Argentina
A pretty sweet and thick wine served with soda water. Awesome to sip on the side of the streets in the San Telmo district. Keep an eye out for old men sat on wicker chairs, eating monkey nuts and smoking pipes made from shells.
San Telmo district, Buenos Aires
The easiest, friendliest and probably best-looking bar/restaurant in BA with top cocktails supplied by a Geordie barman, barflys made up of artists and jovial locals and a kitchen that serves up delicious argie-based food with an often spicy twist (rare for BA!). Enough said.
san martin 941, BA
It's all about the best wine in Buenos Aires you can find, but what stuck out more in my mind was the great wonderful service you get at La Botica del Vino.
It's like taking a big variety-type wine emporium blended with the attention you would get from a family store. You can't beat it, ask for Hernan. Argentina´s red wine is world class, but the prices still aren't.
Florida 971, local#9, Galería Larreta
phone: 54-11-4894-2054
mail: info@bdv.com.ar
www.bdv.com.ar
Excellent atmospheric bar full of locals all having a good time and doing it in a civilised manner.
No English spoken but ask for 'chop Quilmes' (draught beer) and that may be all the Spanish you need!
I met six other Irishmen at a football game and they announced they were off to a bar they had found that they really liked - turned out to be the same one I had discovered days before: Bar Seddon!
The food is not bad either.
Corner Defensa and Chile.
Subte: Independencia
If you really need a curry and a nice pint you should check out the bar Gibraltar in San Telmo, on the corner of Peru and Estados Unidos.
Perú 895, y Estados Unidos, San Telmo, Buenos Aires;
tel: 54-11-4362-5310
A cerveceria (beer house) in Palermo Hollywood with a small range of fantastic real beers, the best in the city. Proper pints, relaxed and not Hollywood pretentious. Recommended.
Corner of Carranza and Gorriti;
tel: 4777 2827
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