Buenas
Latin American restaurant · Somerville ·
Rotating empanadas, global flavors, and delicious chimichurri sauce
Rotating empanadas, global flavors, and delicious chimichurri sauce
"At Bow Market I often find Buenas' rotating menu includes a guava empanada stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in their reliably delicious dough; it’s almost always available frozen and hits the fresh menu about every other week." - Karen Wilber
"With a storefront at Somerville’s Bow Market and a forthcoming grocery-bar called Super Bien at the Speedway in Brighton, Buenas has launched a $35,000 NuMarket campaign to create the Buenas Aisle — a real-life aisle at Super Bien and a virtual shop for online shopping and shipping. I'm noting that the aisle will sell Buenas’s existing line of South American products (empanadas, sauces, and more) and a growing collection of new products, and that contributors receive 120% of their contribution back as store credit; cofounder Melissa Stefanini has described Buenas as being like a CPG company with the soul of a restaurant." - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
"Bow Market’s South American shop Buenas is perhaps best known for its empanadas, but it makes a variety of other treats, too, and its contribution to this year’s Fluff Festival is “a thoughtful dessert taking us outside of the world of ‘empanada’ while keeping us squarely in the ‘fun,’ ‘yum,’ and ‘smart!’ camp.” Buenas is baking its empanada dough into sugar and cinnamon chips with a dipping cup of Fluff mixed with Nutella and chocolate chips. “It’s like Dunkaroos but only insofar as we’re giving you a thing you dip.” Available September 22 until sold out. Preordering online is available for pickup at the shop, or just show up. (Explore Bow Market’s indoor and outdoor seating options here.)" - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
"Where the Bow Market space has become known as a grab-and-go empanada shop, Buenas does offer a larger range of South America-inspired goods, including sauces like the herb-packed chimichurri and pebre, a spicy Chilean condiment." - Rachel Leah Blumenthal
"At Bow Market in Union Square I found Buenas to be a shop best known for its empanadas but deliberately unbound by traditional South American flavors — the founders say they don’t make your grandma’s empanadas but rather empanadas that are 'authentic to us' and are willing to push creative limits (even arguing that 'a big ol’ scoop of caviar' can belong on an empanada). Buenas regularly hosts guest chefs and special nights (for example the 'hot noods' events with Rachel Miller), has staged over-the-top stunts like a wedding in front of the shop to draw attention, and is partnering with Tanuki for a twice-monthly Tanuki-in-Residence series where they’ll sell bento boxes, a la carte snacks, treats, and merchandise." - Rachel Leah Blumenthal