Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings Mendoza BISTRO M ( Park Hyatt Hotel ) International & Regional Cuisine An international restaurant with French overtones but using regional ingredients, Bistro M created the first open kitchen in South America. Large windows’ facing out onto Plaza Independencia and a patio to dine upon in the summer months ensures the Park Hyatt’s Bistro M is the best located restaurant in Mendoza. Busy chefs attend to the wood-burning oven while crisp waiters attend to you. The food is both traditional and adventurous such as empanadas cooked in a wood-fuelled oven or choclo (corn) stuffed ravioli. The red meat is Black Angus and seafood dishes include mussels with avocado and grilled Pollack. A spiral staircase climbs past a two-floor wine gallery housing over 2,500 selected regional wines, some of which are available by the glass. Clearly the M in Bistro M stands for Magnificent! Recommended for lunch and dinner. Open Daily. Address Chile 1124 (Mendoza town) Phone (0261) 441 1200 Price: Expensive GRILL Q ( Park Hyatt Hotel ) Argentine Barbaque Grill q – parrilla argentina, is a new park hyatt mendoza eatery located between the swimming pool and the independencia theater. This exclusive grill is open for lunch & dinner with traditional and flavourful alternatives such as the classic parrilla argentina, locro, empanadas that will delight its visitors. The restaurant seats up to 100 people. The main room has a maximum capacity of 60 people, while the remaining seats will enjoy a view of the gardens and pool at park hyatt mendoza - hotel, casino & spa. Address Chile 1124 (Mendoza town) Phone (0261) 441 1225 Price: Expensive FRANCESCO RISTORANTE Italian Cuisine Francesco has the vocation of receiving in its home the ones who desires to be pleasured with its plates. They have an experience in gastronomy for over 55 years, they were the first to propose Italian kitchen in Mendoza. Today Francesco serves as well delicious plates of lamb, rabbit, bull, fishes and pork. The restaurant counts with comfortable spaces, exclusive lounge and a beautiful park, only in the capital of Mendoza, they all can be partners of sensation alone with the high Italian kitchen and the personal attention. Recommended for lunch and dinner. Closed on Sundays. Address: Chile Nº 1268 (Mendoza town) Phone: (0261) 4253912 / 4297182 Price: Expensive Page 2 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings AZAFRAN International Cuisine Named after Saffron, a spice more valuable than gold, Azafrán demands from itself only the highest quality food and drink. The food is gourmet cuisine with great variety. This charming eatery is set behind an attractively decorated all-wood wine store. The food is imaginative, fresh, and eclectic. You may start with warm spinach and asparagus salad or a platter of smoked meats and cheeses. The rabbit ravioli in champagne sauce is delicate and unusual, and the vegetables and tofu baked in a puff pastry will please any vegetarian. The service is convivial, and the wood tables and vintage floors give a sense of dining in an old farmhouse. In the warmer months, there are a few lovely tables outside on the sidewalk for alfresco dining. The restaurant has one of the best wine cellars in Mendoza: between 450 wines from more than 80 different wineries. Recommended for lunch and dinner. Closed on Sundays. Address Sarmiento 765 (Mendoza town) Phone (261) 429-4200 Price: Expensive / Moderate (without wine) LA MARCHIGIANA Italian & Argentine Cuisine The restaurant's own history book details 50 years of experience in Mendoza and reveals some of the recipes of its famed homemade pastas. Octopus-like chandeliers hang from the familial A-frame dining room, where guests can easily hear the creative voices of the kitchen. Three pages of meat and fish follow on the menu, but you well may not have room after the minestrone and pasta. An extensive selection of desserts is also available. Recommended for lunch and dinner. Open daily Address: Patricias Mendocinas Nº 1550 (Mendoza town) Phone: (0261)4230751 Price: Moderate OCHO CEPAS Grill Gourmet The house was built by architect Daniel Ramos Correas and is "provincial historical monument” . Therefore, it can’t be done structural changes. That is exactly what 8 Cepas is doing, the new restaurant in charge of Max Casa (chef), in the corner of Peru and Espejo, which has as a partners Cristián Bernal and Cristina Briggs. The restaurant seats up to 50 people and it is open from Monday to Saturday only at night. 8 Cepas is like a restaurant inside an special house. Address: Peru 1192- Ciudad - Mendoza Phone: (0261) 423 2387 Price: moderate 7 COCINAS ( ex “Mi Tierra”) Foods form seven different geographic regions within Argentina. Is a restaurant for 70 people. Located in the heart of the City of Mendoza. Stylish design with a sober minimalist decoration, but simple, warm and funny, making an unusual attraction in Mendoza: the kitchen is open view to customers. A preferential site is occupied by the clay oven, the restaurant also has a bar for six people and a private cellar for 10 people. The name emphasizes the concept of the restaurant, "the kitchen of seven culinary regions: Northwest, Litoral, Cuyo, The Pampas, Metropolitan, Andean Patagonia and Argentine Sea” Page 3 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings Address: Av. Bartolome Mitre 794, esq. San Lorenzo, Mendoza, Argentina. Phone: +54 261 4238823 Price: Moderate / Expensive ANNA BISTRO Mediterranean & Argentine Cuisine Anna Bistro is the perfect place to relax in the Mendoza. It is a mixture of oranges and ocher, with an entrance that invites you to discover a modern restaurant, opened on an oasis of 900 square meters and very close to Independence Square. What is different and seductive from Anna Bistro is not only a place where you can have lunch or dinner but also a place where you enjoy a fun time with good music and exquisite flavors. Its fusion menu between Mediterranean and Argentine cuisine offers meat, fish, pastas and salads Provence. At night the highlight is the cooking of meats and fish in the outside kitchen with a mixed technique: grill – clay oven. Some of its most remarkable specialties are: lamb Malbec, “Anna” Rib eye with mushroom sauce, salmon and the famous chocolate Moelleux. Moreover, Anna Bistro offers a full bar and the best mojito in Mendoza. Open daily from noon to run 2am. Address: Juan B Justo 161, Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina Phone: (261) 425- 1818 Price: moderate GIO BAR Breakfast, snacks & tapas / Wine Bar The Barbera Family, established in Mendoza since 1950 and pioneer with their italian-argentine cuisine offer, today brings us a modern and innovative blend of gastronomic services. Located at the heart of downtown Mendoza, GioBar completes, together with Francesco Ristorante, a gastro-enologic space completly designed for the bouna vita. We aim to creat a warm and comfortable place where you can enjoy a delicious breakfast and take delight with our specialties. Enjoy a special afternoom tea with the delicacies of italian pastries at a place specially plan ned for the ocasion. Tapas at Gio Bar. Share the end of the day with good company and enjoy the special Tapas we have thought for you. Address: Chile 1268 - 5500 Mendoza www.giobar.com.ar Phone: (0)261 420 4107 Price: Moderate FUENTE Y FONDA Home-made Cuisine Set in a spruced-up mansion overlooking Plaza Italia that’s stayed faithful to the original construction (retaining features such as vitraux windows and beautiful tile floors), Pablo del Rio (Chef and owner) takes utmost care when it comes to sourcing ingredients for his Argentine comfort food. The Serrano-style jamón crudo from Córdoba is excellent while other fare such as pasta is made in-house; the pickled beef tongue is a sure fire way to get over any offal-eating phobia. Dishes are designed for sharing (solo travelers might find themselves with an ample doggy bag at the end of a evening), but diners could do a lot worse than gorging on a vat of sweet corn and ricotta-filled cannelloni or a milanesa Page 4 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings complete (beef escalope topped with ham and cheese). Desserts are on the house. With a palate so impeccable he takes charge of his restaurants’ wine lists, Pablodel Rio is also the owner and chef of Siete Cocinas and is the face of national cuisine for Wines of Argentina. Address: Montevideo 675 - 5500 Mendoza – Phone: (0)261 464 9077 Price: moderate NADIA O.F. Six-steps gourmet menu Nadia Haron, the Urban restaurant’s chef at O. Fournier, has just opened a new restaurant in Mendoza. This restaurant, Nadia OF, is situated in Chacras de Coria. The restaurant is open from Wednesday to Monday at night (reservations required). The restaurant keeps the same concept as the winery, with a six-course gourmet menu with fixed prices. Each Thursday the restaurant carries out a complete change of it’s the menu. The restaurant Nadia O.F. is inside a traditional old house of Mendoza which has been completely renovated. There is a garden where you can have dinner (reservations in advance are not allowed in case of having dinner in the garden). Address: Chile 894 – Mendoza – NEW ADDRESS ! Phone: (0261) 425 3239 Price: moderate Around Mendoza City ABRASADO RESTAURANTE Grill Gourmet The original house of Francisco Armando, founder of Los Toneles Winery. It was completely restored, preserving every little detail from 1922. Within the house you are allowed the chance to time travel into past, where colors turn sepia and typical architectonic features of that period of time are easily observed. The gallery of the common Mendocinian patio, the high pinewood columns and the aged walls with big flowerpots full of geraniums (flower from Cuyo region) stand out as soon as you enter the area. For either lunch or dinner, we invite you to come to our restaurant where elegance and the pleasure of our land are intertwined within our kitchen. Enjoy our gourmet cuisine in one of our private rooms or be seated in one of our grand halls with the view of our wine cellars. Address: Lateral Acceso Este 1360 - Nueva Ciudad - Guaymallén - Mendoza – Phone: (0261) 4310403 Price: expensive CAVAS DE CANO Author’s cuisine It used to be the old residence of Don Guillermo Cano, governor of Mendoza, which carried out the first National Celebration of the Vendimia in 1936. Cavas de Cano is today the refuge where the perfect combination of history, cooks and wines delight our senses. Cavas invites every guest to discover the perfect communion between best products of Mendoza’s earth with their own wines, elaborated there and for delighting by guest. Today it preserves the vision of Don Cavas to immortalize its work in the history of Mendoza Page 5 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings Recommended for lunch and dinner. Address: San Martin, Mayor Drummond, Lujan de Cuyo Nº 2488 (outside Mendoza city limits). Phone: (0261) 498 7283 Price: Expensive TERRUÑO RESTAURANT CLUB TAPIZ International & Regional Cuisine Tucked away among the sprawling vineyards of Maipu lies Club Tapiz Resort and its lovely restaurant Terruño. This handsome eatery boasts an elegant interior, excellent service and a wine list that is sure to please the most demanding. Menu items include top-notch lomo steaks, a rotating range of salads and a savoury ginger/honey chicken dish. Recommended for Lunch, daily and dinner (closed on Mondays). Address: Ruta 60 s/n 5517 Maipú (outside Mendoza city limits). Phone: (0261) 496-3433 Price: Expensive RESTAURANT 1884- FRANCIS MALLMAN International Cuisine Francis Mallman has created Mendoza's top restaurant inside Bodega Escorihuela, known for housing the biggest wine barrel in the province. With fine Argentine meats and fresh local produce, his carefully presented cuisine combines his Patagonian roots with his French culinary training. Dishes are prepared with matching wine selections, with Malbec and Syrah topping the list. You can easily combine in the same visit a meal here with a tour of the bodega, which also has an art gallery.In 2006, 1884 rated seventh among the world’s most desirable restaurants in a London Times list. Recommended for lunch and dinner. Open daily. Address Belgrano 1188 - Godoy Cruz (around Mendoza Town) Phone 261/424-2698 Price: Expensive CASA DEL VISITANTE – FAMILIA ZUCCARDI Regional Cuisine & Argentinean Barbeque Familia Zuccardi’s winery is located 30 minutes away from Mendoza city. It is surrounded by vineyards, olive trees and impressive tree-lined avenues framed by the Andes Mountain range. Visitor's House offers a service which consists of a guided tour plus a tasting, as well as a lunch or dinner, together with friends and surrounded by marvellous natural scenery. Visitors will enjoy a personalized service and will be able to choose among four appealing alternatives. The best way of enjoying the passion for wine! Recommended for lunch, daily. Address: RP 33, km 7, 5 / Maipú (around Mendoza Town) Phone: (0261)-441 0000 Price: Expensive Page 6 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings DIVINO TUPUNGATO Author’s cuisine The restaurant is formally open at noon. The cheff, Martita Abraham, who runs the kitchen, also complements the attention of the diners, explaining the dishes. Tupungato Divino has not a conventional menu, but neither has a fixed menu. Each dish is prepared with great care and diners are truly satisfied. According to the season, the garden provides vegetables for the first course which are combined in mousses, “cazuelitas”, and recently filled bread baked. For the main dish there are several options: pork, chicken or vaccine sauce meat; handmade pastas with various fillings: deer, salmon, asparagus or pumpkin and mozzarella. The dessert consists of variety of sweet flavours and textures that complement each other in a single dish. Only opens for lunch. Address: Ruta 89 y calle Los Europeos - 5561 Tupungato, Valle de Uco Phone: (0)2622 15 448 948 Price: expensive / moderate ESPACIO MAS In MAS we think every day should be enjoyed to the fullest ... So we created a space with rich and simple alternatives. Four proposals have been designed to be lived intensely. MAS - Fish - Our seafood cuisine values the pure and simple taste of the best seafood MAS - Kitchen - Open kitchen is a place to learn cooking or where you can cook to your guests outside your house MAS - Embers - Wood turned on the oven and grill, to convene meetings with the best friends and family. MAS - Cups - Cups offers a relaxed place to drink and snack on Address: Guardia Vieja 1998 (Entre Cielo Entrance), Vistalba, Mendoza Phone: (0261) 154542423 Price: Expensive SIETE FUEGOS Siete Fuegos, or “seven fires,” describes Francis Mallmann’s honed collection of open-flame cooking techniques, inspired by Argentine gauchos and European migrations, and refined through hundreds of years of history. Savor the rustic, fiery flavors of specialties like 9-hour slow-grilled rib eye, castiron baked salt-encrusted salmon, grilled seasonal fruits, and more, paired with award-winning boutique wines. Dine indoors or out, or enjoy a front row seat in the open kitchen where you can watch our artisans of fire create impassioned Argentine fare. Address: The Vines Resort & Spa - Ruta Provincial 94, km 11 - Tunuyan, Uco Valley, Mendoza Phone: (261) 461 3910 Price: Expensive Page 7 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings ALMACEN DEL SUR - IT HAS CLOSED!! Delicatessen & Gourmet products An elegant, warm and intimate environment where you can enjoy watching the chef work as well as an unforgettable gastronomic experience. On its farm, you can visit a typical casona, a large rambling house first founded in 1888 and completely restored in its original style by Almacen Del Sur. It has a warm and cosy indoor as well the outdoors galleries dressed with honeysuckle and wisterias. All the ingredients used by Almacen del Sur are cultivated in their rich lands of Maipu, a region located at the base of the Andes, 15 km from de city of Mendoza. Also their delicatessen factory is located at the farm too where produces all the natural ingredients used by them and their exclusive recipes. Recommended for lunch and dinner daily. Address: Zaniclelli Nº 709, Maipú (around Mendoza Town) Phone: (0261) 4975802/ 49 065 Price: Expensive LA BOURGOGNE - IT HAS CLOSED!! French cuisine Situated in the startling new Carlos Pulenta winery in Vistalba, La Bourgogne promises to become as famous as its sister eatery in the Alvear Palace, Buenos Aires. Already it has won the best restaurant of the world’s wine capitals. Not a bad start. It’s set amongst the vineyards in a stark, modernist, Incan style building with a wonderful view of the mountains. The French style menu includes a delicious pumpkin soup, veal ribs in Malbec sauce and a delicious rabbit dish, all served with impeccable taste and presentation. You can satisfy yourself with a Vistalba Corte B from the Carlos Pulenta cellars nearby. Recommended for lunch and dinner. Closed on Mondays. Sundays lunches only. Address: Roque Saenz Peña 3531, Vistalba, Lujan de Cuyo (40 minutes by car) (outside Mendoza city limits). Phone: (0261) 498 9421 Price: Expensive FARRAH – cocina de autor - IT HAS CLOSED!! uthor´s cuisine Opened at the end of December 2010, is located on Fifth Section in Mendoza City and is one of the many family successful companies of this province. Farrah restaurant is run by its own owners. Belén – one of its owners - is the one who prepares the dishes on the menu, "my specialty is author’s cuisine, this is: I usually add unconventional ingredients to the traditional dishes, and the result is an original and delicious dish” Address: Paso de Los Andes 1006 – esquina Julio A Roca – Mendoza – Phone: 0261 – 4239981 Price: moderate FLORENTINO BISTRO - IT HAS CLOSED!! Contemporary Cuisine A central square plus four others and countless small squares give life to the heart of Mendoza. Green hues and flowers, fountains and skies, playgrounds and love stories make up the identity of this city. Italia Square features Florentino Bistró, where cuisine, friendship and art are combined. Florentino`s cuisine is the synthesis of what has been acquired, plus a space with personality, an important wine list and the products of each season. Fresh and delicious. Page 8 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings Address: Montevideo 675 - 5500 Mendoza – Phone: (0)261 464 9077 Price: moderate LA BOURGOGNE (Diplomatic Hotel) - IT HAS CLOSED!! French cuisine The best French cuisine in Mendoza in La Bourgogne, the only Relais & Gourmand restaurant in Argentina, in which the executive chef delights the most demanding clients. A warm and refined atmosphere is the ideal setting to enjoy this exquisite cuisine, which combines the best French techniques with the most remarkable regional products. Address: Belgrano 1041 Phone: (54 - 261) 405 1999 Price: Expensive EL 23 GRAN BAR - IT HAS CLOSED!! Tapas, entrees and desserts The “ 23 Gran Bar” is a unique place located in the center of Mendoza city. It is located next to the winery “WINERY”. A place where you will find a great proposal with high standards of quality and service, wine and gastronomy all gathered in one single place. Situated in an old house in the center of the town, designer’s furniture and exquisite atmosphere The “ 23 Gran Bar” is considered as one of the most stylish bars the city. It opens all day from 10 AM and never closes before 1 AM Address: Chile 874 esquina Montevideo Phone: 4251716 Price: moderate Page 9 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally Restaurants Mendoza & Surroundings Page 10 of 10 Last updated May 2015 Always verify information locally