Basic meals are served at restaurantes, but you can get breakfast, snacks and often full meals at cafés too; there are take-out and fast-food places serving sandwiches, tortas (filled rolls) and tacos (tortillas folded over with a filling), as well as more international-style food; there are establishments called jugerías (look for signs saying "Jugos y Licuados") serving nothing but wonderful juices (jugos), licuados (fruit blended with water or milk) and fruit salads; and there are street stalls dishing out everything from tacos to orange juice to ready-made crisp vegetable salads sprinkled with chile-salt and lime.
Just about every market in the country has a cooked-food section, too, and these are invariably the cheapest places to eat, if not always in the most enticing surroundings. In the big cities and resorts, of course, there are international restaurants too - pizza and Chinese food are ubiquitous. Argentinian restaurants are the places to go for well-cooked, good-quality steaks.
When you're travelling, as often as not the food will come to you; at every stop people clamber onto buses and trains (especially second-class ones) with baskets of home-made foods, local specialities, cold drinks or jugs of coffee. You'll find wonderful things this way that you won't come across in restaurants, but they should be treated with caution, and with an eye to hygiene.
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