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Microcentro Restaurants

Life can be tough during peak hours in Microcentro. Whether you are dodging protesters in the Plaza de Mayo or swinging shopping bags on the pedestrian superhighway Calle Florida, you are bound to work up an appetite in Buenos Aires' financial district. You can find yourself waiting in a long lunch line for empanadas or ducking in the back door of a decades old eatery at 11pm. Either way, find what you are looking for from any country in the world, at any price, and at any hour. From the all you can eat vegetarian to-go buffet at Granix to giant portions of paella at El Navegante, Microcentro's restaurants scene has something for everyone.

Grill & Soja
J.D. Peron 812 (@ Esmerelda) ; Tel. +(011.54.11) 4393-0003
$$$. It takes some serious personality and some serious guts to grill milanesa de soja (breaded tofu) side by side with Argentinean chorizo (beef sausage), yet somehow Grill & Soja manage to pull if off with an element of grace. This restaurant is proud of being a mix of high quality meat and creative soy dishes in an attempt to dispel the Argentine myth that tofu is a lethal poison.
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Rocket Bar & Bistro
Rivadavia 1285 (@Libertad), ; Tel. +(011.54.11) 4383-3833
$$$. Rocket Bar & Bistro, run for the past year by British expatriate Martyn Scource and his friendly staff, offers a slightly exotic lunchtime break. There is no artwork or thematic décor, just a pleasantly air conditioned café and wood bar. The posted sandwich menu offers a wide array of sandwiches and panini with the occasional flair of roast beef, imported cheese or salmon.
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Alimentari
San Martin 899 (@ Paraguay) ; Tel. +(011.54.11) 4313-7896
$$. The McDonald’s and Burger King culture has definitely landed in Buenos Aires so it’s refreshing to see that the porteños have their own alternative to American fast food in the form of Alimentari. Alimentari has five locations strategically placed throughout B.A.’s most bustling barrios...
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Las Cuartetas
Avenida Corrientes 838 (@ Esmerelda); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4326-0171
$$-$$$. This is real pizza. If you want old fashioned Italian-style pizza from a place that has been around since 1932, this is the place to be. With choices such as afrodita, a pizza with mozzarella, olives, crumbled blue cheese and celery, or a pizza topped with tomato slices and slices of real Italian sausage, you can't go wrong here...
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Casona del Teatro
Ave. Corrientes 1975 (@ Ayacucho) ; Tel. +(011.54.11) 4373.0805
$$-$$$. Casano del Teatro is a café in the middle of Buenos Aires’s theater district along Avenida Corrientes. This is the city’s answer to New York’s Broadway or London’s West End, and as such it’s no surprise that Casano del Teatro is not only a coffee shop but also a bookshop for plays in Spanish, open every day between 4pm and 9pm, or that there’s a large theatre on the premises as well as a smaller stage in the coffee shop itself. The décor is typical of the classic Argentinean confiteria, with plenty of wood paneling, robust columns and paintings in heavy, gilded frames...
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Guayana
Lima 27 (@ Avenida de Mayo); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4381.4350
$$-$$$. The first thing that stands out about Guayana is how completely non-descript it is. Mismatched tables and chairs line the drab restaurant and chipping tiles provide hazards when walking to the bathroom. Everything on the walls from the tango murals...
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San Carlos Rotisería & Pizzería
Rivadavia 1161 (@ Cerrito); Tel. + (011.54.11) 4382-1654 or 4383-4975
$-$$. Buenos Aires is filled with quick, homemade food options. The empanada and coke culture is a big part of the charm. One of the greatest contributors to each neighborhood are its rotiserías, which is a general word for a place with homemade, cooked dinners that can be heated and taken to go, or delivered around the surrounding streets.
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British Arts Centre
Suipacha 1333 (@ Juncal) ; Tel. + (011.54.11) 4393.6941
$. The British Arts Centre (BAC) in Buenos Aires might once have been the centre of tensions between indignant locals and the Anglos who founded it. Today, the British have settled on a less aggressive form of invasion: the British Arts Centre and its depictions of the United Kingdom’s cultural splendour...
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Temple Bar
M.T. de Alvear 945 (@ Suipacha); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4326.5744
$$$$. Temple Bar is a typical Irish Pub that might temporarily make you feel like you've stepped out of South America. This Retiro spot is most bustling in the evening, as it is a popular spot for a cold beer after a long day and the free WiFi makes it appealing to working stiffs.
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Mêlée
Viamonte 852 (@ Suipacha); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4326-0183
$$-$$$. Mêlée is a stylish french-style resto-bar in the busy microcentro barrio. Despite its location it retains a certain calmness as it is tucked away at the back of a tiny plaza on Calle Viamonte. The decor is simple yet effective. Pure white walls at the front of the bar switch to turquoise at the back, with white spray paint artistically spread around the latter to good effect...
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La Confiteria Ideal
Suipacha 384 (@ Corrientes) ; Tel. +(011.54.11) 5265.8069
$$. A Buenos Aires landmark since 1912 La Confiteria Ideal, or simply La Ideal, is an integral part of tango folklore. All the greats have performed here and scenes from movies like “Tango” and “Evita” were both filmed on the premises. The palatial building, a grand example of French-inspired Argentinean architecture, sits in the heart of the city’s Microcentro...
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La Academia
Ave. Callao 368 (@ Corrientes)
$$. La Academia is a pool hall of the old fashioned no frills, no nonsense sort. It’s all about the pool, man! Behind the coffee shop in the front room awaits a large warehouse-like space with more than 24 tables. About half will stun pool sharks with their complete lack of pockets. This is not an embarrassing oversight by the manufacturer; these tables are for playing the Argentinean game, billares, which involves pushing four balls back and forth across the felt with no hope of making a pot. It’s dimly lit, slightly menacing, and all in all exactly the sort of place Paul Newman and Tom Cruise would find themselves running away from in “The Color of Money."...
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Granix
Florida 165 (@ Bartolome Mitre) 1st floor in the shopping center; Tel. +(011.54.11) 4343-4020
$$$$. Hopefully the all-beef-all-the-time Argentine diet will never get you down, but in case it does you should take yourself to Granix for a breath of fresh air and a head of fresh lettuce. Granix is a quick business lunch paradise and doesn't offer much in the way of ambiance but the restaurant has plenty of seating to accommodate the financial district's masses.
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Dragon de Oro
Montevideo 352 (@ Corrientes); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4373-6225, 4373-6230
$$-$$$. This gem is only a few months old but promises to be a favorite for the Corrientes theater crowd. The space is beautiful and pleasant with sparse but artistic floral décor and a soothing Koi tank in the back.
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California Burrito Company
Lavalle 441 (@ Reconquista); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4328.3057
$$-$$$. Judging by the super-tidy atmosphere, broken Spanish, and high-volume English, visiting Americans seem to have found something familiar and enjoyable in the California Burrito Company...
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Café Tortoni
Av. De Mayo 829 Rivadavia 826, Microcentro; Tel. +(011.54.11) 4342.4328
$$. Founded in 1858 and self proclaimed as the oldest café in the country, Tortoni is also the most heavily touristed café in town (you can tell by the white tour busses lined up outside). But, upon entrance, visitors are taken back into the golden era of Argentina where intellectuals, politicians and artists frequented this historic establishment.
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Banchero Centro
Avenida Corrientes 1300 (@ Talcahuano); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4382-4669
$$-$$$. Banchero has been serving up fresh pizzas on this corner since 1932 and thanks to the good job they are doing, hungry theatergoers on Avenida Corrientes know just where to head after a long, hard day. This is a typical porteño joint from the 7Up sign outside (beckoning like a beacon of refreshment) to the non-descript Formica tables inside. People are here to grub, not to create a mood...
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