Sorrel Moseley-Williams

After a year of long-distance dating an Argentine, Brazilian lawyer Lais Calil took the plunge and moved to Caballito, a neighbourhood with a rather different panorama from Rio’s Copacabana. Together the couple run a boutique car hire firm.

Wild boar chorizo, goat’s cheese provoleta and a tapa de ojo de bife are some of the treats on offer at new Hollywood parrilla Club El Don, led by La Brigada’s former grill expert Mauricio Ponce. (And I think the name comes from all the blood shed in The Godfather but I’m not sure…)

Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa’s former stomping ground, Lima’s upmarket Miraflores neighbourhood is home to dozens of highly acclaimed restaurants, swish lodgings and a curious mall built into a cliff.

Spanish actress Montse Ruano started out busking on Buenos Aires’ subway. Now she’s a regular on the flamenco circuit and is appearing in various theatre productions.

At Lima’s Mistura Food Festival: The Best Dishes in Peru Right Now

When a continent draws from the Amazon, the Andean highlands and pampa lowlands,, it’s little wonder that South America hosts so many diverse food fairs.

From the LatAm 50 Best Restaurants awards in Lima. While Peru’s Central was anointed best restaurant, Buenos Aires’ Tarquino basks in the limelight as highest new entry, following a snub in 2013.

“I kept meeting people who were like me, a bit lost and searching for a place that felt like home, a place to belong, looking for love or some kind of connection. And that was one of the reasons I wrote ‘Picaflor’.” Kiwi psychologist and writer Jessica Talbot on the inspiration behind her first book.

Virgilio Martínez from Lima’s Central anointed Latin America’s best chef

You know it’s almost spring in Buenos Aires when wine fair season kicks off – it’s either the jacaranda in bloom or a small glass of fermented grape juice.