asado en cruz, while Salamanca carries La Cabrera's Río de la Plata tribute. Centro spreads the rest out: Nacha's sharing plates in Conde Duque, La Cabaña Argentina and La Pampa near Plaza de Santa Ana, and La Choripanería's choripanes in Lavapiés. Beyond the grill, Tita de Buenos Aires handmakes empanadas across from the Retiro. Together it's less one style of parrilla than a whole food culture, empanadas, milanesas and dulce de leche included, spread across the city.

## Know before you go

### 1.

Book ahead at the busiest grills. Lana asks you to choose your own steak knife before the meat arrives.

### 2.

Beef at several of these kitchens is priced by weight, not as a fixed plate. Lana's bone-in chuleta cuts run €140 to €310 per kilo, and Piantao Legazpi's premium cuts run €78 to €130 for 500g or a kilo, so ask the price before you order if it matters to you.

### 3.

For the non-steakhouse side of the Río de la Plata, Tita de Buenos Aires handmakes empanadas and sándwiches de miga, and Picsa bakes Argentine-style pizza in a wood-fired oven on Ponzano.

### 4.

A few of these run on the cheaper end. La Choripanería in Lavapiés and La Pampa near Plaza de Santa Ana both keep most dishes under €20 to €30.

## Glossary

- **Parrilla** — The Argentine and Uruguayan word for a live-fire grill, and the name for restaurants built around it.
- **Asado en cruz** — A Río de la Plata technique where cuts of meat are staked on iron crosses and slow-roasted beside an open wood fire rather than over a flat grill.
- **Choripán** — A grilled chorizo sandwich, one of Argentina's most common street-food staples.
- **Provoleta** — A thick slice of provolone cheese grilled until it browns and softens, a standard starter at an Argentine parrilla.
- **Dulce de leche** — A thick, caramelised milk spread used across Argentine and Uruguayan desserts, from alfajores to flan.

## Frequently asked questions

### What's the difference between a parrilla and asado en cruz?

Parrilla is the standard live-fire grill format, used at places like Lana and La Cabrera for individual cuts by breed and origin. Asado en cruz is a different technique, staking whole cuts on iron crosses beside an open wood fire; Ceferino in Recoletos builds its menu around it.

### Where can you get handmade Argentine empanadas in Madrid?

Tita de Buenos Aires, across from the Retiro, handmakes its empanadas from its own obrador. Several of the grills on this list serve them too: Lana's is knife-cut, Piantao Legazpi's criolla empanada opens its tasting menu, and La Choripanería serves a trio of homemade ones in Lavapiés.

### Is there an Argentine-style pizza place in Madrid?

Yes, Picsa on Calle Ponzano bakes Argentine-style pizza, picsas built for two, from a house dough in a wood-fired oven, and holds a Repsol Solete.

### Which Argentine restaurants in Madrid hold Michelin Guide recognition?

Lana, Gurisa and Nacha are all listed in the Michelin Guide. Lana also holds Repsol soles, and Picsa holds a Repsol Solete.

### Where can you eat cheap at an Argentine restaurant in Madrid?

La Choripanería in Lavapiés runs roughly €10 to €20 per person for its choripanes and grilled cuts. La Pampa near Plaza de Santa Ana also keeps most dishes affordable alongside its à la carte.

### Which of these restaurants have won an award?

Lana took the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's international-cuisine award in 2025. La Cabrera won second prize for hospitality at Meat Attraction, the IFEMA Madrid trade fair, in 2023.

### Is there a long-running, historic Argentine restaurant in Madrid?

El Viejo Almacén de Buenos Aires has run for more than forty years in Peña Grande, with live tango most evenings. IFEMA Madrid's own city guide dates La Cabaña Argentina, in the Barrio de las Letras, to 1994.

### Which of these restaurants aren't built around the grill?

Tita de Buenos Aires is an empanada shop, Picsa bakes Argentine-style pizza, and Nacha and La Divina Bohemia build sharing-plate menus rather than working entirely off the parrilla.

## About the author

**Justin Mota** — Guidavera founder

Justin Mota is the founder of Guidavera. He has lived in Spain for over 10 years and runs a native AI agency alongside building this platform. Food has always been the way Justin connects with friends, and Guidavera started as the list he kept sending to everyone visiting Barcelona. He built it for himself and his friends first, and now hopes it can transform the way people discover great food experiences everywhere.

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