"Wonderful experience in Mako! Had a best grilled lamb, and really enjoyed its pure taste and tenderness. Feel at home, the restaurant owner even delivered dishes to my table and invited me to their back of house, grill center!"

Ylzr apple

"Whilst in El Calafate we decided to go to Mako Fuego y Vinos to celebrate our anniversary. We actually had some people tell us that they didn’t like this place very well but we went ahead.

The first welcoming was not the expected, the reservation was written in a piece of folded up paper and no mention whatsoever of that was our anniversary. Oh well.

They took us to our table and presented us with a tablet each to look at the menu… a lot of technology here but not for the reservations… weird…

Anyway we made our selections. We received the trio of breads, a brioche, one of wagyu fat and a fine herbs. Good but not wow.

For the amouse bouche we were presented with Pate, butter, grape, tomato cherry and false caviar of beetroot. It was tasty and well executed, but no soul at the moment. Good techniques but without a purpose really.

We had a Wagyu Empanada. It was a good idea but not the best use of Wagyu as a ragu. It was ok but not distinguishable from all the other meat empanadas in the whole of Argentina really.

We followed with the Lamb Sweetbreads with Pumpkin pure and lamb Toffee and a potatoe croquette. The sweetbreads were awesome, but there was too much pure that made it sweet and the toffee was overpowering for the sweetbread…

As my main I had a Chorizo steak which was excellent and cook to doneness requested, the mash potato was very good as well, but again the Lamb demiglase was too sweet and overpowered everything, so I left it and ate the rest.

I ordered as well the “famous” Mako Potatoes. It was a good idea but poor execution. The lamb stock was too much of it and too strong for the dish and the bacon was undercooked for this dish, it should have crunch to it.

My girlfriend ordered the Spinach Agbolotti with Peas and Habas sauce which was good. The parmesan foam had too little parmesan, and was a little bland.

The ideas are there but something lacks overall. There is no soul to the dished, and the lamb stock is used in excess and is too strong for the majority of the dishes.

Service, the hostess and the initial waiter were appalling but then we had a couple other waiters which were good. It is a pretty place but not on our top 5 of El Calafate!"

paulo duarte

"The restaurant is gorgeous! The service was amazing. We couldn’t be happier to have celebrated our wedding there. Chef Matias serves love in the form of food, and Christian, the sommelier, gave us one of the most incredible experiences we’ve ever had. Just go — it’s worth every moment! It was a spectacular dinner!"

Carolina Vieira Barbosa