Buenos Aires for digital nomads

Best cafes

Buenos Aires does not have a single kind of cafe, and any list that pretends otherwise is lying to you. The city runs on coffee the way other capitals run on subways: the porteño morning is a cortado at a marble counter, the porteño afternoon is a medialuna and a notebook, and the porteño night ends, more often than not, back at a table under the same brass lamp. The twelve rooms below cover the working spectrum: a wood-panelled institution on Avenida de Mayo, a specialty bar in Monserrat, a Puerto Madero brunch room facing the docks, a Palermo teahouse that keeps serving past midnight, and the neighbourhood counters where the locals drink their coffee. They are ranked, but the ranking is a suggestion, not a verdict; the right cafe in this city is the one you can walk to from where you already are. Every address, phone number and service hour below is drawn from OpenStreetMap and each venue's own site, cited in line so you can verify before you go.