El Alamo

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Hey Peter,

I"m back in the states. Only comment I have is if you can teach your staff how to make a good old Taco Bell style quesedilla. The one I got at the restaurant I was very disappointed with back in December. Rest of the food was good, but I was craving shredded chedder cheese with jalepeno sauce in a Mexican style tortilla, grilled.

Glad to see the superbowl party was a success. I miss BA.

Where do they get these photographers? In the photo, the Alamo looks like a castle on a hill (just as my little apartment looked spacious in the photo I
looked at it back in the U.S. In reality El Alamo is a nice little place with about 15 tables and a bar.

Something I liked was that they sell about 20 different wines by the glass. The Alamos chardonnay (Alamos wine in the Alamo) was superb on a sunny day after walking. However, the Alamos cabernet sauvignon was not up to the usual Argentinian standards. Surprise!

The lomitos (3 little steaks) had a wonderful beefy flavor, and the mashed potatoes and salad were fine. With the wines, too much food, cafe, and a bottle of Guinness for dessert, I ended up paying about 50 pesos + propina. The place is popular for lunch with the Argentinians, and I saw about 3 fellow gringos at the bar, where they looked quite comfortable. There are several computers behind the bar that you can use, and I read an English-language newspaper that was sitting around.

Oddly, the waitress and the bartender appeared to be engaged in some kind of feud. My advice to management is to let the gringo speak doggerel Spanish if he wants to (the waitress always responded in English as if Espanol was not to be permitted)

I will not have a chance to check out the $300=900 peso hookers on the upstairs floor on this trip. Hah! Big loss. But I do recommend the Alamo for a nice little lunch after the 100 peso love fest that you can have at 1707 Santa Fe, which is pleasant 3 block walk from the Alamo.

[blue]Hi Riverm,

It may not have been open during the lunch hours, but they do have another full bar and a larger dining room on the 2nd floor.

Thanks,

Jackson[/blue]

Hi Jackson,
Yes, they said the upstairs area opens at about six. Just for the record, I tried the same meal at a different place in Palermo the next day, and the food had been better at the Alamo. Also, the Alamo price was competitive, with that great chardonnay at a reasonable price.

As I post this message, I sit at El Alamo next to a fellow monger.

This is my second trip to BA which provided much more insight to the complex and mysterious ba chica scene.

First, I have expereinced the diverse chica options through clubs (cover and no cover establishments) independent escorts, apartments, etc.

IMO the best "bang for the buck" is the apartments. As I discovered, many of the hot chicas seen on the web sites work the apartments with normal pricing of around 100 - 120 pesos per hour with good to excellent gfe.

While I did not go to many of the apts listed on this web site, I found 1707 Santa Fe and 1242 Arenales, apt 5f to be incredible values. My sugestion is to go around 11:00am - 12:00pm as mongers get first crack at these chicas.

The Santa Fe apt has good consistency. The Arenales apt offers the spectacular german paraguay blonde Pricilla, whom offers a very good gfe (experienced first hand) at 120 pesos per hour. Another hot blonde named Antonella is also available, but heard does not quite offer the same type gfe as Pricilla. I also sampled a decent Spanish chica who offered a better gfe than Pricilla. Ultimately, you must be the judge.

Back to El Alamo, if you are a ba newbie with no Spanish skills, I strongly suggest visiting this bar and consulting the owner along with the always helpful ba mongers on all your mongering questions. Their insights are truly amazing, thus saving mucho time and money. The atmosphere, food and drinks are also excellent values.

ENJOY

[QUOTE=Hlover].......1242 Arenales, apt 5f........ [/QUOTE]Hi,

For 1242 Arenales, is it Apt 5F or 6F?

Bandy

[QUOTE=Riverm]Oddly, the waitress and the bartender appeared to be engaged in some kind of feud. My advice to management is to let the gringo speak doggerel Spanish if he wants to (the waitress always responded in English as if Espanol was not to be permitted)[/QUOTE]Thats a good point and I'm surprised that tourist / expat oriented businesses don't pick up on it. Some foreigners want to speak / learn the local language. When you speak the local language pretty well, it can be somewhat of an insult when employees refuse to speak anything but English to you. This didn't happen to me at El Alamo, but it has happened at some other places.

Ok Mongers here's the Idea and Your Imput is both Welcome and Needed.

A number of us are interested in Spicing up our Sex Live's therefore Mongering Mondays has been invented. If sucessful this would be an on going weekly event held at the El Alamo.

The Idea would be for this coming Monday each of us to invite an Internet Girl to the El Alamo Restaurant for a Mixer upstairs at 6:00pm for about an hour. Peter has aggreed to host an open Bar for all of us to get it started.

The program would be that each Chica invited by any attending Monger is open season for any other Monger. In essance, say I invite a Chica I've been lurking at over the internet, but never met. She shows up and the Chemistry isn't all that good but possibly I have have an eye for Thomaso276's invite and or Papa Benito takes a shine to my girl and so on down the line.

I for one have several girls I've been lurking over on the Internet. But have never taken the time to meet, simply because I wasn't going to gamble the time or the Orgasam on a stranger. To this day Exon has never done an Internet Chica. The reason, unless the Chemistry isn't just right their not worth Fucking. And frankly if you do make contact with a girl, (Solo) your pretty much oblagated to Fuck her since you invited her to your Hotel, apartment or showed up at her door step.

Expounding on the Idea of "Monger Mondays" all of us that attend would have the oppertunity to meet some completely new Chica's we've never seen before. Not the same old talant we see almost every night at the Clubs around town and such places as Excedra & Cafe Orleans.

OK whats in it for the Chica's. I suggest each Monger gives the Chica of his invite or choice some show up money. Say $50 peso's with the promise that she is going to meet some potentual new clients to ply her services with, I. E. American Mongers with peso's.

For those of us that don't speak Spanish, (Myself Included) we contact Roxana to do your dirty work. Having Roxana explain to the Chica's just exactly what the rules are, its open season for everyone, Chica's included. She doesn't have to Fuck the guy that invited her, (well in case he wants too) but she is free to ply her trade to anyone at the party.

At the very least each attending Monger will have the oppertunity to meet new talent never seen before and very possibly add some new pussy to his stable.

To make this work were going to need at least 8 to 10 Mongers that, "Bring Something to the Party", litterly.

So lets figure on Monday night at 6:00 pm at the El Alamo and RSVP on the board and Please feel free to add your comments to this post. If the idea takes hold everyone's going to have some fun.

Exon

I have proposed to Peter a different twist.

The idea behind the weekly meetings is for the girls to expand their horizons (clients) and the guys to meet new girls. I could not (my situation is different) bring a girl along for others to interview. In addition I am not sure all the guys would bring anyone, thereby reducing opportunities. Sort of like the lurkers on the board.

Everyday on Platynum there are NEW girls advertising their availablity. See: [url]http://www.escorts.com.ar/NovedadesArchivadas/NovedadesArchivadas.htm[/url]

I would imagine many of these girls do not have a steady client base, as opposed to the more experienced girls. Or the two very overpriced chicas from last week.

I would recommend that the owner of Platynum encourage the weekly "new girls" who have signed up to stop by the Alamo on a specific evening to meet potential clients. She could sell it as a benefit for her webpage for the new girls. Chances are they can get a date right from the get go. There are always one or two new escorts per day on the site. No cost to us and a great opportunity for the chicas.

I have no idea how this plays out with the "third party, hands off policy" dictated by law regarding P4P.

He ought to coordinate this with the owner of Platynum. I forget her name now but she has a reputation as a very good and honest businesswoman.

[QUOTE=Hunt99]He ought to coordinate this with the owner of Platynum. I forget her name now but she has a reputation as a very good and honest businesswoman.[/QUOTE]I never met her but from what I remember Adriana is the webmistress for Platynum. Or was it [url]www.escorts-argentina.com[/url]? I read she even attends some of the AP gathering herself.

That's it, Sportsman. She actually runs both websites, as well as one or two others. And you are right, she has attended AP events, I met her a year ago at a dinner and found her to be a gracious and friendly woman. (And to cut off those inevitable PMs, no, she is not on the program!;))

On Friday night we had a big group dinner at El Alamo, celebrating Roxana's 29th birthday.;)

The food was good, the wine was great, and the company was even better. It was great to see so many new faces that we had previously just known by handle.

We had an upstairs room reserved for our party, and hopefully all the loud noises and other "activities" didn't scare off too many of the regular clientele.

I want to extend a special thanks to Peter, owner of El Alamo, who was our gracious maitre'd and who runs the best English-speaking watering hole in La Reina del Plate.

OK Peter I took your advise and tried one of the new sister acts. I think her name is Noelia. The 18 year old. And you were totally correct. She's a great tight little package from top to bottom. But she is very shy though. But that didn't seem to be much of a problem once she hit the sheets. With her limited English and my very limited Spanish you would have thought there would have been more problem. But something just comes natural I guess. And this little cutie is all natural. As I said a perfect tight little body. And it didn't take me to long to pop off a few rounds with her. If you like them young and tight I highly recommend her.

I will say that Mel is a very good chose too. She's a little older (21) and a little let shy. And she also has a knock out body. And I would rate her extremely high as well. And she has more English that can go a long way sometimes.

Both girls are very good young ladies. And you will not be disappointed with ether of them.

For running the Yankees- Red Sox game last night without any interruption. Although my team lost, I had a great time with the kids from Boston. You were understaffed last night, still managed to make everybody happy. Thank you!

Bandy

A general cautionary note to all mongers who use the computers at El Alamo to access this site. On number of occassions, I found users are still logged in. You are opening yourself up for abuse. Others can post on your behalf. And most importantly, anybody can read your private mails and again, deliberately can send inappropriate mails to others. Make sure you "log-out" from the server, after you are done.

Bandy

While the drinks where good as usual and you DO have a beautiful bartender upstairs, you should do somethoing to match the tenderness of your beef with the rest. I had an ojo de bife, and normally a ribeye should be reasonable tender and juicy. The piece I got leaves a lot of room for improvement.

El Alemán

I enjoyed another American styled breakfast at El Alamo this morning with 3 of our fellow mongers; Punter127, Papabenito and Sante Fe. It was super with very good Cappuchino Italiano! I recommend the breakfast. This is a good fellow mongering hangout!

Had a good, tasty Steak, Egg and Papa Fritas breakfast this morning with my wingman. Food was prepared quickly and the steak was tender. No A-1 on site tho! LOL

I have been there thinking I would hit the ATM next door before eating, only to find it out of service. At this time I have had American dollars on me and they took them. This has happened a couple times thru my trips. Each time, they have given me the current exchange rate with no problems. Just another idea if you find yourself in a fluid cash crunch.

Coach

How have the NFL Sundays been so far this year? One of my favorite memories of BsAs have been getting together to watch a little [I]Futbol Americano[/i] far away from home.

Still has every game, crowds vary with early late game depending on matchups. Skins still wish they had Brett for their SB push! Because GB is going nowhere this year.

HOw is the whole bikini show been? Peter do you have photos of the contestants? The winners?

Peter you should do a Girls Gone Wild with them too. Just make sure to get their ID's or you'll end up like joe francis in federal court.

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Hi TangoManiac,

The Bikini Open is scheduled to begin [u]this Sunday[/u] at 11pm. We have been deluged with overtures from chicas who wish to participate, mostly from the local universities where the El Alamo staff has been busy distributing flyers about the event. Peter changed the award schedule so that EVERY [u]qualifying[/u] chica (sorry, no gordas) will receive $50 pesos for appearing, thus every contestant is a winner. However, we have decided to limit the nmber of intital contestants to 50 chicas.

Now to answer your question: Yes, the entire event will be photographed and you can expect that a selected number of these photos will be posted on the AP website.

Thanks,

Jackson[/blue]

I saw this and thought you might be interested!

[url]http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/buenos%20aires/www.elalamobar.com[/url]

I had a late night and decided to have breakfast before going to sleep so I went and tryed out El Alamo. It was pretty empty when I walked in about 8 am, there was only about four people in there, 3 portenos and a portena (who was sleeping at the bar at the time) The atmosphere is nice and it seems a good place for the younger crowd. The T. V's were all showing tennis, which I don't really like but anyways. I ordered the big fucking breakfast and the omelete and my guest ordered the big breakfast. The waitress was a nice young lady named maryanne or maryela or something like that. The portenos finally stumbled out of the place about 15 minutes later just before our food got there.

The food was good, the bacon was great, though it wasn't cooked in straight strips, but who cares, it was good, the fries were good and so were the sausages, and the scrambled eggs were just right, I usually like my eggs over easy but I didn't want to trip anyone up on my first visit (though next time I will ask for over easy) A nice touch was the tabasco sauce, man I could drink that stuff (Note, a large bottle of tabasco sauce in Kiev cost me $50 US, and it was only sold in one Market chain) The omelete was also pretty good, and the toast was on the harder side, but I still liked it and in fact it actually went very well with the rest of the food as is. All in all I liked the whole place and I liked the food, it wasn't perfect but was very good, and whenever I am in the mood for some breakfast Americano style I will definitely try this place out again. A few suggestions,.

1) Pancakes. In the states I didn't have them all the time, but being in BA I miss them. And it would be nice to have a place that makes them.

2) A-1 steak sauce. I haven't been to El Alamo for lunch or dinner but it would be nice to have some good ol' A-1 (in europe I got used to HP, which was a good substitute but, in my opinion, not as good)

3) Heinz ketchup. Importing the stuff would be a nice added touch to the whole American theme. Living in europe I got used to the damn sweet ketchup and even resorted to salting it sometimes, but they also had heinz and most of the time I bought that. Anyway, for the french fries sweet ketchup just doesn't cut it.

Great place, good food, good service, and one of the only places in BA that actually feels a little like a breakfast diner back home. Sans the barfull of burly truckers and the senior citizen menu ;). That reminds me, next time I go I will have to try out and review their Steak and Eggs breakfast.

Badboy

Will this be on at El Alamo tonite? (I've never been but am a Gringo who recently moved here part time) If not, where can I see it?

I'll settle for (an) Irish fan (s) and we can arm wrestle at halftime.

Great place to watch games. Only gets 1 game with sound but can show 3 games at same time.

Food is better than MacDonalds.

Packed during the games but vacant before and after.

Hey, is the contest still on? I didn't catch it when I was there in Nov. But I'll be back soon, just want to see how it is going.

This really is a great place to hang out. They have sports on the tube, and there are tons of sweet, young lovelies hanging out for the free beer and drinks. Last time I was there, I was waved over by some young darlings, less than half my age, they just wanted someone to buy them some drinks, and being the generous guy that I am (and since they are cheap as hell there) I bought them whatever they wanted. The cutest one finally threw up on me, it was all alcohol, washed right off.

I'm going back.

Did any of you guys catch the BSU vs OU football game last night? Amazing game! Especially the last few mins, I'm in Boise, and gotta support our team, Our town went crazy last night. Quick recap on you tube.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENwDDB0dlRk&eurl=[/url]

[QUOTE=Stoker Star]Great place to watch games. Only gets 1 game with sound but can show 3 games at same time.

Food is better than McDonalds.

Packed during the games but vacant before and after.[/QUOTE]

Peter always seems to be tweaking the formula at "Shoeless Joe's". Is it really Shoeless Joe's now? Or still / back to The Alamo? Sign outside says both.

When I got there last night some guy outside tried to get 15 pesos out of me to enter, and I talked my way past that. Once inside, it was explained to me that in fact it costs 15 pesos to enter now, which is good towards a couple of beers or something. I didn't want beers, I wanted a caesar salad, and that's what I had.

Upstairs was closed, very few people downstairs. Very quiet right now, I guess.

15 pesos to walk in the door of a restaurant? I don't drink and they wouldn't let me apply it to the jalapeno bacon cheeseburger I was dying for. My friend and I walked to another place and spent our 60 pesos there. Come on Peter. I understand why your doing it and don't have a problem showing my money at the door, but if I want food and am willing to pay for it don't you want to sell it to me?

My date and I also got a little peeved at the cover and turned around and left about a week ago.[QUOTE=Daddy Rulz]15 pesos to walk in the door of a restaurant? I don't drink and they wouldn't let me apply it to the jalapeno bacon cheeseburger I was dying for. My friend and I walked to another place and spent our 60 pesos there. Come on Peter. I understand why your doing it and don't have a problem showing my money at the door, but if I want food and am willing to pay for it don't you want to sell it to me?[/QUOTE]

I'm another one who did a 180 and walked away. I've never understood covers or minimums. They say to me "you probably won't like this place once you get inside, so we'll get some money from you now while we have the chance." I know that resturants have a problem with people occupying a table forever without spending any money. But if that's the problem you charge a $5 pesos per table per hour occupancy fee. Or just ask people to leave if they have been there a while without spending any money.

And, btw, $15 pesos is not, in my opinion, chump change. When I walked away from The Alamo last night I had a fine dinner at a place on Santa Fe for $34 pesos. No Bikini contest of course, but if I hadn't liked the menu, or the decor, or the temperature, or anything else I could have walked out without having spent a dime.

Bob

Yeah. The last time we were there was to watch the BCS Championship game. The place looked pretty empty and the door man asked for 30 pesos cover or something ridiculous like that. What a joke! I guess if they only want to cater to tourists who don't mind dropping 30 pesos to get in, then they are not trying to appeal to the locals here, like myself.

So we went to another sports bar (Locos for Football in Recoleta Village) that had it on much bigger and better televisions. Instead of those crappy little ones at the Alamo! It was packed but we managed to get a table. I was really turned off and think I'm over the Alamo, at least for now. I don't think the food is very good either. Except the breakfast, which is the only thing I like there now.

Before you guys start pounding on El Alamo, keep in mind all the good things that the proprietor has done for the mongering community, including, among other things, a FREE Thanksgiving Dinner for all the AP folks. If you don't like the cover charge, tell the owner so, and why. But I don't think ripping the place and announcing a boycott is warranted.

He has to make money - he's running a business after all. But there's a right way to show him that the cover charge is counterproductive for business.

[QUOTE=Hunt99]If you don't like the cover charge, tell the owner so, and why.[/QUOTE]I think that's what we've been doing here.

I know Peter reads this forum, I told him in person the last time I was there how I felt about it. The difference the last time was he was there to waive it. This time he wasn't and lost the business.

Before this turns into a Hunt flame a thon, I'm not being rude just trying to let him know what happened and asking him to try and do something to keep it from happening in the future. It's his place and if he doesn't want to make a change I'm sure he can get by without my cheeseburger sale once a week.

[QUOTE=Hunt99]Before you guys start pounding on El Alamo, keep in mind all the good things that the proprietor has done for the mongering community, including, among other things, a FREE Thanksgiving Dinner for all the AP folks. If you don't like the cover charge, tell the owner so, and why. But I don't think ripping the place and announcing a boycott is warranted.

He has to make money - he's running a business after all. But there's a right way to show him that the cover charge is counterproductive for business.[/QUOTE]Yeah, boycotting is a little dramatic. I'm just over it for now. Thats all. I'm sure I'll end up there at some point again, but was a little put off by the large cover charge.

Also, one time I went there and the guy said twenty pesos cover charge, and I said, "What? That's crazy. Since when?" To which he replied, "Since always." When I told him that I had been there a handful of times and never paid a cover charge, he said "Where are you from?" When I told him I was from the U. S. He said, its ok, come on in. That's bullshit if you ask me. There is either a cover or there isn't one, I shouldn't have to argue my way into a bar.

I think Peter is between a rock and a hard place regarding his "business model". His place can't be all things to all people and my guess is that he is trying to navigate that problem. Some dispassionate dialogue is in order, and if that doesn't work to satisfy everybody, hey, you can't satisfy everybody.