Dinner in Buenos Aires

So we decided to go to a traditional Argentinian "Parrilla" for dinner, which I think means "grill". There are dozens of these around town so we just picked one as we walked by - it was just filling up (at 10pm) and looked like a nice place. There was a bunch of raw meat in the window and a huge grill just inside the restaurant.We could have just ordered a simple steak but decided to get the "Parrillada Para Dos" which sounded like a nice mixed grill for two. I imagined a nice plate of steak, chops, sausage and chicken. Well, a plate of grilled food definitely appeared, but much of it was a tad bit hard to identify. We started with a nice normal looking Chirzo sausage which was actually pretty good. Then, we dug into the beef ribs, cut horizontally like in a chinese restaurant. It was quite fatty and full of grissle but tastey none-the-less. Our dinner then turned into a game of "guess that organ" as our choices turned out to be some kind of gland (or possibly kidney or heart), Argentinian blood sausage (which didn't tast bad but had the consistency of meat jam), some long piece of meat, probably from a cow, with a quarter inch of fat on it, and some kind of flesh tube (tripe perhaps?) on which I passed, but Doug said tasted like calamari filled with liver flavored cheese. Yes, our nice dinner turned into an episode of Fear Factor, but we scavanged enough to fill up (we ate all the papas frites (french fries) and bread) and well, it did make for a memorable experience. I think tonight we'll go for the steak...

Until next time...
Ciao,
Dan