Muy buenas.. We're Marko and Alex, the Vagabrothers.
And right now we are in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I've never been here before.
Marko came here five years ago.
So today he's going to be my tour guide,
and we're taking you with us.
Let's go. Vamanos!
Bienvenido a nuestro Airbnb.
We are staying in San Telmo.
This is our Airbnb...paying 45 bucks a night.
Looks pretty cool.
It's a big, old warehouse.
I don't think it's a warehouse.
It has character.
We just don't know exactly what the character is.
The thing is this:
this area would have been near the original port.
They would have been bringing beef in here
to ship out.
So you're saying that our bedroom is a beef hanger?
Yeah, maybe it was a meat locker.
San Telmos is basically the oldest part of the city.
This is where I lived five years ago.
I was here writing a guide book.
I have some friends here we're going to meet up
with some of my buddies living here before.
We're going to meet up with the guys from
Locos Por El Asado
which is an Argentinian cooking channel.
They're going to take us out to lunch.
But first, we're going to head into
the Bohemian district of San Telmo and get a coffee.
But first, coffee.
I love these old Buenos Aires apartments.
Oh, here's a map.
We're staying, basically, in this area San Telmo.
The plan is to go to the old part.
Then maybe to La Boca,
(?), Recoleta.
We're basically going to be in this area right here.
Let's go.
We've only been walking around for
about 10 or 15 minutes,
but right off the bat,
I feel Spanish vibes.
I kind of feel like I'm in Barcelona,
and it's funny because we just saw
this really pretty building back here
with the Arabic influence
and even had a Catalon flag on it.
Some of the nicest buildings here
were built in this period: 1900s, early 1900s
when Barcelona was growing up with Gaudi
and the Art Deco/ Art Nouveaux.
It's definitely got that same vibe.
And the name, actually, comes from Catalan, as well
because they were Catalon soldiers who settled in
Sardegnia and Buenos Aires,
which is a Sardegnian saint: the Saint of Good Air.
And when they came here, they're like.....
Good air. Let's name the city after that.
Good winds.
I don't know if the good winds are still around,
but it's a pretty city.
Cafe con leche, por favor.
All right. So first stop of the day is
Cafe La Poesia.
Poesi-a
It's not Poesia
It's basically a cool example of Bohemian vibe
of San Telmo.
This is a really artistic city.
It lands a lot of different elements of Europe
The buildings look French.
They speak Spanish
but with a Napoli accent from Italy.
It's a cool place.
It's got great ambience.
I wrote half the guide book in this spot back in the day.
We have ordered two cafe con leche,
a medialuna
and an alfajor
which is kind of like
...it's dulce de leche
Dulce de leche is really typical in Argentina.
These would be the most typical
two things to eat for breakfast.
Both of them are very sweet.
Lots of sugar.
About a baker's dozen.
So now we're walking down this street called
Calle Defensa.
I just saw this little plaque over there
that explains something pretty amazing.
I had no idea that Buenos Aires and
Argentina was invaded by the British.
But according to that plaque, there were
two invasions: one in 1806 and one in 1807.
This street was renamed Calle defensa because
it was where they made the defense.
Little history. This was a super strategic place
because Buenos Aires is basically a port,
which is right here on the River Plate [Rio de la Plata]
the "river of silver."
It was the way they would connect
all the gold shipments from the Americas
and the Andes.
It would come over through Mendoza to here
and then off to Spain.
Why have we stopped here?
This is the house I lived in when I was in Buenos Aries.
I lived with a crazy, cool artist guy named Gonzalo.
I had many good times here.
So hopefully, we see Gonza later today.
But for now we're going to meet up with Laucha.
from Locos Por el Asado
a local YouTube channel.
I think this is him right there.
Marko. How are you? Todo bien?
Hey man. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. Nice t-shirt. Thank you.
Not bad either.
OK guys. Laucha here is from Buenos Aires.
And he has an awesome YouTube channel called
Locos por el Asado, which is all about
Argentine meat.
You're going to show us a nice little parrilla, right?
I'll take you to one of the best parrillas here
in San Telmo.
We will show you a lot, not only meat, but also
intestines and things we love to eat here
in every asado.
Let's go.
Game plan:
right now we are heading down Calle Boulevard,
and we're going to get lunch at a parrilla.
Parrillas are where they do these big BBQs;
they do the Argentine asados.
Basically, we're in for a lot of meat.
And Laucha here is the meat master.
I think it's going to be good. Stick around.
Salud.
Hope you enjoyed your asado.
Of course.
And the beer. Not bad.
We're starting. We have small intestines.
That's called "chinchulin"
and it's great.
It's really, really nice.
Then we have kidney.
We have the "molleja"
What's it called? Sweetbread.
The sweetbreads.
And the "chorizo"
And the black sausage.
We call them here: the marriage. The matrimonio.
And obviously criolla [sauce] and chimichurri
It's not like meat-meat.
These are kind of like organs.
So yeah, we're going to eat them.
And they smell really good.
One of the best and cheapest street meats
in Buenos Aires is the chori-pan
Chorizo and pan, bread.
Chimichurri sauce on that and then, boom.
Which one is it?
This part.
This one with the ribs
are the most common cuts
you can find here in Argentina.
The "vacio" and the "costilla"
Oh my god. So good.
How does everyone stay so skinny in this country?
I see really, really, beautiful skinny girls,
eating meat and then going to bed every single night.
We're drink a lot. That's why.
We drink a lot. That's why we eat less.
See you.
Gracias Laucho
Hasta luego.
Later.
This is hipster heaven.
There are so many vintage everything in here, really.
It's beautiful.
It's just a city of old school glory.
And that's what hipsters strive to achieve
is that old school glory.
What do you think of my hat?
Tango here.
Always a nice distraction.
Girls here are super beautiful.
It's the Italian influence, the Spanish together.
E` una bella mescha. [It's a good mix]
Un corozon para ti, mi hermano
Interesting little fact that is happening now.
Uber actually opened here two days ago.
And much to the regret of the local taxi drivers.
It's definitely divisive.
But we're pro Uber,
and we just ordered one.
That's how we're getting to our next destination:
La Boca.
I'd say pro Uber with many caveats.
I like Uber in general,
but they've done some shady things
to get where they are.
Anyways, we're going to test it out
to see what it's like.
Next stop in today's exploration of B.A.
is El Caminito.
Yes. Right now we're in la Boca.
La Boca is called this because
it's like the mouth of the river.
This is where the old port was.
There's a lot of tin houses like this,
and El Caminito is one of the most
colorful streets in the city.
This is an area really associated with tango.
It's inspired by the immigrants who came here,
and they're longing for something they lost
back in the home country.
They're really sad songs.
Look at this painting here
of a family of immigrants
Could you imagine this guy
catching you dancing the tango with his daughter?
He's got a rifle in his hand.
I don't think he'd be too happy.
A lot of people don't realize that
Argentina was one of the biggest
recipients of immigrants from Europe
in the late 1800s.
For a lot of people from the south of Europe,
like Italy, a lot went to New York,
but a lot came here, as well.
This neighborhood, especially,
has a really strong Italian influence.
Okay. So we just got freshened up
back in the apartment in San Telmo,
and now we're going to go up to Recoleta.
to meet up with one of our buddies.
Time to party. Peace.