Argentine pizza

Argentine pizza, also known as Porteño-style pizza (Spanish: pizza porteña, i.e., Buenos Aires-style pizza), is a mainstay of the country's cuisine, especially of its capital Buenos Aires, where it is regarded as a cultural heritage and icon of the city. Argentina is the country with the most pizzerias per inhabitant in the world and, although they are consumed throughout the country, the highest concentration of pizzerias and customers is in Buenos Aires, the city with the highest consumption of pizzas in the world (estimated in 2015 to be 14 million per year). As such, the city has been considered one of the world capitals of pizza.

Pizza was introduced to Buenos Aires in the late 19th century with a marked influx of Italian immigration, as part of a broader European immigration wave to the country. Thus, around the same time that the pizza Margherita was being invented in Italy, pizzas were already being cooked in the Argentine capital. The impoverished Italian immigrants that arrived in the city transformed the originally modest dish into a hefty meal, motivated by the abundance of food in Argentina. In the 1930s, pizza was cemented in Buenos Aires culture, with the new pizzerias becoming a central space for sociability for the working-class people who flocked to the city.

A typical custom is to accompany pizza with fainá, a pancake made from chickpea flour.