Snacking is a pleasure worth cultivating. And if Buenos Aires has excellent places to eat, to go for brunch, it also has them, and in abundance, to go for a snack and get tired of eating cakes, cookies, alfajores and accompany it with whatever you want. We leave you our 13 recommended places so you know where to find the 13 best snacks in Buenos Aires.
1. Malvón
Malvón is many things: it is a bakery that makes its own bread, a cafeteria that makes delicious cakes and croissants but also, in its Palermo location, a beautiful house with a patio that explodes with green. Having a coffee with a slice of red velvet cake, carrot cake, triple chocolate cookies or any of their varieties of croissants (the almond one is delicious), is one of the best snacks in Palermo.
Malvón
Serrano 789, Villa Crespo, CABA
Every day from 8:30 am to 9:00 pm.
2. Duhau Palace – Park Hyatt
The Duhau Palace offers possibly one of the most exquisite and exclusive snacks in Buenos Aires. You can snack a la carte or order the Afternoon Tea, which consists of a wide variety of delicious sweet and savory options accompanied by a variety of teas or coffee.
Everything comes in a beautiful presentation: brioche sandwich, cheese and trout scons, tiramisu petit gateaux, chestnuts, chocolate with toffee or apple with cinnamon. And to close, a glass of sparkling wine. Every day at 4 p.m. in the Piano Nobile rooms.
Palacio Duhau Park Hyatt
Alvear 1661
Every day from 4pm. With previous reservation.
3. National Museum of Decorative Art
The garden at the entrance of the Museo de Arte Decorativo de Recoleta holds an open secret: a beautiful place to enjoy one of the best snacks in Buenos Aires at le Croque Madame. This café is famous for its croques with gruyere cheese, mushroom slices or salmon. But it also offers delicious sweet options for an ideal snack surrounded by greenery in the middle of the city. Le Croque Madam also has a location in the Palacio Paz, where its food and surroundings make it one of the most beautiful restaurants in Buenos Aires.
Le Croque Madam
1902 Libertador Avenue
Open from 10hs to 00hs
4. Nucha
Variety of croissants, fruits, fresh homemade granola , teas and infusions and of course quality coffee, frothy and made at the perfect temperature. That’s what you can enjoy if you go to try one of the best snacks in Buenos Aires at Nucha. Be sure to try the chocolate cake, a moist sponge cake filled with chocolate cream, covered in chocolate cream or the brownie cake.
Nucha
Parana 1343
Open from 9am to 7pm
5. Las Violetas
Las Violetas is one of the beautiful and remarkable bars that besides offering exquisite pastries have that antique touch that adds a unique and very special touch to any snack. Las Violetas offers two options for your snack, one more abundant than the other, but always ideal for sharing. In addition to salty crumb sandwich, Las Violetas ‘ snack trays bring portions of chocolate cake, apple, pistachio petit gateaux and fresh pastries.
Las Violetas
3899 Corrientes Avenue
Open from 6am to 1am
6. Le Jardin Secret
You won’t discover this secret garden unless you enter the Alliance Française building and ask for it. If you are looking to surprise and enjoy one of the best snacks in Buenos Aires in a secret garden that few know about, this is your place. Le Jardin Secret is a tea room that recreates the winter gardens of the French Belle Époque. Excellent patisserie, viennoiserie and French boulangerie, accompanied by specialty coffee.
Le Jardin Secret (Alliance Française)
Av. Córdoba 946, 1st floor, San Nicolás
Open Monday to Friday from 9:30 am to 8:30 pm. Saturdays from 9am to 2pm.
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7. Casa Nueza
If you are looking for an excellent 100% vegan and gluten-free snack, Casa Nueza is the place to go. Their snacks include juices, specialty coffee with vegetable milks, chocolate filled cakes, vegan dulce de leche, praline and seasonal fruits.
Casa Nueza
Lavalleja 1373
Open from 8am to 8pm
8. Hotel Lois Winter Garden
Hotel Lois hides a covered winter garden surrounded by green palm trees and white tables that invite you to have one of the best snacks in Buenos Aires in the tranquility of Recoleta. Their afternoon tea options include a very good variety of sweet and savory options: scones, toasts, macarons, mini gateaux, salmon sandwich, roasted tenderloin with herbs. This winter garden also has options for a good vegan snack.
Winter Garden. Hotel Lois
Vicente Lopez 1955
9. Alice Tea House
Alice Tea House is a tea house in the neighborhood of San Telmo and the perfect place for one of the best snacks in Buenos Aires that you can prepare to go with friends, family, children or why not, just treat yourself. Cakes, as many as you want: chocolate marquise with red fruits, streusel, cheesecake, scons, muffins, Italian meringue. A unique snack in an old style house in the emblematic neighborhood of San Telmo.
Alice Tea House
Carlos Calvo 372
Tuesday to Sunday from 10hs to 20hs
10. Moshu
Moshu does a very thoughtful pastry that shows in their cakes, especially the red velvet, and their fruit cake (fresh and seasonal). Their homemade alfajores , plentiful, moist, are the perfect accompaniment to their latte or lemonade. They also have a place in Palermo, the Moshu Treehouse, with an architecture that invites you to get lost while tasting one of the best snacks in Buenos Aires.
Moshu
Moldes 3802
Open from 8am to 9pm
11. Salón Cielo Azul
Cielo Azul is in Belgrano and is much more than a place to have a snack in Buenos Aires because it is an old house in the neighborhood of Belgrano completely renovated where each room is a unique place for an unforgettable snack and an excellent coffee.
Delicacies you can think of, also many savory options and snacks to celebrate events with friends, the order of the day.
Salón Cielo Azul
Conesa 1981
Monday to Friday from 8.30 am to 8 pm. Weekends from 10 am.
12. Confectionery La Ideal
Once in a lifetime you have to have a snack at La Ideal. Remodeled to be as or more beautiful than its origins, this vintage confectionery and notable bar in Buenos Aires is beautiful, stunning, with an entrance you can’t avoid. Showcases of sweets and chocolates and a lounge with one of the best snacks in Buenos Aires. It is so good and the place is so nice that there is always a queue to get in. They also organize themed snacks. Not to be missed.
Confitería La Ideal Suipacha 384. Open every day from 7am to midnight.
13. El Gato Negro
On Corrientes Avenue there is no option not to stop at El Gato Negro. First you stop for its shop window and the almost 100 spices and condiments they have and that besides being for sale, they use for the preparation of their cakes, puddings and teas. El Gato Negro is not one of the best snack bars in Buenos Aires because it is a nice place. It is one of the best snack bars in Buenos Aires because you will realize that you are in a coffee shop with history and aromas like no other.
El Gato Negro. 1669 Corrientes Av.