Street address: Av Santa Fe & Florida
Zip code:
City: Buenos Aires
Category: Sights & Museums
Buenos Aires’ most popular Irish bar has become, well, just too damn popular. Weekends are a crush and thumping music makes it hard to chat up your date, but the dark woodsy atmosphere is congenial enough. Come early on weekdays if you want to score one of the cozy deep booths for easy conversation; there’s also a smoking section on the 2nd floor if enough people want to light up. It has a good whiskey and beer selection, too.
As the name implies, there’s plenty of blue around, including the many pool-table surfaces (though upstairs they’re orange). Corrugated metal ceilings and a rowdy DJ contribute to the feisty atmosphere, where beer taps are built into your table and the neon gives everyone a robotic sheen. For even more blurry vision order a few shots of the hundred-odd whiskies available.
Just half a block from the popular Kilkenny and sporting a more intimate and less crowded atmosphere is this modest Irish pub. A wide range of aged whiskeys, imported liquor, blended cocktails and more than 30 beers temper the pizza, sandwiches and British food that are served. There are live Scottish bagpipes and Celtic music on weekends.