On the house
EventExhibitions
Adriana Bustos: Código natal
A work commissioned for the museum’s 130th anniversary. Give this first-floor exhibition a place in your next Recoleta afternoon.
Buenos Aires / From the café table to the next barrio
Thursday 24 September
The local editBuenos Aires
A city best taken without a rush
A bookshop to get lost in. Art that starts a conversation. One more slice, one more walk. Make room for Buenos Aires.
Less searching. More going.
Your day, your way.
Choose a mood. We’ll connect the good places.
The after-dark edit
Buenos Aires is just getting started.
Dinner can take its time. Palermo’s dance floors and late music rooms give the rest of the night somewhere to go.
Explore after dark
01Buenos Aires / Palermo
Under Club
A Palermo Hollywood techno address that asks you to put the camera away and give the dance floor your attention.
Find your nightEditorial artwork
02Buenos Aires
Niceto Club
Palermo’s concert-and-club finish, for an evening chosen around the music rather than the dinner reservation alone.
Find your night
03Buenos Aires / Retiro
Florería Atlántico
A basement bar behind a flower shop on Arroyo, with a drinks programme that looks to the port, migration and the city’s many influences.
Find your night
04Buenos Aires / Retiro
Presidente Bar
A late-starting cocktail address on Quintana, for the point in a Buenos Aires evening when the conversation is only getting going.
Find your night
Choose a dated event on the venue’s official programme. Admission and opening times vary.
Follow your curiosity
A few ways to do Buenos Aires.
015 stops, at your pace
Buenos Aires, art to Palermo after dark
Bellas Artes, MALBA, a botanical pause, a parrilla table and Niceto. Let the day move north and the evening find its own tempo.
Open the itinerary
023 stops, at your pace
Three ways into Buenos Aires art
Recoleta, San Telmo and La Boca offer different kinds of looking. Choose a starting point before drawing a line across the map.
Open the itinerary
033 stops, at your pace
From a café table to the river
Tortoni, the former post office and a long breath of riverside space. Downtown Buenos Aires without a checklist sprint.
Open the itineraryOn our radar
A few porteño starting points for your day.
Retiro
El Cuartito
Recoleta
Adriana Bustos: Código natal
Recoleta
HABITAR: Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial
Out there, right now
Buenos Aires is waiting outside.
On the house
EventExhibitions
HABITAR: Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial
Architecture as a way of looking at everyday life. A free exhibition at Bellas Artes, with public visiting dates from 23 September.
EventExhibitions
Viva Frida
Clothes, objects and images bring Frida Kahlo’s self-presentation into focus at MALBA. Build the afternoon around a proper gallery visit.
EventExhibitions
Belkis Ayón: Myth and Disobedience
Seven works offer a concentrated encounter with Belkis Ayón’s printmaking, mythology and the figure of Sikán.
Close the tabs. Open the weekend.
Leave the afternoon open.
An exhibition in Recoleta, a wander through San Telmo, a table you don’t want to leave. Choose the part that speaks to you.
Make a weekend of itOn the house
EventExhibitions
Adriana Bustos: Código natal
A work commissioned for the museum’s 130th anniversary. Give this first-floor exhibition a place in your next Recoleta afternoon.
On the house
EventExhibitions
HABITAR: Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial
Architecture as a way of looking at everyday life. A free exhibition at Bellas Artes, with public visiting dates from 23 September.
The food edit
Make time for the sobremesa.
RestaurantPizza
El Cuartito
Pizza on Talcahuano, with a late finish. A straightforward reason to stop for lunch or turn an evening walk into dinner.
RestaurantParrilla
Don Julio
A Palermo parrilla to build a meal around. Check the reservation calendar before fixing the rest of your day.
RestaurantArgentine
Café Tortoni
Coffee, a table and a little Avenida de Mayo theatre. Make Tortoni a deliberate pause instead of a photograph taken at the door.
RestaurantArgentine
El Preferido de Palermo
Give Palermo a long lunch on the corner of Borges and Guatemala. An old almacén address with a restaurant at the centre of the plan.
Art & culture
Art with something to say.
On the house
EventExhibitions
Adriana Bustos: Código natal
A work commissioned for the museum’s 130th anniversary. Give this first-floor exhibition a place in your next Recoleta afternoon.
On the house
EventExhibitions
HABITAR: Buenos Aires Architecture Biennial
Architecture as a way of looking at everyday life. A free exhibition at Bellas Artes, with public visiting dates from 23 September.
EventExhibitions
Viva Frida
Clothes, objects and images bring Frida Kahlo’s self-presentation into focus at MALBA. Build the afternoon around a proper gallery visit.
EventExhibitions
Belkis Ayón: Myth and Disobedience
Seven works offer a concentrated encounter with Belkis Ayón’s printmaking, mythology and the figure of Sikán.
Big on discovery. Easy on the wallet.
A Buenos Aires day without admission fees.
Open collections, garden paths and a walk towards the river. The city has plenty to offer beyond the ticket office.
Discover it for yourselfA city of little worlds
Every barrio has its own conversation.
Editor’s picks
Buenos Aires, at the pace of a good afternoon.
GuideCulture
Buenos Aires, with room to wander
A bookshop, a pizza stop and a stretch of green. Three starting points for a day with a little space around its plans.
GuideCulture
Three ways into Buenos Aires art
Recoleta, San Telmo and La Boca offer different kinds of looking. Choose a starting point before drawing a line across the map.
GuideCulture
From a café table to the river
Tortoni, the former post office and a long breath of riverside space. Downtown Buenos Aires without a checklist sprint.
GuideFood & drink
Retiro, behind the doors after dark
A hotel bar with something to eat, a late-starting Quintana address and a basement below a florist. Three stops that keep the evening around Retiro.
A closer look
