Casimiro Biguá — Restaurant in El Calafate

I’ve heard ravings about the lamb grill and was so excited to finally try some awesome Argentinian asado. We ordered the grilled meat for 4, which is supposed to include the lamb.

We had a server who was very brusque, and the most unfriendly server I’ve had during the 8 day trip in Argentina so far. When he brought the meat out, he didn’t give us any explanation as to what meats they were, even though one of us spoke perfect Spanish. We didn’t think to ask, but as we continued eating, we realized we didn’t see any lamb meat. We asked the server and he said it was on top, so we must have eaten it already. But none of us remembered eating lamb (we can tell lamb and beef apart). I looked back to my photos and videos and asked another server which piece from the video was the lamb and he looked perplexed, then pointed to the beef on the bottom of the grill plate. Then promptly ran away. He did point out the lamb intestines, which were already knew. Anyway, as the video shows, we were pretty much cheated out on the lamb. After looking at other reviews photos, I can see we definitely didn’t. As for the rest of the grilled meats. The sweet bread was quite good, but everything else was bleh. We asked for medium, and the cuts on the bottom of the plate was completely well-well done, without any pink whatsoever.

Intestines 25.000 dish with intestines grilled perfectly.

Sausage Really good

Chicken Milanesa Very, very good. Fried breaded thin piece of chicken.

Fried papas - delicious

Paid water is actually not really bottled water, but tap water in refillable bottles.

So anyway, overall, left feeling cheated out - as tourists or something.

Malbec by the glass was 7,5,000 and not bad. Patagonia beer was good beer.

Oh, and I don’t know whether the server didn’t like me or something… but worth 6 of us in our table, with three sitting on each side. Hany and I were on the right side facing each other. Even though the meat platter was for 4, we also ordered intestines, a Milanesa, and sausage, more than enough for the six of us. For some reason, our server put ALL the meats between the four people sitting to our left (we were seated most to the right) and just gave me my salad in front of me. It was some weird table setting and quite...

I’m doing a national tour of Argentina. Currently in El Calafate, this restaurant was the least favorite - and the WORST. Nina’s (across the street) and Isabel (down the street) are both far superior options in every way possible. One thing I noticed is that in Casimiro, there’s a limited serving of drinks, both wine and beers. In Isabel you can literally go to a room dedicated to choosing wine. Nina’s has both dry and sweet wine; they also make cocktails and have an open bar diners can take advantage of.

For dinner I had an empanada as a starter, they served me ONE empanada. Nina’s serves 2. I also ordered the green salad. Very bland and not fully washed since I could taste the chemicals/bitterness. The meal was so bad I had to go across the street to Nina’s for dessert end the night out well before it could get any worse at Casimiro’s.

Also, beware they charge “Cubierto,” a charge imposed on there for using the platter. It’s appx. US $1 per person. I don’t know which restaurant does such a thing. Casimiro was such a disappointment and will NOT repeat it when I next come to...

I highly recommend going elsewhere!!! They charge you for cutlery without any note and no explanation except to say that everyone does it (yet nobody had in the 2 weeks we have spent in Argentina) they just sneak it on the bill. It is all extremely overpriced. They upcharge for everything and try to upsell you on everything. As two small women they tried to convince us to order a “special” two for one on their lamb, we insisted we just wanted one. Sure enough one was enough for 2 people with some left overs for the dogs roaming around. They charged 300 pesos per small bottle of water where we have never been charged more than 210 pesos at a restaurant before for water. They will push you to spend spend spend so i suggest to go elsewhere to be able to extend your money with better food. I it gets a 2 star because the food was good, it just wasnt special and wasnt worth spending more on then allll the other places you have to choose from. Still angry about the cutlery charges. DO NOT PAY THAT and ask them where it shows they will be...