PlaceFood & drink
Café Margot
A Boedo café with neighbourhood character, suited to a quiet table after exploring the area’s literary past.
The Buenos Aires edit
Places worth your time
The museums, gardens and streets behind our Buenos Aires selection.
The museums, gardens and streets behind our Buenos Aires selection. Start with one recommendation, then follow its linked places and official sources to plan your visit.
PlaceCulture
Confitería del Molino
Follow the restoration project’s visitor programme to see the architectural craft of this landmark beside Congress.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Ópera
Pick a concert or stage production inside one of Corrientes Avenue’s distinctive performance halls.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Broadway
A theatre-night address on Corrientes, with a current programme to check before choosing dinner nearby.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Politeama
A contemporary theatre venue carries a historic name into a new chapter of Buenos Aires stage life.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Apolo
Build a central-city evening around the play on this established Corrientes stage.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Lola Membrives
A richly decorated theatre gives a Corrientes production a setting worth arriving early to appreciate.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Presidente Alvear
Follow the public theatre programme at this Corrientes venue for a different way into the city’s performing arts.
PlaceConcerts
Under Club
A Palermo Hollywood techno address that asks you to put the camera away and give the dance floor your attention.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Premier
Choose a performance at this Corrientes theatre and keep the rest of the night within walking distance.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Tabarís
A long-running stage in the theatre district, with productions that make the current bill the reason to go.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Empire
A theatre near Congreso offers another route into Buenos Aires performance beyond the busiest commercial stages.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro El Nacional
Musical theatre and large productions find a home at this established Corrientes venue.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Payró
An intimate independent stage for choosing a play and staying close to the actors’ work.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Ciego
An experience staged in darkness puts sound and the other senses at the centre of the performance.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro del Pueblo
Discover independent theatre at an institution with deep roots in Argentina’s alternative stage culture.
PlaceConcerts
Estadio Obras
Choose a live show at a venue woven into the history of Argentine rock and touring concerts.
PlaceConcerts
Movistar Arena Buenos Aires
A large indoor arena for making a major concert the centrepiece of a Villa Crespo night.
PlaceConcerts
Teatro Colón
Choose a performance or an organised visit to appreciate the scale, acoustics and craft of Buenos Aires’ opera house.
PlaceCulture
Museo Casa Carlos Gardel
Visit the house museum in Abasto to connect Gardel’s life with the neighbourhood and the history of tango.
PlaceCulture
Museo de Esculturas Luis Perlotti
A sculpture museum in Caballito gives a quieter view of Argentine art beyond the central museum circuit.
PlaceCulture
Fundación Forner-Bigatti
An artists’ house in San Telmo brings the work and working lives of Raquel Forner and Alfredo Bigatti together.
PlaceCulture
Museo Argentino del Títere
Discover puppets and their performance traditions through a small museum with a programme to check before visiting.
PlaceCulture
Barro
A large La Boca gallery gives contemporary Argentine art room to expand into installation and ambitious exhibition formats.