De las mejores medialunas de manteca de Buenos Aires!read more

In the interest of brevity...ambience!…read more This tea house is beautiful. The service is impeccable. The coffee** (not a big tea drinker) is great. The location...would rather it were on a quieter street, but you can't have everything. The selection of spices is astounding! Who'd've guessed? **For (US) Americans, by coffee i mean espresso drinks. An americano is pretty close to what we think of as coffee. If that just won't do, there's a Starbucks somewhere.

We came here a bunch of times during our trip. It offers a quintessential Argentine experience:…read morelaid back vibe with kind of nostalgic, dreamy ambience and some amazing coffee. They had some creative coffee options: expresso with cardamom, espresso with whisky, and every conceivable type of expresso/milk concoction. Their food is also really good. I ate a few steak sandwiches there and I was always very impressed. You can tell this place is an institution good because virtually all swathes is Buenos Aires come here, from fancy ladies on their way to or coming back from concerts to Argentine hipsters taking advantage of the strong wifi with their laptops. The place is quite old, I think it was founded sometime in the 1920s, but I could be misremembering. Nevertheless, the decor and architecture is certainly of that time. Oh and they are also a spice store.

No vayan! Fuimos a tomar el té un sábado, pedimos café y unas cookies para lo dulce. Estaba rico…read morepero cuando pedimos la cuenta tardaron AÑOS. Nos fuimos a quejar una vez y nos dijeron que ya venían, pasaron 15 minutos más y fuimos a pagar adentro enojadísimos, nos atendió el encargado de muy mala manera diciendo "no entiendo que pretenden con esta cantidad de gente" QUE DIJO? Insólito. Me dieron ganas de irme sin pagar!!! Don't go! We came for tea on a Saturday, we ordered coffee and some sweet cookies. It was good but when we asked for the bill they took YEARS. We went to complain and they said it would be in our table right away, it took 15 more minutes and we went inside to pay, at this point we were really angry, the manager said (in a bad mood) "i don't understand what do you pretend with this amount of people" WHAT? Ridiculous. I wanted to leave without paying!!!