El Querandi - Cena Tango Show

We had such a lovely and Romantic date night ! You are immersed into a Tango dance show with live music and beautiful lightning atmosphere. It was lovely to see the choreographies incorporate the unusual triangular shaped stage with a beam in the front. The dancers are very creative. The costumes are beautiful ❤️ We did not chose a 3 course meal, but we did order off a finger food platter and a champagne off the menu. It was more than enough for us and actually we couldn't finish everything, so it is easily enough for 3-4 people ! The waiter was fantastic and kept a close eye on our glasses to refill them as soon as they were getting low. I would recommend this show and dinner 100%

We were picked up in our Hotel at Recoleta. Arrived at the venue, greeted and taken to our table. Dinner and wine was excellent. Show was a plus! Then we were transported back to our Hotel. Would definitely recommend. We had the VIP dinner package, not cheap- but 1st row seating and premium wines and food.

The show was really good: beautifully orchestrated, nice costumes, musically very well performed. The VIP dinner was more than OK, and the location is scenic. Special thanks to Andrea!!

A very well crafted Tango Show that takes you through the entire History of Tango. Since it’s inception at the end of the Nineteenth century until the late fifties. The stenography, the musicians and the dancers are very good and the atmosphere recreates the time. The only complaint is that the staff starts to dismantle the tables, glassware and cutlery before the show ends and that’s annoying and kills the momentum. Also the place where you’re sitting makes a whole difference try to get a place in the main saloon not in the right wing…

The history of the tango was fascinating. They disappeared when the wine ran out though. Unlimited is a misnomer. I also saw them pouring the unfinished bottles of wine back into the bottles after they thought all the guests had left. It is a shame because the show was amazing.

Perfect show, the dancers were so professional… amazing! The musicians also were very talented/professionals. The food was pretty good too: the steak was tasty, tender, smelly, and the dessert amazing as well. I didn’t like the salad because they spilled oil, it wasn’t healthy, I prefer salads only with vinegar.

A well-executed tango dinner experience with a couple of small hiccups. We booked through a third-party tour (Signature Tours) and were told to arrive at 7:45. In reality, the dinner service doesn’t start until 8 p.m. and runs until about 10, so there’s no need to rush—arriving any time before 9 is fine if you want the full meal. At around 10, the lights go down and the tango show begins, lasting about 1 hour and 15 minutes. The show itself was excellent—professional, well-organized, and easy to enjoy from any seat. The food was solid. I started with a charcuterie board, had a local steak for the main, and finished with a crepe filled with dulce de leche. The filling was delicious, though the caramelized topping wasn’t quite to my taste. My brother and dad also enjoyed their meals. A unique touch: because my brother’s reservation profile was in French, we were given French menus and the servers spoke French with us. It was a thoughtful detail and made the evening feel more personal. The only downside was the gap between finishing dinner (around 9) and the start of the show (10). There’s not much to do in that hour, and the way tipping was handled was a bit awkward—a server placed a check presenter on our table with a verbal reminder that tips weren’t included. A simple printed note or discreet message would feel more professional. Overall, El Querandí delivers on the classic Buenos Aires tango dinner show experience. Go for the performance, enjoy the meal, and just know in advance that gratuity isn’t included.

You do NOT want to miss El Querandí Tango Show on your next visit to Buenos Aires. Everything about the experience is designed to give you the very best Buenos Aires has to offer in terms of tango shows. The building exists since 1860 and is considered a a piece of Argentine cultural heritage for its instrumental place in the history of the development of tango. The decor is an authentic representation of the 1920s in Buenos Aires with a large, dark, ornate cedar bar, panels covering the walls, and a welcoming archway at the entrance as well as beautiful black and white checkered floor tiles. Reservations are required for the dinner and tango show. The dinner portion of the evening begins at 8:30 PM. The menu includes 3 courses with a solid selection of Argentine dishes as well as a few Italian dishes. We all chose empanadas for our appetizer. The dish included one chicken and one beef empanada, both stuffings well prepared in their respective broths. As a second course, we opted for bife de chorizo (sirloin steak) with steamed vegetables on the side. The steak was cooked to perfection with a lovely chimichrri sauce to garnish it. Many of the desert options featured Argentina’s famous dulce de leche (caramelized milk jam), including the crepe I selected. Another interesting dessert option was the so-called “vigilante,” which features slices of jelly-like fruit paste and soft cheese to break it up. A bottle of the house red wine, the San Telmo Malbec, was included with our package. The restaurant was completely full, with a fantastic comunal atmosphere, brought on by large, shared tables and the proximity between tables. The waiters provided excellent service, circling frequently to assist customers. The tango show was absolutely spectacular, spanning the very beginnings of tango music and dance at the end of the 19th century all the way through modernism in the genre beginning in the 1950s and going onward. The musicians and dancers were very professional, displaying a high level of skill in their respective crafts. The dancers switched costumes many times throughout the show to showcase the fashion of the time they were representing. The dancers also displayed an exquisite level of dynamism and acrobatics in bringing to life the various stages of tango’s development. They also extended the performance to include the floor between tables and the bar, which allowed customers to really feel integrated into the fabric of the performance. The band featured a pianist, a bass player, an accordionist and a viola player, who kept the show moving with the changing moods of tango music decade to decade. The show also featured two singers, a male singer who passionately brought to life various tango songs à la Gardel and a female singer who put a bit of a modern twist on classic tango pieces. The show was exciting and engaging from beginning to end. I would recommend this experience to all!