Married to an Argentine, journalist and PR Vanessa Camozzi honed her Spanish and nannying skills for two years in 2005. But her true passion – Japanese food – became a reality when the couple opened Fukuro Noodle Bar in Palermo Hollywood.

Man versus sausage. Four adults, one giant choripán in Mendoza… who wins?

Make a beeline for Palermo Botánico’s newest lodging in Buenos Aires

Yip. The toasted sandwich you’ve been dreaming of has arrived and you can chomp down a mouth-watering courgette and goat’s cheese prensatti at La Alacena. Oh, and did I mention the chocolate and sea salt tartelette? Ohhh…

So there’s 180 minutes of craft beer happiness. A picada of the day. Hot sauces. And of course, make sure you linger for the fricking chicken. NOLA gastropub is a homesick expat’s wet dream.

A week’s holiday in Buenos Aires led to South African engineer Lucy Wood to sell her house and car and move to Argentina with just 300 dollars in her pocket. Ten years on, she lives in Florida with her boyfriend and two cats.

When Torey Novak visited his future wife who lived in Mendoza, little did the former pizza cook know that he would also fall in love with the province’s liquid gold and work as an olive oil sommelier for Familia Zuccardi.