Sagardi Argentina

Looking for a cool place to hang out and have a drink? This is the spot. We had tapas and some drinks late one night. It was the perfect night cap. We regret leaving earlier, we both say we should've stayed there the whole night and kept eating and drinking lol.

Good tapas. Much, much better tapas in late afternoon after the crowds settled down. Service was also very good. Came by with plate offerings of tapas. Can also order from the dinning room menu. They also had my favorite calamaries fritos.

Love the setting, self serve tapas. You get what you want and then pay by the number of toothpicks left in your plate.
The bar is beautiful and service is great.

Hubs and I were walking through the big Sunday flea market around Plaza Dorrego and this place caught our eye, with these amazing looking tapas dishes we saw on people's plates. We decided to give it a try and were so glad that we did! The front part of the restaurant is a first come, first served section where you observe and serve yourself your own tapas selection from all the various choices at the counter. The back part of the restaurant had the traditional table service. From what I could see, the tapas section was by far the most popular. Each piece has a toothpick in it, and at the end of your meal, you're charged 60 pesos for each toothpick. I'll let my pics speak for themselves, but if you're in the area and need a Basque tapas fix, you have got to do yourself a favor and check this place out. Simply fantastic!!

Argentina is [in]famously the most European country in South America. This happens when its people are 60% Italian, 10% Basque, and the remainder "assorted European" ... and when it's undergone a wholesale eradication of indigenous populations!

One of the more minor implications of the above is that eating Basque tapas ("pintxos," named for the toothpick skewering each item atop a slice of bread) in Buenos Aires is not very strange at all.

Sagardi counts as a "nicer" restaurant, especially set on a quiet street against this historic, grungy neighborhood. The cavernous interior is all straight lines and smooth wood tones. The most visible feature is exactly what it should be: a very long bar with plates upon plates of neatly arranged pintxos. Grab yourself a clean plate and choose whatever, refill whenever. When it's time for the check, the number of toothpicks on your plate will be counted up.

As a concept, pintxos are more of a before-dinner nibble than a true meal... but we definitely made a meal of it here. On a quiet Sunday at 11pm, around 15 varieties of pintxo were set out (for a larger variety, come earlier!): several with whitefish or smoked salmon (typical for the pro-seafood Basque palate), and some Spanish ones like tortilla, croqueta, and jamon. My favorites were sundried tomato topped with brie, and one that involved a giant orb of mascarpone covered in fresh berry jam. Delicious.

From 6-8pm Mondays - Fridays, they run an "after work" deal where 2 pintxos + 2 glasses of wine are a reasonable 100 pesos. Every other time, each pintxo is 20 pesos. And any glass of wine, regardless of the bottle price, is 50 pesos! The wine list is long and 50 pesos is a decent deal, so skip the bottle and try out whatever you can. Looks like their house brand is Uco.

Worth a visit? Absolutely - the pinxtos here were delicious and just plain fun. And it's a Basque spot, but still feels wholly Argentinean.

My spouse loves tapas, so that kind of make me a tapas lover too, BUT, I would love Sagardi even if I was not married. They offer a hip smorgasbord of about 25 different single serving cold plates. Every 15 minutes or so the chef prepares a hot dish and offers a plate with no pressure to accept. The garcon generates a bill based on the number of skewers we possessed when we were finished - along with the two bottles of superb Argentinian wine we gulped down.. Each skewer is $1.69, US$. The restaurant actually trusted that We would not rip them off., and of course my wife made sure we didn't. :)

Maybe the best non steak meal I ate in Argentina.
There are two portions to the restaurant a front area with some communal tables and self serve Tapas "pinchos", as well as some hot Pinchos they bring around. You pay by the toothpick in the front area and when I was there they were 40 pesos per toothpick and 6-10 is a meal for 1 person. You can also order off the menu in the front area but I didn't try it. The back area is menu only. They have a house bottle of Malbec for ~210 pesos, as well as a selection of other white and red wines at a range of price points. The staff was kind, polite, and spoke English, Spanish, maybe some other languages. Restaurant looks nice but people were dressed in jeans and tee shirts. In the front area I was eating by myself on one side of me was a family of 3 the other a group of 6, seemed to work for all sizes.

Excellent food and atmosphere. Been here several times and always exceeds expectations

Amazibg Tapas with a gourmet touch and amazing inhouse wine ( I recommend the 2012 Uco Malbec)

Great tapas and great wine and some of the best meat in Buenos Aires! Try the Txuleton and you will not be disappointed!