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Dos Pampas Skyline Restaurant

Two Pampas. Two homes. One table.

Dos Pampas takes its name from two landscapes that have shaped owner Alfonso Maury’s life: the Pampas of Argentina and the Canadian Prairies. The restaurant brings those two places together, but its story begins long before Manitoba became home for Maury and his family. It begins with a boy in Buenos Aires, and a question he already knew how to answer.

“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

When Alfonso’s mother asked him at six years old, his answer was simple: a chef.

Alfonso Maury cooks outdoors on the Sea of Galilee

Alfonso's family copy of Doña Petrona Carrizo de Gandulfo's Recetas de arte culinario, the 1954 edition his mother cooked from and he began trying recipes from as a child.

Alfonso's mother was one of his first culinary influences. She had studied cooking with Doña Petrona Carrizo de Gandulfo, one of Argentina’s most influential culinary figures. Doña Petrona’s landmark cookbook, Recetas de arte culinario, helped bring Argentine home cooking into the mainstream and became a fixture in kitchens across the country, including Alfonso’s own.

Long before cooking became his profession, it was already something he could give to the people he loved.

He remembers the 1954 edition his mother used, trying recipes from it himself. When his parents came home late from work, he would surprise them with something he had made.

A few years later, Alfonso experienced that same generosity from the other side of the table.

He attended his first Argentine barbecue in the countryside. A gaucho tending the fire was cooking a suckling pig over glowing stones. He removed the kidneys, considered a delicacy, and shared them with Alfonso.

The moment stayed with him: food prepared over fire and passed from one person to another. Cooking could carry tradition, create connection, and make someone happy.

These formative experiences sit at the heart of Dos Pampas.

Years later, Manitoba became home, and Alfonso began to see a natural connection between the landscape he came from and the one where his family had built its life. The Argentine Pampas and the Canadian Prairies are both expansive agricultural grasslands, shaped by farming, cattle, food, and the people who call them home.

Dos Pampas means two Pampas. It is where those two parts of Alfonso’s life meet.

A gaucho is a traditional horseman of the South American Pampas, deeply connected to cattle, the land, and the culture of cooking over fire.

South American and Argentinian flavours and traditions meet Canadian Prairie ingredients and influences. The menu makes room for Canadian beef, bison, and venison alongside the flavours, preparations, and traditions Alfonso grew up with.

It is not about reproducing one cuisine or forcing two traditions into every dish. It is a way of cooking shaped by both places: Alfonso’s South American roots, the Canadian Prairies he now calls home, and a lifelong belief that good food is meant to be shared.

Dos Pampas is a family-owned Winnipeg restaurant. Alfonso and his wife Roxana have built their lives here. When the opportunity arose to bring the skyline dining room back to life, they wanted to return the space to the city with food they genuinely enjoy cooking and eating.

The restaurant may sit 30 floors above Winnipeg, but its story begins much closer to the ground: with two stretches of prairie, a family kitchen, a fire, and food passed from one person to another.

South American roots. Canadian Prairie influences. Winnipeg at home.

Welcome to Dos Pampas.

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