Buenos Aires for digital nomads

Best cafes

Buenos Aires takes its coffee seriously, and slowly. The cortado is a small dark thing — espresso cut with steamed milk — and the city's cafés are built for the hour or three it takes to drink one properly, usually with a medialuna or something baked that morning beside it. The twelve places below cover the spread: a landmark on Avenida de Mayo with a room famous enough on its own, a specialty roaster downtown, a teahouse open past midnight on weekends, two Palermo bakeries with morning queues, a deli that doubles as the neighbourhood lunch counter, and a chain or two that have grown roots here without ever making it onto a tourist itinerary. There is also a Starbucks on Florida, included honestly: it is what it is, and sometimes that's what a long afternoon walking the centro needs. Hours, addresses, and contact details below are pulled from each café's mapped record; the editorial is opinion.