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 Wine & Tapas: Escape Your Neighborhood Bubble!

Posted on March 21, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Head out West and get to know Caballito!

*It’s not as far as you think!!*

This month’s host Celia lives in a delightful apartment in Caballito, close to two main roads and lots of great parking. There are also plenty of buses that run to this neck of the woods, so don’t be shy! Learn a new barrio and enjoy time with friends!

Location: Caballito *Exact address provided upon RSVP

Date: Saturday, April 6

Time: 8:00pm

How does it work? Each attendee brings a dish to pass, a beverage to share and yourself to enjoy company, conversation, and finger foods!

Look forward to catching up with you!

Please email RSVPs to celiacriseo@rauljak.com.ar

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

March Monthly Dinner

Posted on March 20, 2013 by dawngill

This month’s BAIN dinner will be on Tuesday, March 26. The event is being organized by Jim Isaacs, our part-time dinner Chairman.

The event will be at restaurante 4141 in Palermo. 4141 has been very highly rated, and was well liked by the BAIN dinner group in a May, 2012 visit. [So, you might ask: why return to a place where some of us have already eaten, when Buenos Aires has hundreds of excellent options? Because Jim is still in the United States today, and is organizing this from a distance. That means working with a restaurant manager he knows!]

Reviews: http://www.guiaoleo.com.ar/restaurantes/4141-Restaurante-9588

Here are the details:

Time: Tuesday March 26, 2013, at 8:45 p.m.

Place: 4141 Restaurante, located at Honduras 4141 (hence the name 4141; this is about 1/2 block from Gascón, in Palermo Viejo).

Cost: $ 150 per person, inclusive of three course meal, one glass of wine (which will probably be augmented without cost), one water or soda, cubierto and tip.

RSVP to Jim Isaacs at jisaacs61@hotmail.com

Finally, the menu:

First course (this will be served fairly close to 9 p.m., so that those who need to be at work the next day will not be out too late)

Tomato Soup
or
Pear, prosciutto and rucula salad

Main Course:

Brisket of beef (a favorite of almost all who have tried it at 4141) with choice of side dishes
or
Nut and ricotta cheese ravioli
or
Moroccan chicken

Dessert

Flan with port sauce
or
Ice Cream Soda with apples, fennel and parsley (yup, they mean it, and it is good)

April Book Club

Posted on March 19, 2013 by dawngill

Thanks to everyone who joined us in March for our book club meeting — it was great to continue to see new faces and we hope to see more in the future! We wanted to provide everyone with the information for our April meeting and also share the book chosen for May.

Here is the information for our April Book Club meeting:

Book choice: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Date: Monday, April 8
Time: 13h00 -15h00
Location: Recoleta

Please email your RSVP to: dawn.e.gill@gmail.com
(She will send you the exact address)

Also, to help people plan for upcoming meetings, the group also decided on a book for the May meeting. The book chosen is Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout. Stay tuned for the May meeting date and time which will be announced after April’s book club meeting.

Hope to see you all on April 8th!

Regards,
The Book Club Organizers

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

March Social Monthly Meeting

Posted on March 16, 2013 by dawngill

BAIN DOWNTOWN SOCIAL MEETING

FRIDAY, MARCH 22 AT 5:00pm

BAIN Downtown members are invited to join in this month’s Strictly Social meeting. Continue St. Patrick’s Day into the week at Downtown Matias in Recoleta, an Irish pub located next to Starbucks in the Terrazas Buenos Aires Design Center. Our start time is 5 p.m., 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 the intersection of Av Libertador and Pueyrredon).

Date and Time: Friday, March 22 5:00 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:

The BAIN Downtown website:

Check out our website at https://baindowntown.com/ for the online membership directory and more.

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March Ladies Night Out

Posted on March 10, 2013 by BAIN Downtown

Open New Doors to Friends New and Old!

BAIN LADIES NIGHT OUT – Come join us for Happy Hour!

Date: Wednesday, March 13

Time: 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: Primafila Restaurant Terrace Bar, Buenos Aires Design Center Terrace

RSVP: Ann Sager, annsager@me.com

Gastronomic Festival of the Foreign Communities

Posted on March 7, 2013 by dawngill

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!

Gastronomic Festival of the Foreign Communities

A giant food court representing 35 different foreign communities living in Buenos Aires will be set up on Avenida de Mayo Saturday, March 9th, 2013 from 4:00 pm.

The typical dishes of every region will be offered in 80 food stands along Avenida de Mayo and Bolivar, as well as crafts and traditional products of every represented country.

The Queen of the Communities will be crowned, selected among the representatives of every country. At 7:30 pm the pageants will be carried along Av. de Mayo to the stage by a parade of antique Ford T cars. At 9:00 pm they will model the typical dresses of their represented country or region and evening dresses.

The crowning ceremony will be accompanied by different music shows.

In case of rain the event will be postponed for Saturday 16th.

Free entrance

March Morning Coffee

Posted on March 1, 2013 by dawngill

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

Date: Tuesday, March 19th
Time: 10:30 am-12:00
Where: Recoleta* 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 Peggy Greer at pjgreer@gmail.com
*Exact address provided upon RSVP. 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*

February Monthly Meeting… in March!

Posted on February 22, 2013 by dawngill

BAIN DOWNTOWN FRIDAY, March 1!

BAIN Downtown members and their guests are invited to the Buenos Aires International Newcomers Downtown monthly meeting on Friday, March 1 at 4:00 p.m. Come join us! We’ll be socializing over cookies from Sugar and Spice; discovering new information about our adopted country, Argentina; and just having fun.

Place: ICANA, Maipú 686, (between Viamonte and Tucumán) in the city center

Our meeting will be on the ground floor in the beautiful library.

Please note that the entry is at Maipú 686, and NOT at Maipú 672

Date: Friday, March 1 (Due to the short month, our February meeting is taking place in March!)

Time: 4.00 p.m. – members and guests begin to arrive

4.30 p.m. – the program begins

5.30 p.m. – after-meeting social, venue To Be Announced

Program: The topic of this month’s presentation will be Argentine popular culture and its heritage, by anthropologist, Mara Tissera Luna. Ms. Luna studied in the Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Filosofía y Letras and focused her studies on Sociocultural Orientation. She currently works for NGO Relaf, www.relaf.org, which deals with the fulfilment of children’s rights and public policies for the care of children without parental care. Starting this past December, she is also a professor at UBA.

Fees: BAIN Downtown members – no charge

Non-members/Guests – AR$50

We look forward to seeing you on Friday!