Banchero — Restaurant in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

We knew we had to try the fugazzeta, that was a given. Of the selection of other pies on the counter (there’s also a whole menu of them to order at the table, but we wanted to grab, stand, eat, and go), we left it up to the counterman to pick. He proceeded to carefully explain each one in as simplistic terms as possible – I think he thought that our Spanish was too rudimentary to understand. We even got to him explaining the pizza with tomato sauce and those little grey-brown strips were “little fish”, something we might not have encountered on a pizza before, because “it’s unique to Argentina”. Sometimes I just shake my head at the provincialism of people who aren’t well traveled, what can I say. When I said, anchoas, anchovies, he looked shocked that I knew what they were. In the end, he selected a tomato slice as his favorite, topped with provencal, or garlic and parsley. The pizza slice, okay, nothing special. The dough was decent, average, maybe a bit too thick for our tastes, and despite being a tomato slice, no tomato sauce on it. None. Just cheese and sliced tomatoes and the provencal. The fugazzeta, honestly, was disappointing. The cheese in it had a weird, chalky, grainy texture, almost like they use some ricotta or something similar and had over-baked it. And the onions taken too far, into the territory of...

We were headed to Boca to see Fabrica Colon and check out the neighborhood. Pizza and empanadas are two of my favorite foods, so we thought to give Banchero a try for lunch. Good call. Our server was super tolerant of my lousy Spanish, which is very helpful.

We ordered the ham and red pepper pizza, not quite prepared for it to be literally covered. No crust visible. But the crust is not the star here. The crust is 25%, cheese is 30%, and the toppings take the rest.

My wife was not so enamored of it; she likes her pizza to be 'drier'. A 'chicas' size was fine for the two of us but we did also have an empanada to get started.

Excellent. Possibly the best empanada we've had (I went with pollo to sample) and we've eaten empanadas is...

El restaurante está ambientado bien. Fui con los compañeros del laburo de almuerzo. Primero el menú además de pizza hay sus carnes y mariscos en caso de no querer comer pizza.

Pedimos una fugazzetta rellena con jamón y morrón. No estaba mala pero tampoco me dejó un impacto, para mí gusto le faltaba sal y no estaba tan rellena como en otras pizzería de renombre. Y me percate que el relleno está muy lejos del borde de la pizza. Y repito a mí gusto hubiese preferido un poco más de relleno. Le daría un 7/10

Además pedimos una pizza napolitana ( salsa tomate, rodajas de tomate, ajo, muzza). Esta me gustó más en sabor pero igual le faltó sal para mi gusto. Le doy un 7.5/10

Ahora en ambos casos la masa es esponjosa y suave.

La atención de los mozos me pareció muy bien. Y atentos y bueno capaz por la hora no había gente así que todo salió relativamente rápido.

Los precio de las pizza de la grande rondaban en 3000 a 4000 y de la chica en 2400 aprox.

Gastamos entre 6 personas ( 1 gaseosa p/ persona) 13.600$

Es decir alrededor de 2270$ por persona + propina.

Yo en particular no creo que volveria. Pero no es malo el lugar y más si eres fanático del club de fútbol boca porque está relativamente cerca...