Aramburu

One of the best meals I’ve ever had. While traveling through South America, a friend and I made a dinner reservation for New Year’s Eve at this restaurant. In advance of the trip, this name popped up in a few publications as an excellent meal. It definitely lived up to the hype.
Seatings on New Years Eve were either for 8:00 or 9:00, for a 19 course tasting menu with wine pairings. An email disclosing a few dietary restrictions was exchanged (and definitely honored during our meal). A credit card was required to secure the reservation. We made our reservation via email from their website. A confirmation email was sent, with directions to the restaurant and other pertinent information.
The restaurant is not exceptionally large and by shortly after 9:00, every table was full. Based on a little eavesdropping, most diners spoke English and weren’t local. Based on other reviews describing the price, they definitely charged more for the holiday. However, upon leaving the restaurant we both felt it was worth every penny.
Service was excellent. The sommelier did a wonderful job explaining the wine choices, mentioning that she liked to select wines that represented the craft of winemaking from all over the country, not just the Mendoza area.
In terms of the food, the seafood really stuck out as excellent courses. Additionally, the desserts really shined as well. I’ll be honest… everything was great, but as I sit and write this review, I instantly remember the three seafood courses. The presentation was inventive and gorgeous (almost too pretty to eat the food at some points).
If you are in Buenos Aires and are looking for a unique dining experience, I would highly recommend splurging on this place!

This was the highlight of our trip! Our concierge recommended this place and he was right on! My husband and my travels are rated base on our food experiences. We’ve had few great steaks and wanted something different. 19 course tasting menu with wine pairing was what we had and it was perfect amount of food and perfect amount of wine. Every course was a piece of art. They looked amazing and every bite was out of this world! I love to cook so I know how much work it takes to execute the perfect technique. For example one dish was a burrata cheese stuffed with oyster and then blown up like a small balloon. When you bite in to it it pops and then you taste the oyster with minced shallot and vinegar. Amazing! I would come back to this restaurant every week if I lived here!

The menu speaks for itself. For 80 USD per person. Beautiful easy atmosphere. 19 course tasting menu.
Apple and blue cheese ravioli, chicken liver pâté in gelatin glaze, artisinal crackers. Followed by carrot pumpkin mousse and goat dumpling. Truffle mushroom soup with sweet onion compote in a puff pastry. Strawberry, beets and fish with goat cheese crackers. Scallop served on smoked aubergine mousse. Signature dish of fruit de mer croquette on sizzling stone with stock reduction. Local fish on cauliflower purée with seaweed and silver shrimp cracker. Purple cabbage with mustard caviar and pear sorbet. Savoury quail with crispy salted grasses. Chicken on sweet green pea and mint purée with assorted salted vegetables. Cucumber sorbet on lemon ice and mint cream. Apricot pastry on sweet wine reduction. Coconut marshmallow with whisky ice and white chocolate chips. Chocolate luxembürgerli.
Wine pairings are thoughtful and each as unique and original as the food deserves.

The meal was excellent.
We arrived at our reservation time. The woman answered the door and told us they would not be seating any reservations because the power was out. She invited us in and offered to call a taxi and offered a cocktail while we waited.
She apologized, and offered reservations at the sister restaurant two days later. We asked if we could be seated there the same night and she said no. We got to talking more and she eventually offered us to stay.
We were one of five tables. We were elated we got to stay. Eventually they got a generator and power (around the 4^th course) but to be honest we really enjoyed the candlelit atmosphere.
Truly a culinary experience. Wine pairings were great.
We were offered a significant discount for the irregularity (probably somewhere near 20%).

Uno de los lugares tan de moda que ofrecen exclusivamente un menú de pasos como Chila o Paraje Arévalo.
En este caso hay una única opción de 12 pasos que vas variando en el tiempo. Existe las opción de pedir una botella de vino, vino por copas o bien escoger la opción de maridaje donde se van sirviendo diferentes vinos acompañando los distintos pasos.
La comida es exquisita, desde el primer paso que consta de una variedad de entremeses (los más destacables de esta visita fueron el crocante de mollejas y la centolla nitrogenada) hasta el final de mesa con un buen café.
Algunos de los mejores pasos debidos fueron el cerdo confitado, el lomo con texturas de hongos y el salmón blanco.
Mención aparte para lo que me pareció lo mejor de la noche: la codorniz.
Si bien por fuera el lugar es para pasar y no enterarte que existe, por dentro es muy lindo y agradable.
Los únicos puntos algo en contra don que no todos los camareros tienen el mismo nivel de conocimiento de los platos y se nota que algunos no lo conocen demasiado.
La sommelier habla muy rápido y no se le termina de entender todo, a veces hay que volver a preguntarle algunos detalles que se pierden. Además la selección de vinos para el maridaje, si bien es muy buena y combina bien con los platos, no incluye nada que realmente sorprenda.
Para terminar, la relación precio-​calidad está un poco para el lado de lo caro, y es mejor en otros lugares similares como Paraje Arévalo.
Estos puntos en contra no quitan que sea una experiencia super disfrutable y muy recomendable. Realmente vale la pena pagar para pasar una noche excelente.

Everything was excellent. Tasting menu, service, ambience, and wine were perfect. Location is not that nice though.

Easily one of the better dining experiences of my life!
Some things to know:
1) You need a reservation.
2) It is a coursed menu.
3) Trust your life with the sommelier, Augustina. She made an AMAZING pick … and then sold us a bottle to take home!
4) It was about $ 200 USD with wine, tip, everything. In the states this meal would easily be twice as much.
I can’t recommend this restaurant enough!
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Wow what a restaurant! We were some of the first diners there at 8:30 pm but it was packed when we left. I definitely recommend getting a reservation. We loved our meal. The white salmon and filet mignon were our favorites. Augustina, the sommelier, was so incredibly helpful and friendly. We don’t love white wine so she picked a bottle of pinot noir for us that we loved.
I highly recommend this place! It was 1,600 pesos for two people for the 10+ course tasting menu, a bottle of wine and two sparkling wines to start. An incredible deal that would be at least 2−3x in the States.

Un amigo gallego me dijo vos no sabés comer en Buenos Aires y me llevó a Aramburu. La verdad es que me sorprendió que alguien que no vive en el país conozca un lugar tan pero tan bueno como este restaurante.
Aramburu es del estilo de los de «a puertas cerradas» pero sin ser secreto. Claro, no todos lo conocen, y las pocas mesas que tienen hacen del lugar un sitio bastante exclusivo. Tenés un menú fijo con degustaciones que hacen que la boca se te haga agua: hay verduras, carnes y pescados para todos los gustos.
Frente a este restaurante está el Aramburu Bis que tiene una carta de platos más variada y un poco más barata. A diferencia del clima intimista, en Aramburu Bis tenés mesas comunitarias.
Pero bueno, volvamos al restaurante en cuestión…la verdad es que la cena en Aramburu fue de lo mejor, el vino excelente y si bien los platos eran bastante chiquitos fue una experiencia gourmet maravillosa entre la codorniz y la «reunión de camarones». Una experiencia única… que por suerte yo no pagué. Tendría que haberme quedado a lavar los platos!

Históricamente, la exclusividad era sinónimo de caro. En los últimos años, prueba de ello la gran cantidad de bares con contraseñas o puertas ocultas que proliferaron por la ciudad, la gastronomía porteña le agregó el concepto de confidencialidad.
Aramburu es un poco así. Si bien para entrar no hay que abrir falsas puertas o aprenderse contraseñas de memoria, podría pensarse que el lugar es de los pioneros en esta materia. Ya, de entrada, es difícil encontrar restaurantes tan exclusivos, con cocina de vanguardia, en un barrio como Constitución, zona obrera y de paso de la ciudad. Incluso desde afuera, cuesta imaginar que allí hay un restaurante. Se toca el timbre y se entra a un pequeñísimo salón, de ocho mesas y con capacidad para veintiocho cubiertos (a lo caro y lo confidencial, la exclusividad le suma la intimidad).
Íntimo, caro, confidencial y exclusivo, puede resultar un poco irritante. Pero, nobleza obliga, hay que reconocerlo: la comida es excepcional. Es un menú único que cambia una o dos veces por año. Cocina por pasos, donde desfilan frente a uno ocho platos diminutos y exquisitos, dentro de los que resaltan el cochinillo confitado y la trucha arco iris. ¿El precio? ¡¡¡$ 450!!! Otra vez, para asegurarse de que no es un error de tipeo: $ 450.
Es que es realmente cocina de vanguardia, ideada, diagramada y ejecutada por un cheff amante de aunar tradiciones y experiencias culinarias del mundo entero.
Para acompañar el menú por pasos, cuentan con una interesantísima cava cuyos vinos, por si hacía falta aclararlo, no están contemplados en el precio.