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Homero Resto-Bar
Avenida Córdoba 1626 (@ Montevideo); Tel. + (11.54.11) 5811.1222
$-$$. Those cheeky Argentines! After the peso crash back in 2001 shredded Argentina's economy, gringos flocked to the capital. With one surge of foreigners came a surge of foreign culture, represented by a rabbit-breeding readiness to adopt popular icons - copyrighted or not. If visitors haven’t noticed the cafés, such as Emily and They Killed Kenny, then they surely have seen thousands of t-shirts and posters bearing various Simpsons depictions: Homer as a tanguero, Homer Guevarra, Homer at Oktoberfest, dressed as an SS guard and saluting: ‘Heil Beer’...
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Cafe Albaicin
Viamonte 1678 (@ Luis Deliepiane); Tel. +(11.54.11) 5811.0861
$$. On a colourful, corner on the northern fringe of Once lies Café Albaicin, a fusion of Japanese minimalist style with the creaking gloom of a Mendozan wine cellar, serving an eclectic array of foods for those with international taste buds. The day crowd is comprised of gaggles of middle-aged trophy wives gossiping at one booth, while young businessmen eye them, the waitresses and contemplate their future prospects from another booth...
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Eureka Bar and Food
Uruguay 695 (@Viamonte); Tel. + (11.54.11) 4372.5194
$$. ‘Eureka!’ the enormous sign on the busy corner of Viamonte and Avenida Uruguay exclaims. Visitors will cry the same if they are searching for a restaurant resembling ‘art deco goes Argentina’. How would Argentina’s take on art deco be any different than the rest of the world? For starters, Eureka’s art deco is more futuristic than most, eschewing and adding to the typical eighties style with lashings of chrome...
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Libreria Romano
Junin 317 (@ Sarmiento); Tel. + (11.54.11) 4951.9476
Almost every second-hand bookstore owner in Buenos Aires will be able to point you to a couple of dusty novels, or abridged classics which students learn English by. Libreria Romano is the exception par excellence. Not only does Romano have an enormous selection of old, rare, and out of print books in English, German, French, and Spanish, but they have them at peso prices...
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Remember Jazz Pub
Avenida Corrientes 1983 (@ Ayacucho); Tel. + (011.54.11) 4953.0638
$-$$. “Do you remember?” the Remember Jazz Pub asks. “How could I forget?” sings Sinatra from the jukebox. And that is about as close to Jazz as the intrepid visitor gets. Even though Remember Jazz Pub features live shows from Thursday to Sunday, the majority of performances are rock and theatre. At other times, the sounds are a sweet combination of the jukeboxes international and local rock (AC/DC, Bersuit, Led Zeppelin) and the tinny ring of the radio from behind the bar...
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Saint Nicholas Cafe Pub
Bartolome Mite 1699 (@ Rodriguez Pena); Tel. + (11.54.11) 4372.4473
$. Below the YHA hostel of the same name, Saint Nicholas Café Pub, is a gem of solitude and free space in a crowded city. After the morning crowd of breakfasting hostellers have departed, the café takes on the feel of a business that once thrived, but is now dormant. Thus resembling the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Saint Nick’s is the only café I have seen in Buenos Aires where tables are not piled together to meet the demands of maximum patronage...
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Themis Bar-Resto
Uruguay 709 (@ Viamonte); Tel. +(11.54.11) 4371-1294
$-$$. Not content with its share of the casual lunch crowd, Themis has recently opened up the second story of its building to offer a spacious dining area specifically for large groups that might attend a conference or a reunion. Downstairs, however, is where the casual diner will sit and - unless harangued by a troop of those who have booked the upstairs location – one has all the pleasures of a quiet café near the heart of downtown...
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Vincente Resto Bar
Gral. Juan D. Perón 1307 (@ Talcuhuana); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4374.2029
$-$$. On a quiet little street, a few blocks across the highway that separates the micro-centre from the sprawling barrios is a café-bar dedicated to a man who cut off his ear. Vincente Resto Bar lives in a Buenos Aires different from the everyday: Parisian street scenes of cobbled roads and starry nights, deep yellow lights and sidewalk cafes. Only a few places in Buenos Aires live up to the Parisian café culture to which it is so often compared...
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Speed King
Sarmiento 1679 (@ Rodriguez Pena)
$-$$. ‘How do you say “the singer sounds like a Tyrannosaurus Rex with a sore throat” in Spanish?’ I try to ask the bartender at the heavy metal bar, Speed King. The bartender does not reply. The entrance to Speed King is sandwiched between a popular pool-bar and a dimly lit café. Every one of these venues has patrons lingering in front of their establishments, creating a corridor of youthful exuberance on the north-eastern fringe of Once...
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Sabor Norteno
La Rioja 186 (@ Adolfo Alsina); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4931.8300
$-$$. For the authentic taste and sights of Peru, the people of Buenos Aires make their way to one of the grittiest neighbourhoods in the inner city – Once. Stepping over broken street tiles and around little piles of sodden trash, the photo-montage sign of Sabor Norteno stands out like the area’s towering transvestites or the neon of the love hotels across the street...
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Lotos
Avenida Córdoba 1565 (@ Montevideo); Tel. + (11.54.11) 4814.4552
$-$$. First off, I must declare a bias and vested interest: this reviewer is a vegetarian, and borderline vegan. On the busy Avenida Cordoba two vegetarian restaurants neighbour one another in fierce competition. Well, perhaps its not so fierce: these folks don’t like to kill. Perhaps then, on the busy Avenida Córdoba two vegetarian restaurants neighbour one another in healthy co-existence...
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La Esquina de las Flores | The Corner of Flowers
Avenida Córdoba 1587 (@ Montevideo); Tel. + (11.54.11) 4813.3630
$$. Beside Lotos on Cordoba, and in three other Buenos Aires locales (plus one in Bariloche) is the La Esquina de las Flores (the Corner of Flowers): a chain that is home to restaurants and health food stores. The Cordoba location the flagship operation and is reviewed here. Originally located on a corner, La Esquina de las Flores, has retained their name despite a move...
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Forum
Viamonte 1402 (@ Uruguay); Tel. +(11.54.11) 4375.2380
$$. Competition for the business crowd on the corner of Uruguay and Viamonte is tight. Forum tries to court the crowd who demand quick service in a tidy location with a slightly awkward combination of the two. From the exterior, cheap laminated photos promise the kind of speed usually associated with McDonalds, while the interior gleams with white table cloths, and stylish menus. Fortunately, the two themes are fused beneath the popular and garish theme of art deco...
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Cevezeria Hans
Viamonte 1587 (@ Montevideo); Tel. + (011.54.11) 4813.1779
$-$$. While a few doors down Bar La Robla offers a modern take on old Argentina, Carvezeria Hans, offers an old take on modern Argentina. That is to say, Cevezeria Hans is a charming little corner restaurant which would be just as at home as a set for a 50s mobster movie as it would be on any Argentinean street corner. The owners and staff are an old boy network who seem so comfortable amongst the diners they seem to have been running the place since Evita was in britches...
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Bartolomeo Bar
Bartomelo Mitre 1525 (@ Pasaje La Piedad); Tel. +(011.54.11) 4372.2843
$$. The proprietor or proprietors of Bartolomeo Bar are being rather modest with their signage when they claim ‘art and wine bar’. In fact, their bar also presents live music, and a broad selection of food catering to the three meals of the day. But how to combine the four pillars of entertainment without encroaching on the quality of any?...
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Bar La Robla
Viamonte 1615 (@ Pasaje Del Carmen); Tel. + (011.54.11) 4811.4484
$$-$$$. Bar La Robla is in the style of porteño bistros which exude as much local pomp and circumstance as their old-Argentina, carnivalesque theme implies. Whether the old Argentinean bistros were ever this flamboyant is anyone’s guess. While the theme might seem oriented towards a tourist crowd, the clientele of Bar La Robla is mostly comprised of Argentinean families basking in a semblance of a by-passed era than of camera-wielding visitors...
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