Café (34 K)

The Coffee-house in Buenos Aires
To define a Buenos Aires café it is not enough if one says that it is a bar or a cafeteria. It is much more. A place of encounters where one can do business, discuss politics and economy, friends and boyfriends meet to talk, a space used by students and for readers to be left alone.
At times it is a room for the theatre, or a terrace where to take the winter sun, or a wall of laments. It is, as the great poet of the city Enrique Saints Discépolo defined it, in a tango called Cafetín de Buenos Aires
"... the school of all things... where one learns ...philosophy, dice, gambling and the cruel poetry of not thinking more about myself".
One can find for example the typical Buenos Aires atmosphere of the Café Tortoni, afternoon tea in the traditional Richmond, the sunny terraces of La Biela or the Café de la Paix, the sleepless ones that carry out utopias in the café La Paz, or the chocolate with churros of La Giralda, or the riotous presence of students in the cafés that surround the colleges or the formality of the tables that gather the lawyers near the Supreme Court.
The typical café taken by the porteños, the inhabitants of Buenos Aires are the express that can be double (doble), cortado (with very little milk) or con leche (with a lot of milk).

Famous cafés in Buenos Aires:
Bar de García (Sanabria 3302, Neighbourhood of Devoto)
Bar Miramar (Av.San José 1999)
Café de la Paix (Quintana y Pte.R.Ortíz)
Correa (Cabildo 4402, Neighbourhood of Núñez) 12 de Octubre (Bulnes 331)
El Británico (Brasil 399)
El Querandí (Perú 302)
Tortoni (Av.de Mayo 825)
La Biela (Quintana y Pte.R.Ortíz)
La Giralda (Corrientes 1453)
La Puerto Rico (Alsina 416)
Los Andes (Tacuarí 622, Neighbourhood of Monserrat)
Richmond (Florida 458)
San Pedro Telmo (Humberto I° y Defensa, Neighbourhood of San Telmo)