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Spanish specialties. Serrano ham is always on
the menu and the paellas and
pucheros
(hearty
soups) are very popular.
Fast Food/Light Dining
Fusion Café
at Tucumán 839 is a comfortable
restaurant where you can enjoy breakfast and
lunch. They offer breakfast specials and fresh
salads and sandwiches at lunch.
Bonpler
,
Calle Florida 491, serves French-style fast food,
which means that sandwiches arrive on crois-
sants or baguettes and there is always hot
onion soup.
Quick
, Calle Florida 130, is simi-
lar.
Pumper-nic
has branches on Calle Florida
532 and elsewhere in the city. Burgers are the
best selling item here, but
McDonald's
has
become even more popular and ubiquitous,
with branches throughout the city. The menu is
familiar but many have salad carts where you
select items and a waiter serves them to you.
Sold by weight.
La Lecherísima
, which serves
such items as yogurt, fresh fruits and cereals,
are also scattered all over town. Two conve-
nient locations are at Avenida Corrientes 839
and Avenida Santa Fe 726.
Barrio Norte “Sud”
The restaurants that follow are slightly off the
beaten track and not centered around a specific
site, Though you may not be able to walk from
one to the other easily, they are all within walk-
ing distance of downtown and/or Recoleta. The
heart of the area we've dubbed “Northern Bar-
The up-and-
coming near
north side.
