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Restaurants, Cafes, Pubs & Bars
The Cafe Tortoni epitomizes the "porteño café", but little is known about its origins. Just that a French immigrant named Touan decided to open it at the end of 1858, and that the name was taken from an establishment on Boulevard des Italiens, where the elites of Parisian culture used to meet up. By the end of the century, the bar was purchased by another Frenchman: Don Celestino Curutchet, who the poet Allende Iragorri describes as a typical wise, old Frenchman, small in stature but strong…
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