People eat out all the time in B.A. The sidewalk cafes are overflowing. One of the oldest areas to eat and shop is Galerias Pacifico. It's an upscale mall with wonderful murals, skylighted dome. It's adjacent to the pedestrian shopping street of Calle Florida. Here one can see street performers and shop in regular stores filled with shoes and leather goods. I didn't really see anything to buy. So I saved a lot of cash.
We took a guided tour to the Boca area and San Telmo areas where European immigrants first came to live in colorful corrugated houses and started the melancholy dance known as the tango.
Puerto Madero is the recreated waterfront where you have American style restaurants and high-end condo buildings. It used to be where ships docked, now it is man -made canal with artwork that looks like ships.
Ended the day with Daniel's suggestion of a Swedish restaurant where we lied about dinner reservations (which you must have)and they accommodated us at a low coffee table in the garden for dinner. But it was worth it!
A cultural note...everyone smokes. The six women who were sitting near us in the garden of the restaurant were smoking non-stop. (at least it was outdoors). And, everyone sports tattoos, lots of them, and rings in every imaginable place on the face and body. Also, the women I just mentioned were all talking and texting on their individual phones. I don't think they spoke to one another the whole night.
I guess that just shows my age.
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