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A Culinary Adventure in Buenos Aires
Argentina is known for exceptional wine, high-quality beef, and deep culinary traditions. This Buenos Aires food tour brings those elements together through neighborhood visits, cooking classes, wine tastings, asado, mate, and classic Argentine sweets. You will explore Buenos Aires’ southern districts, including La Boca and San Telmo, before continuing to Palermo for one of the city’s signature culinary neighborhoods.
Many travelers know Argentina’s Italian roots, but Buenos Aires is also known as the “Paris of Latin America.” The reason becomes clear in its broad avenues, elegant architecture, and French-influenced design. The city’s food traditions also reflect this blend of European and Argentine influences. Due to France and Argentina’s trade partnership, many French immigrants settled in the area during the late 19th century, helping shape the cultural exchange between both nations.
The extended version of this Argentina culinary vacation adds a Buenos Aires to Iguazú Falls tour. Guests travel to Puerto Iguazú, near the borders of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, to see one of South America’s most dramatic natural landmarks.
Puerto Iguazú is known for rainforest scenery, national park trails, views of the falls from Argentina and Brazil, and cultural and historical experiences. This extension pairs the food, wine, and city life of Buenos Aires with the natural beauty of Iguazú Falls.
Buenos Aires Foodie Tour
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Day 1 - Buenos Aires
- Private transfer from Ezeiza Airport (EZE) to your hotel.
- Have lunch (not included) at your accommodations or one of the nearby restaurants.
- In the afternoon, your guide will meet you at your hotel for a private half-day city tour of Buenos Aires’ southern districts. The tour begins at Plaza de Mayo, home to Casa Rosada, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the old Town Hall. You will then continue to La Boca, known for the colorful houses along Caminito Street, before visiting San Telmo, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, with cobblestone streets, a traditional market, antique shops, and design stores.
- You have the option to add Recoleta Cemetery to your walking tour for a small surcharge. Recoleta Cemetery is located in the neighborhood of the same name, near Basílica Nuestra Señora del Pilar. More than 90 tombs are listed as national historical monuments, including the tombs of Eva Perón and former Argentine presidents Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Raúl Alfonsín.
- During the city tour, you will stop at a traditional café for a light snack. The location and tasting depend on the tour timing and may include café and medialunas at La Ideal or vermouth and tapas at Los Galgos.
- After the southern districts tour, you will be dropped off in Palermo, Buenos Aires’ largest neighborhood, for a small-group food tour. You will visit four selected restaurants and enjoy more than 10 dishes and drinks that highlight Argentine cuisine, including a wine tasting.
- As you walk through Palermo’s boulevards and shopping streets, your guide will share the neighborhood’s history, street art, and diverse local culture.
- Make your own way back to your hotel (or a transfer can be organized on request) and overnight.
Day 2 - Buenos Aires
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Private transfer to your first cooking class.
- Join a shared small-group cooking class and learn the foundations of Argentine cooking. Sample Menu — dishes subject to seasonal change:
- Welcome picada with local cheese, fruit, and nuts
- Chipa and empanadas from scratch
- Beef with Malbec sauce and Andean potatoes
- Flan with dulce de leche
- Welcome drink, white wine, and red wine
- After lunch at the cooking school, transfer back to the hotel. You have free time to explore the city on your own.
- Tonight, you will attend dinner and a tango show at Rojo Tango, located inside your hotel.
- Tango remains one of Argentina’s defining art forms, and Rojo Tango brings together dancers, singers, and musicians in an intimate cabaret setting inspired by early 20th-century tango clubs. The evening combines music, movement, dinner, wine, and theatrical atmosphere.
- Overnight.
Day 3 - Buenos Aires
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Today includes a private half-day tour of Buenos Aires’ northern districts, with transfers from and to the hotel. Your guide will take you through Retiro, Recoleta, and Palermo, where broad avenues, parks, embassies, mansions, designer shops, and restaurants reflect the city’s reputation as the “Paris of South America.”
- During the city tour, you will stop at a traditional heladería to taste Argentine ice cream.
- Afterward, you will transfer to a private cooking workshop with Chef Paula Comparatore in a fully equipped teaching kitchen. The class focuses on mate, Argentine customs, and classic sweets.
- This class lasts about an hour and a half. You will practice cebado techniques and tereré while preparing classic Argentine sweets such as pastelitos, vigilantes, flan, and alfajores.
- After your class, transfer back to the hotel, with free time to explore on your own.
- You may add an optional hands-on asado cooking class this evening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (price quoted on request). You will visit the chef’s family home and cook outdoors, following the traditional Argentine method. This class focuses on one of the country’s signature culinary traditions. An asado lunch is included on Day 4, but that meal does not include hands-on cooking.
- You may also spend the evening at leisure and dine at one of Buenos Aires’ many restaurants.
- Overnight.
Day 4 - Buenos Aires - Estancia
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Meet in the lobby and depart for a full day excursion to the Pampas at Estancia La Bandada.
- Argentina’s pampas are wide grasslands that stretch across the countryside. La Bandada is a 19th-century colonial-style house located in the heart of the pampas, surrounded by trees and local wildlife. Behind the property are open pastures, lagoons, birds, capybaras, and coypus.
- Upon arrival, visitors are welcomed with empanadas and drinks, with a choice of wine, soft drinks, or lemonade. For lunch, your hosts will prepare a traditional asado with different types of meat, vegetables, and salads.
- While the barbecue is being cooked, there’s time to go for a walk or horseback ride around the ranch.
- In the afternoon, you can watch traditional activities or ride like a gaucho.
- The visit will end with an afternoon snack of coffee, tea, and mate, with local pastries.
- Transfer back to the hotel.
- Dinner on your own, overnight.
Day 5 - Buenos Aires to Iguazu Falls
- Breakfast and check out.
- Transfer this morning to the airport for your flight to Iguazú Falls (flight not included). We suggest a flight departing late morning.
- Upon arrival, transfer to your 5-star hotel in Puerto Iguazú and check in.
- The rest of the day is free to accommodate your flight schedule.
- Dinner on your own, overnight.
Day 6 - Iguazu, Argentina
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Today features a full-day Iguazú Falls, Argentina tour. Iguazú Falls includes more than 250 waterfalls along the Iguazú River, on the border between Argentina and Brazil. Iguazú National Park protects the Argentine side, where visitors can see untouched nature, the ecological train, Devil’s Throat, and the Upper and Lower circuits. The park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 and later named one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature.
- A 20-minute ecological train ride leads to the trail for Devil’s Throat, a horseshoe-shaped waterfall with an 80-meter drop. You will also explore the Upper and Lower circuits, which connect several lookout points. The Upper Circuit offers panoramic views from areas such as Dos Hermanas, Bosetti, and San Martín, while the Lower Circuit brings visitors closer to the base of the falls and its lagoons.
- This evening includes dinner with beverages — water, wine, and coffee — at The Argentine Experience. The meal introduces Argentine food and wine in a social setting, with a five-course dinner paired with wines from different regions. You will also learn how to close an empanada and prepare mate.
- Private transfer back to your hotel around 10pm.
Day 7 - Iguazu, Brazil
- Breakfast at the hotel and check out.
- Today includes an Iguazú Falls, Brazil tour, with a 5-hour excursion to the Brazilian side of Iguaçu National Park. This side offers wide panoramic views of the Iguazú River canyon, the waterfalls, and the surrounding subtropical forest. After arriving at the Visitor Center, internal shuttle buses take you to the walkway over the river gorge.
- You will stop at several viewpoints along the trail before reaching the other side of Devil’s Throat. From there, stairs or an elevator return visitors to the internal shuttle bus stop.
- Lunch on your own today.
- From here, you will transfer to the airport for your evening flight back to Buenos Aires. (Cost of flight not included. We anticipate you will be able to connect to a late evening flight back home; otherwise, an additional night in Buenos Aires can be arranged on request.)
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Day One - Buenos Aires
- Private transfer from Ezeiza Airport (EZE) to your hotel.
- Have lunch (not included) at your accommodations or one of the nearby restaurants.
- In the afternoon, your guide will meet you at your hotel for a private half-day city tour of Buenos Aires’ southern districts. The tour begins at Plaza de Mayo, home to Casa Rosada, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the old Town Hall. You will then continue to La Boca, known for the colorful houses along Caminito Street, before visiting San Telmo, one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, with cobblestone streets, a traditional market, antique shops, and design stores.
- You have the option to add Recoleta Cemetery to your walking tour for a small surcharge (+$34 per person). Recoleta Cemetery is located in the neighborhood of the same name, near Basílica Nuestra Señora del Pilar. More than 90 tombs are listed as national historical monuments, including the tombs of Eva Perón and former Argentine presidents Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Raúl Alfonsín.
- During the city tour, you will stop at a traditional café for a light snack. The location and tasting depend on the tour timing and may include café and medialunas at La Ideal or vermouth and tapas at Los Galgos.
- After the southern districts tour, you will be dropped off in Palermo, Buenos Aires’ largest neighborhood, for a small-group food tour. You will visit four selected restaurants and enjoy more than 10 dishes and drinks that highlight Argentine cuisine, including a wine tasting.
- As you walk through Palermo’s boulevards and shopping streets, your guide will share the neighborhood’s history, street art, and diverse local culture.
- Make your own way back to your hotel (or a transfer can be organized on request) and overnight.
Day Two - Buenos Aires
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Private transfer to your first cooking class.
- Join a shared small-group cooking class and learn the foundations of Argentine cooking. Sample Menu — dishes subject to seasonal change:
- Welcome picada with local cheese, fruit, and nuts
- Chipa and empanadas from scratch
- Beef with Malbec sauce and Andean potatoes
- Flan with dulce de leche
- Welcome drink, white wine, and red wine
- After lunch at the cooking school, transfer back to the hotel. You have free time to explore the city on your own.
- Tonight, you will attend dinner and a tango show at Rojo Tango, located inside your hotel.
- Tango remains one of Argentina’s defining art forms, and Rojo Tango brings together dancers, singers, and musicians in an intimate cabaret setting inspired by early 20th-century tango clubs. The evening combines music, movement, dinner, wine, and theatrical atmosphere.
- Overnight.
Day Three: Buenos Aires
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Today includes a private half-day tour of Buenos Aires’ northern districts, with transfers from and to the hotel. Your guide will take you through Retiro, Recoleta, and Palermo, where broad avenues, parks, embassies, mansions, designer shops, and restaurants reflect the city’s reputation as the “Paris of South America.”
- During the city tour, you will stop at a traditional heladería to taste Argentine ice cream.
- Afterward, you will transfer to a private cooking workshop with Chef Paula Comparatore in a fully equipped teaching kitchen. The class focuses on mate, Argentine customs, and classic sweets.
- This class lasts about an hour and a half. You will practice cebado techniques and tereré while preparing classic Argentine sweets such as pastelitos, vigilantes, flan, and alfajores.
- After your class, transfer back to the hotel, with free time to explore on your own.
- You may add an optional hands-on asado cooking class this evening from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (price quoted on request). You will visit the chef’s family home and cook outdoors, following the traditional Argentine method. This class focuses on one of the country’s signature culinary traditions. An asado lunch is included on Day 4, but that meal does not include hands-on cooking.
- You may also spend the evening at leisure and dine at one of Buenos Aires’ many restaurants.
- Overnight.
Day Four - Buenos Aires
- Breakfast at the hotel and check out.
- Meet in the lobby and depart for a full-day excursion to the Pampas at Estancia La Bandada.
- Argentina’s pampas are wide grasslands that stretch across the countryside. La Bandada is a 19th-century colonial-style house located in the heart of the pampas, surrounded by trees and local wildlife. Behind the property are open pastures, lagoons, birds, capybaras, and coypus.
- Upon arrival, visitors are welcomed with empanadas and drinks, with a choice of wine, soft drinks, or lemonade. For lunch, your hosts will prepare a traditional asado with different types of meat, vegetables, and salads.
- While the barbecue is being cooked, there’s time to go for a walk or horseback ride around the ranch.
- In the afternoon, you can watch traditional activities or ride like a gaucho.
- The visit will end with an afternoon snack of coffee, tea, and mate, with local pastries.
- Transfer to the airport for an evening flight home. (Or, an additional hotel night can be organized on request.)
Buenos Aires Foodie Experience Trip Details
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Buenos Aires - 6 Night Trip
Accommodations6 Nights accommodations in 5* hotels
Food & Beverages- Daily Breakfast
- 3 lunches
- 3 dinners
- Optional asado dinner class day 3 can be added on request
Classes & InstructorsCriolla Cooking & Wine is a unique space for travelers and foodies to share and discover Argentine cooking traditions. In this group setting, guests work with the best local ingredients, and receive a step-by-step walk-through by our chef, taste local wines, and enjoy the meal together. They will make empanadas from scratch, chipa buns, a meat dish, and a dulce de leche dessert.
You will also take part in private cooking classes with Chef Paula Comparatore. Paula is a premier gastronomic advisor with an extensive resume that includes crafting bespoke menus and proposals for a variety of clients all over the world. She teaches her classes in the basement of the Montecarlo in Palermo. The Montecarlo was remodeled in 2021 and is equipped with a state-of-the-art teaching kitchen.
Optional 3rd cooking class: you can participate in a special asado cooking experience, in which you will cook beef over an open fire using only traditional methods. You will also learn to make the traditional accompaniments to an asado meal, including chimichurri sauce. This class takes place in Buenos Aires’ Belgrano R neighborhood, where you will be welcomed into the chef’s own accommodations. You will learn the rituals that take place around the fire and taste the pride of Argentine gastronomy.
Excursions- Half-day Walking Tour of Buenos Aires Southern Districts
- Half-day Walking Tour of Buenos Aires Northern Districts
- District of Palermo Food Tour
- Rojo Tango Experience
- Full Day Excursion to the Pampas
- Full Day Excursion to Iguazu Falls in Argentina
- Full Day Excursion to Iguazu Falls in Brazil.
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2 Cooking Classes (3rd quoted on request)
Transfer Details- Private arrival transfer from Buenos Aires airport to your hotel
- Private transfer to and from the Cataratas del Iguazú International Airport (for those doing the extended 6-night version of the tour)
- Private transfer from the airport for the flight connection to Iguazú Falls, when applicable
Miscellaneous- Sales Tax
Not Included
- Flights to and from Buenos Aires (AEP) to Puerto Iguazú (IGR) (estimate around $135-$180 per person, each way)
- Extra nights in Buenos Aires, if requested
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Included in the 3-Night Argentina Cooking Vacation
Accommodations3 Nights accommodation at a 5* hotel.
Food & Beverages- Daily Breakfast
- 3 lunches
- 2 dinners
- Optional asado dinner class day 3 can be added on request
Classes & InstructorsCriolla Cooking & Wine offers a hands-on introduction to Argentine cooking traditions. In a small-group setting, guests work with local ingredients, prepare empanadas from scratch, make chipa buns, cook a meat dish, taste local wines, and finish with a dulce de leche dessert.
You will also take part in private cooking classes with Chef Paula Comparatore. Paula is a gastronomic advisor with experience creating bespoke menus and culinary proposals for clients around the world. Her classes take place at Montecarlo in Palermo, which was remodeled in 2021 and includes a state-of-the-art teaching kitchen.
Optional 3rd cooking class: you may add a special asado cooking experience focused on open-fire beef and traditional accompaniments, including chimichurri. The class takes place in Buenos Aires’ Belgrano R neighborhood at the chef’s home and introduces the rituals around Argentina’s most famous meal.
Excursions- Half-day Walking Tour of Buenos Aires Southern Districts
- Half-day Walking Tour of Buenos Aires Northern Districts
- District of Palermo Food Tour
- Rojo Tango Experience
- Full Day Excursion to the Pampas
- 2 Cooking Classes (3rd quoted on request)
Transfer Details- Private arrival transfer from Buenos Aires airport to your hotel
- Private transfer to and from the Cataratas del Iguazú International Airport (for those doing the extended 6-night version of the tour)
- Private transfer from the airport for the flight connection to Iguazú Falls, when applicable
Miscellaneous- Sales Tax
Not Included
- Flights to and from Buenos Aires (AEP) to Puerto Iguazú (IGR) (estimate around $135-$180 per person, each way)
- Extra nights in Buenos Aires, if requested
Accommodation Information
5* Faena Hotel
Buenos Aires: In the heart of Puerto Madero, Hotel Faena is a colorful, eclectic luxury hotel that has been voted one of the top five hotels in Argentina by Condé Nast readers. Its dramatic interiors, lavish rooms and suites, dining spaces, spa, and cultural atmosphere make it a strong base for a luxury Buenos Aires food tour.
Pool bar at the hotel.
Faena Hotel
Pool and bar area at Hotel Faena
Library lounge in your hotel.
Fabulous restaurant inside the hotel
Spa at the Hotel Faena
Tango performance
El Cabaret Club
Singer performing during Tango experience.
Venue for the Tango performance.
Your hotel room in Buenos Aires.
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5* Gran Melia Iguazú – (Extended 6-night version of tour)
Puerto Iguazú: Located inside Iguazú National Park, Gran Meliá Iguazú offers privileged views of the falls and the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest. Guests can see the Iguazú and Paraná rivers from select rooms and suites, the infinity pool, and the hotel restaurants. The setting places travelers close to one of South America’s most memorable natural landmarks.
Optional Upgrade: RedLevel luxury service includes access to reserved spaces with views of the falls, personalized attention, and upgraded in-room amenities.
Dine on your balcony in Iguazu
Amaro Bar at Gran Melia Hotel
Merkado terrace at the Gran Melia Hotel.
Enjoy a drink or snack at the Merkado bar.
Bathroom in your deluxe room
Your deluxe room in Iguazu.
Pool at the hotel
Pool from above
Gran Melia Hotel
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Buenos Aires Food Tour Pricing and Tour Dates
Find pricing and dates for this Buenos Aires food tour and Argentina culinary vacation below. Contact us to confirm availability or customize your trip.
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6-Night Buenos Aires and Iguazú Falls Sample* Pricing
(excludes holiday periods)See moreUS$5355 per person based on double occupancy
- Add US$270 per person to upgrade to Iguazú RedLevel luxury
*Sample pricing for 2 people, but pricing can vary by specific dates.
Special pricing for 4 or more people: please inquire
30% deposit due to confirm booking.
Balance payment due 60 days prior to tour start date. Questions? Please contact us!
Single supplement: please inquire
Additional night in Buenos Aires quoted on request.
2026 6-Night Buenos Aires Food Tour Dates
See moreThe Buenos Aires food tour with Iguazú Falls is available year-round on request for 2+ people.
2026
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3-night Buenos Aires Food Tour Sample* Pricing
(excludes holiday periods)See moreUS$3565 per person based on double occupancy
*Sample pricing for 2 people, but pricing can vary by specific dates.
Special pricing for 4 or more people: please inquire
30% deposit due to confirm booking.
Balance payment due 60 days prior to tour start date. Questions? Please contact us!
Single supplement: please inquire
Pricing for 4+ people: $3025 per person
2026 3-Night Buenos Aires Food and Wine Tour Dates
See moreThe 3-night Buenos Aires food tour is available year-round on request for 2+ people.
2026-2027
Please inquire for available dates.
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