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Specialty coffee in Chacarita

Chacarita, between Colegiales and Villa Crespo, is where Cuervo roasts: its café on Jorge Newbery and Guevara has the roaster in view. Blanca Studio is on Álvarez Thomas, and Hobby and The Shelter Coffee have branches a few blocks away, so the four make an easy loop.

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  1. No. 1

    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

  2. No. 2

    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

  3. No. 3

    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

  4. No. 4

    Hobby

    Palermo Soho+1 locationGood

    Hobby serves beans from Puerto Blest, one of Argentina's leading roasters, on a bar split into an espresso station and a manual brew station, with a Modbar system and Mahlkönig grinders. This branch sits on the ground floor of a boutique hotel on Malabia Street, with good light and an inner patio; a second Hobby is in Chacarita. Time Out recommends it for any time of day, from a chat to an hour of work. Order a pour-over, or a flat white.

    Malabia 1343, C1425 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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