Comments on: El Sanjuanino Restaurant – The Best Empanadas in Buenos Aires http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/ Your Online Guidebook to Argentina Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Feria de Mataderos | BuenosTours – Private Buenos Aires Tours http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/comment-page-1/#comment-46903 Feria de Mataderos | BuenosTours – Private Buenos Aires Tours Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:39:39 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/#comment-46903 [...] place to eat in Mataderos – that is, if you like the choices on offer of empanadas, empanadas, or… empanadas! However, if you like variety and trying something new, there are many other [...] [...] place to eat in Mataderos – that is, if you like the choices on offer of empanadas, empanadas, or… empanadas! However, if you like variety and trying something new, there are many other [...]

]]> By: randy c http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/comment-page-1/#comment-39769 randy c Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:07:33 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/#comment-39769 Have to agree with Sam Jay. I went to El Sanjuanino this past Sunday. El Sanjuanino was a nice, clean, friendly place that served probably the worse empenadas Ive had in Buenos Aires. The best empenadas Ive had was at the San Telmo feria sold by an nice elderly couple at Plaza Dorrego. It was delish! Have to agree with Sam Jay. I went to
El Sanjuanino this past Sunday. El Sanjuanino was a nice, clean, friendly place that served probably the worse empenadas Ive had in Buenos Aires. The best empenadas Ive had was at the San Telmo feria sold by an nice elderly couple at Plaza Dorrego. It was delish!

]]> By: Sam Jay http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/comment-page-1/#comment-19554 Sam Jay Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:37:43 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/#comment-19554 Based on this review we went to El Sanjuanino. Unfortunately, our experience there was very different from Mr. Schuller's. We ordered a selection of the empanadas (one of each), plus some pasta with meat sauce. Without a doubt, these were some of the WORST empanadas that we have had during our 4 months so far in Buenos Aires. In fact, my daughter got food poisoning late that night (for the first time since we've been here). So where would we recommend for the best empanadas? The one thing about empanadas is that every restaurant makes them differently. For instance, just getting a meat empanada, you can have regular, or spicy. Also, it can be fried or baked (usually baked, but I do love fried on occassion!) The meat can be ground beef, cubed/chopped, or almost shreded-like in texture. It can be plain, or with a tasty juicy meat sauce (similar to a taco sauce for us). The best ones (in my opinion) have a lot of other ingredients thrown in, such as chopped boiled eggs, raisins, olives (not my favorite), potato, etc... So, I'd suggest just trying any cafe, pizza parlor, and fine dining resturant. Whenever we go out, we always order an empanada, even just as an appetizer. Part of the treat for us is discovering how every restaurant is so different in their version of a empanada de carne (I always prefer carne picante if availble). My favorite used to be at a restaurant that was at the south-east corner of Plaza Dorrego, though I heard that their recipe has changed recently and isn't as spectacular anymore. We've also had terrific empanadas at small pizza joints around Recoletta, as well as at the fancy, tourist oriented (but still with excellent value for very high quality food) El Mirasol -- the location in Retiro close to Four Seasons is our favorite. Anyway, I would definitely NOT recommend El Sanjuanino to anyone. Absolutely horrible!!!! Based on this review we went to El Sanjuanino. Unfortunately, our experience there was very different from Mr. Schuller’s. We ordered a selection of the empanadas (one of each), plus some pasta with meat sauce.

Without a doubt, these were some of the WORST empanadas that we have had during our 4 months so far in Buenos Aires. In fact, my daughter got food poisoning late that night (for the first time since we’ve been here).

So where would we recommend for the best empanadas? The one thing about empanadas is that every restaurant makes them differently. For instance, just getting a meat empanada, you can have regular, or spicy. Also, it can be fried or baked (usually baked, but I do love fried on occassion!) The meat can be ground beef, cubed/chopped, or almost shreded-like in texture. It can be plain, or with a tasty juicy meat sauce (similar to a taco sauce for us). The best ones (in my opinion) have a lot of other ingredients thrown in, such as chopped boiled eggs, raisins, olives (not my favorite), potato, etc…

So, I’d suggest just trying any cafe, pizza parlor, and fine dining resturant. Whenever we go out, we always order an empanada, even just as an appetizer. Part of the treat for us is discovering how every restaurant is so different in their version of a empanada de carne (I always prefer carne picante if availble).

My favorite used to be at a restaurant that was at the south-east corner of Plaza Dorrego, though I heard that their recipe has changed recently and isn’t as spectacular anymore.

We’ve also had terrific empanadas at small pizza joints around Recoletta, as well as at the fancy, tourist oriented (but still with excellent value for very high quality food) El Mirasol — the location in Retiro close to Four Seasons is our favorite.

Anyway, I would definitely NOT recommend El Sanjuanino to anyone. Absolutely horrible!!!!

]]> By: Parque las Heras, a Little Palermo-Style Downtime http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/comment-page-1/#comment-9019 Parque las Heras, a Little Palermo-Style Downtime Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:09:44 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/#comment-9019 [...] be good friends. Nothing is more relaxing than plopping down in comfortable and clean park with a picnic of empanadas and dozing for a couple of hours with some new tunes from my iPod playing in my [...] [...] be good friends. Nothing is more relaxing than plopping down in comfortable and clean park with a picnic of empanadas and dozing for a couple of hours with some new tunes from my iPod playing in my [...]

]]> By: Kosher McDonald’s in Buenos Aires - Argentina’s Travel Guide http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/comment-page-1/#comment-8162 Kosher McDonald’s in Buenos Aires - Argentina’s Travel Guide Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:46:20 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/#comment-8162 [...] I first learned about this McDonald’s in the plane on my way to Buenos Aires. Reading through the Frommer’s guide, I was surprised. Is Buenos Aires a city with a large Jewish population? It turns out, yes, and I knew right then that since I might never make it to Israel, I was going to have to find this Kosher McDonald’s and see it for myself. Two months later, I still hadn’t done it, despite walking past Abasto time and time again. It was hard to pick McDonald’s over a choripan or empanada. This Wednesday, I finally went into the mall and asked the girl working the dessert counter at McDonald’s if this was a Kosher McDonald’s. No, she said, this one isn’t. I was momentarily disappointed, until she pointed up, telling me I would find it on the third floor, down a hall on the right side. Up two escalators and only asking for directions one more time, I finally found the Kosher McDonald’s, tucked off the main food court (where another, regular McDonald’s was doing brisk business). Appropriately, an Orthodox Jew stood by the Pick-Up counter. I wanted to take a picture of him in the foreground, with the McDonald’s sign in the back, but that seemed far too rude to even consider actually asking. Instead, I took out my camera and took some pictures of the counter until I was stopped by a security guard in the mall. Perhaps no one is allowed to take pictures in the mall, but I suspect it was because I was taking pictures of the Kosher McDonald’s. Even after 13 years, people here still remember the bombing in 1994 of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association that killed 85 people. [...] [...] I first learned about this McDonald’s in the plane on my way to Buenos Aires. Reading through the Frommer’s guide, I was surprised. Is Buenos Aires a city with a large Jewish population? It turns out, yes, and I knew right then that since I might never make it to Israel, I was going to have to find this Kosher McDonald’s and see it for myself. Two months later, I still hadn’t done it, despite walking past Abasto time and time again. It was hard to pick McDonald’s over a choripan or empanada. This Wednesday, I finally went into the mall and asked the girl working the dessert counter at McDonald’s if this was a Kosher McDonald’s. No, she said, this one isn’t. I was momentarily disappointed, until she pointed up, telling me I would find it on the third floor, down a hall on the right side. Up two escalators and only asking for directions one more time, I finally found the Kosher McDonald’s, tucked off the main food court (where another, regular McDonald’s was doing brisk business). Appropriately, an Orthodox Jew stood by the Pick-Up counter. I wanted to take a picture of him in the foreground, with the McDonald’s sign in the back, but that seemed far too rude to even consider actually asking. Instead, I took out my camera and took some pictures of the counter until I was stopped by a security guard in the mall. Perhaps no one is allowed to take pictures in the mall, but I suspect it was because I was taking pictures of the Kosher McDonald’s. Even after 13 years, people here still remember the bombing in 1994 of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association that killed 85 people. [...]

]]> By: Kosher McDonald’s in Buenos Aires - Argentina’s Travel Guide http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/comment-page-1/#comment-8123 Kosher McDonald’s in Buenos Aires - Argentina’s Travel Guide Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:50:43 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/#comment-8123 [...] I first learned about this McDonald’s in the plane on my way to Buenos Aires.  Reading through the Frommer’s guide, I was surprised.  Is Buenos Aires a city with a large Jewish population?  It turns out, yes, and I knew right then that since I might never make it to Israel, I was going to have to find this Kosher McDonald’s and see it for myself.  Two months later, I still hadn’t done it, despite walking past Abasto time and time again.  It was hard to pick McDonald’s over a choripan or empanada.  This Wednesday, I finally went into the mall and asked the girl working the dessert counter at McDonald’s if this was a Kosher McDonald’s.  No, she said, this one isn’t.  I was momentarily disappointed, until she pointed up, telling me I would find it on the third floor, down a hall on the right side.  Up two escalators and only asking for directions one more time, I finally found the Kosher McDonald’s, tucked off the main food court (where another, regular McDonald’s was doing brisk business).  Appropriately, an Orthodox Jew stood by the Pick-Up counter.  I wanted to take a picture of him in the foreground, with the McDonald’s sign in the back, but that seemed far too rude to even consider actually asking.  Instead, I took out my camera and took some pictures of the counter until I was stopped by a security guard in the mall.  Perhaps no one is allowed to take pictures in the mall, but I suspect it was because I was taking pictures of the Kosher McDonald’s.  Even after 13 years, people here still remember the bombing in 1994 of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association that killed 85 people. [...] [...] I first learned about this McDonald’s in the plane on my way to Buenos Aires.  Reading through the Frommer’s guide, I was surprised.  Is Buenos Aires a city with a large Jewish population?  It turns out, yes, and I knew right then that since I might never make it to Israel, I was going to have to find this Kosher McDonald’s and see it for myself.  Two months later, I still hadn’t done it, despite walking past Abasto time and time again.  It was hard to pick McDonald’s over a choripan or empanada.  This Wednesday, I finally went into the mall and asked the girl working the dessert counter at McDonald’s if this was a Kosher McDonald’s.  No, she said, this one isn’t.  I was momentarily disappointed, until she pointed up, telling me I would find it on the third floor, down a hall on the right side.  Up two escalators and only asking for directions one more time, I finally found the Kosher McDonald’s, tucked off the main food court (where another, regular McDonald’s was doing brisk business).  Appropriately, an Orthodox Jew stood by the Pick-Up counter.  I wanted to take a picture of him in the foreground, with the McDonald’s sign in the back, but that seemed far too rude to even consider actually asking.  Instead, I took out my camera and took some pictures of the counter until I was stopped by a security guard in the mall.  Perhaps no one is allowed to take pictures in the mall, but I suspect it was because I was taking pictures of the Kosher McDonald’s.  Even after 13 years, people here still remember the bombing in 1994 of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association that killed 85 people. [...]

]]> By: Cumana Empanadas | Buenos Aires Argentina Guide http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/comment-page-1/#comment-2156 Cumana Empanadas | Buenos Aires Argentina Guide Sat, 26 May 2007 20:41:02 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/#comment-2156 [...] My guess is that, because Cumana is so damn busy, they use some kind of mass produced pastry on their empanadas. Which is fine and I’m sure what many other empanada joints do (and in fact, maybe a decision based on the fact that their fillings are so good… they could just want something to encase them in that will not fight for center stage itself!), but still not something that I would want to see on my hallowed perfect empanada. And so, the search goes on… (perhaps to El Sanjuanino next?) [...] [...] My guess is that, because Cumana is so damn busy, they use some kind of mass produced pastry on their empanadas. Which is fine and I’m sure what many other empanada joints do (and in fact, maybe a decision based on the fact that their fillings are so good… they could just want something to encase them in that will not fight for center stage itself!), but still not something that I would want to see on my hallowed perfect empanada. And so, the search goes on… (perhaps to El Sanjuanino next?) [...]

]]> By: El Sanjuanino Restaurant - The Best Empanadas in Buenos Aires &laquo ArgentinaBloggers.com http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/comment-page-1/#comment-676 El Sanjuanino Restaurant - The Best Empanadas in Buenos Aires &laquo ArgentinaBloggers.com Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:33:33 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/406/el-sanjuanino-restaurant-the-best-empanadas-in-buenos-aires/#comment-676 [...] Check out the full story… [...] [...] Check out the full story… [...]

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