Argentine Cuisine on A Budget (photos!)
Argentine Cuisine on A Budget (photos!)
If you love Argentine food, and your bank account looks like….well….mine, you should love this little restaurant my friend Dave and I found this afternoon!
Called Cafe Charlotte, it?s located at 1497 Washington Avenue, right across the street from Kafka?s newsstand, about a block north of the Clay Hotel. It looks rather unpretentious from the outside, so you might be tempted to pass it by for pricer places up the street, but the cuisine here is just as good?if not better?than those other spots where you could easily spend three times as much on the bill! They specialize in Argentine and Venezuelan cuisine, offering entrees for just $7.95?same prices for lunch and dinner! Their hours are 12 noon through 11 pm.
I had the entraña (skirt steak), cooked medium rare, with a side of salad. The steak was very well seasoned and tender, and comes with two sumptuous ?chimichurri? sauces, made with garlic, olive oil, cilantro, sauteed onions, and various spices. The salad was a zesty collection of mixed greens.
My friend Dave had the milanesa de carne, a breaded steak topped with ham and melted mozarella cheese, with a side of french fries, also $7.95.
Other items on the menu include the Milanesa Napolitana (a breaded beef steak, topped with homemade tomato sauce, ham and mozarella cheese), Tilapia fish with (homemade) lime sauce, Pollo con champignones (a flat top chicken breast topped with mushrooms), Lemon chicken, and Pabellon, a Venezuelan specialty consisting of black beans, rice, sweet plantains, shredded beef, and fried egg. All the entrees are no higher than $7.95!!
The walls are bedecked with photos of all things Argentine, and there are two large windows facing Washington Avenue in the front, which provide an ideal vantage point for people watching, while you?re sipping a nice glass of Mendoza cabernet for only $3.95, or $14.95 by the bottle.
We?ve only lived here for two weeks, but this place will no doubt become one of our regular hangouts!
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