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Plaza Mayor Buenos Aires Spanish Monserrat dining room
#55 in Buenos AiresBirthdayTeam Dinner

Plaza Mayor

Plaza Mayor's San Telmo Spanish restaurant — a senior 1972 Galician-Spanish institution, a working seafood-and-paella programme, and one of San Telmo's longest-running Spanish destinations.

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8.5Food
8Ambience
8.5Value

The Room

Plaza Mayor opened in Monserrat in 1972 — a senior Galician-Spanish institution. Fifty-three years later the room is one of central Buenos Aires's longest-running Spanish destinations.

The dining room is intentionally taverna-warm: exposed brick, white linens, the open paella kitchen visible from every table.

The Food

The kitchen runs Galician-Spanish preparations — seafood-and-paella programme, octopus, the seasonal-rotating Spanish secondi.

Wine programme is Spanish and Argentine. Cocktails are aperitivi-led.

Best Occasion Fit

Birthday: Birthdays at Plaza Mayor are warm, paella-driven affairs the institution has hosted for over fifty-three years.

Team Dinner: Long tables at Plaza Mayor handle small office paella dinners with fifty-three years of practice.

First Date: The bar at Plaza Mayor is one of Monserrat's reliable Spanish-tradition first-date seats.

What Guests Say

Sandra K.Team Dinner

Hosted six colleagues at Plaza Mayor. The paella for the table did all the work.

8.5 / 10
Whitney L.First Date

Walked in to Plaza Mayor on a first date. Senior Galician room, accessible register.

8.5 / 10

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