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The Historian · Bautista · Buenos Aires

Café Tortoni

Monserrat · Historic Café · $$

Writers and politicians argued the country into shape at these tables. The coffee is beside the point; the room is the archive.

The city's oldest café (1858) on Avenida de Mayo — marble, mirrors, and the back table of Borges and the tango poets.

— Bautista, The Historian
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