Las Violetas: Elegance in Almagro
March 5, 2012 by ande
Filed under Buenos Aires, Cafés
Historic and elegant, Las Violetas café, patisserie and restaurant is an essential stop on any Buenos Aires café tour. Now over 125 years old, Las Violetas remains extraordinarily popular. Every weekend afternoon tea-hungry diners form an orderly line outside its curved-glass doors to wait for one of the marble-topped tables. Declared a Buenos Aires’ Heritage [...]
Porteño of the Week
March 31, 2011 by ande
Filed under Porteño Corner
Sebastión Giménez Melo Co-owner, La Cigale Bar Age: 41 Resides: Chacarita Q: Where did you grow up? Palermo, but I also lived overseas growing up, in Mexico and Yugoslavia — when it was still one country — and Portugal. Before we opened the bar, I lived in Paris for seven years. • How did [...]
Bar Británico — San Telmo’s Historic 24-Hour Hangout
Among the mythical dive bars of Buenos Aires is San Telmo’s enduring Bar Británico. The corner bar facing Parque Lezama first opened in 1928 as ‘La Cosechera’ (The Harvester). From the beginning it was a gathering place for English World War I veterans and railroad workers who lived in the area. It wasn’t long before [...]
Milión — Recoleta’s Enchanting Mansion Bar
Milión is a mystical restaurant-bar that combines the main ingredients that draw people to Buenos Aires: timeless elegance, beautiful people and gourmet food. Set in a beautiful Belle Époque-style mansion, Milión is a mainstay of Buenos Aires’ night scene, even though it’s just over ten years old. This quintessential Buenos Aires’ getaway attracts fashionable young [...]
Porteño of the Week
September 2, 2010 by ande
Filed under Porteño Corner
Virginia del Barco Med student/Bar owner Las Del Barco Age: 27 Villa Freud, Palermo Q: What made you decide to study medicine? I always said I was going to be a doctor from a young age. It’s odd because we’re a family of lawyers—my mom and older sister are lawyers, but I wanted to know [...]
Porteño of the Week
June 25, 2010 by ande
Filed under Porteño Corner
Tomas Pytel Owner/bartender— Krakow Bar Age: 34 San Telmo Q: Where are you originally from? I grew up in Krakow until I was eight and then we moved to New York City. I also lived in Texas, Michigan and the last place I lived in the states was San Francisco. • How long have you been [...]
La Poesía – A Literary Cafe in San Telmo
June 7, 2010 by ande
Filed under Buenos Aires, Cafés
Do you remember the cafe La Poesía, that magic night in San Telmo? Buenos Aires devised our meeting, so romantic and sweet, Lulú —Horacio Ferrer (from the song, Lulú) La Poesía is a place to toast the writers of Buenos Aires in a bona fide San Telmo literary venue. Housed in a turn of the [...]
El Alamo — A Raucous American Sport’s Bar
May 7, 2010 by ande
Filed under Bars, Buenos Aires
El Alamo is an ex-pat owned American sports bar in Recoleta that is to some a beloved refuge for the young and homesick and to others, a loud, drunken expat nightmare. Shoeless Joe’s El Alamo (as it’s officially called) was once known as the mecca of American-style hedonism in Buenos Aires, reminiscent of the dive [...]
Casabar – A Sophisticated Option in Recoleta
May 5, 2010 by dan
Filed under Bars, Buenos Aires
Casabar in Recoleta lives up to its name, proving to be a home away from home for many foreigners and locals alike. To start with, the bar is actually located in an old French-style house. That’s old in the sense of classic, not rundown. More than two years of restoration work by the owners have [...]
Braths Brew Bar
April 26, 2010 by dan
Filed under Bars, Buenos Aires
True beer lovers in Buenos Aires tend to get excited when they discover any pub offering quality alternatives to the usual generic lager varieties. Connoisseurs in San Telmo will be happy to know they now have a place to go to get real handcrafted beer: Brath’s Brew Bar (formerly Breoghan’s) on San Lorenzo pedestrian street. [...]
