Restaurante Ahonikenk Chalten Fonda Patagonia — Restaurant in El Chaltén

The "Ahonikenk" (Restaurante Ahonikenk Chalten Fonda Patagonia) restaurant is owned by the same owner of Don Guerra, but this is cheaper and with a more comfort-food menu. The foods and ambiance are more rustic, the later being decorated with photos of mountaineering and shirts of football teams. It is located right next to the city entrance so it has easy access, and the dishes have big portions, ideal if you are hungry or want to share.

The service was good and friendly. The menu has lots of options, between meats, soups, pizzas, pastas, regional dishes and desserts. We have been also there in the past and the food still is good, satisfying with the portions, and ideal after trekking all day in the cold. We visited it last year in Spring, and the quality was the same. We had as a free starter bread and lentil vinaigrette and we ordered a Schnitzel with French Fries, a Lentils with Red Sausage Stew, 2 Cokes, and a Brownie with Dulce de Lette and Ice Cream, being the bill with the 10% service tax added of 940ARS in total, that was around 20US$ at the time.

It is a good place to eat if you need a more rustic (casual), but tasty comfort food, with an excellent cost-benefit especially for those who are in a budget and want...

Place has breathtaking climate of expedition and adventure. Service is very friendly and speaks English very well. However If you order pizza I must warn you Thing they serve and dare to call it „pizza” is a disgrace to fine Italian cuisine. If you are Italian - avoid at all cost or enter with at least a baseball bat, trekking sticks will do the work. I eat pizza for most of my life, I tried good ones and bad ones. This one is the one that stands out. I have never tried worst. It was like a frozen pizza from marketplace made in microwave and soaked in palm oil. You have been warned.

And olives! Can you imagine putting whole olives on pizza?! Yes, whole olives with stone inside. And they did it as well.

Strange thing, they...

Cool spot, wine bottles are reasonably priced (9-14k for most of them as of March 2024) and the milanesas are definitely huge as per their reputation -- easily splittable between 2 people. However the milanesas really lacked flavour / seasoning, the fries were really very soggy (covered in oil too). The pizza was a good size and nicely split in too. All other dishes are reportedly much smaller. The fact that this restaurant doesn't offer tap water (unlike everywhere else in El Chalten) is very strange and feels like they do it to force you to buy drinks. Service was nice as well and atmosphere is good! Just needed more flavour and texture from the milanesas and fries, and...