The Calzone King, Italian restaurant in Mar del Plata, Argentina
The Calzone King is a restaurant in Mar del Plata, Argentina, focused on calzones, the folded and filled pastries from Italian cooking. The menu offers several filling combinations, working with ingredients such as mozzarella, Italian sausage, ham, and eggs.
The restaurant grew out of the tradition of Italian immigrant communities that brought their recipes to the coast of Argentina over the course of the 20th century. The calzone itself traces back to Naples, and its presence in a seaside Argentine city reflects how far that food culture traveled.
The name of the place is a direct nod to the calzone, a folded pastry that has long been part of everyday eating in Mar del Plata's Italian-descended community. Sitting down here gives a sense of how Italian cooking has become part of the city's daily food habits rather than something reserved for special occasions.
The place opens in the evening and is geared toward dinner and late-night eating, so an early afternoon visit will not work. It sits at the corner of Echeverria and Gaboto streets, which makes it easy to find on foot in that part of the city.
Unlike what most people expect from a pizza-adjacent dish, the calzone here can be prepared in a way that gives it a different crust texture depending on the method used. Guests who try it for the first time often find the result quite different from what they imagined.
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