January Social Monthly Meeting

Posted on December 29, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

BAIN DOWNTOWN SOCIAL MEETING

FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, AT 6:00 pm

BAIN Downtown members are invited to join in this month’s Strictly Social Meeting. Let’s keep cool together at the Downtown Matias in Recoleta, an Irish pub located next to Starbucks in the Terrazas Buenos Aires Design Center.

We will be there starting at 6:00 pm. BAIN will provide appetizers and there is a 2 for 1 happy hour menu available!

Location: Downtown Matias at the Buenos Aires Design Center in Recoleta (next to the Recoleta Cemetery, nearest to the intersection of Av Libertador and Pueyrredon).

Date and Time: Friday, January 31, 6:00 p.m.

Program: Conversation! Meet someone new! Bring friends and introduce them to BAIN! We will provide light appetizers and finger food while our guests enjoy the happy hour specials of 2 for 1 on beverages.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge

Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – AR$50*

*If you join BAIN at the meeting, your guest fee is waived.

(The fee to join BAIN for a year’s membership is AR$250)

Other Notes:

Check out our website at https://baindowntown.com/, or view our new page on Pinterest for our local recommendations and references!

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BAIN DOWNTOWN SOCIAL MEETING

Posted on November 26, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

FRIDAY, December 6 at 6:00 pm

BAIN Downtown members are invited to join in this month’s Strictly Social meeting. We’re meeting at a new venue, DANDY, which has lovely outside space and a nice view onto Avenida de Libertador.

We will be there starting at 6:00 p.m. BAIN will provide appetizers and there is a 2 for 1 happy hour menu available.

Location: DANDY, Avenida del Libertador 2410 (corner of Bulnes in Palermo)

Date and Time: Friday, December 6 at 6:00 p.m.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members -– no charge

Guests and BAIN Suburbs members – AR$50*

*If you join BAIN at the meeting, your guest fee is waived.

(The fee to join BAIN for a year’s membership is AR$250)

Other Notes:

Check out our website at https://baindowntown.com/, or view our new page on Pinterest for our local recommendations and references.

Want to stay up to date with all of BAIN Downtown’s events? Sign up to follow our blog, or like us on Facebook.

December Morning Coffee — Cookie Exchange

Posted on November 19, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Just in time for the holidays!

The December BAIN Coffee will feature a holiday cookie exchange! If you would like to have an assortment of HOMEMADE baked goodies for your place for the holidays (if you can resist eating them all before then!), please join us for this event. If you’ve never been to a cookie exchange, the rules are simple:

1) Bring 2-3 dozen HOMEMADE cookies to the event (yes, that means you have to bake, not buy!),

2) Bring the recipe for your cookies to share with the rest of the group,

3) Those who bring cookies will be able to leave with an assortment of other people’s goodies

4) Enjoy!

The Morning Coffee/Cookie Exchange will be held on

Wednesday, December 4th

at 10:30 am

in Recoleta (address provided upon RSVP).

If you are planning to join in the fun of the Cookie Exchange, please bring an extra dozen or so for sampling at the table while having your coffee.

If this sounds like fun to you then please

RSVP to our hostess, Betty Brown, at bgbrown_2001@hotmail.com!

We hope you can join us!

November Luncheon

Posted on November 19, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Place: La Bodeguita del Medio – Andres Arguibel 2851 – Las Canitas 4778-0255

Date: Thursday, November 21, 2013

Time: 1 pm

Cost: 60 pesos plus – depending on what you order

Please RSVP to Michael at: mweldon213@yahoo.com

or phone # 4815-4660

We are going to go to a fairly new Cuban restaurant in Canitas (actually Low Belgrano). The restaurant is the first franchise in South America of a successful chain. They have 4 sites in Mexico,and one each in Checa, Macedonia, Kiev, Beirut and Sydney.

La Bodeguita del Medio is a typical restaurant-bar of Havana (Cuba). It is a famous tourist destination in Havana because of the personalities who have patronized it: Salvador Allende, the poet Pablo Neruda, the writer Ernest Hemingway, the artist Josignacio and many others. La Bodeguita lays claim to being the birthplace of the Mojito cocktail, prepared in the bar since its opening in 1942, although this is disputed.

The lunch special is an absolute bargain. For 50 pesos you get to choose from three different main courses and both water and dessert are included. The full menu is available if you wish to try Cuban food because the lunch special is usually pasta, or chicken, or a salad with meat of some sort – (not very Cuban). Their mojitos are good although a bit expensive at the same price as the meal!

Getting to the restaurant on Andrés Arguibel 2851 entre Arce y Baez is fairly easy. The following buses stop at the corner of Arevalo y Luis M. Campos (15, 29, 55, 59, 60, 64 and 118) If you proceed down Arevalo to Baez then turn right, Andres Arguibel is the first street on your left. Here is a link to the guia oleo with a map to make it easy. http://www.guiaoleo.com.ar/restaurantes/La-Bodeguita-del-medio-14084

It is also only about a 5 block walk from the D line Subte station Ministro Carranza.

The Las Canitas area is making a resurgence. It was extremely popular with the young crowd in the late 1990s and then Palermo became the hot spot. Now there are new restaurants and bars springing up all over Canitas. When you see how easy it is to get there you will probably want to try one of the many spots there for dinner. On the three-block walk to La Bodeguita del Medio you will pass at least 6 interesting spots.

November Ladies’ Night Out

Posted on November 6, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Join us for this month’s Ladies Night Out at Torguato & Regina Bar-Bistro! This is another opportunity to get your tickets to the End of Year Party!

Monday, November 11

6:00 to 8:30 pm

New Venue

Torguato & Regina

Across the street from San Martin Plaza is Torguato & Regina Bar-Bistro, a delightful new spot for BAIN’s Ladies Night Out

Santa Fe Avenue 772, Retiro

RSVP: tezig@hotmail.com

BAIN DOWNTOWN MONTHLY MEETING — October 25!

Posted on October 18, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Join us at the October Monthly Meeting! We have read your suggestions through the member survey and have a few changes to the meeting this month, starting with the meeting beginning later in the afternoon — at 5:30pm.

The program this month is brought to us by our own Solange and Mike Mecham who will discuss the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage originating from various points in Europe, ending in Santiago de Compostela. These two made the pilgrimage this year and will explain the reasons for doing so and what they learned along the way.

As always, we’ll be socializing over baked goods from Sugar and Spice and Malbec for those interested in starting their happy hour right at the meeting!

We also have a new venue for the post-meeting Happy Hour! The lovely Hotel Pulitzer Sky Bar Terrace is the meeting place to continue the fun!

We hope to see lots of new faces as we learn new things about the world and each other. We hope you’ll come out and join us!

Place: ICANA, Maipú 672, (between Viamonte and Tucumán) in the city center, ground floor, library

Date: Friday, October 25

Time: 5.30 p.m. – members and guests begin to arrive

6.00 p.m. – the program begins

6.30 p.m. – after-meeting social at the Hotel Pulitzer, Calle Maipu 907, esq. Paraguay

Program: The topic of this month’s presentation will be; “Camino de Santiago” presented by Solange and Mike Mecham.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge

Non-members/Guests – AR$50

We look forward to seeing you on Friday!

October Dinner

Posted on October 11, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

For October’s BAIN dinner restaurant Teresa has carefully chosen:

A NOS AMOURS, un bistro Francés en Argentina

located in a non-touristy section of Palermo

Gorriti 4488, esquina Araoz

(1 block off Scalabrini Ortiz Av.)

Date: Tuesday, October 15

Time: 8:30 pm

RSVP: tezlg@hotmail.com

This quaint restaurant offers only a few daily specials, written on one large portable chalk board. Another larger chalkboard mounted on the wall, alongside lovely photographs, displays the well thought-out wine list, filled with hand picked organic wines. On each table, books of French poetry aid in making the bistro extra classy and extra French.

By popular demand following last month’s BAIN dining experience, dinner will be a la carte with individual checks so each guest may choose their own menu.

Cubierto $10

Entrees from $55 to $69

First courses from $85 to $98

Desserts $34

Water (to share) 1.5 ltr $22

Wines from $70 to $110

CASH – AMEX – VISA

http://pickupthefork.com/2010/11/01/a-nos-amours-un-bistro-frances-en-argentina/

October Ladies Night Out

Posted on October 11, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Come join us for BAIN’s Ladies Night Out

Thursday, October 17

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

By popular demand we return to La Confitería La Paris at Hipódromo, Av. del Libertador 4104, (esq. Av. Dorrego)

Happy Hour will be outside on the front patio (weather permitting)

RSVP: Teresa Ezcurra (tezlg@hotmail.com)

We look forward to seeing you for another entertaining evening of endless laughter and fun with friends!

Morning Coffee

Posted on October 9, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

The next BAIN Morning Coffee is coming up! Mark your calendars!
Date: Tuesday, October 22nd
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00
Where: Recoleta
Come spend a morning making new friends and catching up with old ones.
This is a casual, fun way to mingle and meet new people and it’s open
to all BAIN Downtown members.

This month we’ll be joined for a brief talk by Lauren Dulberg of Acupuncture Buenos Aires who will speak about the acupuncture and the new facial rejuvenation technique she has brought to BA. Moreover, all BAIN members will be offered a discount package!

Never been to a coffee event before? New to BAIN or Buenos Aires? We’d love to have you join us. Let us know in your RSVP if you have any questions!

Please RSVP to Niccole De Campos at niccoledecampos@me.com

*Exact address provided upon RSVP. We hope you can make it!

Book Discussion Group–Monday, November 18, 10am to noon

Posted on October 9, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

The book selection for our next meeting is Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power by Jon Meacham. If you have not yet attended a BAIN book club meeting or are looking to start, please join us!

Like to talk about books? Please come to the November Book Group Meeting, whether you have read the book or not. Bring names of books you would like to read and discuss together.

Meeting will be held in Almagro. Please email your RSVP to: tonilin@aol.com. Exact address will be sent upon receipt of RSVP.

Here is a link to a summary and some critic and reader reviews on Amazon.

Here is the information for the November book club meeting:

Book choice: Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham
Date: Monday, November 18
Time: 10 am – 12 am
Location: Almagro
Please email your RSVP to: t onilin@aol.com

Here is a link to a summary and some critic and reader reviews on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Jefferson-Art-Power-ebook/dp/B0089EHKE8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=