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Welcome to Sant Talmo. This is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Buenocidis and it has a very bohemian flare with cobbled streets, crumbling colonial mansions, and most importantly, murals of Argentine football legends. In this video, we're going to spend 2 days exploring Santelmo and showing you everything there is to see, eat, and do. On the food front, we'll check out the Sant Telmo Market where we'll devour empanadas and sip on wine. There is a wine window here at the Santelmo Market. We'll visit a historic cafe that has the best breakfast around. Stepping into this place is like being in a museum. And we'll eat at an iconic bar with massive food portions. Let me lift it so you can see.
Wo! It's sausage. As for attractions, we'll tour former mansions turned shopping galleries. This is where you can buy a lot of handiccraft. Venture into the underground tunnels of a colonial era home and visit the narrowest home in all of Buenocidis. So, if you're planning a trip to BA soon and you're wondering where to stay, join us for this Santelmo neighborhood tour to help you decide if it's the right place for you. All righty guys, today we are Having breakfast here in Santelmo at a place called Bar El Federal. This place has been around since 1864, if you can believe that. Stepping into this place is like being in a museum.
Like everything you see here, like the walls, the doors, the windows, the ceiling, the antiques. It's a step back in time. And the bar out front is just gorgeous carved wood. It's just a work of art, a thing of beauty. And we ordered breakfast for two, which comes with a ham and cheese sandwich, two medialunas, carrot cake, yogurt with granola and fruit, two coffees, and freshsqueezed orange juice. I think I'm most impressed by the juice. This is not from concentrate. This is not from a box. Freshly squeezed oranges into my cup, friends. So good. All right, I'm going to start off with the coffee. That classic cafe pon leche. That's normally all we get.
This would be a typical breakfast for us. This plus this each. This plus this. This is the most epic breakfast we've ever had. We haven't tried everything, but I mean, just look at this yogurt. So, you can see that it has banana and apple on the outer rim. Lots of yogurt, lots of granola, some mixed nuts as well in there, too. Delicious granola. And with the fruit, too. This is more typical of what you and I would have back home in Canada. So, that's neat. And last but not least, I am going to try the carrot cake, too. Yes. And that's what, guys, that's one of my favorite cakes of all time. Look at that double layer of icing.
Oh my goodness. That's delicious. I'm having cake for breakfast. I'm having savory sandwiches, yogurt, media lunas, orange juice, coffee. Life is good. in Santelmo is good in Santelmo. Like I said, this is the best breakfast I've ever had in Argentina and in Buenosares. Terms of the price point, that was $25,500 pesos, which at current exchange is $17 total. I mean, we feasted. We're leaving full. We're leaving satisfied. And also, just the quality of the items were really good. Like, that cake was delicious. So was the yogurt. So was the media. So was the orange juice.
Everything was at a very high standard of quality. So, I highly recommend finding a buddy, finding a friend, finding a partner, coming here, and getting the breakfast for two. It's worth it. Bas de la defensa is also known as kasa and it was originally built as a mansion for the Asa family, the house was built around 1876, but soon after the family moved further north to escape the yellow fever epidemic in the city. Their home eventually became a convent or tenement housing and at one point housed 32 families. So colorful. So right now we are in Pasah de la defensa.
This is a passage. There are several of them here in the neighborhood of Sant Delmo. And they're kind of like these open gallery spaces with a lot of souvenir shops. This is where you can buy a lot of handiccrafts and just, you know, handmade goods, things to take back home to friends and family. And it's kind of like artsy. And it's just a historic building as well. Like you can tell these are some of the original buildings that were first built in this area. And yeah, it's just really nice. Sam is shopping for a hat at the moment. You can hear our daughter singing and yeah, just lots of really cool things like football jerseys, handiccrafts.
I got to show you this. Come here. Oh, okay. I want to show the difference. Let's look at that. Come on. Solar the French was a house built in 1762 and it was the birthplace of Domingo French. He was one of the key figures in the May revolution of 1810 which established the first Argentine government and started the path to independence. Today it is a commercial space and these colorful umbrellas offer some nice shade which is very welcome during the summer months. So we're seeing lots of antiques around here and as soon as Sam spots this store he says this looks just like your grandma's house in Lima. And I have to agree with him it does.
I never The Sant Telmo Market is a covered market in the heart of this historic neighborhood. ood and it has everything. Fresh produce, quirky antiques, leather goods, football jerseys, and food. Lots and lots of traditional Argentine food. So today the plan is lunch here at the Merc Santelmo or the Santelmo Market. This is a place where you can come and buy souvenirs because they have a lot of shops with like leather goods, football jerseys, handbags, that sort of thing.
But they also have a whole bunch of restaurants under one roof. It is mostly, you know, parisia, the grill, the meat. You can also get empanadas, you can get pizza. So, we've gotten here relatively early. It is only 11:00 in the morning, so it's kind of still getting started. still getting going. It's mostly foreigners having an early lunch right now. So, we're going to walk around, scout it out, and decide what it is we want to eat today. Elono de Santelmo came highly recommended for its empanadalas and traditional dishes. We came early enough to snag two seats at the bench, but this place was busy with people lining up for a spot and also ordering food to take
away. So, just looking for a quiet little corner here in the market. Uh, we basically had lunch at Elorno de Santelmo. Ornado is the name of a bird who makes a round little nest out of mud. So, it's an appropriate name because they make their empanadas in a mud oven or a clay oven here at this restaurant. And we ordered three different types of empanadas. Sam and I both had the empanadas sultenas al cuchido. That means the meat instead of being ground beef, it has been cut with a knife. That's what aloo means. It also had potato. They were fried and they were super juicy. They also gave us some hot sauce which was really, really nice. And then I had one called umita which has corn and cheese. It's a sweet
empanada. And Sam had one that was kamon eo ham and cheese. So that was my personal favorite one. It's a personal favorite. But yeah, really tasty a panadas. You do pay a premium for being here though at the market. It's very gentrified. And these are tourist prices. So don't expect what you pay here to be the typical price you'd be paying elsewhere in the country, whether it be in the capital or a more remote place. Yes, these were pricey in panadas, but they were tasty and it is a cool market. So, we ended up paying 15,000 total, which was over $10 for the four of them.
Again, not terrible value, but definitely more than what you would typically pay. cheers. Sal. So, there is a wine window here at the Santelmo Market. We only discovered it on the way out and we just got tempted because it looked like a really fun attraction. It is so much fun. Come on. How many times you get to do a Hawaii window? Yeah, a wide window. A wine window. I've only had one, guys. So, basically, you pay for a glass of wine, and then over on the side, there's a little bell. You ring the bell. They open the little wine window, which you can see over there. And you can choose between red and white, and dry or sweet. That's right. The regular is 5 was 5,000 pesos, about 3 something US, and the
premium was 7,000 pesos, so closer to five. So, um yeah, it was a lot of fun. And apparently this dates back to a tradition in the 1500s from Florencia, Florence, Italy. So fascinating. So I'm going to be honest, guys. Not the most ideal day for the flea market here in Santelmo. We were here yesterday, but we got here too early in the morning. So a lot of the shops hadn't set up yet. So we thought, okay, we're going to return tomorrow. We have. The only issue is it's raining. So, a lot of people have simply not opened or everything's undercover with like sheets of plastic. So, it doesn't look amazing. But when it's going like on a regular sunny day, it's a completely different vibe.
Yeah. And you know what? Credit to everyone who came out here and set up in the rain because it was on the forecast and um there are still people going by and purchasing things. I mean, it's a fraction [screaming] of the amount of tourists and shoppers they would normally have, but there are still people going and buying. And um this flea market is also kind of a nice taste. If you don't get to go to the Sunday Santelmo market, so if you don't have the chance to go to the Sunday Santelmo market, this is a nice alternative. This little square here, you can come to the flea market. It's open every day.
What a good day you have. Elsund de Granados is one of Santelmo's coolest hidden beneath the city experiences. I had been wanting to visit forever, so this time around we finally signed up for a guided tour. This is the biggest archaeological recovery in Buenocidis, and it was all done privately. It all started when Horge I bought this crumbling house thinking he would start a restaurant. It had once belonged to a very wealthy Spanish family before becoming tenement housing and eventually being abandoned. It was soon after the restoration started that a discovery was made. An underground tunnel, then a sistern and the foundations from the city's early days. We would highly recommend this tour for all you architecture and history lovers out
there. Right after visiting San Hund Granados, we jumped into another guided tour at another Santelmo landmark, Kasaminima. At just 2.5 m wide, Kasaminima is the narrowest house in Buenocidis. But the real surprise is once you go inside, because as it turns out, the house is far larger than you might think. We were certainly surprised. There are lots of tales surrounding this house, including that it once belonged to a freed slave. However, if you want to learn more of its history, a guided tour is the only way. Hey, girlfriend. Oh yeah. Barcedon is another Santelmo classic bar filled with old objects that take you back to another era. We chose it as a
late lunch spot and ordered a salmon salad, a Spanish tortilla, and a Milan Napolitana and shared it amongst friends. Let me lift it so you can see. Wo! With sausage. Let me just take some. Wow, that looks awesome. Really good. My favorite kind of Milana is the chicken one which is technically called a suprema deto. That's good. And that one is more like a schnitle. Although for you schnitle with cheese on top. No, that's napolitana. But then it has like it's like a pizza like the tomato sauce and the cheese and the ham.
I will ask. Okay, so we are sharing three plates of food here guys. Sure. Marina went for the gas salad. It's a healthy choice. Good for you. Amazing. Lots of Milana Napolitana, which is a Milana with cheese, tomato, and tomato sauce. Mhm. Came with fries. And then you're sharing your tortilla. So, it's like almost like we've created our own little buffet here. A little buffet. A bit of everything. And that's my plate. And the cafe is just gorgeous. High ceilings, some stained glass windows, and lots of antiques. And that friends is our neighborhood guide to Sant Talmo. We hope this video
gave you some ideas of the various activities you can enjoy here. And if you enjoyed this video, we invite you to give it a like, subscribe, and let us know in the comments what other Buenocitis neighborhoods we should explore next. Tata
