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- 4
- A wide variety of vegan burgers
I went a lot of times during my second visit to Buenos Aires; unfortunately, I didn't know about it during my first, when it had recently opened. I just had the burgers and similar each time as the lunch buffet is by weight and that usually works out as pretty expensive. I enjoyed all of the things I had, especially some of them such as the Doble Konu burger. One bizarre thing with that and one or two other options is that they serve them in bagels rather than in normal buns, which I wish they wouldn't as the mayonnaise (which I don't like anyway but kept forgetting to cancel) seeps through messily. Every evening they have a two-for-a-bit-less-than-double offer. It's obviously better for two people eating together but I sometimes chose it and took one of them away to eat later: heating them up in the microwave worked pretty well. A strange and initially bewildering feature is that it doesn't say 'vegan(o)' anywhere at all prominent, so when I saw 'bacon' in the menu with no explanation I felt paranoid and just chose an obviously safe option. I asked the waiter the next time and he said it was all vegan; when I pointed out that the menu just announced things like 'bacon' he brought me an English menu instead, which was irritating because the language wasn't the problem but rather the restaurant not being explicit about its vegan status or bothering to explain what it meant by using types of meat in the names of its options. In general, the two main waiting staff were a bit disinterested and unhelpful, for example even though I was a foreigner speaking to me extremely fast or from a distance across a noisy space. However, the woman at the take-away/payment counter with copper hair was always very friendly and nice. The restaurant has an annoying habit of closing half the tables for the last hour or two, but for reasons best known to themselves they close the nicer half and make everyone sit next to the toilets, the unsightly metal lunch-buffet counter and the window onto the equally unattractive street. They don't take MasterCard, which is annoying since it costs almost 100 pesos to withdraw cash. Despite these various downsides I really did enjoy the chance to have so much vegan 'junk' food (but of course with the added advantage that vegan options can't usually be too unhealthy). Updated from previous review on 2016-12-22