FourthWave

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires runs one of the deepest specialty scenes in Latin America — Palermo alone supports a dozen serious cafes de especialidad. Franco Specialty Coffee, PADRE, Al Diablo Coffee Roasters, and LAB all treat Argentine and regional beans with the same rigor as any European third-wave city.

On the map

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Curated picks

Editorially verified specialty spots. These are the cafes we'd send a friend to without caveats.

Algorithm-ranked

Other shops in Buenos Aires our scoring engine rates well. Higher-confidence picks land in the curated list above.