Restaurants with tasting menus are growing in number in Buenos Aires and around the world. One of the restaurants which offer this option in Buenos Aires is "De Olivas i Lustres", a funky restaurant located in 3972 Gorriti st. in the neighbourhood of Palermo. You have to get rid of all the prejudices and just [...]
Friend's Day (Día del Amigo in Spanish) is celebrated every year on July 20 in Argentina. The celebration on this date was an Argentinean iniciative, but has had a historical antecedent, the World Friendship Crusade (Cruzada Mundial de la Amistad). This Crusade was proposed by Dr. Ramón Artemio Bracho in Paraguay in 1958 to promote [...]
Sabe la tierra is a natural, sustainable and organic market. It offers the opportunity of direct exchange between producers and consumers, wherein the organic, natural and ecological production. In this way fair trade and conscious consumption are promoted. You can find Sabe la tierra market weekly in these 3 locations (outside Buenos Aires city): SAN [...]
The "Sweetness´ Week" is the first week of July, from 1st to 7th July. It was established in 1989 in Argentina as a result of the advertising campaign "a candy for a kiss" created by the brand Arcor. It was part of a marketing strategy to increase sales. The slogan of this particular week is [...]
The tango festival will have place in Buenos Aires from the 13th August 2014 until 26th of August 2014. The tango festival includes concerts, dance performances, tango classes, milongas and other events with more than 2000 artists as well as the world tango championship with the participation of many dancing couples from all over the [...]
Acción Poética (Poetic Action) is a social movement initiated by Armando Alanis Pulido in 1996 which redefined urban poetry as such. Their members write interesting phrases on the city´s streets walls. Crossing out the "en" the sense of the sentence changes from "I believe in a better world" to " I create a better world". [...]
As every year this last Saturday (26th April) took place the race of waiters and waitresses in Buenos Aires along Av. de Mayo (from Bernardo de Yrigoyen st. until Plaza de Mayo) with the participation of waiters and waitresses of almost all the provinces of Argentina. Waiters and waitresses (organized in categories) ran while carrying [...]
On Sunday 10th of November at 2 pm it was the first Soup Box Race or "Crazy cars"´derby of Buenos Aires. Forty teams raced through the streets of Buenos Aires city on board an array of home-made carts (without engines). The "cars" competed in a circuit of more than 400 meters. The first prize was [...]
Buenos Aires is a city known for its steaks, but luckily there are restaurants serving tasting and fresh veggie and vegetarian fare. Most of them are in the touristic areas of the city (Palermo, San Telmo) and have a casual and homey atmosphere. Here some of them: BIO restaurant in Buenos Aires It was one [...]
The LanguageBookings.com Quality School Award 2013 certifies that Verbum - School of Spanish in Buenos Aires, Argentina has achieved high quality standards in its range of language courses and students services. The LanguageBookings.com Quality School Award is given to schools with high appeal for international students, with an unbroken record of best value for money [...]