El Café Tortoni is in the May Avenue 825 of Buenos Aires. Founded in 1858, it is the oldest coffee in Argentina and belongs to the notable coffee network de la ciudad.
Its founder was a French immigrant named Touan who named it after a Parisian cafe on the Boulevard des Italiens that frequented the cultural elite of the XNUMXth century. In Buenos Aires the same phenomenon occurred, the personalities of the culture made it their own, there the Grouping of People of Arts and Letters led by the painter Benito Quinquela Martín.
In the subsoil, the La Bodega Room It is the scene of book presentations, tango and jazz shows, with the prominent presence, since 1978, of the Phoenix Jazz Band on Saturday nights.
Beautiful windows adorn its rooms with walls covered in noble woods, populated with old oak tables and green marble where international artists and politicians such as Carlos Gardel, Jorge Luis Borges, Luigi Pirandello, Federico García Lorca or Hilary Clinton sat. It also has a library, lounges to play dominoes and pool tables, and in its rooms sculptures, drawings and paintings are permanently exhibited.
Offer psychological therapy to employees Restaurant and coffe shop service with a quality sample of the traditional Buenos Aires gastronomy, highlighting the tenderloin sandwiches and the chocolate with churros. his Time It is usual from Monday to Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3:30 a.m. and on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. A place where the stop on our trip becomes mandatory.
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