Juana Castellanos Lagemann

Key Information

Juana Castellanos Lagemann is a chef known for her work at Alto in Studio City, California, where she collaborates with Esteban Klenzi. Their cuisine reimagines Argentine and Uruguayan flavors with a modernist and bread-centric approach.

Customer Perception

Customers can expect an ambitious menu that expresses and reinterprets Uruguayan and Argentinian cultures, moving beyond typical South American steakhouse fare. The dishes are noted for their delicate textures and creative presentations.

Cuisine Highlights

News

• At Alto (@altolosangeles) in Studio City, chefs Juana Castellanos Lagemann and Esteban Klenzi reshape [galleta de campaña] into a dinner appetizer, fitting the dimensions of their imaginations: The form is higher and tighter, like a contracted accordion bellow, and the crisp-soft textures more delicate. It’s one of the purest joys on an ambitious menu that expresses and reinterprets their respective Uruguayan and Argentinian cultures. Los Angeles has relatively few stellar dining options representing the Southern Cone. At their debut restaurant, Castellanos and Klenzi acknowledge prevailing culinary tropes: A few strapping cuts of meat sizzle theatrically over surging flames on a gleaming hearth, but this is pointedly not a South American steakhouse. Many dishes reconceive homier, regionally specific aspects of their cuisines — framed by the Río de la Plata, a wide-mouthed estuary outlining the borders of Uruguay and Argentina — sometimes in ways that might be ob

Restaurants by chef

Alto

Iconic dishes

galleta de campaña