Mendoza Layover Guide: Exploring Argentina's Wine Capital

Attraction stop (30 mins)

Our Mendoza food tour offers guests a culinary experience carefully curated food adventure, led by our team of Mendoza tastemakers. Before we get started, our tour reflects the local cuisine, and the limitations of street food vendors and local eateries mean we cannot cater for every dietary restriction. Here's an honest appraisal for the tour, so no-one is disappointed: ✘ Unsuitable for vegan, halal diets, gluten and lactose intolerance as the tastings would be very limited. ✔ Vegetarian, pescatarian, no pork, mild nut allergies and possible though some tastings do not have alternatives available and the menu would be more limited ✔ Suitable for no seafood diets

Attraction stop (3h)

Explore Mendoza after dark on a nightly 4-hour food tour through the city centre, with 12+ tastings from markets, vermuterías, and local eateries. This experience focuses on where locals gather in the evening to eat, drink, and socialise.
 Start with lighter bites like pastries and dulce de leche alfajores, along with Malbec-infused chocolate, a reflection of the local wine industry. Move onto savoury staples such as freshly baked empanadas and slices of Argentine-style pizza. Along the way, snack on local favourites like caramelised peanuts, olives, and lupin beans.
 There’s a stop at a traditional vermutería for vermouth with soda, paired with small plates like croquettes and chickpea pie, before the evening builds to its centrepiece: a local parrilla. Here, meats are cooked over open flames, including chorizo, morcilla, and ribs, served with a glass of Mendoza’s signature Malbec. This is an authentic slice of Mendoza’s food scene through the eyes of a local tastemaker guide.

Attraction stop (30 mins)

The tour concludes after 3.5-4 hours. You'll leave not only full, but with a much deeper understanding of Mendoza’s food culture and the confidence to continue eating your way through Argentina.