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El Mercado at Faena Hotel in Puerto Madero Dead - No tourists (Restaurant dead and ALL locals)

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El Mercado at Faena Hotel in Puerto Madero Dead - No tourists and all locals. Usually when you come here on a Friday night there are a lot of foreign tourists here eating or at the hotel. Last night I did not see one foreigner listening to them talking. All locals. Tourism is very slow now.

Yesterday I ate so much beef. I thought I had to tap out on beef but El Mercado at the Faena Hotel does a great Bife de Chorizo and has great mollejas.

I was really tired from running non-stop since I landed a few days ago but my Whatsapp always blows up with friends that want to meet up while I am in town. There are never enough hours/days to see all of them.

(So I apologize to those of you that wanted to meet up this trip and just impossible).

I met with another architect friend of mine. Many know that I had the 20 year dream to build my own 5-star boutique apartment hotel. I have been looking for the perfect spot of land and may have found it.

So hopefully working on that project over the next year. I wanted to get some design inspiration as I still remember the first time I walked into the Faena Hotel and feeling the hip and cool feeling.
I ate at their restaurant, El Mercado last night with my friend. We weren't too hungry but we grabbed a half a bottle of wine, water, lemonade, Mojellas, mixed salad and we shared a delicious Bife de Chorizo.

Man, the wine prices have really gone up in these nice places. Half a bottle of wine was 72,000.

220,500 pesos for dinner ($185 USD) + tip.

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El Mercado at Faena Hotel in Puerto Madero Dead - No tourists and all locals. Usually when you come here on a Friday night there are a lot of foreign tourists here eating or at the hotel. Last night I did not see one foreigner listening to them talking. All locals. Tourism is very slow now.

Yesterday I ate so much beef. I thought I had to tap out on beef but El Mercado at the Faena Hotel does a great Bife de Chorizo and has great mollejas.

I was really tired from running non-stop since I landed a few days ago but my Whatsapp always blows up with friends that want to meet up while I am in town. There are never enough hours/days to see all of them.

(So I apologize to those of you that wanted to meet up this trip and just impossible).

I met with another architect friend of mine. Many know that I had the 20 year dream to build my own 5-star boutique apartment hotel. I have been looking for the perfect spot of land and may have found it.

So hopefully working on that project over the next year. I wanted to get some design inspiration as I still remember the first time I walked into the Faena Hotel and feeling the hip and cool feeling.
I ate at their restaurant, El Mercado last night with my friend. We weren't too hungry but we grabbed a half a bottle of wine, water, lemonade, Mojellas, mixed salad and we shared a delicious Bife de Chorizo.

Man, the wine prices have really gone up in these nice places. Half a bottle of wine was 72,000.

220,500 pesos for dinner ($185 USD) + tip.

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You pay 72k pesos for half a bottle of wine??!!
 
Damn dude! 72,000 pesos for half a bottle of wine! Thiat's over $60 USD for HALF a bottle. And that steak is expensive too. These are American prices. What did you get for the cubierto? Did they even give you anything??? This is expensive!
 
Damn dude! 72,000 pesos for half a bottle of wine! Thiat's over $60 USD for HALF a bottle. And that steak is expensive too. These are American prices. What did you get for the cubierto? Did they even give you anything??? This is expensive!
Yes! I'm glad he didn't order an entire bottle. He asked me if I want some wine and I wasn't in the mood. Working insane schedule and had more meetings this morning. When I saw that price when I was paying I couldn't believe for half a bottle. The cubierto just had a piece of bread. LOL. Nothing special at all. Just one small piece of bread. Yes, some places, especially connected to posh hotels are not cheap.

But I always try to do some due diligence and check out traffic flow of 5 star hotels. So I can kill two birds with one stone. I'll try to go to Ponyline and the Four Seasons tonight.
 
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