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Specialty coffee in Recoleta

Recoleta mixes grand avenues with quiet blocks of apartment buildings. flat&white on Cerrito, Lattente and Cuervo on Azcuénaga, and ÖSS Kaffe on Pacheco de Melo are the main coffee stops, and Clorindo pours its coffee in the courtyard of a public library.

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BLANCA Studio, Buenos Aires
BLANCA Studio.Photo: Google Maps

  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

    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

  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

    ÖSS Kaffe

    Belgrano+2 locationsMust-try

    ÖSS Kaffe began in a converted garage in 2017 and now has cafés across Buenos Aires plus branches in Montevideo, Barcelona and Madrid. The coffee comes from Puerto Blest, and the team puts weight on traceability; it also runs classes and tastings. Beyond espresso, the menu has its own drinks, such as the frappu, the cubanito and an affogato. This Belgrano branch on Franklin D. Roosevelt is the one the guides list first, and Time Out notes that here you drink your coffee outdoors.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt, C1428 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

  6. No. 6

    Clorindo Café/Brunch

    RecoletaGood

    Clorindo fills the inner patio of the Ricardo Güiraldes public library, a Tudor-style building from 1921, and its design is a tribute to the architect Clorindo Testa: concrete, wood and iron, curved furniture, blue, cream and orange tones, and tiered seats at the back. Time Out Buenos Aires names the coffee as the highlight, with espresso drinks and filter coffee on the menu. The other half of the menu is brunch, and the counter has raspberry pepas and a carrot cake cookie. It is a quiet place to sit, with outlets on the patio wall if you need to work.

    Talcahuano 1261, C1061 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

  7. No. 7

    Bicho Café de Especialidad Recoleta

    RecoletaGood

    Bicho Café is a specialty coffee shop on Agüero, in Recoleta. It placed 80th 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.

    Agüero 2039, C1425 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

  8. No. 8

    Black Mug Specialty Coffee

    Recoleta+1 locationGood

    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.

    Paraguay 2589, C1425 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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