Tango in Buenos Aires

15 places our drivers recommend.

• La Catedral Club · A milonga in a converted grain warehouse in Almagro, bohemian and famously informal.
• Salón Canning · One of the classic Palermo milongas, where the good dancers actually go.
• La Viruta · A basement milonga in Palermo with classes before the dancing.
• Esquina Carlos Gardel · A tango dinner show in Abasto, on the corner Gardel made famous.
• El Querandí · A historic bar in Monserrat with one of the city's long running tango shows.
• El Viejo Almacén · The tango house the singer Edmundo Rivero founded in 1969, in a San Telmo building the city dates to the end of the 1760s.
• Michelangelo Legend · A tango dinner show in an 1849 customs warehouse on Balcarce, reopened in July 2022 after seventeen years dark.
• La Ventana · A tango and folklore show with thirty two performers on stage every night, in a restored San Telmo conventillo laid out over three floors.
• Tango Porteño · A tango house in the old Cine Metro, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cinema of Buenos Aires opened in 1956, a few metres from the Obelisco.
• Rojo Tango (Faena) · A nightly show in El Cabaret, the Faena's red velvet and gold room of a hundred and twenty square metres, built to look like a 1920s Buenos Aires tango club.
• Bar Sur · Open since 31 January 1967 and one of the city's Bares Notables, a small San Telmo room that puts more than ten live artists on a tiny stage.
• Señor Tango · A four thousand square metre tango theatre in the old Brenta y Roncoroni general store in Barracas, with vaulted ceilings, iron columns and a nine metre revolving stage.
• Teatro Astor Piazzolla (Piazzolla Tango) · A French style theatre inaugurated in 1915, hidden in the first basement of the art nouveau Galería Güemes on Florida street.
• Madero Tango · A tango dinner show on Dique 1 of Puerto Madero facing the water, run by the same house as La Esquina de Carlos Gardel.
• Esquina Homero Manzi · The corner of San Juan and Boedo where Homero Manzi wrote the tango Sur at a café table in 1948, later set to music by Aníbal Troilo, now a declared national historic site.