Ristorante Maria Fedele — Restaurant in Autonomous City of Buenos Aires

A FOODIE’S MOST SURPRISINGLY DELECTABLE ITALIAN HOME-DINING in Buenos Aires🤩🤩🤩. Truly authentic Italian home cooking, one savors the old country in a very simple but most bountiful 4-course dinner.

The restaurant has the ambience of a rustic eatery in an piazza in Central or Southern Italy. Somehow this place reminds me of Napoli.

The place celebrates the matriarch of this place, Maria Fedele.👏👏👏

🤩🤩🤩 The most astounding is the Antipasti. It’s a spread of 11 dishes, hot and cold.

• The gem of the Antipasti is the Burrata: seemingly hard crust but cuts into a very creamy interior… WOW.

• The Prosciutto is notably lean.

• The sausage is particularly Italian.

• The two eggplant (aubergine) plates are outstanding. … WOW

One is the simple fried version in olive oil, served cold. This is very Roman.

The other is baked half aubergine, topped with cheese and tomato, served piping hot.

• The most surprising is the creamed Brussels sprouts. The cream sauce gives a different savory dimension of the sprouts.

• The simplest but most delicate one is the pan of eggs fry-baked in olive oil with basil and oregano… WOW

🤩🤩🤩 The Primi is a duo of pasta: Ravioli Pomodoro and Gnocchi.

• I’ve become a fun of Gnocchi 👏👏👏. This one is particularly spongy and flavorful. The meat sauce lifts up the Gnocchi… WOW

🤩🤩🤩 The Secondi is Roast Pork: so very tender cut of loin, likely from a suckling pig. It is so tender with the texture of a Cochon d’le (milk fed suckling pig). It’s served with a very light creàm sauce that just lift up the flavor of the pork.

🤗 The Dolci Trio is surprisingly light.

☕️☕️☕️ The coffee (fresh brewed) Lavazza comes with gelato (perfectly cream gelato.

Pouring some of coffee into the gelato… VOILA it’s Affogato….🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

👍👍👍 The one thing that one gets to pick is the bottle of vino. It’s a short list of Argentinian wines, quite unfamiliar to us….

BUT the Sottano Reserva Malbec turned out a great choice. It’s light tannin yet bold, complementing the whole meal.

SERVICE IS OUTSTANDING.

Lightening up the dining mood is a bandoneón player who came out with familiar Italian melodies. It’s a short stint of about 5 minutes on 2 instances during the dining...

Wow. Wow. Wow. This is a hidden gem (emphasis on hidden). It's a bit tricky to find but if you manage to get a reservation you will be blown away.

The space is intimate and has a special ambiance. It's comfortable and inviting.

The staff are lovely and attentive. It's truly excellent service.

The food is phenomenal. The 4 course fixed price menu is unbelievable. They brought a scary amount of antipasto, two amazing pasta dishes, a delicious meat and salad course and then a sampling of desserts that were all very good.

If you love rustic, authentic Italian food, this is the place for you.

Special mention goes to the accordion player who comes in every 30 minutes or so to play some classics and energize the room. He...

Es un no rotundo. El precio es absurdamente alto para la calidad que ofrecen (gastamos 88 mil pesos -unos 75 dólares al cambio blue de hoy- sin contar el vino y en efectivo!). Si te dejás guiar por las fotos te tienda, pero lo que no sale en la foto es la pésima cocina que tienen. Es una mezcla de: la comida fea que encima te llega fría a la mesa en un evento social, el catering malo y plástico que te sirven en un avión, los alimentos insípidos de comida de hospital y un come-libre chino de mala calidad de los 90's. Una pena, porque podrían hacer algo excelente por el mismo precio. Inolvidable es, porque la mala experiencia que tuvimos no nos la saca nadie. Antipasto: te traen plato de fiambres (mortadela bien, jamón crudo maso, chorizo colorado bien y longaniza bien), plato de quesos (azul zafa, pategras plástico o similar, fontina insípido o similar, aceitunas negras normales), burrata (pésima, dura, plástica por fuera, parece mendicrim por dentro, con intento de pesto sin gusto, rúcula quemada de frío y tomate fresco sin gusto), berenjena mal grillada sin gusto, chorizo a la pomarola (insípidos y con salsa sin sabor), ajíes amarillos asados sin sabor, berenjena a la parmesana (nada destacable), el verde amargo cumple la función de cortar sabores, al comerlo se te arruga la nuca. Creo que no me olvido nada (ah, el paté que te traen con el pan es una gelatina con dejo a vísceras). Pastas: las rellenas zafaron pero la salsa de tomate era insípida y el plato estaba frío, la pasta seca era incomible y fría, el fondo de cocción que simulaba ser salsa bolognesa era un asco, parecía tomar un caldo hecho con agua sucia. Principal: nos trajeron un intento de "risotto" con carne, el arroz parecía comer un quaker o trigo burgol sin gusto, la carne era como comer cartón, tenía el mismo fondo de cocción que la pasta seca. Incomible. Postre: tiramisú nada destacable, budín de mandarina bien, profiterol malo. Café: no tomamos el que incluye el menú que al parecer es filtrado, pedimos expreso, rico pero se zarpan con el precio (volvimos recientemente de europa, un expreso te sale 1 euro, solo en Argentina pagas $4000 un café). El ambiente: es lo más lindo, tipo...