Best restaurants serving French Toast in Buenos Aires

Recipes for soaking bread in milk, wine, orange juice or rosewater, and then frying and serving with honey, date back to the 4th Century A.D. The Apicius, a collection of recipes written in Latin, contained a recipe for this dish.

It’s known as Pain Perdu in France, with recipes in French cookbooks dating back to the 15th Century, and as Arme Ritter (“poor knight”) in German recipes dating back to the 14th century.

It goes by a variety of monikers in English, including “French toast”, “German toast”, “eggy bread”, and “Poor Knights” (a translation of the German word for the dish).

Regardless of what you call it, it’s a classic that will endure for centuries more. Here’s where you can find French toast on menus in Buenos Aires.