Landmark cafés · San Nicolás · Avenida Callao 501 · Buenos Aires City (CABA)

Los Galgos

The dining room at Los Galgos, with wooden tables and the bar's name on the window

On the corner of Callao and Lavalle, a landmark bar serves Buenos Aires classics, coffee and aperitifs. A good lunch stop between bookshops and theatres.

The café opened in 1930 in premises once occupied by Singer. It reopened in 2015 with restored original materials and a menu of Buenos Aires classics and aperitifs alongside coffee.

Argentine cuisine

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