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How to find good Argentinian food

Argentinian food is beef cooked over wood and coals with very little else — salt, chimichurri, a glass of Malbec — and a good parrilla shows its quality in exactly how little it does.

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What separates a good one from a bad one

A real parrilla — A grill over wood or charcoal embers, not gas. Smoke and slow, even heat define Argentinian beef.
Cuts you do not see elsewhere — Vacío (flank), entraña (skirt), mollejas (sweetbreads), chorizo and morcilla. A menu with them is a real asado menu.
Chimichurri made fresh — Parsley, oregano, garlic, vinegar, oil and chilli flakes. Bright and sharp, never blended into a paste.
Empanadas baked, with repulgue — The folded edge tells you the filling. Juicy beef empanadas (cortadas a cuchillo, knife-cut) are the best.
Malbec by the glass — Not essential, but nearly always a sign the place knows its customers.

What to order

Parrillada — A mixed grill for two or more.
Entraña or vacío — With chimichurri.
Beef empanadas — As a starter.
Milanesa napolitana — Breaded cutlet with ham, tomato and cheese.
Alfajores or flan with dulce de leche — For dessert.

Where to find Argentinian food

Open listings put 460 Argentine restaurants across the US. These are the cities and campuses with the most of them.

Cities with the most

Miami, FL 35 New York, NY 23 Miami Beach, FL 21 Chicago, IL 12 San Francisco, CA 8 Houston, TX 8 San Diego, CA 7 Los Angeles, CA 7

Campuses with the most within a mile

NYU 9 MDC 7 BMCC 5 Touro University 4 New School University 4 Pace University 4

A few to start with

Novecento — Miami, FL
1414 Brickell Ave, Miami
Industria Argentina — New York, NY
329 Greenwich St, New York
Leynia Restaurant — Miami Beach, FL
1685 Collins Ave, Miami Beach
Folklore — Chicago, IL
2100 W Division St, Chicago
Venga Empanadas — San Francisco, CA
443 Valencia St, San Francisco
Argentina Cafe Empanada Factory — Houston, TX
3833 Southwest Fwy, Houston

Counts are listings in Overture Maps open data (September 2026), counted by the town in each address. Independent places only in the examples above, and they are a starting point rather than a ranking.

How Savor Scout looks for it

The search reads for parrilla, asado, entraña, chimichurri and Argentinian, and leans on reviews that talk about the grill itself, which is where an Argentinian restaurant's quality shows.

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Looking in a particular city?

Each of these opens Savor Scout with the location already set, so you can say what you want and it searches from there. It covers 1,000 US cities in total — these are simply the largest.

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