Buenos Aires Food Week & Spanish Gastronomy Week

Posted on April 13, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Two simultaneous gastronomic events will be taking place in Buenos Aires on the week of April 15 – April 21, 2013.

Buenos Aires Food Week, a new annual event in which 25 of the best restaurants in the city will offer lunch and dinner menus at promotional prices, will be held for the first time in Buenos Aires from April 15 to April 21, 2013.

With similar editions in New York, San Pablo, Milan and other major cities worldwide, the goal of this Food Week is democratizing access to haute-cuisine, offering the general public the opportunity to learn about premium restaurants and taste unique dishes at attractive prices.

Each restaurant will offer a fixed three step menu (starter, main course and dessert) with a fixed price of $ 99 pesos for lunch and $ 169 pesos for dinner, not including drinks, service and tip.

The restaurants participating in the first edition are:

Agraz – Caesar Park Hotel
Astrid y Gastón
Azema
Bice
Blanch
Brasserie Petanque
Cardon
Casa Cruz
Club 31 restaurant-Grand Hotel
Drift
Doppio Zero
Dos Mares
Honor y Causa
La Brasserie – Marriot Plaza Hotel
La Rosa Náutica
Le Grill
Mooi
Mullu
Piegari Vitello e Dolce
Plaza Grill – Marriott Plaza Hotel
Pony Line Bar – Four Seasons Hotel
Root – Intercontinental Nordelta
Sivela 465 – Mio Hotel
Social Paraíso

For a complete list of restaurants, menus (“Carta”) and online reservations, visit: www.bafoodweek.com.

If places are left available, people may also attend directly the restaurant of their choice.

Payments can be made in cash, debit card, or credit card at the end of the meal.

The additional 15% discount with Mastercard Black or Platinum cards only applies to cards issued in Argentina.

At the same time, The Spanish Tourist Office of the Embassy of Spain in Buenos Aires organizes the 1st Spanish Gastronomy Week in Buenos Aires, which will also be held from April 15 to April 21, 2013.

The Spanish Gastronomy Week offers quality Spanish menus at a reasonable prices for both lunch and dinner throughout the week, at the best Spanish restaurants in the city of Buenos Aires and Mendoza. Prices range from $ 99 Pesos to $ 199 Pesos.

The Regions of Asturias, Galicia and Madrid will participate actively through top-level chefs that will display their skills in some of the participating restaurants.

For a complete list of restaurants and online reservations, visit:www.semanagastronomicaba.com

Thank you to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide for the information above. To keep up with this an other events in Buenos Aires, we have added a feature called “Blogs We Read” to the lower right-hand corner of the BAIN Downtown site. Or, subscribe to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide and receive all of her posts though email!

Cultural Events at the Jardin Japones

Posted on April 12, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

This Sunday, April 14 come and join our BAIN member, Solange Mecham at the Japanese Gardens onAv. Figueroa Alcorta and Av. Casares. There will be a demonstration of Aikido and Bonsai while you enjoy the beautiful Japanese Gardens. Solange will be wearing a name tag with the word “BAIN”.

Aikido is a Japanese martial art that blends the motion of the attacker and redirects the force of the attacker rather than opposing it head-on. It’s a form of self-defense that requires very little physical strength.

There will be also a talk about Bonsai and those individuals in the audience that would like to bring their own Bonsais will have the opportunity to talk to an expert. Bonsai is the Japanese art of growing miniature trees and shrubs in containers.

Aikido – 15:00 – 17:00 (Demonstration and for those interested, audience participation)

Bonsai – 17:00

Entrance Fee: Adults AR$24, children 11 years old and younger free, Adults 65+ free with ID.

How to get there:

Address – Av. Figueroal Alcorta and Av. Casares. Map .

Public Transportation:

Bus: 10, 15, 37, 59, 60, 67, 93, 95, 102, 108, 118, 128, 130, 141, 160 y 188.
Subte: Línea D, Stop: Scalabrini Ortiz. (8 blocks aprox.)

For more information, visit: http://www.jardinjapones.org.ar/.

The Book Exchange Returns in May!

Posted on April 12, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

The BAIN Book Exchange is Back!

We skipped a meeting of this bi-monthly group, so it’s been awhile since we’ve gotten together. Looking forward to seeing everyone interested in sharing books and literary discussion at our upcoming event.

Please join us by bring 1 or 2 really interesting books to lend or give away in exchange for someone else’s great book. You don’t necessarily have to part with your book, you can loan it to another BAIN member who will be held accountable to return it. Our book exchange offers participants an opportunity to access high quality reading material in English, which can be hard to find and expensive to buy in BA, so please bring the book you would like your best friend to read.

Date: Thursday, May 2nd

Time: 11 am

Place: Contact Danielle Gold at dgold@counselingba.com for directions

Please RSVP in advance – exact address provided upon RSVP

Refreshments & good conversation will be served

April Ladies Night Happy Hour

Posted on April 11, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Join us for fun with friends on the private terrace of the Hotel Melia in Recoleta!

Wednesday, April 17

6:00 – 9:00pm

Posadas 1557

RSVP: annsager@me.com

International Polo Series 2013

Posted on April 8, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Thank you to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide for the information below. To keep up with this an other events in Buenos Aires, we have added a feature called “Blogs We Read” to the lower right-hand corner of the BAIN Downtown site. Or, subscribe to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide and receive all of her posts though email!

The International Polo Series 2013 (Serie Internacional de Polo), organized by the Argentine Polo Association, will take place on April 9, 11, and 13, 2013 at the Campo Argentino de Polo in Palermo (Av. del Libertador & Dorrego).

This unique tournament, with the participation of three high handicap international teams (Argentina, England, and South Africa), is an important addition to the national and international polo calendar.

Teams:

Argentina: Diego Cavanagh 7, Pedro Falabella Jr 6, Manuel Plaza de Ayala 6, Martín Joaquín 3. Total: 22.

South Africa: Dirk van Reenen 3, Christopher MacKenzie 5, Jean du Plessis 6, Ignatuis du Plessis 8. Total: 22.

England: Matthew Perry 3, Oliver Cudmore 5, Mark Tomlinson 7, Luke Tomlinson 7. Total: 22.

Calendar of matches:

April 9 – 2 PM: South Africa vs England (Match 1)

April 11 –2 PM: Argentina vs Loser Match 1

April 13 – 2 PM: Argentina vs Winner Match 1

All matches are open to the public with Free entrance.

The schedule is subject to change depending on weather conditions, so keep checking for updates.

April Morning Coffee

Posted on April 7, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

The next BAIN Morning Coffee is coming up! Mark your calendars!

Date: Tuesday, April 16th
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00
Where: Palermo Chico *Exact address provided upon RSVP
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.

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 Ramona Michetti at rgmichetti@hotmail.com
We hope you can make it!

Are you interested in hosting a Morning Coffee?? You pick the day, and BAIN will chip in AR$150 to help cover hosting fees. Hosting is a great way to continue the event, and get involved with BAIN! Contact Katarina Nyssens at katarina.nyssens@gmail.com for more information!

*This event is limited to current BAIN members only. If you are interested in becoming a member of BAIN, contact bain.downtown@gmail.com*

ICANA Book of the Month Club

Posted on April 6, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Book of the Month Club 2013

Hosted by Paula Varsavsky

Book of the Month Club (annual).

Inicio: jueves 2 de mayo en Sede Central

Inicio: jueves 9 de mayo en Sede Belgrano

English speakers and readers are welcome to join the Book of the Month Club. Hosted by Argentine writer and journalist Paula Varsavsky at ICANA. We will enjoy and discuss one book every month. Either a fiction or non-fiction book is chosen by the host, suggestions done by participants are taken into account.

When it comes to fiction the focus is on characters, suspense, point of view, defamiliarization, sense of time and place, surprise, the reader in the text and other literary matters. As far as non-fiction is concerned the focus is on: subject, historical context, political and economic context, narrator and writing skills.

We will get together every Thursday of the first week of the month (or the second week)at 6:00pm for a one and a half hour gathering.

At the first meeting of the Book of the Month we will be reading a short-story together.

Informes e inscripción: dcultural@icana.org.ar 5382-1537

Reuniones mensuales. Nivel de Inglés requerido: Avanzado

Arancel: $100 por encuentro.

Dirección: ICANA Sede Centro Maipú 672

ICANA Sede Belgrano 3 de Febrero 821

Paula Varsavsky is the author of two novels Nadie alzaba la voz, also published in English in the U.S: No One Said a Word (Ontario Review Press) and El resto de su vida. She has also written a collection of interviews with British and American writers and short-stories. She is a regular contributor of local and foreign newspapers.

List of Books:

– A Shower of Gold, short-story by Donald Barthelme (May)

– Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (June)

– The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood (July)

– Thinks! By David Lodge (August)

– Persuasion by Jane Austen (September)

– The Honorary Council by Graham Greene (October)

– The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (November)

– A Confederancy of Dunces by John Kennedy O´Toole (December)

Mickey Vail plays at La Biblioteca

Posted on April 5, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

The date has been changed! This event will now take place on Wednesday, April 24 – all other details are the same.

Mickey Vail is playing at La Biblioteca Cafe, Marcelo T. Alvear 1155: www.labibliotecacafe.com.ar

Wednesday, April 24, 9:30pm

Reservations 4811 0673 Cover Charge $65 Minimum Consumption $55 Show and Dinner $160 (all in pesos, and BAIN members get 10% off the cover).

Mickey will be working with a trio of Adrian Mastrocola (piano) Tomy Fraga
(guitar) and Federico Palmolella (bass) which is the same makeup as the old
Nat “King” Cole Trio and we will do a number of his songs plus others by
James Taylor, Luiz Bonfa, George Gershwin and more plus an original song
“There Are Times” written by Mastrocola and me.

Come and enjoy the show!

April Monthly Dinner

Posted on April 4, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

This month’s BAIN dinner will be on Tuesday, April 9. The event is being organized by Jim Isaacs. Jim reports:

The event will feature Basque food, which heavily emphasizes seafood.

The Basque independence movement in Spain and to some degree France draws the world’s eyes, but the Basque people have a very strong presence in Argentina and Chile, too. By many estimates there are more people of Basque decent in Argentina than all of Europe, and there is a strong Basque community in Buenos Aires. Five presidents of Argentina are reported to have been of at least partial Basque descent, including Urquiza, both Uriburus, and Yrigoyen. Eva Peron and Che Guevera had Basque blood, too.

We will meet and dine at the excellent Restaurant Vasco Frances, located in the Basque cultural center, at 1370 Moreno (between Santiago del Estero and San Jose, in the Congresso nieighborhood).

Reviews: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g312741-d1232371-Reviews-Centro_Vasco_Frances-Buenos_Aires_Capital_Federal_District.html

Here are the details:

Time: Tuesday April 9, 2013 at 9 p.m.

Place: Restaurant Vasco Frances (main dining hall of the Basque cultural center) 1370 Moreno. Parking will be validated for 2 hours; let me know if you are driving and I will get specifics to you.

Cost: $ 175 per person, inclusive of three course meal, one glass of wine (likely to be augmented), one water or soda, cubierto and tip.

RSVP to Jim Isaacs at jisaacs61@hotmail.com Space is limited/first-RSVP first served.

BAFICI

Posted on April 3, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) is an international film festival that takes place from April 10 – 21 in different theaters all over Capital (including the Planetarium in Palermo!). BAFICI was born in 1999 and has ever since grown to become one of the most prominent film festivals in the world.

With its wide range of films including Argentine, Latin American and worldwide premieres as well as well-deserved retros, BAFICI is the greatest, most prestigious event for the independent cinema in Latin America.

Ticket pre-sales are available now, online and at two venues in the city; Casa de la Cultura (Av. de Mayo 575), from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Mon-Fri) and at Village Recoleta Mall (Vicente López and Junín, 4th floor), same hours (every day). Tickets are AR$20 at full price with discounted tickets available at AR$15.

Visit the official website for BAFICI: buenosaires.gob.ar/festivales for more information. The site is available in English and Spanish.

You can keep up with this and other festivals to visit Buenos Aires by visiting the Buenos Aires Festivals website , or following them on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FestivalesGCBA.