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Specialty coffee in San Nicolás

San Nicolás is the city centre, around the Obelisco, Teatro Colón and the courts. Negro opened downtown's first specialty bar on Suipacha in 2015 and has a second bar on Tucumán, near Tribunales; Café Boheme and Bari Coffee & Drinks are a few blocks away.

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

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    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

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    Café Boheme

    San NicolásGood

    Café Boheme is a small espresso bar on Libertad street in the city centre, across the street from a plaza. It works mostly as a take-away counter, and the plaza opposite gives you somewhere to sit with your cup. The menu is built on espresso: flat whites and chai lattes, with pastries and pão de queijo on the side. It opens early on weekdays and closes on Sundays.

    Libertad 545, C1012 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

  3. No. 3

    Bari Coffee & Drinks

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    Bari Coffee & Drinks on Avenida Corrientes keeps a longer coffee shelf than most bars this size. The menu sells 250 g bags with the origin on the label: Castillo from Fincas de Guadalupe in natural and washed versions, Nueva Segovia and Altiplano from Nicaragua, Atitlán, Quiché and a Geisha from Guatemala, and Nyeri and Machakos from Kenya. You can order V60 for one or two cups, or stay with espresso, flat white or an espresso tonic. Pastries, bagels and wraps cover the food, and later in the day the list adds beer, gin and tonic and vermouth.

    Av. Corrientes 1513 C1042AAB, C1042 Cdad. Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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