Check out my July 12, 2009 New York Times piece on Buenos Aires’s bares notables. Be sure to look at photographer Kevin Moloney’s slide show of some of the bares notables. The city’s list of notable bars and cafes is up to 53. It seems the city’s Web site is not only slow but disfunctional at the moment, so I am posting the list of bares notables here. I visited more than 40 of them before choosing the six that made the cut for the story. Some of my research documented in images:
El Gato Negro on Corrientes
Francis loved his submarino (hot chocolate); the budin was too dry
The Brighton - brass door handle like an over-sized tilde - lovely interior
Cafe Garcia - part of the gargantuan picada
Cafe Margot - hanging out over the bar
El Banderin - great hangout; food's survival good.
With Raquel (right), "research assistant" - after 36 Billares, Av. de Mayo
Borges, Gardel, and poet Nadia . . .Tortoni
Research assistants Carmen, Ed, at Pan y Arte
Linda Maxwell, research assistant, El Querandi
Research assistant, Oscar, Preferido, Palermo
Preferido, fabada asturiana - muy rico
Britanico, pizza matambre with papas fritas
La Coruna's crooked bar
Brighton, Robert, research assistant
Los Angelitos, waiter snapped this one.
Steam bar special