La Viruta

Palermo


Popular basement venue. Good beginner tango classes are available before the milongas – translating into many inexperienced dancers on the floor earlier on – so if you’re an expert get here late (after 2am). Music can run the gamut from tango to rock to cumbia to salsa earlier in the evening, with more traditional tunes later.

If you're still there when the breakfast medialunas (croissants) are brought out at 4am it's probably been a good night.


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