The beef is here - What the Saturday papers say

Vegetarians look away now. One of The Daily Telegraph's top stories is a paean to Argentina's parillas or steak houses. Chris Moss has a fantastic guide - with a couple of very graphic colour photographs - to the best places to get a steak. It's a very serious business. At La Cabaña restaurant, for example, Moss's tenderloin comes with a barcode so he can scan it and get a photo "of the young castrated Angus bull I had just eaten, with his date of birth and details about his diet of grasses and artesian water, his weight and the last fields he lived in". Now that's traceability.

Much, much further north James Cracknell, who recently spent 49 days in a boat rowing across the Atlantic, goes on a road trip along the Pacific Coast Highway. It’s not exactly the “open road”, but he hits on enough spots along the way to rest and recharge his batteries. A 300-mile cycling holiday is one way to see Sri Lanka. Lee Levitt (The Independent) braves the 24C (75F) degree heat on an Exodus holiday with a dozen others and feels like a “visiting dignitary”.

“If you fled the country for a sunshine break over Easter, you're probably dreading the next bank statement,” is how The Mirror kicks off its feature on how to cut the cost of family holidays. For example, departing from a different airport could save up to a couple of hundred pounds and organising airport parking or theme-park tickets well in advance can turn up some bargains.

Our favourite sunny country, Spain, features in two newspapers today. Mark Stratton in The Daily Telegraph visits Coruña, the city from which the Armada set sail in 1588. Stratton has compiled a valuable guide to the city covering flights (Iberia flies daily from £62 return with taxes), hotels, restaurants and what’s on when. In The Independent, Leonard Doyle plays a round or two at Benalup golf course in Andalucia, notable because it is “built on scrub land that does not require constant irrigation with fresh water”. After sustainable holidays, sustainable golf.

May is the best month to visit the Croatian port city of Dubrovnik, writes Adrian Mourby (The Independent) because come June, the Unesco-listed city, will be heaving with tourists. In May, it is still possible to enjoy the city as the locals do.

Still in city-break mode, Matthew Hoffman spends some time in Rome’s Jewish quarter, which has been “a part of the city for 500 years”. Whereas the Ghetto of Venice still has its original synagogues, Rome's Ghetto has been “transformed to the point of obliteration”, but “remains a vital centre of Roman, and Italian, Jewish life”.

The ski resort of Gstaad attracts the seriously rich, but that doesn’t stop Claire Donnelly (The Mirror) enjoying a budget break there albeit in August.

In The Times, Dan Cruickshank, the television historian, travels to Berlin, the birthplace of Modernism - “a marvellous marriage of art and science”. Cruickshank visited Italy, Moscow, Chicago and New York in the course of making a series for BBC2, but Berlin (Trabants, Bauhaus and AEG Turbine Factory etc) is “the city that says most about Modernism — about its history, its aspirations, its early achievements and influence and its downfall”.

Finally, Annabel Simms (The Daily Telegraph), who wrote a guidebook to 20 destinations within an hour's train journey of Paris, discovers the Guinguette Auvergnate on the River Seine in Paris. Guinguettes (pronounced "gang-ette") are “open-air restaurants with a dance-floor”, which “sprang up to cater for the urban working poor who wanted to relax on a Sunday in a pastoral setting”. Guinguettes enjoyed their heyday between 1850 and 1950, but have enjoyed a revival since the 1990s. Apart from eating, drinking and being merry, there are a couple of rules: greet fellow diners and dress well. No jeans, no trainers.

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