The monthly Wine & Tapas get together is a chance for newcomers, old hands and new, to come together to visit and catch up.
Bring wine and finger food to share. We meet this month in Palermo at 8 pm on Saturday, February 15.
Socialize, have a bite, have a sip, have fun.
RSVP to LTalluto@gmail.com to get exact location. Looking forward to seeing you there.
Those of us who are still in the city have a treat coming. We dine this month at Club Danes. This unpretentious Danish restaurant on the edge of Retiro is on the 12th floor of the building that houses the Danish embassy. They took an alternate route to the lowered traffic and are open only for lunch! The view over the river is great.
The menu has four options and includes a beverage plus coffee or tea for 80 pesos. Dessert (a large selection) is an additional 28 pesos. A wide range of open-face sandwiches are about 40 pesos each.
Hoping to see you all on Thursday the 30th.
Time: 12:30
Date: Thursday January 30
Place: Club Danes, L. N. Alem 1074, Piso 12
Phone. 4312-9266
Cost: 40 – 120 pesos depending on choices
RSVP please to Michael at: mweldon213@yahoo.com
Phone: 4815-4660
Come join us to discuss Fatelessness, a novel by Imre Kertész, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for literature, written between 1969 and 1973 and first published in 1975.
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Day: February 20, 2014
RSVP to shmecham25@gmail.com
Future books we will be reading together are listed below.
March
The Attack by Yasmina Khadra is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul
April
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Note: this book is over 800 pages)
May
The Buddha in the Attic is a 2011 novel written by American author Julie Otsuka about Japanese picture brides immigrating to America in the early 1900s.
June
Please Look After Mom is a novel by South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin.
The book selection for January is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. If you have not yet attended a BAIN book club meeting or are looking to start, please join us! This month we will be having an evening meeting. We look forward to seeing you, whether you have read the book or not. Bring food or drink to share, along with suggestions for future reading.
Book: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Date: Thursday, January 16
Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Location: Almagro
Please email your RSVP to: tonilin@aol.com
Join us for this month’s Ladies Night Out at Croque Madame Cafe, a lovely cafe located inside the gates of the Museo de Arte Decorativo.
When: Wednesday, January 22, 6:00 to 8:30 pm
Where: Croque Madame Cafe, Av. del Libertador 1902 (Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo) – Palermo
A relaxing night of conversation, relaxation, catching up, keeping cool. Don’t feel bashful if it’s your first time. You will feel welcome in a jiffy.
RSVP: tezlg@hotmail.com
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!
Want to stay up to date with all of BAIN Downtown’s events? Sign up to follow our blog, or like us on Facebook
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.
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.
Want to stay up to date with all of BAIN Downtown’s events? Sign up to follow our blog, or like us on Facebook.
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!
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.
BAIN Downtown 