Café Aroma: Why?

Why would anyone choose to go to his place? We have a ton of beautiful, authentic, old, new, cafes why would you choose this one?

Their coffee is ok I have to admit, but...

1. Service.

What´s the point in going to a cafe when you have to ask for the coffee at the counter? You are probably thinking "this diva doesn´t understand the concept of fast food" You are wrong! I do understand that concept, but this place is not like MCdonalds where food is fast for real. There were 3 people behind eh counter. The cashier who was also in charge of putting the croissants, cakes, whatever in you tray, then the coffee maker girl, who was operating a machine that could make 5 coffees at the same time but apparently she didn´t know how to prepare more than 1 at a time, and a guy scratching his private parts with total impunity . I spent about 15 minutes waiting for my cafe au lait (why in french?) and he maybe 5 more till the girl charged me.

2. Food

They don´t have Sugar and spice cookies. WRONG!!! Plus I went here at 8.30 am and they had already run out of croissants, can you believe that? 89,9% of porteños eat that for breakfast, haven´t they thought about that? Buy 6000 croissants and 12 raisin cookies, not the other way around, Aroma manager

3.Ambient

I cannot stand fake wood, and they have it all over the place ,which, by the way, has no personality at all, like the crap they serve.

4. Coolness

Nonexistent (except for he few minutes I spent in there).

5. Cleanness

There are 2 types of cleanness. A- Clean B- So damn clean that smells like a private hospital. This is the type B. But they didn´have toilet paper when I went.

5. Other things

They have those big fridges where you can grab bottled water and other beverages, that later you have to pay at the counter. So far is the same process hat in any kiosk, so what´s the difference? That they charge you double.

If I were you I´d...

Read my suggestions on what to do in Buenos Aires in the latest edition of Time Out magazine.

That´s it.



Do it.



NOW!!!

Tourists and Toilets

I live in San Telmo now. I´m not alone, I share my neighbourhood with a lot of tourists. I go to the bars and cafes in San Telmo almost every day. Tourists too. I use the public restrooms in San telmo. Tourists too. I don´t walk around with my pants down on the public restrooms. Tourists do!!!

Holly crap, I´m seeing a lot more butts than what I´m used to. Is this running around in a public bathroom showing your butt something that only happens one week a year? Is this like an anglo saxon tradition I´ve never heard of? Because I don´t like it, and I´ll do whatever it takes to avoid watching such a show.

Monday. I went to the bathroom. I do my thing. As I´m leaving the toilet, the door next to mine suddenly opens and I see a 2o something year old girl saying something to me. I pretend I didn´t hear and I walk away so she raises her voice forcing me to look at her. She was sited in thetoilet with her pants down asking for toilet paper. Of course I pretended that I didn´t understand what she was saying and I run away as fast as I could. After that I had to return to my table where my cafe con leche and medialunas were waiting for me. I hated her, I couldn´t get her I-dont-Know-How-To-Clean-My-Butt-in-a-foreign-country face out of my mind.

Saturday, Recoleta, La Biela ( a famous cafe where you pay 42 pesos for a salad). I open the door and there she was, with her touristy shorts wide open and falling off her butt. Apparently (this is what I guessed), she unbuttoned her shorts and she noticed that there was no toilet paper, so she decided that it was OK to walk around in the bathroom showing her flaccid butt to the rest of the world.Personally, I don´t think is a normal behaviour, but maybe is just because I didn´t share many bathrooms with tourists.