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Argentine Film Festival London 2013

Back for a second year of South American cinema.

Fancy jetting off to Buenos Aires?

Win: Spend One Night In Argentina, Then Three In Buenos Aires!

Be at the sold-out Cambalache event and enjoy a short break in Argentina (sponsored post).

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A Culinary Tour Of Argentina At Garufin, Holborn

New restaurant departs from the steak stereotypes to offer regional delicacies.

Tango Fire. Photo: Lorenzo Di Nozzi

Dance Review: Tango Fire @ Peacock Theatre

Summer spirit for less than 5% of a flight to Argentina!

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Gaucho International Polo @ The O2

Argentina on the Jubilee line: a day of polo and steaks for all the family at the O2 tomorrow.

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Review: Divine Bovine @ Gaucho

Intended as “a celebration of all things beef”, Argentine restaurant chain Gaucho held its annual Divine Bovine dinner this week at its Piccadilly branch.

Alfajor, ready to eat

Review: Freggo Ice Cream Bar

The go-to heladeria for overheated Porteños all over Buenos Aires has opened a London branch, timed perfectly to catch our glorious summer weather. Freggo (they’ve had to abandon the Freddo brand name in Blighty due to copyright conflicts), just off Regent Street, offers a selection …

Video: Tango At Spitalfields

Spitalfields Market was the venue yesterday for an Argentine-style open air milonga. In the pleasant, balmy evening air, couples of all ages enjoyed a half-hour tuition class before taking to the floor and twirling away to the melancholic sound of the bandoneón. If you want …

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Argentine President “To Celebrate Falklands Invasion”

Road sign in Argentina by alex-s With the world’s leadership ensconced in London for a global chin-scratch about how to get out of this mess, you’d think that everybody would be focused on the financial challenges ahead, right? Argentine president Cristina Kirchner Fernandez seems to …

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Goodbye From Me, Argentina

Banished bishop Richard Williamson arrived this morning on a BA flight at Heathrow, after being given his marching orders from Argentina for claiming that no Jews died during the Holocaust. He was greeted by a police escort and legal team upon his arrival, and endured …

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Art Review: Mondongo @ Maddox Arts

The Argentinian art collective Mondongo (the word for a traditional Argentinian tripe stew) are renowned for using a wide range of materials in their work – freeze-dried slabs of meat and biscuits, plasticine and hair. Unenticing as it sounds, their work still manages to be …