The problem with most gay bars and restaurantes is that they re still in the basement. So it s a treat to discover Chueca, a ´heterosexual- friendly´ gay restaurant with a grand entrance as you re likely to find downtown. The menu offers standard trendy cuisine, including grilled salmon with dill cream sauce and sweet chicken breast on a bed of coconut milk-. Curry and lime- flavoured rice. Let those other BA eateries serve up dinner and a tango show. Chueca´s side dish? A hilarious nightly drag revue followed by dancing on Thursdays Saturdays and Sundays at 1am. Eat, drink be merry.
Other Locations Olga Cossettini 1545 Puerto Madero (4115 7214); Olga Cossettini 301 Puerto Madero (4313 9051).
Best Gay Friendly Cafe for a Sunday Afternoon
Pride Café
Balcarce 869 San Telmo
4300 6435
This is San Telmo´s meeting point for coffee and snacks, especially on Sundays after a day at the famous flea market in Plaza Dorrego. It’s good early crowd and a decent music mix. Grab an outside table or a comfy armchair for optimal results. Best food choice: café cortado and a slice of pie.
Best Downtown Club for Electro Beats
Bahrein
Lavalle 343 y Reconquista Downtown
4315 2403
The boys are finally outnumbering the girls, so the recent push to gay up the disco seems to be working. Why rise and shine at the crack of down to get an early start on sightseeing when you can get your fill right here- and stay up way past your bedtime? The perfect view on two floors featuring hot electro beats is reasonably priced), but an extra- strength caipirinha will now set you back a cool AR$25. One is all you´ll need to build up the courage to talk to that beautiful stranger holding court on and off the dancefloor.
Best Fully Renovated Classic Gay Venue
Palacio Alsina
940 Alsina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
www.alsinabuenosaires.com.ar
This nightclub takes place in Alsina Palace, a very elegant 3 stories XIX century commercial building. This place that used to held Palacio Buenos Aires every weekend, reopened in 2009 under a new management with a monthly over the top gay party. The dance floor is truly immense, and lots of couches in the balconies upstairs. This monthly massive party finds gays descending in hordes. Go there late, leave at sunrise, and either walk or drive home through an uniquely empty and gorgeous 9 de Julio--one of the world's widest avenue
Best Happy Hour gay Bar
Flux
Marcelo T. De Alvear 980 Retiro
5252 0258
Happy hour, or “alter office” as it´s known here, may be relatively new concept for argentinians, but Flux´s 7-10pm devotees prove it´s catching on fast. The expats (oneBrit and one russian) who started this place have built a decent following for it with good music and great conversation zones. Unpretentiously billed as ´a cool gay bar´., this downtown haunt is popular early and late, with friendly bartenders serving potent mixed dirnks with a smile.
Best Crowded gay bar for dancing & cruising after 2 AM
Glam
Cabrera 3046 Barrio Norte
4963 2521
A good two years past its prime, Glam still packs them in with expatriates, tourists (you´ll hear as much English as Spanish) and Porteños of all ages rounding out the crowd.Pick your crossing spot –two bars, several lounge areas or one packed dance floor - and let the fun and dance begin! Sadly, the terrace is nowclosed, but at least that seems to be bringing more traffic to the incredibly hot playroom behind the back bar, just a short climb up that winding stairway to heaven. The good nights are Thursdays and Saturdays.
Best Bar for watching a Drag Show on a Wednesday Night
Sitges
Av Cordoba 4119 Palermo Viejo
4861 3763
One Of. BA´s few options for gays and lesbians who´ve tossed out their dancing shoes or those looking for a bar stool where they can kill an hour or two before heading to Glam or Amerika. Some nights, drag comedy, musical numbers and strippers who grin and bare it all liven up the mood. (Don´t forget to pick up your Glam pass on the way out).
Best Looking Crowd in a Gay Club (Only Friday’s night)
Rheo by Crobar
3883 Av Del Libertador Palermo
4778 1500
Rheo is the ultimate alchemy in Buenos Aires nighlife, where identity is shaped by fun, happiness, music, design, mystery, renewal, the performing arts, the visual arts, the lure of sexuality and seduction, and the avant-guard. Dance Rheo. Experience Rheo. Be Rheo. Life may not be the party we sometimes expect it to be...though as long as we´re here, we should dance ...RHEO...
Best Gay Night Near the River
Human
Complejo Mandarine
Punta Carrasco
Buenos Aires
Argentina
As much as a runway/ posibf area as a Club night, the new Saturday party at Mandarin Club created but the Friday’s Rheo team has a great looking crowd a friendly party vibe and a massive outdoors Terrace near the Rio de La Plata with the most beautiful Sunrise in BA. 2 Dance floors, Special performances and theme parties like White Fiesta have helped mainten interest beyond this club night’s first weeks. Mistery + Terrace + Music+ Mixfriendly + Fun +Sex + Sunrise + Dark room + Glam = Human
