The Good Life in Buenos Aires

In 2010 I am moving!

2009-12-18T13:47:00.001-03:00

Too many accounts. I want to enjoy writing in a more simple way.
So from January 2010 I will write in Engish in my Spanish Blog:
www.vinosespecialesargentinos.blogspot.com

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

And FEEL GOOD!

Wine tasting at the Marriot Hotel

2009-12-10T11:32:00.000-03:00

On Thursday December 10th and Friday December 11th from 6 to 10 PM.

Hotel Marriot Buenos Aires.

Happy Hour & Diplomatic Party

2009-12-03T15:18:00.000-03:00

Friday December 4th, 2009 at 8PM.
Entrance Ticket w/ glass of champagne: $40 (pesos)
Colombian Show & Dance 10 PM.
Typical food available at reasonable prices.

Hotel Panamericano Carlos Pellegrini Ave. 551, Caba.

Buenos Aires City Celebrates Spain

2009-11-27T18:45:00.000-03:00

Sunday December 6th from 10 AM.
Music, dance, local spanish food, fireworks.

Clos de los Siete Wine tasting

2009-11-17T15:57:00.000-03:00

Next Thursday November 19th at 9 PM sharp a new winetasting of Bodega Clos de los Siete wines will be held at Vinoteca Caballito, Neuquén 681, Caba.

Tickets $20 (pesos) each. Fingerfood will be served.

Special prices for the Vineyard´s wine line!

Make reservations in advance, few places available: 4904-1900

Night of the Museums

2009-11-13T18:51:00.001-03:00

Amia
Director: Elio Kapszuk

Archivo General de la Nación

Director: Dr. Juan Pablo Zabala

Archivo Histórico "Rosario Vera Peñaloza" de la Escuela Normal Nº1 "Pte. Roque Saenz Peña" y Programa Huellas de la escuela
Directora: Marcela Pelanda

Archivo y Museo Históricos del Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires "Dr. Arturo Jauretche"
Director: Ing. Agustín San Martín

Asociación Amigos del Tranvía y Biblioteca Popular Federico Lacroze
Director: Gabriel Mattalia

Asociación Argentina Amigos de la Astronomía

Presidente: Roberto Mackintosh

Asociación Dante Alighieri de Buenos Aires

Directora de Cultura: María José Otero

Ateneo Popular de La Boca
Presidente: Arq. Eduardo Bucich

BAC - British Arts Centre

Directora: Ofelia Veltri

Biblioteca Nacional

Director:Lic. Horacio González

Buque Museo Corbeta ARA "Uruguay"

Director: Capitán de Navío Carlos A. Zavalla

Buque Museo Fragata ARA "Presidente Sarmiento"
Director: Capitán de Navío Carlos A. Zavalla

Casa de la Cultura
Coordinación: Prof. Sergio Alcalde

Casa de la Cultura del Fondo Nacional de las Artes
Director: Fabián Valle

Casa Museo Dr. Alfredo L. Palacios
Director: Esc. Antonio Cartañá

Casa Museo Magda Frank

Directora: Lic. Tulio Andreussi

Casal de Cataluña de Buenos Aires
Director: Jordi Mallol

CCEBA Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires
Director: Ricardo Ramón Jarne

CCMOCA. Centro Cultural Moca
Director: Adrián Kaplansky

Centro Ana Frank Argentina - Museo interactivo para una pedagogía de la memoria
Director: Lic. Héctor Shalom

Centro Cultural Borges
Director: Roger Haloua

More info at the web.

Film Exhibition Free Admittance

2009-11-04T18:29:00.000-03:00

Saturday November 7th. 2009, 5 PM SHARP.
Foro Ghandi, Caba.

Half Length Film Free Admittance

2009-10-29T12:59:00.000-03:00

Enrique Foster Vineyards Wine Tasting At Vinoteca Caballito

2009-10-23T14:49:00.003-03:00

Next Thursday October 27th at 9:00 PM sharp the Vinoteca Caballito's fans and wine lovers will meet again to enjoy Enrique Foster´s wines and a homemade catering service.

Tickets are $20 (pesos) each.

Wines of the vineyard will be selling at pormotional prices.

Call Pablo for reservations: 4904- 1900 or buy your ticket at Neuquén st. 981, corner Honorio Pueyrredón Ave., Caba.

See you!

Musical Friends Folklore Festival

2009-10-08T17:32:00.007-03:00

Next Sunday October 11th around noon, what are you planning to do around Buenos Aires city?Want to see local non famous and great argentine´s folklore dancers, musicians and singers perform at a local restaurant with local food and local entertainment?

Bombo´s Parade in Santiago del Estero (photo from Clarín Folklore Blog)

My dear folklore and bombo´s lover friend Gerardo (yes he is MY plumber if you ask me and he went to the Marcha de los Bombos in Santiago del Estero this year) is out of his mind organizing this different Sunday event in Buenos Aires. Lunch will be served at 12:30 (entrée, first course, dessert & coffee), then around 3:00 PM the show will begin.

Morena, invited by Gerardo from Santiago del Estero, who is 10 years old, will play the bombo and dance chacarera with her Granny. There will be lots of music and dancing.

The ticket for Lunch & Show is $80 ( PESOS), beverages not included. Address: Medrano Ave. 476, Caba,( corner Corrientes Ave.).

If you want to mingle with locals dont´t miss this unique opportunity. Call Gerardo for Tickets: 15 4- 564-0061.
If you want to perform because you are great and never had the chance to perform as a pro, call him too.

Alfredo Roca Wine Tasting at Vinoteca Caballito

2009-10-05T12:40:00.002-03:00

Next Wednesday October 7th. at 9:00 PM there will be held a wine tasting by Alfredo Roca Vineyards at Vinoteca Caballito, Neuquén st. 681, Caba.

Finger food will be served and there wil be special prices for the wine sales that evening.

Reservations a must: 4904-1900.

Ticket $20 ea.

SEE YOU ALL!

(In spanish)

Paris in Buenos Aires

2009-09-24T10:09:00.002-03:00

Clos de los Siete Vineyards will be hosting the wine reception at 7:00 PM sharp.

Dr. Ortner & Non Invasive Aesthetic Procedures

2009-09-16T14:46:00.003-03:00

I asked Dr. Leslie Ortner about this new Fractional CO2 Laser Treatment. He is explaining this and other non surgical treatments on his TV program " Vida y Estética" on Channel Metro (Mondays 11:30 AM).
Pigment dyschromia, rhytids and sun damage can be treated by this procedure. Many years of sun damage and aging can be wiped away utilizing the precision of laser surgery.
In addition to the elimination of many wrinkles, the skin is restored to a brilliant healthy glow.
Eyelid and crow's feet lines will disappear and the skin will tighten more than 25 percent.
CO2 laser surgery of the eyelids often makes eyelid lift surgery (blepharoplasty) unnecessary.
Acne scars can also be improved with the smoothing effects of the laser. Small scars will disappear and deeper scars will become less deep and less noticeable .
The procedure is done under topic anesthesia applied one hour before the laser technique.
The results will always depend on the patient´s skin and of course the daily use of sunblock creams afterwards.

Kaikén Wines

2009-09-03T16:50:00.003-03:00

7Spirits Wines of the New World will be hosting a wine tasting of Kaiken Wines at Vinoteca Caballito, Neuquén St. 681, corner with Honorio Pueyrredón Ave., Caba, on Tuesday September 8th. at 9:00 PM sharp.
Tickets in advance at the store at $20 each. A wonderful selection of finger food will be served and is included in the price.

Don´t miss it if you are visiting Buenos Aires! This is a hundred years old general store. The place is unique. Go!

Mauricio Lorca Vineyards, Vistaflores, Mendoza

2009-08-21T11:26:00.005-03:00

Last Thursday at Vinoteca Caballito, Neuquén 681, CABA, we celebrate a wine tasting of Mauricio Lorca Vineyards . Three differnet lines of Alta Gama wines were tasted among a selected group of wine lovers friends. The frist wine was línea Fantasía Malbec 2008 ($30), then Ópalo Malbec 2007 ($75), 100% pure malbec, not filtered, followed by Lorca Poético Cabernet Sauvignon 2007 ($70). After delicious meat empanadas and small pizzetas napolitanas, we tasted a sparkling wine Extra Brut, blanc de blancs, chardonnay and a small touch of Pinot Loire ($35) with cream stuffed profiteroles. Mmmm...

Next wine tasting will be held at the Vinoteca Caballito and our host will be Atilio Avena Vineyards on Tuesday August 25th, at 9:00 PM, sharp.

Reservations a must.

In spanish.

Men & Aesthetic Medicine

2009-08-07T15:50:00.003-03:00

Dr. Leslie Ortner provides Nonsurgical Medicine Aesthetic Treatments.

Benefits, risks and costs of the treatment you'd like to have, call Dr. Ortner for an appointment.

More Info: (011) 4816-1044

Gourmet sweets made to order

2009-07-31T14:59:00.003-03:00

Palermo Cupcakery is founded on the belief that our baked goods should not only look amazing but also taste amazing. That’s why we lovingly bake our products by hand from only the finest ingredients like real butter, fresh fruits in season or Philadelphia cream cheese (depending on the items from the menu that you select, of course).

Each sweet is made to order especially for you.

orders@palermocupcakery.com

Great Idea

2009-07-23T17:50:00.000-03:00

London Pret a Manger Wheat Free Food

2009-07-17T12:28:00.003-03:00

If you are looking for a delicious wheat free orange cake with almonds in London, just go to Pret a Manger .
The Orange cake was handmade, delicious and fresh. And not expensive at all.
About the products :
"Pret operates a bit like a restaurant. You won’t find ‘sell by’ dates on our fresh sandwiches and salads. We don’t sell ‘factory’ stuff. We offer our food to charity at the end of each day rather than keep it over."

It is possible to do a good business.

Let´s copy them!

Eat as a local: Plaza España Restaurant

2009-06-17T17:55:00.004-03:00

Plaza España
Avenida de Mayo 1299, and Talcahuano St. - Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

Kitchen Open 24 hs. Mondays closed.

Wide menu offer. Meat, chicken, fish, seafood, pasta, stuffed mushrooms, stews.

All dishes are really big. This is not a fancy restaurant, here the food matters. And prices are on the low side.

And the attention is really nice.

Jerez as a welcome drink and Lemoncello with the bill. On the house.

Give it a try if you are walking around Avenida de Mayo.

City Hall Palace and Culture House English Guided Visits

2009-06-06T18:55:00.002-03:00

ENGLISH & SPANISH.
Thursday June 11th: 2 and 4 PM.
Saturdays: 4 and 5 PM.
Sundays: From 11 AM to 4 PM.
Meeting Point: Bolivar St. #1.

More Info call: 4323-9669

Gallery Nights 09

2009-05-29T17:46:00.004-03:00

Friday May 29th. from 7 PM a new edition of Gallery Nights organized by Editorial Arte al Día .

There will be two special editions in the Palermo circuit on Wednesday June 10th and December 2nd.

For more info call 5031-0023 or by email a gallerynights@artealdia.com

Free Music in Buenos Aires City

2009-05-22T14:08:00.002-03:00

Obelisco de Buenos Aires

Sunday, 8:00 PM. Free.

Av. 9 de Julio, 0
Bus #: 6, 24, 26, 29, 50, 59, 100, 124, 146, 180.
Metro: B, C y D.
On Sunday May 24th at 8:00 PM, free music show at the Obelisco, downtown area.

Bomba de Tiempo
Kevin Johansen and Pablo Lescano
Juan Carlos Baglietto and No lo Soporto
EMME and Mike Amigorena
Hilda Lizarazu and Diego Frenkel
Alejandro Lerner with the Los Tipitos and Andrea Álvarez .
Patricia Sosa and Palo Pandolfo
Bajofondo with Gustavo Santaolalla

Bottle Shock (2008)

2009-05-07T16:24:00.002-03:00

In 1976, Steven Spurrier, a sommelier in Paris, comes to the Napa Valley to take the best he can find to Paris for a blind taste test against French wine. He meets Jim Barrett, whose Chateau Montelena is mortgaged to the hilt as Jim perfects his chardonnay. There's strain in Jim's relations with his hippie son Bo and his foreman Gustavo, a Mexican farmworker's son secretly making his own wine. Plus, there's Sam, a UC Davis graduate student and free spirit, mutually attracted to both Gustavo and Bo. As Spurrier organizes the "Judgment of Paris," Jim doesn't want to participate while Bo knows it's their only chance. Barrett's chardonnay has buttery notes and a Smithsonian finish.

Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

Botulimic Toxin Type A

2009-04-27T14:10:00.002-03:00

Dr. Leslie Ortner will answer all your questions about this non- invasive treatment.

Just call for an appointment :

4816-1044/1375.

Casting TV Argentina

2009-04-14T13:22:00.004-03:00

Important argentina producer will cast kids ages between 9 and 11.
Afro american, cuban, dominican looking.
Must speak spanish. He has to be a funny.
Picture and contact info to my e mail.

Thank you so much.

Wine Tasting by Ernesto Catena Vineyards

2009-04-08T08:44:00.003-03:00

This incredible place to buy your wine! More than a hundred years old in a beautiful neighborhood to walk around

Vinoteca de Caballito, Neququén 681, Caba, will host a fun and exclusive wine tatsting by Ernesto Catena Vineyards on Tuesday April 14th at 9:00 PM.

Reservations a must: 4904-1900.

This is an event that all local wine lovers are waiting for each month.

Would you miss it?

Dr. Raúl R. Alfonsín

2009-04-01T09:00:00.000-03:00

Shoes SALE!!!!!

2009-03-18T11:22:00.002-03:00

The famous shoes factory ALONSO, will have their summer super sale next March 19, 20 and 21 at their flagstore on Dean Funes 877, Caba.
Shoes from $100.
Men & Women.

BAFICI 2009

2009-03-11T13:12:00.000-02:00

http://www.bafici.gov.ar/home09/es/index.html

Tango in San Telmo, Free.

2009-03-05T08:54:00.003-02:00

BACANAZO

A Tango Show at the Centro Cultural Plaza Defensa, Defensa 535, San Telmo.

Sunday, March 8th., 7:00 PM.

Free.

Where do we locals eat out? Try them all.

2009-02-19T17:15:00.003-02:00

Martita

Full, full, always full. So if you like to have dinner early go there around 8:00 PM.This is a really small restaurant, sited on a quiet street corner of Boedo neighborhood.Try de empanadas salteñas, the homemade pasta, the tortilla or anything you want from the menu. Martita is cooking for you.Near San Juan y Boedo. Just walk around and then have dinner. Plenty of taxis to get back to your hotel .
Cochabamba St. 3700, Tel 4931-3584

La Vera Calabria
Owned by the Magliocco family. There you will find delicious pasta, homemade pasta. Among several delicatessen as the picada de la casa, snails, frogs á lá provenzal. Near Warnes Ave. and Juan B. Justo Ave.
Batalla del Pari St. 700, Tel 4584-1275

La Picada del Japonés
The friendly owner, Mr. Kochi, will serve you cold cuts, cheese from all over the world, warm bread, ham, olives from Greece, and of course wines and beers. This is a very old store and unique place in this amazing city. In San Cristóbal neighborhood.
Cochabamba St. 1701, Tel 4304-4841

Sand Beaches in the City!

2009-02-06T12:02:00.004-02:00

Buenos Aires Playa from Tuesday thru Sunday. Open 10:00 AM.

Closes February 28th.

Parque de los Niños

Parque Roca

Free Milonga Show in the City

2009-01-23T14:30:00.003-02:00

Where: Complejo Cultural Chacra de los Remedios, Directorio Ave. and Lacarra St., Parque Avellaneda. Just take the chance to walk around this beautiful park, who once was the estancia of the Olivera´s family.

When: Sunday January 25th and Sunday February 1st and 8th. At 7:00 PM. Free tickets one hour before the show.

Eating Out , New Experiences.

2009-01-12T17:16:00.002-02:00

http://www.casasaltshaker.com/
www.lacocinadiscreta.com
http://www.paladardoniafela.com.ar/. http://www.diegofelix.com/.
http://www.kensho-restaurante.blogspot.com/.
http://www.caracolescatering.com.ar/.

Unique Old Wine Store in Caballito, Buenos Aires

2008-12-30T12:45:00.004-02:00

Want to walk around the city?

Go to Caballito then. Also, keep walking to Primera Junta, subway line A station, and visit Mercado del Progreso.

If you are looking for selected argentine wines at really good prices, then go to Vinoteca Caballito. It is located on Neuquén St. # 681, Caballito, Caba. Phone : 4904-1900. The store is almost 100 years old and has beverages from all over the world and an incredible list of argentine boutique wines. ENJOY!

Yummy Ice Cream Shops in Buenos Aires

2008-12-18T16:23:00.006-02:00

Munchi´s

Recoleta- Buenos Aires Design
Caballito-Rivadavia Ave. 4893
Palermo- República Dominicana St. 3352
Belgrano R- Echeverría St. 3218
Barrio Norte- Larrea St. 1541
Balvanera- Shopping Abasto

Freddo

Libertador Ave. 5200
Juramento Ave. 2101
Juana Manso Ave. 1570
Santa Fé Ave. 1600
Rivadavia Ave. 6699
Callao Ave. 1201

Un ' Altra VOLTA

Callao Ave. and Melo St.
Echeverría St. and Vuelta de Obligado St. L
Libertador Ave. 3060
Quintana Ave. and Ayacucho St.
Santa Fé Ave. 1826
Coronel Díaz Ave. and Cerviño St.

Persicco

Migueletes St. 886
Salguero St. and Cabello St.
Rivadavia Ave. 4933
Vuelta de Obligado St. 2092

Cadore

Corrientes Ave. 1695

Saverio

San Juan Ave. 2816
José María Moreno Ave. 201
Cabildo Ave. 1501

Chungo

Virrey del Pino St. 2500
Las Heras Ave. and Rodriguez Peña St.
Quevedo St. and J.P. Varela St., Devoto Shopping

Girl's Night Out

2008-12-09T18:36:00.000-02:00

Wine Tasting : Rosell Boher & Naiara

2008-11-26T15:53:00.003-02:00

ROSELL BOHER Winery and Naiara Winery will be helding a wine tasting at the Vinoteca de Caballito, Neuquén 681, Buenos Aires city, on Thursday December 4th at 9:00 PM.

All wine lovers are invited to attend.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at the wine store Monday thru Friday from 5 to 8:30 PM.

Old Bars & Cafés: Bar Carlitos

2008-11-20T08:12:00.003-02:00

The Buenos Aires City Government will be celebrating the hundred years of the Bar Carlitos in the neighborhood of San Cristóbal.

Saturday November 29th at 7:00 PM. Music, tango dance.

Carlos Calvo 2607 (and Saavedra St.), San Cristóbal, Caba.

Foto: Por Isaías Garde factorfotos.blogspot.com/.../bar-carlitos.html

Mariani Winery, Valle de Uco, Mendoza, Argentina

2008-11-14T09:59:00.005-02:00

Presented by Winemaker and Business Director Mr. Sergio Mur, the wine line Illun 2004, 100% malbec was tasted last week at the Vinoteca de Caballito.

There are ony 6000 bottles available in the local market. So I do recommend : Find them, buy them, and enjoy.

Pablo Jaworsky , owner of the Vinoteca de Caballito and winemaker Sergio Mur

Shopping in Buenos Aires

2008-11-10T15:19:00.002-02:00

Abasto de Buenos Aires, Corrientes 3245, Caba.

Alto Avellaneda, Güemes 897, Avellaneda, Prov. de Bs. As.

Alto Palermo, Arenales 3360, Caba.

Buenos Aires Design Center, Av. Pueyrredón 2501, Caba.

Caballito Shopping, Av. Rivadavia 5108 esquina Hidalgo, Caba.

Del Parque Shopping, Nazarre 3175, Caba.

El Solar de la Abadía, Arce 940, Caba.

Galerías Pacífico San Martín 760, Caba.

Las Palmas del Pilar, Ruta Panamericana km. 50, Las Magnolias 754, Pilar.

Paseo Alcorta, Salguero 3172, Caba.

Patio Bullrich, Posadas 1246, Caba.

Plaza Oeste Shopping, Av. Gaona y Vergara, Morón, prov. Bs.As. Av. Juan Manuel de Rosas 658/760, Morón.

Shopping Liniers Ramón Falcón 7100, Caba.

Soleil Factory, Panamericana y Camino del Buen Ayre, Bernardo de Irigoyen 2647, Boulogne, prov. Bs.As.

Spinetto Shopping, Moreno 2301, Caba.

Unicenter ,Paraná 3745, Martínez, prov. Bs.As.

Village Pilar, Panamericana km. 50, ramal Pilar, prov. Bs. As.

Tango in Colegiales

2008-10-30T08:59:00.002-02:00

The City Hall of Buenos Aires City will present:

TANGO
At Centro Cultural Colegiales / Bar Los Manolos, Álvarez Thomas 1601 , CABA.
Friday November 7th, 8:00 PM..
"Colegiales Vive el tango"

Free admittance.

Cicerones of Buenos Aires

2008-10-28T08:41:00.002-02:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6xY2AWBYgw

Friendly volunteers will walk with you to non tourist spots around the city.

Just watch the above tv news report to learn a bit more and visit www.cicerones.org.ar

2nd Sparkling Argentine Wines Buenos Aires Edition

2008-10-17T11:51:00.003-03:00

La Muestra de Espumantes Argentinos is already in Buenos Aires city.

Organized by Wine Spirit the exhibition will be held next 28th, 29th and 30th of October.

Time: 6 PM to 11 PM.
Where: At Casa de Arce, Arce 434, Las Cañitas.

Several important argentine wineries will be present. Among them it will be possible to taste sparkling wines from: Cruzat Larraín, Agrestis, Coop. La Riojana, Trivento, Ernesto Catena Vineyards, Ovalles Muñoz y 20 more.

To buy tickets in advance please contact WINE SPIRIT:
Phone: 011-4772-2660 or email:espumantesargentinos@winespirit.com.ar
Only 500 tickets per day.

Malamado, Familia Zuccardi Winery, Mendoza, Argentina

2008-10-15T13:32:00.005-03:00

Surprise, surprise. Last Thursday October 9th, there was a Cocktail Drinks night at the Vinoteca de Caballito. Under the magnificent supervision of Juan Manuel Illesca, from Familia Zuccardi Winery, and beautiful coequiper Ms. Gabriela also from the winery, the international crowd tasted various mixed drinks with Malamado fortified wines.

Malamado Extra Dry ($63), Malamado Viogner ($60) and the star of the line Malamado Malbec 2004 ($63).

Highball Malamado, Malamado Tonic and Caipiamada were enjoyed among those present plus the always very well served picada of mini sandwiches, meat empanadas, chipá bread, deliciuos pork meat cold cuts and cheese.

Different night, different fun. And only for $10.

Don´t miss next wine tasting of Novus wines at the Vinoteca de Caballito, Neuquén 681, Capital Fedreal, Buenos Aires, on Thursday October 16th at 9:00 PM sharp.

Reservations only in advance. Invite your friends. And take a taxi.

Casa Brandon, Photo Expo Hair Saloons & First Names.

2008-10-09T10:33:00.003-03:00

Milongas around Buenos Aires

2008-10-02T09:52:00.003-03:00

Centro Cultural El Taller

Elpidio González 4967.

Friday October 3rd, 9:30 PM.

Open class and dancing floor.

Centro Cultural Lola Mora

Río de Janeiro 986

Saturday October 4th., 9:00 PM.

Dance & performances by tango dancers Daniel Tuero y Cecilia Piccinni.

Photo: www.tejastango.com/

FREE Guided Visit Tour around Buenos Aires

2008-09-26T12:36:00.004-03:00

On Sunday September 28th, at 3 PM, the City Hall Tourism Office will offer a free guided tour of VILLA URQUIZA neighborghood.

Meeting point: Bauness corner Nahuel Huapi street.

If rain the visit will be suspended.

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Nieto Senetiner Winery, Mendoza, Argentina

2008-09-22T18:38:00.006-03:00

Waiting for springtime.

Once again there was a wonderful wine tasting evening last September 16th. at the Vinoteca Caballito.

Mr. Pablo Menendez, our young sommelier from Cava & Restaurante Casa Nieto Senetiner, opened the very first red wine bottle of Nieto Malbec 2006 ($22/$28), followed by Don Nicanor Malbec 2004 ($42/$48).

After enjoying these malbec grapes, from the unique zone of Vistalba in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, the turn of Cabernet Sauvignon arrived: Nieto Cabernet Sauvignon and Don Nicanor Cabernet Sauvignon 2004.

With the generous home made picada (finger food for those fashionists) two bottles of Nieto Senetiner Extra Brut filled the crystal flute glasses.

There was a surprise raffle between those present and we will be there at the store again on Thursday September 25th at 9:00 PM.

Winery Santa Julia Familia Zucardi will be hosting the wine tasting that night.

Tickets only in advance at the store Vinoteca Caballito: Neuquén st. #681, Buenos Aires. Open from 10:00 Am to 2:00 PM and 4:00 PM to 8:30 PM.

Don´t miss it!

Clos de los Siete Winery, Mendoza, Argentina.

2008-09-10T12:11:00.004-03:00

This winery has seven french investors. And the incredible quality expertisse of Mr. Michel Rolland.
Hosted by recently returned to Argentine from exquisite France Mr. Santiago Serigos, an extraordinary wine tatsting was offered last September 4th. at the Vinoteca Caballito.

The wines , great value blends of Syrah, Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from Valle del Uco, delighted all those present at the old and small unique wine store.
Festivo 2006 ($25), Petite Fleur ($50), the signé MR Clos de los Siete ($70) and Monteviejo 2005 ($100).
The generous "picada" then followed, and the night was closed by brewer and owner of Centurión beer, Mr. Mariano Palma.

Next event will be on Tuesday, September 16th at 9 PM by Nieto Senetiner Winery.

Tickets in advance only at Neuquén 681, Caballito, Capital Federal, Buenos Aires.

Wine Week in Buenos Aires

2008-09-05T11:44:00.004-03:00

Wine Week in Buenos Aires

From September 4th. until September 13 th.

More than one hundred argentine wineries will be present at this Wines & Wineries 2008 that will be held at La Rural, in Palermo neighbourhood.

Spanish Workshop in Palermo

2008-09-02T10:37:00.002-03:00

La Chamiza Winery, Mendoza, Argentina.

2008-08-26T11:08:00.003-03:00

Last August 21st, La Chamiza Winery, vineyards from Tupungato, Luján de Cuyo and Maipú , presented La Chamiza Profesional chardonnay, malbec and cabernet sauvignon wine line and La Chamiza Amateur cabernet sauvignon, at the wine tasting performed and coordinated by Mr. Daniel at the Vinoteca de Caballito.

Next event will be held on September 4th, 9 PM.

Wine tasting will be offered by Clos de los Siete Winery.

Reservations in advance only: Neuquén 681, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Gallery Nights- You are invited!

2008-08-25T09:38:00.002-03:00

This seems to be an Art theme going on recently and that is most likely due to so many artistic events happening around this time. This unique event is part of Gallery Nights. The show starts the 29th of August, 7pm at Arenales 1415.

This time around this show is interactive. You the visitor, if you want to obviously, will have some makeup applied on the second floor, then on the third floor you will have your picture taken.
I don´t want to give anything away, but as you can imagine it´s not just a plain picture that will be taken. The third floor will be set up just for these pictures that will use the space, or the background as part of the total effect.

These pictures will be displayed simultaneously on an LCD screen downstairs for all to see and you could have your particular pictures e-mailed to your friends and family.
The pictures will form part of the show that will be exhibited for the whole month. I am sure to go to this one.

There will be champagne as well as Sugar & Spice cookies to nibble on while exploring the show. Anyone who takes their picture with a cookie and sends me the picture can have a free pack of their favorite cookies (the largest size pack of course to be picked up at our store).

The show is organized by Omnes Artes, and Marca Futuro Arte, and held at La Europea.
This show is also sponsored by:
Sugar & Spice

Chandon

Maxim Store

Bodega Sur de los Andes

CeeLiteI

CAP2MG NET

among others.
by: Frank Almeida from Sugar & Spice.

Celebrating Reader´s Day

2008-08-22T10:32:00.004-03:00

Casa de la Cultura, Salón Dorado.
Sunday, August 24th, 12 PM.

Free admittance.
Av. de Mayo , 575. Tel:4323-9669

Bus: 2, 9, 10, 22, 28, 29, 64, 86, 91,105, 111.

Metro: A Line.

Commemorating the birthday of wonderful writer Jorge Luis Borges, the City Government will held an open ceremony at the Casa de la Cultura.

Present will be Mrs. María Kodama, writers Marcos Aguinis and Santiago Kovadloff.

Brunch will be served at the Central Patio.

Argentine Wines Joffre e Hijas

2008-08-13T10:46:00.003-03:00

R. J. Viñedos, Mendoza, Valle de Uco, Argentina hosted at the VINOTECA de CABALLITO, the wine tasting of their varietal line Gran Chardonnay, Gran Malbec, Garn Merlot and Gran Cabernet Sauvignon.

As an extra gift for that cold night the cabernet sauvignon Pasión 4, 2007, was tasted also since the winnery is introducing this export line wines to the local market.

Next wine tasting event on August 21st.

Tickets in advance at the wine store: Neuquén 681, corner Honorio Pueyrredón, Caballito, Buenos Aires.

Café de García, Old Bar in Buenos Aires

2008-08-07T11:45:00.003-03:00

Open

Monday thru Friday from 6 AM to 2:30 AM.
Saturday: 7 AM to 2.30 AM.
SUNDAY CLOSED.

Superpicada (cold meats, cheese, etc.) with 30 ingredients Thursday. Friday & Saturday from 8:30 PM. RESERVATIONS ONLY.

Phone: 4501-5912
Sanabria 3302 (corner José Pedro Varela) - Villa Devoto- Buenos Aires.
e-mail: cafedegarcia@argentina.com

Old Buenos Aires

2008-08-01T16:52:00.004-03:00

From August Saturday 2nd until August 31st at the Casa de la Cultura photo exhibition of the old Buenos Aires.

Open Saturday & Sunday from 11 AM to 8 PM.
Tuesday thru Friday from 2 PM to 8 PM.

Free admittance.

http://www.skyscraperlife.com/city-versus-city/3894-buenos-aires-vs-nueva-york-29.html

Street Passages

2008-07-28T18:59:00.003-03:00

From the very start of the Avenida de Mayo

you could find around 16 different street passages.
Pasaje Roverano, Barolo y Urquiza Anchorena amog others .
The Barolo, # 1380 on the Avenue.
The Urquiza Anchorena, circa 1921, french style, located at # 747
Fotowww.metrosis.com.ar/index.php?showimage=23

Party Invitation

2008-07-22T09:15:00.002-03:00

Friend´s Day at Axel Hotel Buenos Aires

2008-07-14T12:48:00.002-03:00

Old Bars & Cafés around Buenos Aires City

2008-07-02T15:38:00.002-03:00

Want to have a "café cortado"? A beer? A glass of wine?
Do you want to discover the cafés around this amazing city?
Some of them are tango style, others early XX Century french style. Some modern...
They are all unique. They preserve the city´s history and memory.
And we are still missing the beautiful "confitería" El Molino, just across the Congress Building.

Find them:

12 de Octubre
Bulnes 331 , Almagro
(54 11) 6327 4594
www.barderoberto.com.ar

36 Billares
Av de Mayo 1265/71, Monserrat
(54 11) 4381 5696
www.los36billares.com.ar

American Bar
Av Roque Saenz Peña 632 ,Monserrat
(54 11) 4331 4825

Bar Aragón
Av. Alberdi 4899, Villa Luro

Bar de Cao
Av. Independencia 2400 , San Cristóbal
(54 11) 4943 3694

Bar del Hotel Alvear
Av. Alvear 1891 ,Recoleta
(54 11) 4808 2949
www.alvearpalace.com

El Estaño 1880
Aristobulo del Valle 1100 , La Boca
(54 11) 4302 8880

El Federal
Carlos Calvo 395 / 99 , San Telmo
(54 11) 4300 4313

Bar O Bar
Dirección: Tres Sargentos 415 , San Nicolás
(54 11) 4311 6856

Bar Oviedo
Dirección: Av Lisandro de la Torre 2407 , Mataderos
(54 11) 4687 8690

Plaza Dorrego
Dirección: Defensa 1096 / 98 , San Telmo
(54 11) 4361 0141

Bar Seddon
Dirección: Defensa 695 , San Telmo
(54 11) 4342 3700

Bar Sur
Estados Unidos 299 , San Telmo
(54 11) 4362 6086
www.bar-sur.com.ar

Café de García
Sanabria 3302 , Villa Devoto
(54 11) 4501 5912
www.cafedegarcia.com.ar

Café de los Angelitos
Rivadavia 2100 , Balvanera
(54 11) 4952 2320
www.cafedelosangelitos.com

Café Don Juan
Camarones 2702 , Villa Devoto
(54 11) 4586 0679

Café El Banderín
Guardia Vieja 3601 , Almagro
(54 11) 4862 7757
www.elbanderin.com.ar

Café El Coleccionista
Av. Rivadavia 4929 , Caballito
(54 11) 4902 7954

Café Esquina Homero Manzi
Av. San Juan 3601 , Boedo
(54 11) 4957 8488
www.esquinahomeromanzi.com.ar

Café Los Galgos
Av. Callao 501 , San Nicolás
(54 11) 4371 3561

Café Mar Azul
Tucumán 1700, San Nicolás
(54 11) 4374 0307

Café Margot
Boedo 857 , Boedo
(54 11) 4957 0001

Café Nostalgia
Soler 3599 , Palermo
(54 11) 4963 0903

Café Tortoni
Av. De Mayo 825/29 , Monserrat
(54 11) 4342 4328
www.cafetortoni.com.ar

Claridge Hotel
Tucumán 535 , San Nicolás
(54 11) 4314 7700 int. 335
www.claridge-hotel.com.ar

Clásica y Moderna
Av Callao 892 , Recoleta
(54 11) 4812 8707
www.clasicaymoderna.com

Confitería del Hotel Castelar
Av de Mayo 1048 , Monserrat
(54 11) 4383 5000 / 9
www.castelarhotel.com.ar

Confitería Ideal
Suipacha 384 , San Nicolás
(54 11) 5265 8069
www.confiteriaideal.com

El Gato Negro
Av Corrientes 1669 , San Nicolás
(54 11) 4374 1730

El Hipopótamo
Brasil 401 , San Telmo
(54 11) 4300 8450

El Preferido de Palermo
Jorge Luis Borges 2108 , Palermo
(54 11) 4774 6585

El Progreso
Av. Montes de Oca 1700 , Constitución
(54 11) 4301 0671

El Querandí
Peru 302 , Monserrat
(54 11) 5199 1770
www.elquerandi.com.ar

Florida Garden
Florida 899 , Retiro
(54 11) 4312 7902

Iberia
Av. de Mayo 1196 , Monserrat
(54 11) 4381 6300

La Biela
Av Quintana 600 , Recoleta
(54 11) 4804 4135
www.labiela.com

La Buena Medida
Suarez 101 , La Boca
(54 11) 4302 0038

La Coruña
Bolivar 982/94 , San Telmo
(54 11) 4362 7637

La Embajada
Santiago del Estero 88 , Monserrat
(54 11) 4381 1520

La Giralda
Av Corrientes 1453 , San Nicolás
(54 11) 4371 3846

La Perla
Don Pedro de Mendoza 1899, La Boca
(54 11) 4301 2985 / 87

La Puerto Rico
Adolfo Alsina 420, Monserrat
(54 11) 4331 2215

Las Violetas
Av. Rivadavia 3899 , Almagro
(54 11) 4958 7387/ 88
www.lasvioletas-café.com.ar

London City
Av de Mayo 599 , Monserrat
(54 11) 4342 9057

Miramar
Sarandi 1190 , San Cristóbal
(54 11) 4304 4261

Olimpo
Irigoyen 1491 , Villa Luro

Petit Colón
Libertad 505 , San Nicolás
(54 11) 4382 7306

Plaza Hotel Bar
Florida 1005 , Retiro
(54 11) 4318 3000
www.marriotplaza.com.ar

Richmond
Florida 468 , San Nicolás
(54 11) 4322 1341
www.restaurant.com.ar/richmond/

Saint Moritz
Esmeralda 894 , Retiro
(54 11) 4311 7311

Tokio
Alvarez Jonte 3550 , Villa Santa Rita

BORGES in Buenos Aires

2008-06-23T12:51:00.002-03:00

Borges & the Classics
Where: Biblioteca Ricardo Güiraldes
When: Thursdays , 19.30 hs. Free admittance.
Talcahuano, 1261. Tel:4812-1840 int.110

Buses: 10, 17, 38, 39, 59, 67, 100, 101, 106, 110, 150, 152.

Thursday June 26th, 19:30.

“Borges and The One Thousand and One Nights, Virgilio, Platón, Dante, Cervantes & Shakespeare”.

Thursday July 3rd., 19:30

Borges and Poe, Chesterton, Wells, Kafka y Conrad”

IN SPANISH.

El Puentecito

2008-06-17T17:04:00.002-03:00

El Puentecito

Luján 2101 y Vieytes, Barracas, Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Tel: 4301-1794

Open: Everyday, lunch & dinner.

Fish, paella, parrilla.

Just one of those off circuits bodegones in the beautiful Barracas neighborhood.

And don´t miss the Pasaje Lanin Art Exhibition.

Axel Hotel Buenos Aires

2008-06-05T13:07:00.000-03:00

Metropolitan Tango Contest

2008-05-30T11:44:00.004-03:00

In Buenos Aires From Thursday May 29 until Sunday July 6 .

Free admittance.

Check out the newspaper or the City website for more information .

Circuits: Bars & Neighborhoods

2008-05-20T17:41:00.007-03:00

What to do? Where to go? This place or that one?

San Telmo: Casal de Catalunya + La Puerta Roja
Casal de Catalunya (Chacabuco 863; Tel 4361-0191)L
La Puerta Roja (Chacabuco 733; Tel 4362-5649)
Centro:Club del Progreso+ Banchero+ Chabrés
Club del Progreso (Sarmiento 1334; Tel 4372-3350/3380)
Banchero (Av. Corrientes 1300; Tel 4382-4669)
Chabrés - bar de tragos ((Maipú 530; Tel 4322-1542)
Palermo: Bar del Gallego + Bangalore + La Aromática
Bar del Gallego (Bonpland y Honduras)
Bangalore (Humboldt 1416; Tel 4779-2621)
La Aromática (Bulnes 873; Tel 4866-2300)
San Telmo: Gibraltar + Café San Juan + Achtung
Gibraltar (Perú 895; Tel 4362-5310)
Café San Juan (Av. San Juan 450; Tel 4300-1112)
Achtung (Estados Unidos 523)
San Telmo: Lezama + Guevara
Lezama (Brasil 359; Tel 4361-0114)
Guevara (Humberto 1º 463; Tel 4361-2020)
Villa Crespo: ocho7ocho + Sarkis
ocho7ocho (Thames 878; Tel 4773-1098)
Sarkis (Thames 1101; Tel 4772-4911)
Almagro: Status + Bar de Roberto + La Catedral del Tango
Status (Virrey Cevallos 178; Tel 4382-8531)
Bar de Roberto (Perón y Bulnes)
La catedral del tango (Sarmiento 4006, timbre 5)
Boedo: Café Margot + Bar de Cao + Spiagge di Napoli
Café Margot (Boedo 857; Tel 4957-0001)
Bar de Cao (Independencia 2400; Tel 4943-3694)
Spiagge di Napoli (Independencia 3527; Tel 4931-4420)
Palermo: Hipódromo de Palermo + Kansas + Mamá Europa
Hipódromo de Palermo (www.palermo.com.ar)
Kansas (Av. Del Libertador 4625; Tel 4776-4100)
Mamá Europa (Benjamín Matienzo 1599; Tel 4772-0926)
Barrio Norte: 788 Food Bar + El Norte + El Álamo
788 (Arenales 1877; Tel 4814-4788)
El Norte (Talcahuano 953; Tel 4816-2867)
El Álamo (Uruguay 1175; Tel 4813-7324)

para Glam Out
published 13/5/2008
POR MartÌn Auzmendi
Foto:http://capital-federal.enbuenosaires.com.ar/barrios-guias-es_AR.html

Locations in Buenos Aires

2008-05-10T13:55:00.003-03:00

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2008-05-02T10:57:00.003-03:00

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Argentine Wine Suggestions

2008-04-22T06:56:00.003-03:00

Alfredo Roca Family Reserve Malbec (2001)
Altocedro Reserva
Angélica Zapata Alta Malbec (2000)
Carmelo Patti Gran Assemblage (2002)
Carmelo Patti Malbec (2003)
Colonia Las Liebres (2006)
Crotta Tempranillo (2001)
Domingo Molina Malbec (2000)
El Cid Tinto (2005)
Jean Bousquet Malbec
Licor de Miel
Mayol Syrah (2002)
Pisco Tapaus
Punto Final Malbec Clásico (2006)
Punto Final Malbec Reserva (2005)
Reserva Nieto Merlot (2002)
San Pedro de Yacochuya Tinto
Trazos de Autor Champaña (2004)
Villa Seca Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot (2000)
Yacochuya (2001)

By :www.vinoaldia.com

About Argentine Wines

2008-04-01T12:25:00.006-03:00

If you want to be updated about this awesome industry business please just go to:

http://www.vinoaldia.com/

And of course, enjoy our wines.

Argentine Nights

2008-03-24T13:19:00.002-03:00

By DENNY LEE http://travel.nytimes.com

THE tango dancers took their places inside a cramped apartment in downtown Buenos Aires, as David Lampson, a 29-year-old television writer from Boston, wiped his brow. Despite the 100-degree weather, the fans had been shut off, spotlights switched on and windows blacked out with trash bags. The cameraman waited until the smoke machine blurred the parquet floor before yelling “Action!” Then just as the iTunes track reached its dramatic crescendo, the fuse blew. For the fourth time.
“Let’s unplug the other fan and try again,” Mr. Lampson told the polyglot cast and crew, which included a Greek mother, a Colombian architect and an Argentine shoemaker. Also present was a New York City film student, who was editing the footage for YouTube distribution. Mr. Lampson likened the process to creating art from garbage. “There is a tango dance based on this idea,” he added, “called cambalache.”
A better term might be bohemians-in-exile. A new kind of tango is taking shape along the crooked back streets of Buenos Aires. At a former furniture factory on Calle Honduras, the British music engineer Tom Rixton, who has worked with top acts like Depeche Mode, runs a stylish boutique hotel called Home with his Argentine wife. Nearby on Calle Garruchaga, Amanda Knauer, a fashion designer from Manhattan, sells a chic line of leather handbags at Qara. And at Zizek, a weekly dance party run by an expat from San Antonio, the cha-ch-ch-cha rhythms of cumbia folk music quivers to an electronic beat.
“There are expats everywhere tapping into the city’s thriving cultural and arts scene,” said Grant C. Dull, Zizek’s founder, who also runs the popular bilingual Web guide WhatsUpBuenosAires.com. “And it’s not backpacker types, but people with money and contacts.”
Drawn by the city’s cheap prices and Paris-like elegance, legions of foreign artists are colonizing Buenos Aires and transforming this sprawling metropolis into a throbbing hothouse of cool. Musicians, designers, artists, writers and filmmakers are sinking their teeth into the city’s transcontinental mix of Latin élan and European polish, and are helping shake the Argentine capital out of its cultural malaise after a humbling economic crisis earlier this decade.
Video directors are scouting tango ballrooms for English-speaking actors. Wine-soaked gallery openings and behemoth gay discos are keeping the city’s insomniacs up till sunrise. And artists from the United States, England, Italy and beyond are snapping up town houses in scruffy neighborhoods and giving the areas Anglo-ized names like Palermo SoHo and Palermo Hollywood.
Comparisons with other bohemian capitals are almost unavoidable. “It’s like Prague in the 1990s,” said Mr. Lampson, who is perhaps best known for winning a Bravo TV reality show, “Situation: Comedy,” in 2005, about sitcom writers. Despite his minor celebrity, he decided to forgo the Los Angeles rat race and moved to Buenos Aires, where he is writing an NBC pilot, along with his Web novela, www.historyandtheuniverse.com. “Buenos Aires is a more interesting place to live than Los Angeles, and it’s much, much cheaper. You can’t believe a city this nice is so cheap.”
That wasn’t always the case. For much of the 20th century, Buenos Aires ranked among the world’s most expensive capitals, on par with Paris and New York. Broad boulevards were lined with splendid specimens of French belle époque architecture that evoked the Champs-Élysées, and tree-lined streets were buzzing with late-night cafes and oak-and-brass bars. Locals, it is often said, identify more as European than South American.
Then came the financial crisis of late 2001. The Argentine peso, which was once pegged to the United States dollar, plunged to a low of nearly 4 to 1 in the face of mounting debt and runaway inflation. (It holds steadily today at about 3 to 1.) Overnight, Buenos Aires went from being among the priciest cities to one of the world’s great bargain spots.
There was a silver lining. Even as local artists flocked overseas, producing a kind of creative brain drain from Buenos Aires, foreigners arrived in record numbers. And what they discovered was that this fast-paced city of three million offered more than just tango and cheap steaks. The Argentine capital also had balmy weather, hedonistic night life and a cosmopolitan air that thrives on novelty.
Situated at the wide mouth of the Río de la Plata, Buenos Aires sprawls across the flat landscape with the force of a concrete hurricane. It takes more than an hour to traverse opposite ends by yellow-and-black taxi. And that’s not mentioning the 48 barrios that creep inland, each with a distinct personality and crisscrossed by a web of cobblestone alleys and 12-lane mega-streets. There are business districts like Microcentro, leafy barrios like Recoleta and manufacturing sectors like La Paterna.
And nearly everywhere you turn these days, the new arrivals seem to be planting their flags, whether at a so-called chorizo house in historic San Telmo or a glassy condo in Puerto Madero. Or, for that matter, a former door factory on Calle Aguirre, which Sebastiano Mauri, 35, a painter and video artist from Milan, recently bought with several artists on the industrial outskirts of Palermo.
“Some are now calling this area Palermo Brooklyn,” said Mr. Mauri during a recent visit of his renovated factory, a bright yellow building on an otherwise gray street. Cost for the entire four-story factory? $130,000. “Buenos Aires makes Milan look like a neighborhood. It’s lively, multiethnic and you have Europeans from all over.”
After gutting the third floor, Mr. Mauri spent the past year converting it into an artist-in-residence studio with hardwood floors, stainless-steel kitchen cabinets and midcentury-modern furniture. To celebrate the near-completion, he held a rooftop barbecue on a breezy Saturday in January that drew a cross section of Buenos Aires’s art elite.
Drinking malbec out of plastic cups and eating steaks with dollops of ratatouille, the crowd of about 20 artists, curators and collectors chatted easily about the hyper-commercialized state of art, a towering sex hotel (known as a telo) nearby and the city’s obsession with ice cream. “Artists come here because they can be free,” said Florencia BragHis first cumbia album, “No Nos Dejamos Afeitar,” released in 2002, was so well received that Mr. Verdult decided to move to Buenos Aires. “The reaction blew me away,” said Mr. Verdult, who is regarded as the unofficial godfather of this new electrotango sound known as experimental cumbia. a Menéndez, whose namesake contemporary art gallery is arguably the city’s most influential. “As a gallerist, I never tell my artists what sells. They must create for themselves.”
That creative freedom has fueled plenty of cultural cross-pollination. Dick Verdult, an avant-garde musician and artist from the Netherlands, began toying with cumbia around 2000, manipulating the childish rhythms of the South American folk music with electronic bass lines, time delays and sampled voices. “Cumbia is like a ball of clay,” said Mr. Verdult, 53, who is better known by his stage name, Dick El Demasiado. “If you stick to the simple laws” — a 4/4 rhythm that he likens to a galloping horse — “but disregard the tradition, you can do a lot with it. Argentina has a very elastic culture.”Not surprisingly, many of his disciples are fellow expatriates. “There’s a group of maybe 10 producers and D.J.’s who are really pushing these new styles,” said Gavin Burnett, 26, a D.J. from San Francisco who blends cumbia with hip-hop and Jamaican dancehall under the pseudonym Oro11. “If you’re an artist looking to be inspired and have $10,000 saved up, you can basically come down here and work, and not worry for a year.”
It’s not only artist types who are soaking up Buenos Aires’s budget bohemia. Stumble into many of the city’s trendy restaurants, bars and hotels, and there’s a good chance a foreigner is behind it.
One of the newest is Le Bar, a martini lounge and restaurant in Microcentro with sunken seats, cool lighting and a rooftop terrace. It was started by several French expatriates including Manuel Schmidt, 40, an architect from Paris who sailed to Argentina with his wife and young daughter three years ago, and basically didn’t sail back. Brasserie Petanque, a new restaurant in San Telmo, looks as though it was transplanted tile by tile from the Left Bank. “When I came in 2003, there were no French restaurants, so I stayed and opened this,” said Pascal Meyer, an owner who was tending bar on a recent Sunday night. Before becoming a restaurateur in Buenos Aires, he was a culinary tour guide for the United Nations in New York City.
AND then there are the novelists, journalists and screenwriters, quietly tapping away in their $600-a-month apartments, seeking to make a name for themselves on Argentine soil. Nate Martin, a 24-year-old from Wyoming, moved to the city in November and took a job as an editor at The Buenos Aires Herald, an English-language newspaper, because, he says, “I didn’t want to be a waiter while writing.” For his creative outlet, Mr. Martin maintains a blog, Grating Space. Like dozens of similar blogs written by foreigners, it rhapsodizes about the Argentine good life. He also D.J.’s on the side.
“We play stuff that they’ve never heard of,” said his friend, Tom Masterson, a 35-year-old transplant from Chicago, during a night out at Bahrein, a stylish sweatbox in Microcentro where the headlining D.J. hailed from Belgium. “They love me here.”
Some literary efforts are starting to bear fruit. The writer Marina Palmer quit her advertising job in New York City, moved to Buenos Aires and, in 2005, published a “Sex in the City”-like memoir set in the city’s vampish tango scene. “Kiss and Tango” has been optioned by Hollywood, with Sandra Bullock recently floated as a possible lead. (The film that has everyone buzzing these days is Francis Ford Coppola’s “Tetro,” a drama about Italian immigrants in Argentina that is being filmed in the city.)
But moviemaking is hardly restricted to foreigners. Argentina has a storied film history — notable examples include the 1968 political documentary “The Hour of the Furnaces” and the post-junta feature, “Official Story,” which won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film in 1986 — and, in recent years, a so-called New Argentine Cinema has emerged, thanks to a new crop of directors like Daniel Burman and Lucrecia Martel who are winning prizes in Berlin, Toronto and other film festivals. They have set up shop along the fringes of fashionable Palermo, in an area now known as Palermo Hollywood.
As with other creative fields, the cinematic revival got some unexpected help from the financial crisis. Not only did the industry benefit from the influx of foreigners looking for cheap production costs, but the peso meltdown also provided grist for creative self-examination. “People were no longer talking about pretty dresses or soap operas,” said Tomi Streiff, a filmmaker who moved to Buenos Aires from New York City with his partner and fellow screenwriter, Jane Hallisey. The couple is now working on a romantic comedy about a priest. “Everybody was hurt, so their skin was open.”
The wellspring of creativity is starting to leech out of Buenos Aires and onto the larger cultural stage. Local fashion designers, who flourished when European imports tripled in price, are making inroads into the global marketplace. Tramando, a high-end fashion store in Recoleta started by Martin Churba, now has boutiques in Tokyo and the meatpacking district in New York. And Maria Cher, a London-trained designer who has an airy boutique in Palermo SoHo, exports her glamorous dresses throughout South America, as well as to Tokyo.
Experimental cumbia music is reverberating beyond the city’s packed dance floors. Mr. Burnett, the D.J., just started his own cumbia record label, Bersa Discos, and is playing shows in his native San Francisco. Zizek, the weekly dance party, is taking its urban tropical beats throughout the United States, with stops this month in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin.
Buenos Aires’s buzzing art scene, meanwhile, is being touted as the next big thing. Or that’s the hope, anyway, of the city’s eager artists and wide-eyed gallerists. “This city reminds me a lot of Berlin,” said Elisa Freudenreich, 27, a gallery manger who recently moved from Berlin and sees parallels in the profusion of street artists and graffiti-splattered spaces. “The scene is very fresh, very underground.”
Scruffy galleries have gone up along the city’s edges, most notably Appetite, an irreverent, punk-inflected gallery in San Telmo started by Daniela Luna, a feisty 30-year-old known for her shrewd eye and cool parties. On a steamy Thursday afternoon, as office workers were climbing aboard buses back home, Ms. Luna was flitting through her grungy gallery in a brown miniskirt and sparkly pink T-shirt, like a teenager in a vintage clothing store.
“My first gallery was so messy that when people came to my parties, they didn’t know if the stuff was art or trash,” Ms. Luna said, as she showed off works by Santiago Iturralde, a local artist who paints portraits of narcissistic young men based on their Facebook-like Web profiles. “We’re growing fast and furious.” So fast, in fact, that she is exporting her cheeky blend of trash art to the real Brooklyn, where she just opened a small gallery.
Her gallery will get additional exposure in Milan when the contemporary art fair, MiArt 2008, spotlights emerging Buenos Aires artists in April. Adriana Forconi, a jet-settling consultant to the art fair, was in town recently to scout for worthy galleries, and was struck by what she calls the city’s “frenetic and blissfully chaotic” pace.
“There’s definitely something happening here,” said Ms. Forconi, who was among the guests at the artist-filled rooftop barbecue. Dressed in a flouncy party dress and strappy sandals, she looked ready for another long night on the town. “There’s a clash between European and Latin American cultures that’s fascinating.”
“And unlike Milan, there are no rules,” Ms. Forconi added, as she looked out at the twinkling city and took a sip of wine. For a moment, she sounded like someone toying with a move to Buenos Aires. “You can do whatever you want here.”
FROM PALERMO HOLLYWOOD TO PALERMO BROOKLYN
GETTING THERE
American Airlines and Aero Lineas Argentinas fly direct from Kennedy Airport to Buenos Aires, starting at $762 for travel in April, according to a recent online search. The 20-mile taxi ride to the city costs about 100 pesos, about $31 at 3.2 pesos to the dollar. Buses and subways are fast and inexpensive. Taxis are plentiful and cost 10 to 15 pesos for a typical trip.
WHERE TO STAY
Unless you’re packing a business suit, consider the neighborhoody barrios of Palermo Viejo or Recoleta.
Home Hotel Buenos Aires (Honduras 5860; 54-11-4778-1008; www.homebuenosaires.com), opened by the British music producer Tom Rixton and his Argentine wife, Patricia O’Shea, is a boutique hotel on a quiet block in Palermo Viejo. The 17-room hotel features midcentury-modern furniture, a pool and a restaurant. Rates start at $120.
Designed by Philippe Starck, the Faena Hotel + Universe (Martha Salotti 445; 54-11-4010-9000; www.faenahotelanduniverse.com) offers over-the-top elegance in Puerto Madero, a planned waterfront district. The spacious hotel, which occupies an old grain silo, has everything from a cabaret stage to a hammam, with 110 rooms starting at $425.
There are plenty of great hotels for under $100, like the Art Hotel (Azcuénaga 1268; 54-11-4821-4744; www.arthotel.com.ar). For longer stays, apartment rentals offer even better deals. Two reputable agencies include For Rent Argentina (www.4rentargentina.com) and ApartmentsBA (www.apartmentsba.com). I paid $125 a night for a modern two-bedroom apartment in Palermo Soho that slept three comfortably, and included a large terrace and pool. WHERE TO EAT
Olsen in Palermo Viego (Gorriti 5870; 54-11-4776-7677) serves a chic blend of Scandinavian and Argentine cuisine in a modern space seemingly plucked out of Copenhagen. Dinner for two with wine, about 250 pesos, or $78 at 3.2 pesos to the dollar.
Le Bar in Microcentro (Tucumán 422; 54-11-5219-0858) evokes a space age bordello, with red-velvet sunken seats, a rooftop lounge and a global tapas menu. Dinner for two, 200 pesos.
Brasserie Petanque (Defensa 596; 54-11-4342-7930; www.brasseriepetanque.com) brings Parisian comfort food to San Telmo. Dinner for two with wine, 200 pesos.
WHERE TO GO OUT
Zizek is held on Wednesdays from midnight at the Niceto Club in Palermo (Niceto Vega 5510; 54-11-4779-9396; www.whatsupbuenosaires.com/zizek).
Bahrein (Lavalle 345; www.bahreinba.com), in a century-old downtown building, has a popular Tuesday drum-and-bass party.
Kim y Novak (Godoy Cruz y Güemes; 54-11-4773-7521; www.kimynovak.blogspot.com), a drag-queen-friendly bar in Palermo.
WEB SITES
What’s Up Buenos Aires (www.whatsupbuenosaires.com) is a bilingual guide to the city’s arts, music and cultural offerings.
bue (www.bue.gov.ar), the city’s official tourism site, has event listings, useful tips and directories.
TangoSpam (www.tangospam.typepad.com) is among dozens of blogs written by expatriates. Links to other blogs can be found on it.

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