Another stick: the BBC wonders why coffee is so bad in Buenos Aires?

Needless to say, a walk through the Tortoni or Las Violetas is more centered on the beauty and history of these places than on what will be consumed, good that a good gastronomy is a point in favor. But the correspondent Colombian chronicler BBC He had to suffer cultural shock when he realized that coffee in Buenos Aires was not the same as in Bogotá.

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"Neither the quantities of coffee and water, nor the time of extraction, nor the hygiene of the machines are carefully treated."he explained to the BBC Flor Migliorisi, an Argentine coffee expert who could do nothing but give the reason to the discerning palate.

The increasing number of establishments offering ristrettos and cold infusions (cold-filtered coffee) made of good quality grains, which tend to be more expensive than the industrial brands of roasting and roasting, more than a porteño will be reunited with a drink that has always been an excuse and never planned.

"Many European immigrants who arrived at the end of the 19th century were single men living in residences and, as a city without green spaces, the cafeteria has become the place to share, in the living room of the house ", explained Carlos Cantinim, author of the blog Café Contado, for whom" it gave rise to tangos and a space with a very clean mystique ".