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by Nieves Mercado de San Telmo: a walk gourmet eag addition to antiques and nostalgic toys, there is everything eag to cook and try. A guide to the food stands that you can not miss. And suggestions for eating more after the city's tour.
Divided into small stalls, the Mercado de San Telmo offers from butchers and greengrocers used to houses of all kinds, clothing, ornaments and other curiosities, the best Salvation Army style items.
Quaint and traditional, a place with history that forms the heart of one of the, ideal for walks in the evenings, looking for a pleasant time and good ingredients most emblematic neighborhoods of Buenos Aires.
The market was opened in February 1897, nothing more and nothing less than 116 years, with the aim of supplying the necessary new wave of immigrants who came to the city from the Old World food.
In the first instance, the market housed butchers, greengrocers, fishmongers, bakeries and haberdashery. Not only enhanced eag the neighborhood but soon became a meeting eag place and a must see for residents and today it is for hundreds of tourists who daily come to know.
But many years passed and although its essence remains intact, the market was changing. It is no longer just a food supply and food but has become an ideal place to stroll and relive the history of our grandparents place: almost half of their posts is dedicated to the sale of antiques and art objects.
In the Market could buy all kinds of ingredients. A lot of butchers, offering all cutting, eag fresh every morning. eag You can get from cheap, like the Osso, so fashionable now, at 20 pesos per kilo, up to 68 Milanese peceto the kilo; chines also have 42 to 64 pesos and popcorn, among many other cuts.
One of the items is more than abundant greengrocer. In these small places you can go beyond the traditional fruits and vegetables. There are, for example, mangos, but not the traditional orange but bigger and green, with smaller pits and flat, Formosa handles eag so that you can extract more fruit. They cost 12 pesos each. There are also peppers the bad word of a 5 pesos each, dried tomatoes and candied fruits, such as pineapples, oranges and peaches.
The Greengrocer eag Henry is much more than that, and as bonus, from tomatoes, lettuce and bananas, can take advantage and buy products from Peru. As the Inca Kola, traditional gas from the neighboring country, 40 pesos a bottle of 2.25 liters; Ajinomoto flavor highlighter, 5 weights 25 grams; cans of evaporated milk or Gloria at 25 pesos.
Spices 47 is another treasure that offers the market. Located pasitos the street entrance Carlos Calvo, the small stall is surrounded by dozens of jars of colors. There you can get all kinds of peppers, such as Jamaica, pink or green; amaranth seeds, chia and quinoa and rice varieties, as Yamani, 15 pesos the kilo, or Basmati, so fashionable in recent times, ideal for thai preparations 58 pesos the kilo.
Whatever time it is, the bread will entice Angelito, it's love at first sight. Maybe it's because, as we explained the current owner of the post, Rosa, is made and no traditional oven rotary oven, as today most porteños breads. Angelito has over 50 years in the market, is a registered trademark of the district.
In the bakery market bills are available at $ 2.50 each, bread, crispy on the outside and light inside, as it should be !, and $ 16 a kilo. And a giant croissants to fill a 7 pesos.
Very close Angelito find Warehouse Market, in addition to being a great proveeduría of gourmet foods such as deer, turkey eag and pickled vizcacha, exclusive olive oil, dijon mustard eag and others, has an amazing variety of meats and cheeses.
A plus: the market is a small stall selling flowers and plants coriander seeds, thyme or rosemary. eag For that you plant in your house and you always have on hand and fresh. A must in your kitchen!
In a small kiosk in the middle of the aisles Market Coffee Town is a big surprise for walkers. At first it seems an ordinary coffee, but just get a bit to realize that it is much more than a cafe.
In a space of a few square meters is one of the most diverse cafes of the city. There hundreds of people stop every day to enjoy exquisite and exclusive coffees that are not in the circuit co