Living Buenos Aires

Specialty coffee and fresh pastries. Your Marais breakfast.

A classic porteño bodegón with generous portions, for an easy dinner.

Ten minutes to the Obelisk.

A 1919 theater turned bookshop. Climb up to the boxes and read for a while on the stage, now a café.

Funerary art, Argentine history and Evita's tomb. Go early, in the morning light.

The library Borges once ran. Its esplanade has one of the best views in the neighborhood.

For a run, some mate, or to see how Buenos Aires spends a Saturday.

Empanadas, locro stew and northern Argentine cooking, at friendly prices.

A white-tablecloth bodegón with career waiters.

Recoleta's classic café, with bronze statues of Borges and Bioy Casares at one of its tables.

The country's most important art collection, with free entry.

The giant steel flower in Plaza de las Naciones Unidas.

Traditional empanadas, to eat standing up or take back to your apartment.

The story of Eva Perón in a Palermo Chico mansion.

A green breather in the middle of the city.

Latin American art: Frida Kahlo, Xul Solar, Berni.

Bridges, koi and quiet.

Artisans and stalls next to the Cemetery.