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Specialty coffee in Palermo

The rest of Palermo, from Alto Palermo to the leafy streets near the parks, has fewer bars but some useful stops: Lattente on Avenida Cerviño, Blanca's design café, Meme on Dorrego and two small Negro and Cuervo outlets near the Alto Palermo mall.

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NEGRO Cueva de café, Buenos Aires
NEGRO Cueva de café.Photo: Google Maps

  1. 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

  2. No. 2

    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

  3. No. 3

    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

  4. No. 4

    Lattente

    Palermo Soho+2 locationsMust-try

    Lattente opened in 2013, and Perfect Daily Grind dates the start of Argentina's specialty coffee movement to that opening: it was the first specialty coffee shop in Buenos Aires. More than a decade later it is still among the country's references, 12th in The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026. This café on Thames, in Palermo Soho, is one of three Lattente shops in the city, with the others on Cerviño and Azcuénaga. Come here to drink coffee at the place where the city's specialty scene started.

    Thames 1891, C1414 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

  5. No. 5

    Meme Coffee

    PalermoGood

    Meme Coffee is a small coffee shop on Dorrego, in Palermo. It placed 9th in The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026, the national edition of The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops, which combines a jury of coffee people with a public vote. The jury and the voters put it among the country's top hundred coffee shops, which is the reason to stop by. Ask at the bar which coffee is in the grinder that day, who roasted it, and whether they brew filter.

    Dorrego 2591, C1425 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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