Restaurante y Parrilla Don Joel — Restaurant in El Chaltén

Totally underrated place! This place is connected to a hostel. Chanced upon the restaurant and saw the attractive happy hr menu which I didn't try. I had initially planned to come here to habe the napolitan chicken dish. Asked the server for any promotional dishes and there was the guanaco or lamb stew with red wine for ARS23000. What a deal! As I've never had guanaco before, this was the perfect opportunity to try. I was worried it would be gamey but it tasted like beef. I wouldn't have known if I was told it was guanaco. I'm no wine connoisseur but it was fine and went very well with the stew. It was a hearty meal and as usual, the bread that comes before the main is always so good almost everywhere. The restaurant wasnt crowded at all which was good and there was no waiting time when visited at 730pm on a weekday. This is away from the main street maybe...

They have a wide variety of dinner options here, which might be a red flag to a lot of people, but I was very happy with the chicken and veggies option I ordered. I have actually never had veggies that good from a restaurant before. The chicken was very nice too. The empanadas weren’t anything special to me but that might just be preference. The restaurant portion was actually completely empty when we walked in. It had me nervous, but again, I was pretty happy with the choice, so I definitely recommend here if the place you were eyeing was full. Nice atmosphere on the inside, and the staff was a bit quiet but very friendly and...

Entramos y había a lo sumo 3 mesas ocupadas, a partir de ahí tardaron mínimamente 10 minutos en atendernos. Luego de tomarnos el pedido milanesa a caballo con fritas y un plato de capeleti con salsa de pollo), llegaron más personas a ocupar dos mesas. Cuando le pedí el wifi, me lo paso pero no andaba (según la mesera estaba "colapsada la red" aunque había 10 personas como mucho en el lugar). Mientras esperábamos nuestros platos, fueron sirviéndole a la gente que había llegado después de nosotros y al mismo tiempo nos dieron UN PAN para ir picando. Luego de por lo menos 30 minutos desde que llegamos, nos sirvieron la comida. La milanesa estaba súper condimentada con comino. Los capeleti llegaron con una salsa equivocada que era roja. Como creímos que era filetto, mi novia le quiso poner onda y la aceptó igual. Al tercer capeleti que comió, notó que la salsa estaba muy picante y empezó a darle mucha picazón en la garganta. Le pidió que lo cambie por una salsa de crema. La mesera siempre fue amable y ofreció disculpas en todo momento, prometió resolverlo. Pero lamentablemente pasaron otros 20 o 25 para entregar el plato que adeudaban. Al final mi novia se conformó con las papas fritas mías y nos terminamos yendo. Horrible experiencia.. PD: los capeleti eran de esos que compras en el...