all right guys so day one of our argentine breakfast challenge today we're gonna kick things
off with just an average local neighborhood coffee spot so it's just around the corner we go here all
the time when we're staying in the neighborhood of almagro it's a place where you get big cups
of coffee media lunas and it's just like your average spot like people who are stopping here are
on their way to work or maybe just coming to read the newspaper so yeah very classic local let's go
so
so we got two different styles of the classic breakfast
sam got the completo which i would call the greedy guts breakfast
and i went for more of a traditional cafe in media lunas and my favorite thing about this coffee shop
is the size of their coffee cups it's not every restaurant that gives you a coffee cup this
size this is almost like a mug they're just huge they're huge i feel like i'm getting two
coffee cups in one here oh and it's good coffee good way to start the morning and of course i
paired it with the media lunas which are kind of like croissants they're very buttery and doughy
fluffy it's almost like biting into a cloud and with these ones you can get the salty variety
which is made with lard or you can get the sweet variety which has a sugar glaze over top
yeah so you had the classic potagno breakfast which is the media lunas and the cafe
i am getting the tostado breakfast yeah and so this comes basically with
sliced toast then you also get fizzy soda water you get orange juice fresh squeezed by the way and
it also comes with these cookies come for both of us we basically get two each their cookies
with little jam in the middle with quince jam and then i've got a nice little dollop of cream
and then you also have peach jam and strawberry jam to go along with it and of course the giant
cup cafe con legend yes you know what like your dad said this before but it's so true
you're gonna get your best cup of coffee in all of argentina and buenos aires for sure
there's just such a high standard at the cafes agreed this is like italian coffee
and to come in such a large mug this is like exactly what i want because normally i have
two three cups of coffee in the morning when i'm at home so this is almost like two or three cups
of this giant mug yeah we could have chosen any neighborhood cafe but we wanted to come to this
one for today's breakfast because of the size of the cup and just to show you that like you don't
have to be in the most touristy spot in the city to get to get such a great breakfast like this
this is just a super residential area i will say this breakfast like with toast
and jam it's the kind of thing that's eaten across the whole country across all of argentina yes
typically i'd say more with butter than cream cheese but this is like a classic argentine
breakfast across the board these these the two things that we got are by far the most common
what's most interesting though is the the media lunas that you got are especially
popular in buenos aires yeah breakfast bathroom that's really good i'm indulging my sweet tooth
early in the morning here guys and i wanted to show you guys the soda water this is to cleanse
the palate in between all the sips of coffee and all the sugary and the sugary bites yeah
so price point for that breakfast keep in mind
that was a lot of food a lot of food so the total was 350 pesos which right now is 5.80
i would say that is a bargain for everything we got everything we ate actually that includes a
second cup of coffee because somebody liked it so much that he was like you know what i need one
more indeed so i mean if you just got everything we showed you it'd probably be like five bucks