La Conga — Restaurant in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

Fresh seafood and huge portions

Important info: 1) come early. We came around 19:30 and we were able to sit immediately. But when we left the waiting line was as long as the quadra. 2) portions were big, check out the other tables before ordering. 3) spice things are spicy!

Food: we took a shared plate of ceviche, rice, shrimp and calamari - it was amazing. Very fresh seafood, very nice breading, not oily. Lots of sauces based on mayo, but some lemony stuff as well. The other dish - meat/chicken/seafood mix was dry and boring, but with fresh cilantro rice. Inca cola is a blessing (like Georgian vanilla lemonade), local lemonade is nice as well - a bit sweet, very delicate.

Service: rather quick, helped us to pick dishes, packed all leftovers - all good.

Atmosphere: a lot of people, feels like a canteen. So maybe not for the first date or anniversary, but great for the family outing.

Overall I recommend it, really tasty, everything else is not important. The dish in the picture was about 54k (fed 3 grown ups and half of it we took home, a great deal), inca cola...

I love places like this and have been happy to visit in different parts of the world: big, noisy, without any special interior, with lots of locals. the food is amazing and everything works here like in a factory: fast, simple, clear and plentiful. I have visited Peruvian restaurants in CABA many times, but i always felt that it was something wrong: expensive, with too much pathos, without soul. La Conga is the absolute opposite and finally made me realize what Peruvian cuisine is all about. aug 2024 - 50k pesos for 2 pisco sours and 2 dishes and I will finish my portion for 2 more days. everyone talks about it, but the portions are gigantic, in other places for twice the price I got twice less food, really

the only remark is that my wife got a piece of iron sponge in the fish, which was probably used either to clean the scales of the fish or to wash the plates, but you know..... in a Michelin restaurant I'd make a big scandal, but here you just spit it out and...

I went there specifically for seafood, as I love seafood. I got picante de mariscos, a dish highly recommended. It was mostly rice and sauce with very little seafood, and the little seafood there was was small and flavorless, the type you get in those cheap mixed frozen seafood bags sold at grocery stores. It seemed to be of bad quality, too. The sauce was good, but it was just sauce and rice with little, small and poor quality seafood with zero flavor. The dish was 7200 for two, so 3600 per person. I wouldn’t pay that amount for white rice and sauce. I can’t comment on conga for other dishes either, but I wouldn’t be going there for seafood if you’re a seafood lover. I’d rather pay more for real seafood. I...