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I'm the friend you go to for real recommendations.
Women-owned, family, local, worth finding.
📍 Buenos Aires
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Élu means chosen or elected in French. It's pronounced [ay-loo] but really that doesn't matter. What matters here is sharing the chosen ones - the curated places, books, restaurants, business - to travel with intention.

I am excited to share the places and things I love with you, as I travel and move from Bogotá to Buenos Aires.

#bogota #élu #femalefounder #localfinds #curatedtravel taken in Bogotá, Colombia by @elu.curated

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The medialuna at La Garage @_lagarage tastes like pan de muerto, and I wasn't ready for that.

They told me the syrup has orange in it, and that was all it took to send me straight back to Mexico. A happy place, on a regular morning in Palermo Hollywood.

La Garage is a bakery in an actual garage on Arévalo, started during the pandemic by three amigas: Sol,, Martina, and Camila . Each of them brought recipes from her own family and from the places they've lived.

You get drip coffee like at home, good music, and a counter where everything looks incredible. Nobody is trying to impress anyone - BUT you'll be impressed- several vegan and gluten free options. All a hug to the soul.

Probé su provoleta at @feriasalvaje and it was 🤌🤌🤌

I left with sourdough and yerba mate de @fronteras.yerbamate , and with the tarta vasca still on my list for next time. taken in Palermo, Buenos Aires by @elu.curated

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Finally ☀️ - if you see me dancing around, leave me! I'm just happy the sun is finally out. taken in Buenos Aires, Argentina by @elu.curated

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Natural wine is still made by hand, and at Feria Salvaje @feriasalvaje I got to meet a lot of the women doing it.

The fair, organized by Lucía Bulacio @luciabulacio and Pamela Godoy @p.ame.la.g , brought producers from all over Argentina to Buenos Aires.

Guided walk by Monse and Flora de @sedimentoestudio - nos llevaron a 6 de sus bodegas favoritas, all women-owned or women-led.

A few bottles worth remembering:
Piel y Hueso @pielihueso , from the Valle de Uco, started by Celina Bartolomé and her father, with Paula La Torre as winemaker.

Batallero @batallerovinos three friends who met in sommelier school and make their wines with producers across Mendoza, San Juan and now Patagonia.

Estancia Los Robles @estancialosrobles.rdl , a biodynamic vineyard of barely half a hectare in Paso del Sapo, Chubut, where Camila Lapido is one of the winemakers.

Bodega de la Calle Oscura @bodegacalleoscura , a family project from Tinogasta, Catamarca, started by siblings who grew up under their family's grapevine.

Food:
@_lagarage
@titalavedette

I was energized por todas las mujeres haciendo vino,. Their passion, their deep knowledge, and their respect for the communities they work in.

Guárdalo para tu próxima noche de vino, y avísame si vas a la próxima feria. taken in Buenos Aires, Argentina by @elu.curated

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My friend was in Medellín - these are the places I sent her to visit. Medellín I miss you!

The city we visited the most in Colombia - it's people, food, architecture, shopping...invites you to come back.

El Poblado - where most visitors/tourists stay - can be loud and a bit of party neighborhood. Stay at @23hotel
or @thehostmde (adults only) for a calm and beautiful experience at an affordable price

All places tagged.

Bonus:
@metropole.beer for good beer and people watching
@casaelramal beautiful restaurant, cozy and romantic atmosphere. taken in Medellín, Colombia by @elu.curated

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The bartender at Tres Monos learned the trade four blocks from where she grew up — in a neighborhood most of this city only drives past.

Tres Monos, Niño Gordo, and Victor Audio Bar read like three separate stops in Palermo, but they're run by the same small group of friends — Sebastián Atienza and his partners behind @3monosbar and @victoraudiobar , chef Germán Sitz at @xniniogordox That's not a coincidence. It's the reason La Escuelita exists at all: a free school in Barrio Padre Mugica teaching cooking, bartending, coffee, and wine to young people from the neighborhood, built by guys who already had three successful spots and decided to put that weight behind something together.

418 graduates so far. Romina López went from student to bartender on the main floor at Tres Monos. Pamela Albornoz graduated and opened her own bar a few blocks away.
Not everything I point to here is women-owned, and that's fine — this is about where a business puts its weight when no one's making them - giving back to the community and empowering others.

Good plan for this long weekend: start with a cocktail at Tres Monos or Victor, and save Niño Gordo for last — in Buenos Aires, dinner doesn't really get going until everyone else's is winding down.

All three a few blocks apart in Palermo, open right through Monday's feriado. taken in Buenos Aires, Argentina by @elu.curated

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Guchito isn't just a restaurant. Es más un lugar de encuentro.

The day I was there, there was a vintage pop-up happening, a tattoo artist working in the corner, and bingo night was on the calendar - follow their insta para no perderte ningún evento @_guchito

Platitos para compartir, rico vermut, and a crowd that makes you feel like you belong the second you sit down. Genuinely welcoming, LGBTQ-friendly, everyone dressed like themselves.

Pet-friendly, sit outside.

Sunday, late lunch, then coffee at Cuervo @cuervocafe . That's the move. taken in Chacarita by @elu.curated

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Julia Alvarez @writerjalvarez was ten when her family fled the Dominican Republic.

For Latinx Heritage Month I'm sharing the stories that stayed with me, and this week it's the writers.

Julia's In the Time of the Butterflies is about las hermanas Mirabal, the sisters who were killed for standing up to Trujillo. November 25, the day they died, is now the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Angie Cruz @writercruz wrote Dominicana from her mother's story, and it was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Esmeralda Santiago @esmeraldasantiagoauthor moved from Puerto Rico to New York at thirteen, went on to Harvard, and wrote When I Was Puerto Rican.

María Hinojosa @maria_la_hinojosa hosted Latino USA from its very first episode in 1992 and wrote the memoir Once I Was You.

And Paola Ramos @paoramos , born in Miami to a Cuban mother and a Mexican father (the iconic @jorgeramosnews ), wrote Defectors, one of the books I've loved most - this is an eye-opener.

Élu is about finding the people behind the things worth keeping. Usually that's a shop. This week, it's a shelf.

Next week is the last part: the Latina designers behind what we wear. Guarda este post para tu próxima lectura. by @elu.curated

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I picked these two books separately. They ended up asking the same question.

Taiwan Travelogue, by Yang Shuang-zi (@roseyanger )— 1938, Japanese-ruled Taiwan, a novelist and her female interpreter, and everything unspoken between them: language, power, who gets to be understood and who has to do the translating.

Las Aventuras de la China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (@cabezoncamara) — 1800s, la Pampa argentina, a woman who walks away from the life she was handed and finds herself crossing land with another woman from a land and a language she didn't know - who show her a different world. (Rec by @las.argies
Book club)

I didn't set out to read two books about women finding themselves across a colonized landscape. I just kept being drawn to stories where a woman has to decide who she is once the people who defined her aren't around to do it anymore.

Different centuries, different continents, same reckoning.
Both written by women.

Read them together. See what you notice. taken in Buenos Aires, Argentina by @elu.curated

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Every migrant carries something. Isabela carried eighty books, in her suitcases from Venezuela to Buenos Aires.

Those books are still here — you can sit down at @ifigeniacafe , pick one off the shelf, read as long as you want, and put it back when you're done. It's not a bookstore. It's a place to slow down.

San Telmo is the oldest neighborhood in this city, built by generations of people who arrived from somewhere else and made it theirs. Ifigenia feels like exactly that — walk in and it's your grandmother's kitchen: old china coffee cups, mismatched little plates, teapots that look passed down through a family. Even the spoons are silver.

Two blocks away, they also run @lilithvino — same spirit, after dark.

Founded by a woman who left everything and rebuilt it here, book by book. taken in San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina by @elu.curated

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