Locals Only: Marina Bissone's Argentina

'Locals Only' is a column in which we ask friends from ARGENTINA, our featured country, where they like to eat, thrift, hide out, and hang out in their homeland.

Today we meet Marina Bissone, founder of the restaurant Farinelli (a favorite of many locals). Check out Marina's tips below and read what other locals are saying.
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Place for low-key dinner with friends: Guido's on República de la India, opposite the zoo.

Restaurant for a first date: Dadá, make sure you sit at the bar. Also, the new spot Soria. It's an open garden and the drinks are really good.

Place for babe watching: The streets!

Gallery: SlyZmud and MiauMiau

Book shop: La Barca on Scalabrini Ortiz

Place for coffee: Farinelli

Vintage store or clothing/furniture store: Gil on Plaza Dorrego, L'Académie on Libertad, and the Flea Market on Dorrego

Best choripan sandwiches: Los Platitos at Costanera Norte

Best steak: Bife de chorizo at Munich, and the real asado at El Pobre Luis, near Barrio Chino

Best alfajor cookie: Terrabusi

Barrio to spend your Sunday: Preferably away from the city. Otherwise the southern barrios: San Telmo, Barracas, and La Boca

Weekend getaway: The countryside, Uruguay, or the river Delta in Tigre (north of Buenos Aires)

The one thing you always bring back from Argentina? Alpargatas from the countryside.
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Guido- República de la India 2843, Buenos Aires  MAP
Dadá- El Pobre Luis San Martín 941, Buenos Aires MAP
Soria- Ciudad Autónoma, Buenos Aires  MAP
SlyZmud- Bonpland 721, Buenos Aires