Buenos Aires has a deep-rooted cafe culture shaped by Italian and Spanish immigrants. The historic confiterías of San Telmo and Recoleta — Café Tortoni, El Federal — are city monuments. Alongside them, a new generation of specialty roasters in Palermo and Villa Crespo is building something modern, while preserving the Argentine love of long, leisurely cortado sessions.
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Café Tortoni in Buenos Aires has been open since 1858, making it one of the oldest continuously operating cafes in the Americas — Carlos Gardel, Jorge Luis Borges, and Albert Einstein have all sat at its marble tables.
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