I love to drink coffee here

This cafe is on Avenida de Mayo, one of my favourite avenues in Buenos Aires, and near the building of Congress.  This is a really old and traditional area of the city, where there are such gems as Cafe Tortoni, lovely old buildings, odd-characters in the street, the hotel Castelar (which looks super old-world cool) and many other old bars and pizza places.  In this particular cafe I love the wall texture and colour, the painting, the big mirror near the door and the smartly dressed old waiters (always men.  Actually, these placese are usually full of old men too, not sure where the women are...)

I love to drink coffee here too

This coffee shop is on Avenida Corrientes, amoung the theatres, trash, noise and chaos of this area of the city.  The neon sign is at the back of the store, and highlights their house specialities: churros (fried spanish doghnuts) and submarinos (hot chocolates!).  Full of characters from oldies, to theatre goers and everyone in between, it´s a great place to people watch.

I love to drink coffee here

Las Violetas is probably my favourite coffee shop.  It is traditional, swanky, beautiful and one of the busiest places to be at 4pm on a saturday or sunday when there is a line up of old ladies to get in.  Several years ago it was restored to it´s original glory, and the building-fit out, lights and windows are amazing.  The indulgence of choice is a gob-smacking platter of cakes and sandwiches (which comes with champagne!) far too grande and sweet to get through but definitely worth the experience.  It´s open pretty much 24 hours, and I love stopping by late at night on my way home (circa 2am) and finding it full of people.