How much is it now at the supermarket? Online it is 15,652 pesos for a 500g bag.
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Yes you can read several posts about coffee here. It is possible to get good coffee here but you have to search around a bit. Locals love cafe torrado which is horrible but there are some good cafes as well. But great coffee beans aren't the easiest to find here for a reasonable price. Hopefully that changes soon.
Ok thanks man. That explains it. I HATE Starbucks back home and it's hilarious as that is the place I have been buying coffee beans. I went to the grocery store and tried some but they were all horrible. Wierd. I thought most of the people here are from Italy and they have great coffee there. OK good to know.
Yes the coffee is very bitter here in many cafes. Now I understand why after reading this post. We were also surprised with the relatively low quality coffee here, especially at the grocery stores. Very strange considering it's proximately to Brazil and Colombia but I guess import taxes make it expensive.
Yes import taxes are very high. Hopefully that changes. But I actually think the vast majority of people there just have bad taste in coffee. Surprisingly many grew up on those horrible cafe torrado and their taste buds got used to it. More and more cafes have better quality coffee today. It used to be much worse but you can actually find some good coffee if you research now. But I agree that the good quality stuff is expensive. @Jakoval posted a thread how expensive some really good coffee costs there.
Things at the cafe level are much much better than years past. I agree at the grocery stores it's tough to get better quality coffee beans. But cafes are much better than when I first moved here.
Problem is many here like the bad quality. I think as the younger generation gets used to the better coffee things will change but many of the older population here like the bitter coffee.
It isn't ruining my trip. Just comments. Many people don't spend oodles of time researching what the coffee or pizza is like. Just commenting on how things are here. I travel to lots of places and don't research specific details about how coffee is. It is just surprising for a big major city. But not ruining my trip.
To be fair before I came down here for my first time I never researched about how good or bad the coffee was or how the pizza was. I figured the same thing out on my first trip. Many years later married to an Argentine and the pizza still sucks and good coffee is hard to find.
Funny Sunny my girlfriend's mother said the same thing about El Cuartito. She said pizza used to be better but said the ingredients aren't as good now. I'm not sure what they could change in the ingredients to make it inferior now but she made a very similar comment about dough and crust. I do like Los Inmortales. I think the pizzas here have too much cheese but I just think that many people grew up on different flavor, dough, tomato sauce and it's different here.
Totally agree @Sunny. I would drive myself crazy if I tried to get the best of all worlds. Yes been to Mexico several times. I think they have probably the best food of all of Latin America. Yes, coffee from Oaxaca is quite good. Oaxaca has amazing food. I have been in BA since 2005 and made my first trip here in 2000 when it was still $1 USD = 1 peso.
I also try not to compare things to back in the States but I think it's human nature to stop comparing. It would be one thing if I didn't go back often but I go back at least once or twice a year to visit family and friends. And each time I go back I almost have to start all over again. I think it's ok to compare things to back home. I still hold out hope that some day things will change and we'll have more variety here at lower prices. If we have a shot with anyone it's with Milei.
I'm always getting frustrated I can't just order things on Amazon. I have my girlfriend's ML account but things aren't all there and things are expensive. But she said the same thing as @Betsy Ross. She said before ML, Rappi, PedidosYa life here was much more difficult and more time consuming.
I also hate flying now and limit trips once a year usually around the end of the year and visit family during Christmas. I take an empty suitcase with me each time and fill it up with clothes, towels, sheets (which I find are very low quality here and very expensive for what you get), some electronics, spices and food items I can't get here. I always bring back an extra iPhone and easily sell it here. Just take everything out of their original packages and remove tags. Carry iPhone on you. I haven't had problems in many years doing this. I do have the receipts in case asked but they mostly targeting the locals bringing stuff to sell.
