Avenida Santa Fe 1826 (near corner with Av. Callao), Recoleta

The best Ice Cream / Helado / Gelato in Buenos Aires?

Out of all the ice cream parlors I have tried in Buenos Aires, Un Altra Volta in Recoleta is certainly the best quality so far. And this is in a city where the ice cream is some of the best in the world, due to the heavy Italian influence here.

Perhaps these sentences and the mouthwatering picture above are enough for you to decide to visit Un Altra Volta for a scoop or two of icy heaven. You won’t regret it. But if you enjoy a little background info and my verbose ramblings, by all means read on!

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Armenia 1784, (between El Salvador and Costa Rica), Palermo Soho / Viejo

[May 2007 edit - this review refers to the bar as Terreo throughout, but the name has since been changed to the Soho Vain Bar, I guess given its prime location in Palermo Soho]

Terreo is the most unique bar I have visited so far in Buenos Aires, because, well, it is more like a big (chilled) house party than a real bar. It is located in ‘trendy’ Palermo Viejo, right next to the ingeniously named Plaza Palermo Viejo, a few blocks from Palermo Soho and the more famous Plaza Serrano.

The barrio of Palermo has a reputation of being willfully ‘different’, and in that area, Terreo certainly doesn’t disappoint. First off, it is a little difficult to find if you are looking for it by name. It has no Terreo sign, and is just a door with a today’s special’s blackboard outside. So look out for the Armenia 1784 street number (above right) on a yellow background to help you find it. Also, it is next door to a store called ‘Viva La Pepa’, which does have a sign, much to the amusement of my Argentine friends (ask an Argentine what ‘Viva La Pepa’ means).

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