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
July 11, 2010 by ande
Filed under Porteño Corner
Eduardo Masollorens University of Buenos Aires Professor/Eternautas Historic Tour Guide Age: 61 Retiro Q: What do you enjoy about being a professor and tour guide? Teaching is part of my soul; it brings me a lot of pleasure. You can see it in me when I talk that I am very passionate about it. • [...]
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 [...]
