Local ethnic restaurants offer a genuinely great choice of meat dishes. One of the most popular treats among foreign guests of the city is still the cazuela de pollo which is a rich thick soup with chicken, rice and potato, being richly added with various spices and flavoring herbs. Those tourists wishing to learn the peculiarities of ethnic cuisine better should pay a visit to one of the provincial restaurants. Tourists will find numerous eating establishments of the kind in the suburbs of the city.
A popular meat dish is the lomo a la pobre which is made of beef. A big slab of meat is roasted and before serving the meat is added with two eggs giving the dish an original and appetizing look. In addition to the meat treat a great sizing of fried potatoes is offered. Tourists used to traditional European dishes will find local cuisine rather original and piquant.
The Curanto soup is one of those original ethnic treats which are preferred by locals and foreign guests. It can be stated beyond a shadow of a doubt that every chef has a special recipe of this ethnic treat. A thick chicken broth is in the heart of the dish which can be added with various sorts of meat, fish and shellfish. Tourists will discover numerous food stalls and summer cafes scattered all over the city and being its peculiar feature. A speciality treat of these small eating establishments is small pies named empanadas.
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