They say that Buenos Aires is the city of the most beautiful cafes and the worst coffee

April 12, 2019

According to a BBC publication, Argentina's capital is the ugliest coffee.

Buenos Aires is one of the world's cities with the largest number of cafes in the list of your tourist sites. These are the most beautiful cafes in America, but the coffee is regular there.

Flower Migliorisi, Argentine coffee expert, said: "Neither the quantities of coffee and water, nor the time of extraction, nor the hygiene of the machines are carefully treated."

In this same line, Sergio Mazzitelli, a gastronomy consultant from Buenos Aires, said: "The lack of culinary knowledge and commercial opportunism have made a fusion which has resulted in a lot of what we currently know on the ground. "

Bad news for coffee lovers

The coffee found in the most popular cafes in Buenos Aires it is bitter and requires adding sugar or milk and accompanying soda or water avoid chills. "In a word, it's uglyHe adjectivized.

According to the figures of the Argentine Chamber of Coffee, Argentines take on average 1 kilo per year and per person, a figure much lower than what happens in Brazil (6 kilos), Costa Rica (3.6 kilos) or Colombia (1.4 kilos). The world average is 4 kilos.

But more than that, which explains the paradox of bad coffee in beautiful cafes, according to experts consulted by BBC Mundo, is that this drink is not the reason why people visit them.

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"The purpose of coming here is not to drink coffee, but to pay homage to the past"Said Migliorisi." In cafeterias, the use of the word, meeting with other people and informal reflection and discussion on random subjects belonging to the public domain are the most remarkable activities ", was -he adds.

Most cafes are in the young and cosmopolitan area of ​​Palermo, the Buenos Aires version of Williamsburg in New York, a typical scenario for finding sites of this style.

He concluded: "The times of the economy mean that the times of politics, of planning, that is, of the future, are suspended. The only refuge for society is the past, which suggests that the past was necessarily better. And that's wrong. Because there is a possibility of a better future. "