The Michelin Guide for Buenos Aires and Mendoza unveiled their 2026 picks on Monday, awarding one star to 4 new restaurants: Han (Buenos Aires) and Centauro, La Vida and Cal (Mendoza.) The organization also announced two fresh Bib Gourmand entries — Chuchú and Garabato, both in Buenos Aires — and 13 new additions to the Recommended list. The 2026 selection now features a total of 89 establishments that showcase the country’s diverse culinary landscape. Gwendal Poullennec, the International Director of the Michelin Guides, noted in a statement that the selection reveals a “seductive gastronomic focus” in Mendoza, while Buenos Aires continues to dazzle with a cosmopolitan “amalgam of styles.” Central to this year’s selection, according to the official announcement, is a return to roots, where the ancient techniques of “fire and embers” remain the “central axis” of Argentine menus, now complemented by technical evolutions in “fish maturation” and a steadfast commitment to “national products.
“Meanwhile, the wine offering has become vital, with restaurants offering exclusive pairings that elevate the final experience for the diner,” the statement read. The new one-stars In Buenos Aires, Han was poised as an intimate yet “stunning” standout in Villa Crespo, where Chef Pablo Park offers contemporary Korean cuisine in two different tasting menus. The Michelin inspectors — who had already added Han to the recommended list in previous years — were particularly moved by Han’s “Mandu ceremonial” — a Korean ravioli filled with beef tongue in jang-jorim, served with white kimchi and purple sweet potato.
“This is an acknowledgement of time, our years of work, of searching, of making mistakes, of learning, and building our own identity,” said Park in a statement. “It motivates us to keep growing, to keep representing contemporary Korean cuisine in Argentina, and to show that top-level gastronomic projects can also be built in Buenos Aires.” Pablo Park Mandu Han Mendoza dominated the new star announcements with three additions. Cal’s chef Enzo González Petra had a landmark night, securing not only a Michelin Star but also the Young Chef Award and a Green Star for the restaurant’s commitment to ecological and biodynamic farming.
Located at Sitio La Estocada, this “hidden corner” focuses on the cycles of nature. In the case of Centauro, Michelin praised its “soul, flavor and… A Paraguayan court sentenced former Argentine senator Edgardo Kueider to two years in prison for attempted smuggling.
In the same ruling, his partner, Iara Guinsel, was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison. Both are suspended sentences, meaning that the defendants will not be sent to prison because the sentence is under the two-and-a-half years of mandatory time for incarceration. The case originated from an operation carried out in December 2024 at the Brazil–Paraguay border crossing, where customs authorities discovered that Kueider and Guinsel were carrying more than US$200,000, along with Argentine pesos and Paraguayan guaraníes, without filing the required customs declaration.
Before the verdict was announced, Kueider again declared his innocence before the court and rejected the charges. “There is no reason to apologize for a crime I did not commit,” he said, insisting that the money had a lawful origin and that his conduct did not fit the criminal offense for which he was prosecuted. Kueider maintained that neither he nor Guinsel had committed any crime and argued that this would be demonstrated both in the current proceedings and in the other legal cases they face in Paraguay and Argentina.
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