Villa Crespo is a neighborhood that adds restaurants and gastronomic options and now adds a restaurant that takes advantage of the neighborhood’s factory history. If you have never eaten barbecue in a factory shed, there is always a first time and this restaurant inside a factory shed can be yours.
This is the new restaurant in Buenos Aires that operates in a former factory shed: open kitchen, 11-meter walls and even an old forklift.
From the outside you will only see a sober, almost anonymous façade that blends in with Villa Crespo as if it had always been there. But it is enough to cross the door to understand that Mambo Restorán is not just a new restaurant, but a factory shed that beat again, this time to the rhythm of a very Argentine contemporary cuisine.
This new restaurant in Villa Crespo is located in an old warehouse, with very high walls. The original structure of the factory remains visible and coexists with an open kitchen where you can see the step by step of each dish. The lighting is warm to contrast with the cement and creates an excellent atmosphere for lunch or dinner in Buenos Aires. This restaurant retains so much of its factory past that it still has an old yellow forklift.
Villa Crespo has a factory past that is transformed into gastronomy.
Villa Crespo grew up among workshops, factories and workers. For decades, the neighborhood was a key place for the textile industry. Today, many of those industrial buildings have found a new life as homes, creative studios or cultural spaces, and as you can see, also as gastronomic venues, Mambo joins this transformation.
Dine in a former factory warehouse restaurant that is unlike any other restaurant in Buenos Aires and try their baked asparagus with egg salad, lettuce with peanut and beet dressing, grilled marucha with tomato and herb salad, cavatelli with pomodoro, fresh basil and seasoned cheese or even their iced alfajor with miso, chocolate and dulce de leche.
Mambo Restorán is not trying to be nostalgic or trendy. Its story is simple: to recover a factory, respect its memory and transform it into a space where good food is produced today.
📍 Malabia 820, Villa Crespo
📅Tuesdays to Saturdays from 19 to 00hs.
📅Wednesday to Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.