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Beans to take home in Buenos Aires
These cafés sell bags of their current coffees, usually 250 g, and most will grind for your method. Roasters such as Tres, Cuervo, flat&white and Manifiesto have the widest choice, with single origins labelled by farm and process.
The shops
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No. 1
NEGRO Cueva de café
San Nicolás+4 locationsMust-try
Negro opened on Suipacha Street in 2015 as one of the first specialty coffee bars in the city centre, and this small room is still the flagship. Its coffee comes from its own roastery, Fuego Tostadores, which buys fresh-crop lots after visiting farms in Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. The menu has a filter section: ask the barista which coffees and methods are on today. The team also runs Negro Escuela, a barista school founded in 2016. It opens on weekdays only, from 8 to 16. Negro Hollywood, opened in 2026, adds shelves of books and records for sale and a hand-brew menu for one or two.
Suipacha 637, C1006 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 2
Tres
ColegialesMust-try
Tres roasts its coffee a few steps from the bar, behind a glass panel, so you can watch the roaster while you order. It is run by Agustina Román, the 2013 Argentine barista champion, and in 2026 the first edition of The Best Coffee Shops Argentina put it at number one. The room is small and minimalist, a short walk from the Colegiales train station. Espresso and filter both come from the house roasts; recent coverage describes a Colombian coffee with bright citrus notes. Try the espresso tiramisu, and take beans home.
Teodoro García 2806, C1426DNB Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 3
BLANCA Studio
Chacarita+3 locationsMust-try
Blanca Studio is the small coffee room of the Blanca group, built around manual brewing on a Modbar undercounter system. It roasts its own coffee, and the baristas walk you through each one; Sprudge tasted a Pink Bourbon from Pitalito, Colombia, with notes of dark chocolate, papaya and pineapple. It ranked second in The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026. There is room for about eight people and records play. Pair a filter with the cardamom roll. Open on weekdays, 9 to 19:30. The group's other cafés, in Palermo, Las Cañitas and Recoleta, are design shops with a coffee bar, better for browsing than for the cup.
Av. Álvarez Thomas 764, C1427CCU Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 4
Cuervo Café
Chacarita+5 locationsMust-try
Cuervo began as a café run by two musicians and grew into one of the city's roasters, supplying other cafés too. It has roasted its own coffee since 2021, and this Chacarita branch, on the corner of Jorge Newbery and Guevara, is where the roaster sits in view. Besides the house blends, its shop sells small lots such as a Bourbon Sidra and a Wush Wush from the Patio Bonito farm, and the bar brews filter as well as espresso. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 8 to 20. The Belgrano café, in an old house on Juramento, also makes its own ice cream, so order the affogato there.
Guevara 393, C1427 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 5
LAB. Training Center & Coffee Shop
Palermo HollywoodMust-try
LAB is one of the roasters that started specialty coffee in Buenos Aires, and in 2025 it made The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops. Everyone sits at one long bar facing the baristas, so it is easy to ask about the coffees, which LAB roasts itself; its shop names farm lots such as La Marianela and La Catalina from Colombia. The team also makes bean-to-bar chocolate and runs courses for home brewers and professionals. Order a filter, or the coffee kombucha if you want something different.
C1414CTN, Humboldt 1542, C1414CTN Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 6
Vive Café Cafe de especialidad , cafés de campeonatos
Palermo Hollywood+1 locationMust-try
Vive Café specialises in Colombian coffee and says it buys directly from growers. The bags read like a map of the country: a washed lot from the Paeces indigenous cooperative in Inzá, Cauca, a honey-processed yellow Caturra from Planadas, Tolima, and a natural Bourbon Sidra from Finca Las Flores, sold as a competition lot. Each one lists producer or region, altitude, variety and process, and you can take beans home ground for V60, Chemex or AeroPress. The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026 ranked Vive fourth in the country.
Costa Rica 5722, C1414BTH Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 7
The Shelter Coffee
Balvanera+3 locationsGood
The Shelter roasts its own coffee at its Uriburu Street café and lists each bean with its origin, variety and process: a natural Bourbon Amarillo from Minas Gerais, a washed coffee from Huila, a Nicaraguan Dipilto. Filters are brewed to order in V60, Chemex, AeroPress or French press. This Balvanera branch is the roastery, the one Sprudge picked out, and you can buy 250 g or 1 kg bags of the same coffees to take home. In summer there are iced drinks and an orange cold brew. It works on a weekday schedule, so plan a morning visit. Time Out calls the Belgrano café, on Virrey Loreto, the crown jewel of the group.
C. Pres. Jose E. Uriburu 353, C1027 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 8
flat&white (sucursal cerrito)
Recoleta+3 locationsGood
flat&white was founded in 2016 by Martina Vigo and Gabriel Gazdik, and it roasts its coffee on its own Diedrich, with Vigo at the roaster. The range leans light and lists single origins from Colombia, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Panama and Peru, some with the producer named. This café is on Cerrito, in Recoleta. The group also runs a coffee school with barista courses and tastings, and a bakery that supplies its cafés. It placed 20th in The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026. Have an espresso or a flat white, then take a bag of the current single origin home.
Cerrito 1224, C1010 AAZ, Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 9
MANIFIESTO (Nuñez)
Núñez+2 locationsMust-try
Manifiesto sums itself up as "we roast, we serve and we bring coffee to your home". It roasts its own beans, sold by lot: Chambaku from Colombia, Sertao from Brazil, Rivasplata and Caracolillo from Peru, plus coffees from Honduras and Rwanda, and it supplies more than a hundred cafés and businesses. This café is on Arribeños, in Núñez, and stays open into the evening from Wednesday to Sunday. Its academy runs espresso and filter workshops for beginners and a full barista course. It placed 39th in The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026. Ask which lot is on the grinder.
Arribeños 3520, C1429 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 10
CAFECITO
Palermo Hollywood+1 locationMust-try
Cafecito began in 2019 as a conversation between friends and now selects and roasts its own beans, sold with the farm, producer and process on each bag. At this corner of Palermo, a block from Pacífico, the bar pulls espresso and brews V60, Origami and Moccamaster with rotating lots. Among its current coffees is La Celeste, a honey-processed Castillo from Finca Más in Quindío, Colombia. The room has eight tables, a communal table for six, a small patio and two sidewalk tables, with wifi and plugs. Music is part of the place, so it can get loud. Breakfast, brunch and lunch plates sit next to the coffee.
Charcas 4997, C1425 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 11
La Ventana x Anafe
Palermo HollywoodGood
La Ventana is the coffee bar of the team behind the restaurant Anafe, chef Mica Najmanovich and Nico Arcucci. The coffee comes from Fuego Tostadores, a Buenos Aires roaster, and Sprudge picked out the seasonal Brazilian blend, with notes of almond and chocolate, as a match for the medialunas. The bar makes espresso drinks, cold brew and a refillable batch filter, and sells quarter-kilo bags of its Fuego coffee. Food leads the menu, with breakfast all day, lunch plates and cakes, in a cozy room with mismatched chairs.
Arévalo 1375, C1414 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 12
Cobre Café
Villa Crespo+1 locationGood
Cobre is a specialty café in Villa Crespo whose website says its baristas hold SCA certification. Filter coffee has its own section on the menu, brewed by V60, Chemex or AeroPress, and the site's "now brewing" board names the coffees in rotation, such as a Bourbon Rosado from Colombia, a Wush Wush from Ethiopia and a Geisha from Peru. The kitchen does viennoiserie, chipa sandwiches and a brunch menu, so it works for a slow breakfast as well as a quick flat white. Bags of specialty coffee are sold at the counter.
Acevedo 727, C1414 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 13
Café Razo
Núñez+1 locationGood
Café Razo calls itself a bakery, deli and coffee bar, and the coffee holds its own. In 2026 Time Out put this Besares shop on its list of new specialty cafés, noting that the cups are consistent whether you order a filter or an espresso drink. The menu offers V60 and AeroPress filters, a daily batch brew, flat whites and cold brew, and bags of Puerto Blest coffee are for sale. Ask for the pistachio cookie Time Out singled out. The breads are slow-fermented sourdough, and there is a second Razo on Quesada.
Besares 2299, C1429DII C1429DII, Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 14
DOC Café
Villa CrespoGood
DOC is a neighbourhood specialty café on Aráoz in Villa Crespo that set out to be a meeting point built around good coffee. The current menu lists filtered coffee for one person by Origami, V60 or AeroPress, and for two by Chemex or V60, next to the usual espresso drinks, served at 65 °C unless you ask for it hotter. Its website explains how it picks coffees for their origin and process. The kitchen runs brunch, lunches and pastries, and beans and brewing gear are sold through its online shop.
Aráoz 645, C1414 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 15
WALDEN Café
Villa CrespoGood
Walden is a small specialty café on Gurruchaga, in Villa Crespo, whose menu starts with coffee: espresso, doppio, a double ristretto with milk called the magic, flat white, and iced versions of the classics. Its house bean is a washed Colombia Supremo from Huila, Caturra and Castillo grown at 1,500 metres by small producers, scored 83 on its own cupping card, with notes of panela, ripe stone fruit and milk chocolate. The same coffee is sold in 250 g bags. Sourdough toasts, cookies and a cinnamon roll fill the rest of the menu.
Gurruchaga 1195, C1414 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 16
Van Atleet Club
NúñezGood
Van Atleet is a coffee house and clothing brand for people who love sport, opened in 2026 on Arribeños in Núñez. It serves its own coffee, roasted in La Cumbre, and sells the same single origin, Café Amelia, in 250 g bags to take home. The club house has a European-inspired design, with space to meet friends, work or stay all day, and the shelves carry the club's own T-shirts and hoodies. The team calls it a club, and its newsletter announces events.
Arribeños 2974, C1429 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 17
Cobin Specialty Coffee
AlmagroGood
Cobin is a small specialty coffee bar on the corner of Jerónimo Salguero and Plaza Almagro, a few steps from the Medrano subway station. Besides espresso drinks it brews filter coffee by hand, including Chemex, and it sells the beans it uses, ground to the size you need for your brewer at home. Seating is a few tables and bar stools, and dogs are welcome. Order a filter and ask which beans they are brewing.
C. Jeronimo Salguero 399, 1177 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 18
Nordic Coffee
Villa UrquizaGood
Nordic is a Villa Urquiza café with a Scandinavian theme: every handmade cup and takeaway cup carries a rune, and the website explains what yours means. The coffee side is more concrete than the theme. The menu has a V60 for one or two cups, with a choice of Brazil or Colombia, and a cold brew steeped for 20 hours. The beans for sale are Colombian and labelled in detail, among them a washed Castillo from southwest Antioquia grown at 1,900 metres, a Geisha and a rum-infused lot from Chinchiná, Caldas. Carrot cake is the house's most ordered sweet.
Av. Juramento 4979, C1431BTE Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 19
Porta negra cafe de especialidad
Villa Urquiza+1 locationGood
Porta Negra is a small specialty café on Avenida Mendoza in Villa Urquiza, and it roasts the coffee it serves, which it also sells by the quarter kilo. The counter keeps to simple things that go with a cup: chipá, cookies, alfajores and cinnamon rolls. It is a neighbourhood place, and it welcomes dogs. A second Porta Negra, with the same coffee, is in Saavedra on Crisólogo Larralde.
Av. Mendoza 5242, C1431CIP Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 20
Bari Coffee & Drinks
San NicolásGood
Bari Coffee & Drinks on Avenida Corrientes keeps a longer coffee shelf than most bars this size. The menu sells 250 g bags with the origin on the label: Castillo from Fincas de Guadalupe in natural and washed versions, Nueva Segovia and Altiplano from Nicaragua, Atitlán, Quiché and a Geisha from Guatemala, and Nyeri and Machakos from Kenya. You can order V60 for one or two cups, or stay with espresso, flat white or an espresso tonic. Pastries, bagels and wraps cover the food, and later in the day the list adds beer, gin and tonic and vermouth.
Av. Corrientes 1513 C1042AAB, C1042 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 21
Las Heliconias coffee roasters
AlmagroGood
Las Heliconias is a Colombian family business that grows, processes and imports coffee from its own farm, then roasts it in Buenos Aires in small batches. It says each lot comes with its story: who grew it, how it was processed and when it was roasted. Its tasting room at Avenida Belgrano and Yapeyú, in Almagro, opens on weekdays during office hours. Come here to taste a Colombian coffee with a direct line to the farm, and ask about the lot in the cup.
Av. Belgrano 3902, C1202ACD Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
No. 22
TRIBU Coffee & Roasters
Belgrano+1 locationGood
TRIBU Coffee & Roasters sells its own coffees, which it lists on its Instagram under "our coffees" and takes orders for by WhatsApp. It has two cafés in Buenos Aires, one in Belgrano and one in Palermo. This one is on Montañeses, in Belgrano. Little of its menu is published online, so ask at the counter which of the house coffees is on espresso and take a bag home if you like it.
Montañeses 2551, C1428 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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