today we're bringing you a food challenge that  only my pizza loving husband could have thought up  

with only a couple of days left in the city he  asked audrey what if we only ate pizza for 48  

hours and thus began our epic argentine pizza tour  across buenos aires are we even surprised here  

pizza in buenos aires is pretty iconic  given the waves of italian immigration  

argentina experience from the late 19th to mid  20th century and today that translates into some  

excellent pizzerias across the city how convenient  that this also happens to be sam's favorite food  

so with that in mind we invite you to join us  on this epic buenos aires pizza tour as we visit  

5 of the oldest and most loved pizzerias across  the city wish us luck and let's go eat pizza

so today we are eating at equato this is one  of the most famous pizzerias in all of buenos  

aires argentina it's the first one that  we ever ate at on our first visit together  

and it has been around since 1934 that is a  very long time here on the menu it actually says  

thank you thank you to your parents and thank  you to your grandparents because apparently  

three generations of people have been eating at  this pizzeria so we've arrived at like almost  

three in the afternoon this place is packed we  thought this would be like off-peak lunch hour  

we'd be able to get a table it was actually a bit  of a struggle to find a place where to sit down  

but we have placed our order we have  lots of different argentine pizzas coming  

a little bit of wine so we are all set the vino  is here hello oh we know the wine is here and  

this place is pretty cool they only have  bodegas low pass wines and def we're not  

complaining we're leveled against lopez we've  actually got to visit their bodega and mendoza  

let me tell you they make a mighty fine red  wine it's going to go so good with the pizza

one of these

my two chosen slices are now on my plate  the first one here is the anchovies pizza  

which has no cheese it is just tomato sauce  

and like pulpy tomato sauce with anchovies  i love the saltiness of the anchovies

to me that's one of the best pizza  slices in the world just no cheese  

loaded up with tomato sauce and make it salty  that's kind of like what my taste buds enjoy  

this other one is loaded so this one does  have the moxa loads of mozzarella tomato sauce  

ham and you have a red pepper i should try  and get a chunk of that and it also comes with  

green olives i was gonna say green grapes  it is not a grape i'm forgetting my english

cheers what do you think of the wine

it's a table wine it goes well with pizza yep  man this might be the best like the more i think  

about it i really think this one's the best the  anchovies oh i love the anchovies you did well i  

made sure i got one slice of that too sam's  three slices were here guys i've got to say  

pizza is probably my favorite food hasn't changed  it's been like that since i was a teenager and you  

won't find a better place to have argentine pizza  than in buenos aires it's one of the heavyweights  

of pizza in the world italy yeah some some would  put italy i would i would put certain places in  

italy buenos aires and maybe chicago maybe new  york those are the top four places in the world  

to have pizza and uh buenos aires is right up  there so i've got three slices having the same  

one as you the anchovy one i've got the classic  which is the mozzarella and i've got the fukusetta  

which is basically the most that's a mountain of  cheese and you've got tons of onion too and this  

one doesn't have tomato sauce so it's a cheesy  affair okay let's start off with the anchovies

there's just something about that buttery  crispy crust delicious tomato sauce copious  

amounts of it and then the saltiness of the  anchovy wow all right the classic mozzarella

i got mozzarella so good you know the  classic pizza here is maybe the best  

as much as people love to have different  ingredients like the mozzarella one is just  

fantastic it's also the cheapest too but  better than anchovies well it's different  

right if you're craving cheese then yeah it is  the anchovies has no cheese now the fukazeta  

is where you get all of your  cheese and all of your onions

that is a cheese lovers delight  all three are so different from  

each other but they're all delicious i  mean i could probably have five slices  

but you know what we're gonna be doing pizza  for the next two days so i gotta pace myself  

a bit time for the bill it was 790  in pesos which at current exchange is  

13 us dollars but half of that was just the wine  so like all that argentine pizza was like a little  

over six bucks yeah and crazy thing when i went to  pay the bill um the waiter came over to the till  

and he was telling the guy at the tail like  exactly everything we had ordered so he could like  

bring it up he didn't have any notes photographic  memory from memory he was like they had this wine  

and this slice and that slice and two of this one  and i was like what yeah okay it's impressive it's  

impressive to say the least so yeah very good  pizza and that's it that's it a plus a plus

all right guys we have brought you to  the next pizzeria this one is called  

another institution here in the city of buenos  aires argentina it's located on corvientes which  

turns into a pedestrian street at night and yeah  they've been around since 1932. wow long time it's  

gonna be 100 years and not too long 12 more 12  more 88 years old and we ordered up five different  

slices we have the pomadola mozzarella napolitana  this is a slice of pineapple which is actually  

paste and typically you just put this on  top of another slice and you eat it together  

so sam's going to demonstrate that i'm going  to start with the special of the house this  

one is called pizzagreen and by the looks of  it it's got tomato sauce ham mozzarella cheese  

red pepper and green olives so here we go

there is loads of ham in there guys  comparing the dough to the pizzeria  

we went to yesterday which was in puerto  rico this one isn't quite as fluffy this  

one is more doughy the other one was more  buttery this one is just slightly more dense  

but very good and while we're at it i'm  just going to help myself to the napolitana  

which has slices of tomato obviously  like you know tomato sauce mozzarella  

look at all that cheese a fresh  tomato with oregano here we go

i gotta say i think the pizzas here are  guarini are even cheesier like they just  

load them with mozzarella cheese yeah like  you really gotta choose that thoroughly hey  

so i can't wait to try my pizza but  first i want to talk about the drink  

pasta which is empty which is empty  and then pour it into here this is  

a grapefruit juice grapefruit soda right it's  busy grapefruit soda i should say yeah it is  

fizzy and so i've got two different slices to try  yeah the classic mozzarella and then i forget the  

name of this one that one is pomade it looks like  it could be tomato sauce with onions on top um

that's exactly what it was it's kind of  sweet onions and a little bit of a sweeter  

tomato sauce too no cheese on that one at all  okay okay so now i'm going to take the final  

cut off the slice and i'm not sure if this is how  you're supposed to do it but from what i remember  

being told from a pizza video we made a long time  ago was that you're supposed to eat it with the  

pizza yeah so what i'm doing is i'm taking a  little piece and now i'm going to take a slice

and try them both at the same time you're  basically having a bite of pizza with a bite  

of chickpea face which is an interesting  combination i'm not sure where that came  

this is interesting i mean to be honest i  prefer the the pizza on its own but it does add  

a bit of an extra element to the slice  i guess it would fill you up faster too  

it certainly would it certainly would  fill you up i'm going to try it on so

you know what i actually prefer having it on song  yeah with a slice of argentine pizza yeah for me  

it suits my taste better in between slices  of the palette cleansing yeah there you go  

there you go price point oh that pizza was  so good so so good so moving on to the price  

point yes it was just under 600 pesos at current  exchange that is slightly less than 10 us dollars  

that included the four slices of pizza the  fina and the two drinks so seven items for  

ten bucks what a deal we will we are  going to keep this pizza quest going  

we're moving on to the next place just  a few blocks away excellent let's do it

we are now at pizzeria bunchero and for this next  one sam has ordered yes classic drinks classic  

drink so i'm getting the fernet with pepsi  down for that is kind of a medicinal tasting  

alcoholic beverage that i think  

doesn't it come from cordoba well it's really  popular in cordoba but it came from italy okay  

it's like a liqueur what do you think it's like  you look here and i'm adding pepsi to it here  

typically you mix it with coke yeah not pepsi  but this is what they had on hand let's try that

you know what this is really growing on me the  very first time i ever tried it i didn't like it  

but almost like you know bad medicine but when you  mix it with enough pepsi or coke it it sweetens it  

enough that makes it a bit more palatable and  it's just it's a very interesting drink right  

like i i it's not it's unlike anything else  i've ever tried to be honest it has a bit of  

a medicinal flavor and yeah you mix it with coke  or pepsi oh my oh my four more slices and a finer  

on top so we got anchovies this looks nice good  presentation two little anchovies hanging out  

then sam got the spinach with lots  of matzah cheese and a cream sauce  

that's not a topping you see on pizza every day no  tomato just cream sauce and we've just learned the  

difference between fugasa and fugazeta at the  last place or was it yesterday maybe yesterday  

which is onions and cheese fugaza it's  just the onions no cheese it does have  

a little bit of oregano sprinkled on top but no  cheese my friend no that's a difference i don't  

think we knew that when we were ordering i've  always i've always wondered that's a difference  

now we know but another interesting thing reading  the napkin here it says they are the creators of  

the fugaza with cheese this restaurant apparently  created we've got to order a slice then we're  

going to get a fifth slice oh my gosh we got to  order it it's just this with cheese no no no no  

no no we got to get the real deal i will order  that i will i will eat it don't worry let's  

eat this okay okay oh my gosh okay and then we  got a slice of mozzarella with the fina on top  

this is going to be a challenge like i'm feeling  pretty stuffed from our previous pizzeria but here  

we go eating eating all this pizza tough work huh  and guess what's happening tomorrow more two more  

more pizzas happening tomorrow so we are going  for the anchovy which is my favorite type of pizza  

and it is good i'm a happy girl so i also  ordered anchovy pizza when we were at el puertito  

on day one and i will say over  there they give you more tomato  

sauce here i feel like the tomato sauce  is more painted on top of the slice so

i think i prefer the other one just because it's  juicier but i really like the dough it's like  

thick but very like spongy it's actually a good  slice of pizza i do like this and next up we are  

digging into the mozzarella and guys i made a  discovery i thought mozzarella pizza always had  

tomato sauce not here not at bunchero here it's  just cheese so you've got like the pizza dough  

thick layer of cheese and well i added the fine  on top the chickpea paste but that was shocking  

mozzarella pizza with no cheese no cheese no sauce  have you ever encountered mozzarella pizza with no  

tomato sauce maybe not no i feel like this is  the first here only at banchero only a vancero  

i mean we still have more pizzerias left to visit  so we'll see if that happens again yeah but i was  

in shock like i thought tomato sauce was kind  of a requirement perhaps not perhaps not perhaps  

someone forgot i doubt it i doubt it your turn  my turn i'm still hungry guys i can go i can go  

hard with the pizza so i'm trying the espanaka  this one has cream sauce instead of tomato sauce

exactly it's almost a bit soupy in its  consistency it's very very good i mean  

i still prefer classic slices with mozzarella  and tomato sauce but this is a really interesting  

piece of pizza now we're moving  on to the fugaza not the the gaza

and this is just onions you know what i thought  the difference would be between fugas and fugazeta  

i thought maybe they would chop the onions  finer yeah i thought it was like a question of  

the size of the onions but no it's the lack of  cheese has no cheese what do you think of it  

onions they're both good um this is it's  nice and juicy yeah um i still i still prefer  

classic slice though just paid the bill oh my  goodness am i ever stuffed well we both are  

um guys it's not groundhog day but the bill is  just about the same as the other two places 625  

pesos approximately 10 us dollars that included  the four slices the piece of fina the fifth item  

also we got soda water and my  drink with pepsi and fernet and  

again a great deal and my goodness and my  forever full there'll be no dinner tonight

good afternoon my friends another day in buenos  aires another pizzeria today we're at another  

institution one of the originals las portetas  yes and this is again on corientes street  

but it's on the other side of nueva de julio  9th of july so the ones we visited before  

we're on the the left-hand side and now  we're on the right-hand side yeah so we've  

crossed the biggest avenue in  the city by taxi not quite taxi  

and i'm starting off with a chop over here  that's what they're called in argentina  

a beer of this science is a chop how is that beer  on a hot summer day it's it's a requirement on a