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I tried downloading the menu but couldn't get it done. With the rate of inflation so high, maybe they have given up on updating menus and just use a chalkboard over the bar with a kid updating the prices in real time.

I spent a month in Rosario, just for the hell of it, back in the early teens and I didn't run into any problems at all...

Security Alert- U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires (March 13, 2024) Location: Rosario, Argentina Event: Security Situation in Rosario News reports indicate a recent increase in violence and killings by criminal groups in Rosario, Santa Fe. In recent days, buses, taxis, gas stations, and other...

Are those mushrooms on their Paillard? Looks delicious. I know what I'm ordering now!

Eating eggs for breakfast is a lot healthier than eating all those medialunas!

What dishes do you recommend at La Biela? I look forward to rubbing elbows with the rich and famous again - as well as the old race car drivers. I tried to convince Garryl to return but he's off to Spain. Has Coffee Chat ever met at La Biela?

I knew it was too good to be true that using a credit or debit card would give you a better rate than cash...

Does anyone have any experience with getting knee gel injections in Baires?

Argentina has some new twist on their machinations with money on every visit. I found the rate for MEP or the Tourist Dollar. The spread is insane. I'm not clear whether the buy or sell rate applies to credit card purchases. 827.50 Buy 1,388.00 Sell https://bluedollar.net/tourist-dollar-rate/

Argentina carries the most IMF debt of any country in the world. How such a small country in GDP and population can be the largest IMF debt holder boggles the mind. How many of the politicians got kickbacks from these repeated debt injections. Argentina should thoroughly investigate any...

The IMF had decades to get Argentina to reduce the size of the public sector in exchange for loans - they never did it. The IMF failed the Argentine people and hopelessly indebted them.

A friend of a friend of mine, just drove his car three hours, one way, to buy tires in Uruguay. Another example that this is a temporary aberration. Nothing is cheaper in Uruguay - not for long anyway....

(Joe in his last visit to Coto) To avoid taking a wheel barrel of cash to the supermarket, is it possible and practical to use an app like Google Pay in Argentina? Is it possible to load Google Pay using cash in order to take advantage of the Blue Dollar? Do many retail establishments take...

That is a valid point. If Argentina can really correct the dysfunctional policies of 70 plus years then, yes, they would return to the high standard of living for Argentines and the concurrent high prices for foreigners that existed 70 years ago. For the sake of Argentina and its people, I hope...

People don't come here for the coffee, they come here to see and be seen and to break bread with the likes of Robert Duvall. Last time I was here with the old BAexpat: garryl, we ran into one of the Washington DC elites: James Carville. ... When I was in Baires in 2020, there was a long...

Although, I respectfully disagree, I'd still rather take macroeconomic advice from a tango dancer than the Bozos that are currently running things in Brussels and Washington DC...

If DC shut down half the government's departments and services - the average Joe wouldn't even notice.

We're in one of those rare 10% times when prices approach the US and Europe. Conversely, by Spring, I wouldn't be surprised if we were in one of those rare 10% times when Argentina is a super bargain.

Here's the Neoliberal Bible's take: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/09/07/can-javier-mileis-radical-libertarianism-save-argentina

The WSJ is the right faction of the neoliberal establishment, just as the NYT is the left faction of the neoliberal establishment. The WSJ and the NYT despise the average Joe and Jane - and the feeling is mutual. Joe is right in this case. Just today there was a referendum in Ireland that all...