In Buenos Aires there is a restaurant where you could share all the dishes with a battalion because the portions seem to come out of a XXL dream. At this bodegón, the dishes don’t arrive: they land on the table. Tortillas the size of a family pizza, milanesas that cover the entire platter and desserts that could feed an entire family.
Alfajores weighing 13 kilos, cakes weighing a ton and even a 50-meter sandwich: this is the XXL portion bodegón of Buenos Aires.
It is no coincidence that this restaurant and XXL portions bodegón has been elected the Best Bodegón of AMBA: its formula combines homemade food, good service and epic portions, impossible to forget.
This unforgettable restaurant and bodegón is called Lo de Lucas, is in Escobar and is a classic founded by Lucas Deonato, a modern bodegón that keeps intact the spirit of the neighborhood: family tables, lifelong waiters, reasonable prices and dishes that invite you to share.
Here the milanesas seem endless, the tortillas weigh almost three kilos and the desserts are served in huge platters. Fresh ingredients, simple recipes and grandmother’s taste… but in a monumental version.
The spirit of the bodegón in XXL version
Here the milanesas can measure half a meter, the tortillas weigh almost three kilos and the desserts are served in complete platters. Everything is cooked with fresh, unpretentious ingredients: grandmotherly food, but on an epic scale.
Among the dishes that are a hit on the menu and have already become legendary are the giant omelette, which can serve up to 10 people, the Neapolitan milanesa XL, with homemade sauce and mozzarella that spills over the edges, the homemade pastas, served in generous portions or the Lo de Lucas chocotorta, a sweet tower that defies physics.
And as if that were not enough, every October the restaurant celebrates its anniversary with a monumental event: in 2024 they prepared a 26-meter milanesa sandwich, a record worthy of the Guinness World Records.
If you like to eat out but feel like you are at home and see 13-kilo cakes, alfajores on a tray and towers of french fries arrive at your table, this XXL portion bodegón is your new home.
📍Av. 25 de Mayo 997, Belen de Escobar
📅 Open from Tuesday to Sunday (noon and night).