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Buenos Aires, Argentina > Buenos Aires restaurants > El Obrero El ObreroAgustin R. Caffarena 64; Tel. +(011.54.11) 4362.9912
All those looking for the authentic Boca dining experience, stop looking. Now! This little Boca backstreet hideaway takes the biscuit. Walking around to find this place you begin to wonder where all the people are let alone the actual restaurant. Stumble across the entrance and inside adventurous dinners will find the answer – they’re all in El Obrero having lunch. Walking in off the quiet street and El Obrero is a hive of activity. Waiters scurry about between the jumbled assortment of tables on the mis-matched tiled floor. Customers clinking glasses tuck in to hearty home-cooked dishes as the parilla sizzles away in the rear. Football flags and photos, paintings and paper-cuttings cover the jam-packed walls, mostly paying homage to Boca local legends – their football team - Boca Juniors. The surprisingly varied menu offers a variety of tempting traditional dishes at even more tempting prices. Huge portions of milanesa cost just $8AR, fish, chicken and rice dishes are between $8-10AR with stew only $6AR. The parilla serves up generous helpings of meat and salmon steaks amongst other options (bife de lomo $15AR, bife de chorizo $13AR and salmon $14AR by way of a guide). With its well-deserved reputation, the word on El Obrero is out to some extent. Happily though its only the really determined tourist that makes the journey. Otherwise it is packed with scores of wised-up locals feasting on the food and delighting in the décor. For a barrio that gets most credit from its football, La Boca’s got some other gems – and this is one of its finest. —El Obrero review by Tessa Pettman
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