# Specialty coffee in Palermo Hollywood Palermo Hollywood lies across Avenida Juan B. Justo from Soho, between the railway and the TV studios that gave it its name. LAB Tostadores on Humboldt and Vive Café and Cuervo on Costa Rica are a few blocks apart; Negro Hollywood, Fruto and Cafecito are a short walk further north. ## The shops 1. [NEGRO Cueva de café](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/negro-cueva-de-cafe.md) (San Nicolás · Must-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. 2. [Cuervo Café](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/cuervo-cafe.md) (Chacarita · Must-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. 3. [LAB. Training Center & Coffee Shop](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/lab-training-center-and-coffee-shop.md) (Palermo Hollywood · Must-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. 4. [Vive Café Cafe de especialidad , cafés de campeonatos](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/vive-cafe-cafe-de-especialidad-cafes-de-campeonatos.md) (Palermo Hollywood · Must-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. 5. [FRUTO CAFÉ](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/fruto-cafe.md) (Palermo Soho · Must-try). Fruto grew out of a trip to London, where the cofounders saved on supermarket food so they could visit the city's specialty coffee shops. Back in Buenos Aires they built the menu around the coffee: a wide choice of origins, made as espresso or by hand on V60, AeroPress, Chemex or French press. When La Nación visited this shop on Jorge Luis Borges, the V60 was the customers' favourite. The Best Coffee Shops Argentina 2026 placed Fruto 11th in the country. Order a filter and ask which origins are on that day. 6. [CAFECITO](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/cafecito-tiny-coffee-shop-cafe-de-especialidad-palermo.md) (Palermo Hollywood · Must-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. 7. [La Ventana x Anafe](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/la-ventana-x-anafe-cafe-de-especialidad.md) (Palermo Hollywood · Good). 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. ## Sources - - - [All coffee shops in Buenos Aires](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires.md) --- [Good Coffee In](https://goodcoffeein.com/) · https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/n/palermo-hollywood