Note: I bought a pension coupon from the hostel I'm staying at in order to eat here. So the menu options were limited.

I ordered a suprema napolitana which is milanesa (breaded and fried chicken cutlet), traditionally with mozzarella and tomato sauce on top, with fries. I was happy to discover that the coupon did allow me to have a Quimes with my meal. Beer or water, that's all I drink with a meal. I don't drink flavored sugar water and neither should you.

Anyway. The entrada was a very good carne empanada, fried. It was piping hot and fresh with a tender, flaky crust. Just about perfect for this type of empanada.

The milanesa was on the smallish side, but decent enough. The cheese on top was not mozzarella but rather two of those fake, rubbery, stretchy cheese slices that cheap restaurants are putting on everything now in place of actual cheese, now that inflation has made cheese more expensive per kilo than the best steak you can buy. I hate this kind of cheese. It's tasteless, it's not even very salty, it does not melt really so it has no business on a milanesa or anything else really. I would have rather have had nothing than this cheese. I would rather have had "cheddar." There were two stingy dollops of OK very thin tomato sauce on top which added very little in terms of flavor to the milanesa.

The fries were actually pretty good and there were a lot of them. I often complain about how bad the fries are in Argentina (often soggy and greasy and limp) but these were as close to good, fresh McDonald's fries as I've had anywhere.

The menu included a desert and I ordered dulce de leche ice cream. What I got a few minutes later was not dulce de leche. I don't know what flavor it was honestly. I ate all of it but mostly because it was cold and sweet. Even while eating through it I still had no idea what flavor it was. It had an old sort of old fat, like fiambre fat, mixed with nuts flavor that went away quickly and was replaced by something chalky that maybe resembled artificial chocolate? The weirdest ice cream I've ever eaten and verging on unpleasant. It was a bit frosty, too, which meant it had melted a little and then frozen again.

My server was a pleasant, friendly, and conversational young woman and it's her, the empanada, and the fries (and the beer generosity) that prevent me from rating Gran Chopp only two stars. I wouldn't go out of my way to eat here although they have very good food deals for happy hour including half-off hamburgers. With their good fries, that's a tempting offer.