Javier Rodriguez

October 2015

Rodriguez’s modern take on Northern Argentine cooking proved so popular first time round, even the cows were queuing around the block to sign the petition to put his ‘Charcoal-Grilled 28-Day Dry-Aged Sirloin’ back on the menu.
 
Javier’s impressive CV reads like a mouth-watering bucket list of the best places to eat in the whole goddamn world – Noma (Copenhagen), Viajante (London), Tetsuya’s (Sydney), Restaurant Andre (Singapore) and La Gloria (Lima) – but after years on the road, Javier has finally put down roots in his hometown of Córdoba with the opening of El Papagayo, a small but perfectly formed restaurant with big ambitions: “to shift people’s perceptions of modern gastronomy and spark off a nationwide culinary movement”.