Our story

From Buenos Aires
to 10th Avenue

The name

Why "Porteño"

In Buenos Aires, a "porteño" is someone born by the port — quick to talk, quick to argue football, and always up for one more glass at the table. That's the spirit we named the restaurant after: a place with no rush, where the asado cooks slow and the conversation runs long past dessert.

Buenos Aires taught us how to eat this way: a Sunday asado that stretches all afternoon in Palermo, the smell of parrilla smoke drifting through San Telmo's cobblestones, a coffee by the docks of Puerto Madero, the tango murals of La Boca and the Caminito. Porteño takes its name — and its unhurried, generous table — from that city, and set out to bring a piece of it to 10th Avenue, steps from the High Line in Chelsea.

The Porteño dinner menu, table-side

The craft

The tradition of the asador

01 The wood fire gets lit early, with no rush at all.
02 Cuts are aged and positioned according to how they cook.
03 The asador tends the fire all night, plate by plate.

“Dining at Porteño is like eating at home with your family and friends — good food cooked slowly with love, to be enjoyed with beautiful wine.”

— Porteño

The neighborhood

West Chelsea, with a porteño accent

We're on 10th Avenue near the north end of the High Line and a short walk from Hudson Yards, right where Chelsea meets Hell's Kitchen — a small room that fills up fast, with a Fernet-and-cola at the bar and a grill that never really stops.

Argentines have been finding their way to New York for decades — from the wave of political exiles who arrived in the 1970s to the families who left after the 2001 economic crisis, many of whom settled in "Little Argentina" around Corona Avenue in Queens, where bakeries and steakhouses have kept the culture alive since the late 1970s. Porteño carries that same tradition into Manhattan: a few blocks south of Midtown, an easy walk from the High Line, Hudson Yards and the Vessel — proof you don't have to cross the equator to find a real Argentine steakhouse in Chelsea.

Fernet Branca poured at the Porteño bar

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