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Tacuarí 243 (e/ Adolfo Alsina y Moreno), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Hotel · Monserrat · 46 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: The world’s first soccer-themed hotel pays homage to Buenos Aires’s much-adored team Boca Juniors. Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott is responsible for the creative design.
Maipú 907 (esq. Paraguay), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Hotel · Retiro · 48 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: Hidden in Microcentro, this whimsical hotel earns our praise for its nautical interiors. The highlight: steel-trimmed modular furniture.
Av. Presidente Quintana 465 (Callao), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Hotel · Recoleta · 13 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: Doors fashioned out of wine-stained barrel slats, hardwood floors, and bathtubs made from caldén tree trunks warm the interiors at vintner César Catena’s newcomer.
Humberto 1º San Telmo (Praça Dorrego), Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aire
Jewelry Store · Retiro · 2 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: Silversmith Marcelo Toledo is one of the finest jewelry designers in the city. We love his re-creations of Eva Peron’s gem-encrusted necklaces.
Aimé Paine 1169 (esq. Azucena Villaflor), Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires C.F.
Art Gallery · 35 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: Housed in a renovated grain mill, this cathedral-size museum is dedicated to works by artists such as Cuban duo Dagoberto Rodríguez and Marco Castillo, who are known as Los Carpinteros.
Av. San Juan 350 (esq. Defensa), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Art Museum · San Telmo · 78 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: See 20th-century pieces in the industrial and video arts. Highlights include Antonio Seguí silk-screen prints and Alberto Heredia sculptures.
Florida St. 1000, Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aire
Art Gallery · Retiro · 3 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: This spacious gallery, in Retiro, is a must for lovers of avant-garde art, showcasing the best from both emerging and established Argentine artists (Flavia Da Rim and Miguel Ángel RÍos, to name two).
Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415 (e/ Jerónimo Salguero y San Martín de Tours), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Art Museum · Palermo Chico · 395 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: The permanent collection includes more than 500 paintings, sculptures, and objects from top Latin American talent. There’s also a screening room that showcases independent films.
Club de Pescadores, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Mediterranean Restaurant · Palermo · 38 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: This excellent seafood spot, on the pier that juts from the Avenida Costanera into the Río de la Plata, has won a loyal following with salads of fresh king crab and grilled wreckfish.
Cerviño 3732 (Arribeños), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Restaurant · Palermo · 29 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: Chef Diego Gera whips up intensely flavored signature dishes such as crisp-skinned suckling pig paired with quince purée. After dinner, head to the restaurant’s patio for cocktails and live DJ music.
Av Federico Lacroze 2136 (11 De Septiembre), Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aire
Restaurant · Palermo · 7 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: An Art Deco–style restaurant in Belgrano that serves hearty comfort foods, from tender osso buco with gnocchi to braised lamb shoulder accompanied by carrot purée and Rösti (fried potato pancake).
Honduras 5182 (e/ Thames y Uriarte), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C.F.
Mediterranean Restaurant · Palermo Viejo · 46 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: Argentine chef Darío Gualtieri has shaken up the bistro’s menu with innovative dishes like Patagonian prawns cooked in palm oil and coconut milk and Sichuan-pepper ice cream with passion-fruit mousse.
Camargo 754 (E. Acevedo Y Gurruchaga), Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aire
Restaurant · Villa Crespo · 8 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: Located in the Villa Crespo barrio, it’s one of the city’s most sought-after tables thanks to chef Pablo Abramovsky’s fresh market fare.
Rodríguez Pena 1832 (esq. Av. Presidente Quintana), Recoleta, Buenos Aires C.F.
French Restaurant · 14 tips and reviews
Travel + Leisure: Since its opening in 1866, the storied French Club has drawn generations of politicians and writers. The upper floor has been turned into a 28-room hotel filled with antiques and period furniture.