Ñancu Lahuen
A restaurant serving home-style regional cooking, and a tea house with handmade chocolates, cakes and ice cream. Two neighbouring wooden houses, run by a Villa Traful family, just steps from the lake.
A Villa Traful story
Ñancu Lahuen belongs to the Christensen Gresznaryk family. Esther Christensen started out selling cakes at the campsites in summer; in 1991 Luis Brogger taught her the secrets of chocolate, and Esteban Gresznaryk built the typical mountain cottage where the tea house still runs today. It opened its doors on 13 March 1993.
Today the legacy lives on with their daughters: Patricia runs the chocolate shop and tea house, and Cristina cooks at the restaurant next door.
The name comes from a medicinal plant that grows on the summit of Cerro Negro. Legend has it that a white eagle (ñancu) dropped its leaves (lahuen) so that a young man could heal his beloved.
Home cooking with a mountain flavour
Home-style food and traditional mountain dishes, with trout as the house specialty. A wood-and-stone dining room with large windows, in the centre of Villa Traful.
Trout
Our specialty: with lemon, brown butter, capers, spring-onion cream, Roquefort, pine-mushroom sauce, garlic and parsley, or almond cream. Always served with a side.
Meat and lamb
Rib-eye steak, the Ñancu Lahuen steak with mushroom sauce, lamb braised in Malbec with mash, goulash with spätzle, pork shoulder with black pepper and tenderised matambre.
Pasta
Egg tagliatelle and fusilli, sorrentinos, ravioli, agnolotti, cannelloni and lasagne, with your choice of sauce: the Ñancu Lahuen, pine mushrooms, pesto, Roquefort and more.
Starters
Empanadas, cream of fresh vegetable soup, smoked trout bruschetta, Spanish omelette, vegetable and Parmesan fritters, fried squid and tequeños.
Gluten-free
A wide selection of menu dishes adapted to be gluten-free: pasta, meat, lamb, trout and chicken, with a side.
Draught beer and wine
Draught beer, red and white wines and cocktails. For dessert, crêpes, homemade flan, tiramisu or the Ñancu Lahuen ice-cream sundae.
Villa Traful's pioneering chocolate shop
In the same mountain cottage as always: handmade chocolates, cakes and desserts, sandwiches on homemade bread, and ice cream. Have tea inside, at the garden tables, or take it away.
- Handmade chocolatesBars and assorted boxes to take home as a gift.
- The house cakesBlack Forest, the most requested; the lemon mousse, of Danish origin; the Amor cake and the merenguesa, with raspberry mousse.
- For teatimeStrudel, scones, croissants baked every morning and sandwiches on homemade bread.
- Ice creamFor summer afternoons by the lake.
In the centre of Villa Traful
The restaurant and the tea house stand side by side at Los Teros and Bartolomé Laffite, just steps from the harbour and the shore of Lake Traful.
- Los Teros y Bartolomé LaffiteVilla Traful, Neuquén
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