Impresso Cafe - Buenos Aires

This cafe is located on the old stage at the El Ateneo bookstore. We stopped for coffee and it was great. A huge thunder storm led us to morph coffee into lunch. My husband had a sandwich and I had a torta. Both were ham,...cheese, sun dried tomatoes and they were quite good. But while we were eating, we keep ogling the bookstore. My oh my. What a place!

While visiting the bookstore on a rainy day, we had tea and coffee to take a break from walking. The cafe sits on the old theater's stage. The two drinks were about $7 USD. Somewhat pricey but probably keeps the store open. The service was...good and WiFi was available for free.

It is surprising how difficult it is to find a good coffee in Argentina. The reason must be the popularity of buddies. In Impresso Cafe the coffee was good. Since the service was really slow, we took a moment to admire the beautiful place.

Although not a goal of itself in any way when you visit the bookstore that is the Grand Splendid, then you can consider falling here for a fast bite, but you can be forgiven when you skip. The price is of course expensive...to look at the location, but to sit his beautiful place and admire the wonder of the bookshop. The café is on the stage of a former theatre. The whole theater was converted into this beautiful bookshop, which is the great el Ateneo-Grand, and so you get a very good look at the bookshop, which is the entire multi-storey theatre-seat corner. The café has Wi-Fi, which also extends into the bookstore and accepts credit cards. For breakfast you can go to a simple dish of Tostados, the typical Argentine toast and a coffee. I tried Cuban and it wasn't bad.

4/1/19 We three middle-aged Brits were shown in this district of our friend's childhood. He brought us to this converted theatre (where he had seen plays), which was now a huge bookshop that attracted tourists and people to the unique café on stage and its wings. We arrived at a Friday at 5 pm to find the cafe very full with only a small table in the far corner through the series of light switches. We took two more chairs and sat down. A waitress seemed to tell us that we blocked the passage or the fire outbreak. We've been overcrowded to enable passage, but it was precarious through a staircase and the light switches (although now redundant). Fortunately, a big table on the back of the stage was empty and we were overrated by the waitress to occupy them. It was a better table anyway, where the look at the bookshop was interesting. We were provided with the menus and since it was the tea time, two of us had two inexpensive Pisco Sours (in each case 160, as the beer was relatively expensive and no local Argentine beers were available only not listed Heineken). Our friend had an espresso (90) and our host a Cafe Con Leche (125) and an Alfajor Maicena cake (58). In good time, a waiter came by and served the drinks and snacks. The Pisco Sours were definitely strong and therefore a good choice! They each had a hatch of cocoa powder, which was nice, and we lubricated every slip through the straw. The coffees were good, each one with a small wrapped cookie. The cake went well with our host. The café was gradually less busy and we took time to enjoy the view. Someone played the piano (bad) and was expelled immediately! Our host had actually played this piano professionally (as a lounge musician), but could not convince to play it again (he was Dario, not Sam). We ordered the bill (hand gesture from the distance to the stage) and it immediately came to a precise 593 that we rounded to 650 to the top. We left shortly after 19:00, so we had spent a pleasant few hours there and then explored the balcony CD section. Overall a pleasant experience with good prices for strong cocktails!