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SPECIAL EDITION: Buenos Aires City Tour by Juan Gatti
Poema 20
Antiquarian bookshop, Alí Baba’s cave, suitable place for treasure hunters and antique fabulous books from art, history, cinema, arquitechture and new editions very well selected. The picture collection has no waste at all. Diran, the owner, will guide you through this jewels labyrinth.
Centro - Esmeralda 869
Tel. 54 11 4312 0199
Olsen
Nordic food specialized restaurant with a large collection of Vodkas. Danish decco, excellent service, young and casual; in summer, the garden is a calmness oasis, the perfect place to make a stop while going round Palermo Viejo (the cool neighbourhood of the moment)
Palermo - Gorriti 5870
Tel. 54 11 4776 7677
Gabriel del Campo
Antiquarian of exquisite taste and very mixy, great findings and very good eye for outrageous mixes (plus being super pleasant). With two stores, one in Puerto Madero and the other in San Telmo where Chinoiserie, Mies Van Der Rhoe, brutalist sculpture from the 60s and native art.
San Telmo – Bethlem 427 (Pza. Borrego)
Tel. 54 11 4307 6589
Puerto Madero – Juana Manso 1350
Tel. 54 11 5775 1333
Ramírez
The best argentinian fashion designer, young couturier of impecable taste. Supreme chic and irony touches. Argentinian spirit with direct inheritance from Givenchy, Balenciaga and Dior (Of course, the originals)
San Telmo – Perú 587
Tel. 54 11 4342 7154
http://pabloramirez.com.ar
Standard
Excellent restaurant with marvellous decco almost invisible from Horacio Gallo recreating the spirit of the 50s family diners. The dishes follow that spirit and recovers argentinian food with regressive flavours from our parents’ homes. Ravioles de seso con estofado areunforgettable the same as the crab pies.
Palermo – Fitz Roy y Guatemala
Tel. 54 11 4779 2774
http://standardbuenosaires.com
El Rey del Cepillo
Surprising and amazing with the biggest viarety of brushes that you can imagine and for improbable uses each one of them with an excellent quality; also dusters made out of ostrich feathers, exhuberant like some vedettes from Lido.
Recoleta - Marcelo T. de Alvear 811
Tel. 54 11 4311 9042
http://elreydelcepillo.com
Carpincho
The king of gloves from Buenos Aires; apart from the wonderful and always elegant gloves made out of carpincho skin in super useful colors and also lined in otter. Incredible also the one for gentelmen in colors like cherry or aubergine. A must have are the ones to drive the car. The ones for the the ladies are worthy of Grace Kelly in “To catch a thief”
Centro – Esmeralda 775
Tel. 54 11 4322 9919
http://carpinchonet.com.ar
Bar del Plaza
The old bar from the Plaza Marrito is perfectly conserved as it was in the 40s. Super elegant ambience in where it wouldn’t be strange to run into Noel Coward or Cole Porter. Unbeatable climate, polish attention and excellent cocktails. My fav are Whisky sour and the Negroni.
Centro – Florida 1
Tel. 54 11 4318 3000
http://marriott.com
Club del Progreso
Located in an antique petit hotel, before belonging to a patrician argentinian family, in the beginnings of XX century was turned into a social club. In other times it was meeting point from different presidents and dignataries, preferably from the Partido Radical, Also meeting point from Masons because of the neighbourship of their temple. Now, thanks to the rejuvenation of its kitchen, frequented by young people captivated by the allure of the emviroment and exquisite food. Impecable the Costilla al horno de barro con su lechón.
Centro – Sarmiento 1334
Tel. 54 11 4372 3380
http://clubdelprogreso.com
*The full guide, with Juan Gatti's signature, at http://ekseptionshop.blogspot.com
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