Buenos Aires is a proper city – over 3 million in the city, 15 million in the metro area. While the port does have a cruise passenger terminal, it does not have dedicated cruise ship piers. Once again, we are sharing space with containers. We have to take a shuttle bus to/from the terminal.

Today I bypassed my usual “explore the city” tour and booked a S.A.L.T. sponsored excursion called “Rooftop Asado”, asado being a social barbeque event. We had a quick, stay-in-the-bus tour of the city as we drove to our rooftop. The US has the White House, in Argentina it’s the Pink House.

Turns out we returned to the same building that we saw the tango show the evening before, which hosts multiple venues. We walked thru an empty La Ventana and climbed three flights of stairs to reach the roof “building”.

I fell in total jealous lust for this rooftop.

And I haven’t even showed you the kitchen.

Two giant ovens, stone floor alternating with tile, tall ceilings. If you don’t hear from me again, I’m living here.

Our host is Pedro Lambertini, (link is Spanish) a locally famous chef who has owned several restaurants, starred in cooking shows and written books. He is between projects right now and spent two hours giving advice while cooking empanadas and his sou-chef worked the grill. If you look hard, you can see he is cooking eggs within the green pepper half on the grill.

I won’t fill this post with endless pictures of meat, but believe it. However, here is the chimichurri sauce (top), with salsa below.

A fun day. I may have to build that rooftop onto my house.