# Specialty coffee in Palermo Soho Palermo Soho, the grid of cobbled streets around Plaza Serrano, has the densest run of specialty bars in the city. Cuervo, Hobby, Fruto, Full City and Lattente sit within a few blocks of each other along El Salvador, Malabia, Borges and Thames, so you can walk between three or four in a morning. ## 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. [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. 4. [Hobby](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/hobby-cafe-de-especialidad.md) (Palermo Soho · Good). 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. 5. [Lattente](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/lattente.md) (Palermo Soho · Must-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. 6. [Cobre Café](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/cobre-cafe.md) (Villa Crespo · Good). 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. 7. [Kajue Café](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/kajue-cafe.md) (Palermo Soho · Good). Kajue opened in Palermo Soho in 2019, started by Nathaly and Eduardo, who met at a café in Caracas. It is a coffee house and bistro: the long menu runs from brunch and Venezuelan breakfasts to cakes, but the coffee list is real. Single origins from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and Colombia go into espresso or a special lot brewed by hand in V60, Chemex, AeroPress or French press. South America's 100 Best Coffee Shops listed it in 2026. From Wednesday to Saturday it stays open until 21. 8. [Black Mug Specialty Coffee](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/black-mug-specialty-coffee.md) (Recoleta · Good). Black Mug calls itself a specialty coffee roaster, and this café on Paraguay Street, in the Barrio Norte part of Recoleta, is one of its two shops. It is a short, simple stop: an espresso or a milk drink with a croissant before work, close to Avenida Pueyrredón and Plaza Houssay. The other Black Mug is on Thames Street in Palermo Soho. 9. [TRIBU Coffee & Roasters](https://goodcoffeein.com/buenos-aires/tribu-coffee-and-roasters.md) (Belgrano · Good). 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. ## 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-soho