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Cafés in Las Cañitas

Báez and the blocks beside the polo field, with Blanca’s Nordic pastry, ÖSS Kaffe toward La Imprenta and a long-running roaster on Cabildo.

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Las Cañitas takes its name from a quinta (country estate) between Luis María Campos and Libertador, itself named for a reed bed in the lowlands of the Arroyo Maldonado. After the estate was subdivided, the early 20th century brought housing blocks for the military, corrals and milk carts, and the polo grounds that are now part of the Campo Argentino de Polo.1

The food trade began changing in the mid-1990s, when restaurants, pubs and discos arrived around Calle Báez.2 By 2024, cafés, tea houses, ice cream shops and restaurants made up nearly a quarter of the 234 commercial premises surveyed, and nine new ones had opened in a year.2

Local tip: Antaño on Vuelta de Obligado runs from 08:00 to 00:00 every day, the hours to know when Café Maitre on Arce has closed at 20:00.

At a glance

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7With opening hours
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  • Opens earliest: Antaño, from 08:00 (Daily 08:00–00:00).
  • Most common features: outdoor seating (44%), indoor seating (24%), takeaway (9%).

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Coffee chains in Las Cañitas

Blanca Deco y Café on Soldado de la Independencia

Blanca Deco y Café is a concept store as much as a bar, selling candles, jewelry and textiles alongside specialty coffee.3 Juan Cruz Riesgo and María Carolina Schalum, who also run Louis & Lewis, built it around a Nordic pastry menu, with a cinnamon-cardamom braid as the example El Cronista picked out in 2022.3 The coffee then came from the micro-roaster Puerto Blest.3

The same owners also run Blanca Studio in Colegiales, a Modbar bar that roasts its own beans, which is why the name turns up in two parts of the city.4

ÖSS Kaffe toward La Imprenta

ÖSS KAFFE "La Imprenta", at Migueletes 1041, takes its name from the district that begins at Matienzo, on the barrio’s edge.1 La Nación reported the branch as new in 2021.5 Fernando Iglesias Molli founded the business in 2017 in a former garage in Núñez, using Puerto Blest beans, and has since taken it to Montevideo, Barcelona and Madrid.46

Time Out’s 2025 list singles out the business’s frappu and affogato.6 Philo Café, at Migueletes 925 on the same street, is the fallback if the tables are full.

Calle Báez and the blocks around it

Calle Báez carries most of the barrio’s restaurants, with fewer on Olleros, Arce, Arguibel and Ortega y Gasset, and in 1995 the El Solar de la Abadía shopping center opened in a former ice factory.1 The historic part lies between Boulevard Chenaut and Dorrego, while the first towers are rising on the old Sastrerías Militares site.2

Ajoykidscafe, at Báez 340, is a play café for ages 1 to 6 with a role-play market and hospital, though its site marked the branch as temporarily closed in November 2026.8 Kraft Coffee Deli, at number 358, is on the same block.

Cafezenda and eighty years of roasting

Cafezenda, at Avenida Cabildo 199, is the old hand. It says it has spent about 80 years in the same place, making its coffee by hand every day and selling it on site.7

Buy beans here to take home. Its list runs to Kenya AA, Tanzania, Sumatra, Papua New Guinea, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Colombian Excelso, along with Brazilian Santos and house blends sold as suave, extrasuave and especial.7 Il Nostro Café and Animalito Café, on the same stretch of Cabildo, both have outdoor tables for drinking a cup on the spot.

Sources

  1. Las Cañitas (Buenos Aires), Wikipedia, accessed November 2026
  2. El barrio trendy que se impone como el polo de los cafecitos, Infogastronómica / La Nación, accessed November 2026
  3. Tarot, plantas, deco y laundry: las apuestas del café de especialidad, El Cronista, accessed November 2026
  4. The Sprudge Guide To Coffee In Buenos Aires, Sprudge, accessed November 2026
  5. Coffee lovers: recorrido para conocer nuevas propuestas, La Nación / OHLALÁ!, accessed November 2026
  6. 12 cafeterías de especialidad imperdibles en Buenos Aires, Time Out Buenos Aires, accessed November 2026
  7. Cafezenda, Cafezenda, accessed November 2026
  8. Ajoy Kids Café, Ajoy Kids Café, accessed November 2026
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FAQ

Las Cañitas cafés: questions

What is Blanca Deco y Café in Las Cañitas, Buenos Aires?

Blanca Deco y Café, on Soldado de la Independencia, is a concept store that pairs specialty coffee with home decor such as candles, jewelry and textiles. Its owners, Juan Cruz Riesgo and María Carolina Schalum, built the pastry menu around Nordic baking, including a cinnamon-cardamom braid.

Where can you buy roasted coffee beans in Las Cañitas, Buenos Aires?

Cafezenda at Avenida Cabildo 199 says it has made coffee by hand in the same place for about 80 years. It sells single origins including Kenya AA, Sumatra, Guatemala and Colombian Excelso, as well as house blends called suave, extrasuave and especial.

Why is Calle Báez important in Las Cañitas, Buenos Aires?

Calle Báez is the center of the historic part of Las Cañitas, where restaurants, pubs and discos began arriving in the mid-1990s. By 2024, a survey of 234 commercial premises in the area found that cafés, tea houses, ice cream shops and restaurants made up nearly a quarter.

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