Wines and Wineries Fair “Vinos & Bodegas 2013”

Posted on October 2, 2013 by dawngill

The expo “Vinos y Bodegas 2013” (Wines and Wineries, 2013 Edition), will take place from November 13th – 15th, at La Rural Exhibition Center.

The most important Fair for the Wine Industry in Latin America will offer visitors the opportunity to enjoy the most renowned wine labels from traditional and boutique wineries in Argentina, in the 5000 m2 Pavilion where the event will take place.High end wines from the wineries participating in the fair can be tasted at the Wine Bar. Visitors will also be able to stroll through Paseo de las Olivas, a space dedicated to the progress that our country has made in the production of olive oil.Again this year, the Wine Store will be the space for those wishing to buy wine labels.For the past years Argentina has been positioned in the international wine market among the five main wine producers worldwide, after France, Italy, Spain, and United States.Dates: November 13th – 15th, 2013

Opening hours: 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Location: La Rural Exhibition Center. Av. Santa Fe 4201, Palermo

Entry fee: AR$ 150 (includes tasting glass).

More information: Vinos y Bodegas 2013 official website (in Spanish only).

Thank you to My Buenos Aires Travel Guide for this information. To keep up with this and 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 Annual End of Year Cocktail Party

Posted on October 2, 2013 by dawngill

ANNUAL END-OF-YEAR COCKTAIL PARTY

Join us for BAIN Downtown’s most popular event of the year!

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Date: Thursday, November 14

Time: 7.00 to 10.00 p.m.

Venue: Pur Sang in Recoleta

Quintana 191 (corner Montevideo)

Dress code? Anywhere from cocktail to casual!

Cost: Members – AR$100

Non-Members – AR$250*

*Guests who join at this event will pay only the AR$100 member cost

Cost of membership is AR$250

TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE

(see any Board member at any BAIN event; more contact information below)

Enjoy a sumptuous selection of canapés, hot and chilled appetizers, sweets,

various juices and soft drinks, red and white wine, and champagne!

Saxophone, guitar and vocals performed throughout the evening by Fabián Giuri www.fabiangiuri.com

For more information or to purchase your tickets, come to any BAIN Downtown event or contact:

Dawn Gill at dawn.e.gill@gmail.com

or Bonnie Ridley Kraft at bonniekraft@yahoo.com
or send a note to bain.downtown@gmail.com

Buenos Aires Food Week

Posted on September 16, 2013 by dawngill

Buenos Aires Food Week, a new bi-annual event in which 25 of the best restaurants in the city will offer lunch and dinner menus at promotional prices, will be held from September 16 – 29.

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 + optional $ 1 Peso to be donated to the charity organization Fundación Banco de Alimentos.

The restaurants participating are:

Agraz – Caesar Park Hotel
Akira Nikkei
Aldo´s Vinoteca Restoran
Astor Bistró
AyG Buenos Aires
Azema
Azul Profundo
Bernata
Bice
Bio Solo Organico
Blanch
Brasserie Petanque
Cardinale (Hotel Sheraton)
Cardon
Casa Cruz
Club 31 restaurant-Grand Hotel
Crizia
Demuru
Deriva
Doppio Zero
Francesco
La Brasserie – Marriot Plaza Hotel
La Rosa Náutica
Leopoldo
Le Grill
Mercado Central
Mooi
Mullu
Novecento
Plaza Grill – Marriott Plaza Hotel
Sipan Palermitano
Sivela 465 – Mio Hotel
Social Paraíso

For a complete list of restaurants, menus 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.

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!

September Ladies Night Out

Posted on September 13, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Spring is just around the corner so it’s a perfect time for a new venue for Ladies Night Out. Come join us at the Confiteria La Paris, Av. del Libertador 4041 (corner of Av. Dorrego)

Time: 6 to 8:30 pm

Date: Wednesday, September 18

RSVP: Teresa Ezcurra, tezlg@hotmail.com

September Morning Coffee

Posted on September 13, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

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.

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

Date: Tuesday, September 24th

Time: 10:30 am – 12:00
Where: Puerto Madero

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 Katarina Nyssens at katarina.nyssens@gmail.com
*Exact address provided upon RSVP. We hope you can make it!

Spring Concert

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September Luncheon

Posted on September 13, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

The date for the September luncheon is Thursday, September 19. Please note this is a week earlier than we normally have the luncheons.

On Thursday September 19, at 1:00 pm we will have lunch at the Benihana restaurant next to the Alto Palermo shopping center, Ave. Coronel Díaz y Arenales (one block from Santa Fe), one of our most reliable and enjoyable venues.

Benihana restaurants are traditional Japanese hibachi steakhouses, which feature the Japanese cooking method known as “teppanyaki.” Your meal is prepared fresh and served by a performing chef, right before your eyes. For a nice writeup on the history of the restaurant visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benihana. Our group has dined there previously with great reviews.

You can choose the chicken, steak or shrimp priced at 95 pesos for the chicken or 100 pesos for the other options. This includes soup, salad, water or gaseosa and the main course. Please note that the hibachi chicken rice is an optional extra. If this is offered by the waitress, it is an additional 10 pesos!

Check out their Spanish language site at http://www.benihana.com.ar/

Date: Thursday September 19

Time: 1:00 pm

Place: Benihana, Coronel Diaz y Arenales

Cost: 95 or 100 pesos depending on menu choice

Please RSVP to secure a place.

mweldon213@yahoo.com

Spring at the Sivori

Posted on September 7, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

BAIN DOWNTOWN MONTHLY MEETING

ANNUAL SPRING AT THE SIVORI EVENT

with champagne and hors d’oeuvres!

September 27th at 3 p.m.

PLEASE NOTE: SPECIAL VENUE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR RSVP

For the past six years, we have held our popular “Welcome to Spring” meeting at the Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori. Join us as we return to the Sivori Museum’s beautiful garden courtyard to toast the arrival of spring!

The Sivori event is one of our favorite meeting venues due to the lovely location and relaxed atmosphere. This is a catered event, with champagne, sweet and savory treats to celebrate the arrival of Spring. Note that the event takes place earlier in the day than our normal monthly meetings, and is a perfect place to bring a friend and enjoy the outdoors! Children are welcome!

PLACE: Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sívori, Av. Infanta Isabel 555 in the Parque 3 de Febrero

For a map click here: http://goo.gl/maps/2sU6y
For directions and information on the current art exhibits, please visit the museum’s website at www.museosivori.org.ar)\
There is a nominal admission to enter the museum (one peso for Argentines, three pesos for everyone else)

TIME: 3 to 5 p.m.

RSVP: Unlike for our normal monthly meetings, we need you to RSVP to this event. This is a catered event that requires a deposit, so we need to know in advance if you are coming – AND if you plan on bringing guests (children under 10 are free).

Please RSVP to bain.downtown@gmail.com, by Wednesday, September 25th.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The meeting itself is FREE TO BAIN DOWNTOWN MEMBERS WHO RSVP. The cost for non-members is $120 pesos. A yearly membership with BAIN is $250 pesos, and if an RSVPed guest signs up for a BAIN Downtown membership at the event we’ll waive the guest fee!

September Monthly Dinner

Posted on September 7, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

DEMETRIA RESTAURANT, SAAVEDRA

Though it’s further from our usual locations, this is a special restaurant in Buenos Aires you’ll be glad you got to know. You go through a garden to get to the restaurant. It’s got a “je ne sais quoi” worth remembering.

Address: Ramallo 2626, entre Av. San Isidro y Vidal, Saavedra (1 block from Cabildo and 3 blocks from Puente Saavedra)

Date: Thursday, September 12th

Time: 8:30 pm

Price: AR$160 a person which includes first course (2 options), main course (3 options), dessert (2 options) and one drink (1 soft drink or 1 water or 1 porron de cerveza or 1 glass of wine)

Please R.S.V.P. to Teresa Ezcurra at tezlg@hotmail.com.

Menu options:

First course options:

Milanesitas de muzzarella con mix de verdes y croutons.
Pinchos de pollo con verdes y mayonesa de albahaca.

Main course options:

CARNE — Ragout de ternera con ñoquisitos de espinaca
PESCADO — Crocante de lenguado y papa con colchon de wok de vegetales
VEGETARIANO — Lasagna de calabaza, espinaca y queso con salsa de tomates

Dessert options:

Tarta tibia de manzana y canela con helado de Crema Americana
Mousse de chocolate con helado de maracuya

Drink options:

Un agua
Una gaseosa
Una copa de vino
Un porrón de cerveza

Walk the Nuestra Señora de Luján Pilgrimage?

Posted on September 5, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Luján is a city in the Buenos Aires province of Argentina, located 68 kilometers north west of the city of Buenos Aires. The city was founded in 1755 and has a population of 67,266.

Luján is best known for its large neo-gothic Basilica, built in honor of the Virgin of Luján, the patron saint of Argentina. Every year, more than six million people make pilgrimages to the Basilica, many walking there from Buenos Aires. The city is known as La Capital de la Fe (Capital of Faith). It is a popular day-trip for believers and non-believers alike, with abundant grill restaurants (like most places in Argentina) and souvenir shops with religious memorabilia.

Regardless of your reasons for doing this walk — personal, fitness, social or religious – why not get out those dusty and forgotten walking shoes and put them to good use? The pilgrimage starts on Saturday, October 5, 2013 and it takes two days to accomplish the 37 mile journey.

Since this is not a stroll in the park, the key issue for a successful walk is training. Let’s start training together by walking around the city so that we are ready on October 5th. Want to train on your own but join us the day of? Sure, just let us know your plans so that we can make hotel reservations for you on Saturday night and reserve a bus ticket for the trip back to Bs.As. For more information go here: http://www.peregrinacionlujan.org.ar/Agenda.htm. Children are welcome. Pictures and more pictures.

If interested, email Solange at smecham25@yahoo.com.