El Ateneo Grand Splendid — South America’s Most Beautiful Bookstore

Buenos Aires is a city full of not-to-missed attractions. Among them is South America’s most opulent bookstore, El Ateneo Grand Splendid. This book lover’s palace located in the old Grand Splendid Theater retains all the decadence of an Italian opera house and is the ideal place to revel in Buenos Aires’ celebrated literary tradition. The [...]

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 [...]

Celetto–Argentine Fare with a Tuscan Twist

If you have been to visit the dead at Recoleta Cemetery, you will probably have been beckoned, cajoled or dragged into one of the many overpriced eateries that skirt its perimeter. This need not be the case. A short walk west you will find Celetto, a charming and understated Argentine ristorantino with more charm in [...]

Recoleta Cemetery

Recoleta Cemetery is one of the few essential tourist attractions in Buenos Aires. This is a city that is made for the meandering tourist. The joy is in wandering through the distinct neighbourhoods, observing how the locals live their lives and discovering little pockets of the city that you especially like. It’s not a city [...]

Post Data — A Postal Themed Cafe in Recoleta

A postal themed cafe and pastry shop a stone’s throw from the tombs of Recoleta cemetery, Post•Data is so twee and wonderfully decorated that Hansel and Gretel are probably regular customers. Pretty stamps form the stripes on the wallpaper, old postcards and letters dangle from the ceiling as mobiles and vivid colors glisten on the [...]

Cumaná — Authentic Argentinean Food

Cumaná is down-to-earth, very affordable, and offers a great variety of real Argentinean food, despite being situated in swanky Recoleta. This restaurant allows visitors to see that there’s more to authentic Argentinean food than imports from Italy such as pizza and pasta, red meat cut in a lot of different ways and the often bland [...]

El Alamo — A Raucous American Sport’s Bar

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

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 [...]

Bike around Buenos Aires

An excellent way to see Buenos Aires is by bicycle. Be it La Boca, Recoleta, Puerto Madero or Palermo; many of the city’s neighborhoods are perfectly suited for bike riding. It’s a big, flat, pretty city, so peddle power is a great option.  There’s a good reason that so many food deliverers and couriers get [...]

Recoleta — Buenos Aires’ Most Upscale Neighborhood

Wandering through Recoleta, one of Buenos Aires’ most aesthetically pleasing neighborhoods, you can easily imagine the city as it was during its halcyon days at the beginning of the twentieth century.  In fact, most of the impressive French architecture on display is a vestige of that time, and unlike in some other parts of the [...]