It’s All Bueno

AFTER SPENDING TIME in the U.S. military, Oscar and Ainara Farina parlayed a food truck selling Argentinian street food into a restaurant in the Metro East and then another–Gauchos Argentinian Steakhouse. Hoping to introduce St. Louisans to Argentinian food and play off the food truck’s success, the couple rolled out Buenos Aires Café last month in the new Food Hall at City Foundry STL, where the signature items are skirt steak sandwiches and empanadas.

Can you share about growing up overseas and how you met?

I grew up in La Pampa [in Argentina] and was raised by my grandparents, who owned a farm, butcher shop, and bakery. By the time I was 15, I was good enough to become a meaning “shovel master,” the person who loaded bread dough into huge woodburning