Buenos Aires is a very diverse city full of things, places and opportunities to never miss. If you are just passing through, for a weekend, or you live here and simply think you have already seen and done everything, take a look at our list because for sure there are experiences that you will not visit. Check out what to do in Buenos Aires and mark what you are missing.
1. Set foot on KM 0
Buenos Aires is the point from which distances to other cities and countries are measured. Our km 0 is also in a super central location, in front of the Congress. Taking a picture in its m0nument is something that is done only once, of course, but it is worth it.
2. Eat an asado at a good parrilla
Don Julio is considered the best, if not one of the best parrillas to eat an asado or any cut of meat according to several international rankings around the world. But if there is something that abounds in Buenos Aires are the parrillas, good and in all neighborhoods. Eating asado or ordering a choripán on the waterfront is a must.
3. Visit La Bombonera
If you don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires, whether you live here or you are just passing through, whether you are a soccer fan, a Boca fan or none of those possibilities, the truth is that La Bombonera is a place you have to visit. The Boca Juniors stadium, as well as the River stadium, are two classics that you must visit at least once in your life in Buenos Aires.
4 Strolling around Puerto Madero
Puerto Madero is a nice neighborhood in Buenos Aires, you can stroll along the river, have lunch and get distracted and enjoy its green spaces. Besides being the most expensive neighborhood in Buenos Aires, it is at the foot of the South Waterfront and the Ecological Reserve. All together is a good walk and an area that you have to visit at least once.
5. Visit the Museum of Latin American Art
Buenos Aires has 12 art museums, but the most renewed and attractive is the Museum of Latin American Art, the Malba. Its collection includes works by Frida Kahlo and Diego de Rivera, film cycles and excellent art from the continent.
6. Strolling through the Palermo Woods
And more than just strolling, you can do something that few people do when they live in Buenos Aires: rent the boats that go around the lakes, or the bicycles for three people and the carts on weekends. Of course, you can also go sunbathing or jogging.
7. Visit the Rosedal
If you are in the Bosques de Palermo area, you must visit the Rosedal. This space dedicated to roses is beautiful, super instagrammable and also, depending on the time of the year you visit it, you may even be able to take a bunch of one of its varieties of roses home with you.
8. Eat a lollipop or a caramelized apple at the Japanese Garden.
Visiting the Japanese Garden can be a great plan if you don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires, stroll along its bridges and watch the fish. But there is something equally important that you can only do in Buenos Aires: in the little street stalls that you will see around the Japanese Garden, you can buy a pirulín (a colored sugar stick) or a caramelized apple (which also have popcorn around it) and enjoy it like a child.
9. Snack at La Ideal confectionery
Confitería La Ideal is a remarkable confectionery and bar in Buenos Aires with more than 100 years of history and the same charm of its beginnings. Snacking in Buenos Aires is a great tradition and if you do it at La Ideal, even better because in addition to its delicacies, you will literally feel like you are in 1910.
10. Touring Palermo Soho
Palermo Soho has it all: signature restaurants, some of the best themed bars in Buenos Aires, young designer clothing stores. Strolling around during the day and staying for a drink in one of its bars at night is a great plan if you don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires.
11. Have a drink in a flower shop that is not a flower shop.
Florería Atlántico is on Arroyo Street and is more than a flower shop. It is a Speakeasy bar that is actually hidden behind one of the doors of the flower shop. Buy yourself some flowers and while you’re at it, have one of their cocktails because it is one of the best cocktail bars in Latin America.
12. Have a Boba Tea in Chinatown
Who says a Boba tea also says any of the delicacies there are to try. Have Ramen for lunch in the open air too. Chinatown is a bubble in Buenos Aires that you have to visit at least once to get to know.
13. Eat croissants… Of course!
Who says medialunas also says churros. All bakeries have medialunas, but if you are in Villa Urquiza, you might be tempted to stop by the bakery chosen as one of the best in the world and try them there.
14. Try locro
Eating locro in winter in Buenos Aires is a treat for the body. On national holidays it is easier to find, but since it is a very homemade food, many bodegones in Buenos Aires always have it on their menu.
15. Walking along Corrientes Avenue
Walking down Corrientes, just walking, is wonderful and something you simply have to do when you don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires. If you can, you can go into one of its cinemas or theaters,eat a whole pizza or a slice standing up, or browse books in the bookstores that are open until the wee hours of the morning.
16. Take tango lessons…free of charge.
Buenos Aires and tango go hand in hand for many. You can stop by the Centro Cultural Borges on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon and join their free tango classes.
17. See Buenos Aires and the sunset from the highest point of the city
The sunset or sunrise. Having that view of the city, its orange colors, the lights that begin or leave is beautiful but to see it well you have to do it from one of the viewpoints of the city. Another great option if one night you don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires, is to go and watch the night fall from one of its bars with a terrace at the top.
18. Stroll through the San Telmo fair
The San Telmo Fair is perhaps the biggest fair in Buenos Aires. But if antiques are not your style, there are also fairs and markets of whatever you want: furniture, second hand, books, records.
19. See a tango show
Maybe you prefer to just watch a tango show instead of learning how to dance it. Tango shows are something everyone should see sometime, because watching tango dancing is an experience that should not be reserved for tourists. Besides, Buenos Aires has excellent tango shows.
20. Take a picture at the Obelisk
The Obelisk is synonymous with Buenos Aires and right there are two giant green letters that represent Baires: BA. Take a picture there, with the obelisk in the background.
21. Sunbathing at the Botanical Garden
The Botanical Garden is a haven of peace in the middle of the chaos of Buenos Aires. Take advantage of it to read a book, take a walk or take a nap in the sun is something very common that you can implement every day and add to that any of the parks and gardens of Buenos Aires, where green abounds.
22. Go dancing at a nightclub
Going out for a drink and then connecting your outing with going dancing at a boliche is a great plan for a night out in Buenos Aires. Especially those on the waterfront, near the river or those in Palermo Soho.
23. Walk along Caminito
It is not a redundancy. Walking along Caminito, the most famous street in the neighborhood of La Boca is something to do in Buenos Aires at least once. You can also visit the handicrafts fair and why not, stop by the Proa Foundation and see their latest art exhibitions or have a coffee on their terrace.
24. Walk through the oldest tunnels in Buenos Aires.
In the Manzana de las Luces are the oldest tunnels of Buenos Aires and where many archaeological pieces from the times of the foundation were found. It is a visit that has some mystery combined with history and is part of Buenos Aires plus many other things. Visit them if you don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires.
25. Eat a sanguche de milanesa at Café Paulin
Why Café Paulin? First because it is one of those cafes that survive in the microcenter of Buenos Aires, second because their sanguches in general and the milanesa ones in particular are huge and also because they throw it to you at the bar and the plate with the sanguche travels at full speed from one end to you. An experience.
26. Catamaran ride
If you take a trip to Tigre, a catamaran ride on the Delta is a unique way to see Buenos Aires from a distance and something you don’t get to do every weekend. It can also be a great opportunity to do something romantic in Buenos Aires.
27. See a play
To think of Buenos Aires is to think of theater and there are plays and theaters under every rock. If it is not in the off theater circuit, there is always something good worth seeing among the best plays of this year.
28. Watch a stand up show
Another thing you can’t miss in Buenos Aires are stand up shows. You can stop by the Complejo La Plaza, which is a mecca for this type of show, and have a bite to eat at Manduca, its open-air food court.
29. Have a vermouth
There is nothing more porteño and typical of Buenos Aires than having a vermouth. They serve it in many places, like the classic pizzerias for example. And if not, you can go to the neighborhood of Chacarita and stop by the vermutería La Fuerza, where they make the first and only vermouth in the Andes.
30. Watch a soccer match
Live on the soccer field is the ideal thing to do in Buenos Aires at least once in your life. But if you don’t make it, there are many places and sports bars where you can experience soccer very intensely as well.
31. Take the best selfies in some of the most interesting thematic bars.
Want to take a picture of yourself on top of a wrecking ball? Take a picture of yourself inside a Van Gogh painting, feel like you are in the world of Alice in Wonderland or immerse yourself in a scenario like the one in the Indiana Jones movies while you have a drink based on your horoscope. If these are things you’ve never done in Buenos Aires, then you need to check out the best themed bars around.
32. Get your jollies out of your system by playing Paintball.
Buenos Aires city has many places to take the edge off a bad day or celebrate with friends being able to shoot balls with a pistol. Besides, you don’t need to go far away because the five places you have available for paintballing are without leaving the city.
33. Choose what you want among the wide offer of the Cultural Centers of Buenos Aires.
The city has five major cultural centers that encompass the great cultural offer of Buenos Aires. In any of them you will be able to find courses, but also film seasons for all ages, live music, plays, lectures and special cycles. All of them are not to be missed and many at incredible prices.
34. Discover hidden corners and secret stories of the city.
There are many incredible tours to discover every aspect of Buenos Aires and this goes for everyone because even having lived in Buenos Aires all your life, there is so much you don’t know.A tour to discover the most famous murders in the city? Secret tunnels where the revolution was fought?Something more architectural to discover palaces or even movie locations? There is something for all tastes and needs.
35. Play pool, of course!
Nobody would say it, but playing pool while having a beer is something very porteño. If you haven’t done it for a long time, there are many pool bars that have closed, so we leave you with a list of all the bars and places where you can play pool and enjoy the night in Buenos Aires.
36. Eating outdoors in its night fairs
In the summer season in Buenos Aires, one of the things you have to do is to have dinner under the moonlight at Bs As Market, the gastronomic night fair that is organized every weekend in some of the big parks of the city. Local and homemade products for you to take home but also for you to enjoy eating until the wee hours of the morning.
37. Visit the Coastal Park
The Parque Costero is one of the newest parks in Buenos Aires. Not only does it give you direct access to the river and a long esplanade to walk along the River Plate, but it also has a gastronomic fair, games for children and a direct view of nature just meters away from Aeroparque. If you don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires and you haven’t visited this park yet, what are you waiting for?
38. Listen to free concerts in an impressive place
The Law School offers a monthly series of concerts with free admission in its most important halls. The concerts take place on Saturdays and the styles of the concerts are varied. But the experience of climbing those majestic stairs and listening to one of its concerts in its Aula Magna is unforgettable.
39. Play at the first miniature golf course in the city.
The DOT Shopping has the first mini golf course in Buenos Aires. If you want to do something super fun, celebrate or take the stress out of your life, one of the things you can do in Buenos Aires to get it is to stop by this minigolf and see how good you are at playing. It is also the only minigolf with a bar and a caddy that brings your drink to your hole.
40. Touring the Fitito Museum
There are few things more Argentinean than the Fitito and such a special piece of motoring and Buenos Aires deserved its own museum and it has it. Do you want to know one of the things you have to do in Buenos Aires, at least once? Visit the Fitito museum, use its simulator and feel what it’s like to drive one and enjoy these cars that are as Argentine as dulce de leche.