Cafe Exedra

I last visited the place in 2004/2005? And found the place to be without much space. Hopefully, when remodeling is completed, there will be more room.

[QUOTE=Cowpie]Does anyone have the latest 411 on what's going on at the Exedra site?

I'm planning a trip in October and it would be nice to have a local gathering place to meet up with like minded mongers plus the local talent to choose from. Ah the good old days.[/QUOTE]An Argentinean I have known for 6 years informs me that Exedra will be re opening as a Pharmacity Pharmacy, some time this year.

[QUOTE=Flexible Horn]An Argentinean I have known for 6 years informs me that Exedra will be re opening as a Pharmacity Pharmacy, some time this year.[/QUOTE]Exedra used to be a place where you could get a cure for what ails you. I guess there will be "cures" again, but not the type we were all hoping for.

Thoroughly disgusting news.

[QUOTE=Flexible Horn]An Argentinean I have known for 6 years informs me that Exedra will be re opening as a Pharmacity Pharmacy, some time this year.[/QUOTE]
If Pereira Rafael Aragon, owner of Rond Point, Violets and the Café de los Angelitos, paid $1,300,000 US dollars for Exedra, and is a restaurant/club owner, it would be strange to open a Pharmacity Pharmacy.

Maybe the government is screwing him, and not letting him open up. This is strange news if it's true.

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[QUOTE=Tessan]If Pereira Rafael Aragon, owner of Rond Point, Violets and the Café de los Angelitos, paid $1,300,000 US dollars for Exedra, and is a restaurant / club owner, it would be strange to open a Pharmacity Pharmacy.

Maybe the government is screwing him, and not letting him open up. This is strange news if it's true.

[url]http://www.criticadigital.com/impresa/index.php?secc=nota&nid=1450[/url][/QUOTE]I have a good friend that's the "God Father" of the "Greek Mafia" is Buenos Aries, its big one with over 400,000 Greeks in Argentina.

He told me that Cafe Excedra was bought by Argentine "Narco" money. That they don't give a shit about the place and their only purpose was to laundar drug money into hard assets.

Everything thats transpired since it was sold leads me to believe what my friend told me is true. Why would any for real business man take a profitable business and shut it down for two years with no income?

Exon

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[QUOTE=Exon123]P. S. [url]http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.criticadigital.com%2Fimpresa%2Findex.php%3Fsecc%3Dnota%26nid%3D1450&sl=es&tl=en[/url][/QUOTE]Beware Google translator!

I almost laughed when first I read the English wording of the following quote, followed up by reading it in Spanish.:

"It's a letdown for us," complained Vanina, a prostitute who worked 35 years "for years" in the bar."

"Es un bajón para nosotras", se quejó Vanina, una prostituta de 35 años que trabajó "durante años" en el bar.

The first, the translation, says she worked as a prostitute for 35 years at Exedra. That would make her a bit old, and a worn out rag to boot. I immediately thought of the droopy-eyed elder lady with blond hair, kind of mousy looking, big butt / thighs. Crooked teeth and tried to sit and have a conversation. Assuming she was 18 when she started, she would be about 53. Seemed like the right age.

The second, the original Spanish, means that she was 35 years old and had worked "for years" (I. E. An indeterminate number) at Exedra. I then thought of a younger milfish woman, blonde, not a bad rack and body, but a little thick maybe. Not terribly pretty but not bad. I don't know anything of her services, but a completely different image appeared of possible chicas who could be Vannina from Exedra that I could remember, right or wrong.

The translation idiomically (is that a word? It should be, though never voiced out loud I think, only written) would be closer to:

"It's a huge downer for us," complained Vannina, a thirty-five year old prostitute who worked "for years" in the bar."

[QUOTE=Flexible Horn]An Argentinean I have known for 6 years informs me that Exedra will be re opening as a Pharmacity Pharmacy, some time this year.[/QUOTE]There has been a lot of construction activity going on lately at the place.

Looks like guys hanging false ceilings and a / c ducts, sheetrock, etc.

Anyway, I walked in there and they have moved the bathrooms to the basement and they have built a smoking area so I have to believe that it will NOT be a pharmacy.

It does not make any sense but these guys down here RARELY make business sense!

There is a huge Pharmacy chain accross the street on Lima and Cordoba so stranger things have happened.

Again, the shoe-shine guy tells me that it will open in March.

TL.

P. S - The place is taking longer to re-open than Lálliance!

Does anybody knows if the new Excedra is already opened?

Is now a drugstore?

I miss this place so much!

I was told maybe in May.

That would be a Miracle.

I have not seen anybody working in or around the place.

I miss it too.

[QUOTE=Diegote]Does anybody knows if the new Excedra is already opened?

Is now a drugstore?

I miss this place so much![/QUOTE]

Jackson,

Can we run a betting pool on when something will open here?

I'm going to bet 100$ on the under that nothing opens in that spot in 2010.

Passed by Exedra today. There were workers laying down new tiles on the sidewalk, on a Sunday no less. Part of barricade surrounding the store was opened and probably more workers were working inside. Re-doing the sidewalk might mean they are planning to have some outdoor facility like tables in the past, who konws.

[QUOTE=Sportsman]Passed by Exedra today. There were workers laying down new tiles on the sidewalk, on a Sunday no less. Part of barricade surrounding the store was opened and probably more workers were working inside. Re-doing the sidewalk might mean they are planning to have some outdoor facility like tables in the past, who konws.[/QUOTE]Finally! Some movement in a positive direction. How long has it been? Nearly 2 1/2 years?

[QUOTE=Gato Hunter]Jackson,

Can we run a betting pool on when something will open here?

I'm going to bet 100$ on the under that nothing opens in that spot in 2010.[/QUOTE]I am still going with this.

I was by there yesterday and a crew of about 8 men were working.

From what I saw, there's just a week or so of work left to do.

Hopefully soon and with Chica's?

Exon

Passed by there again after dinner on Sunday night, all the workers had called it quit for the day. Half the barricade has come down, the whole side along Carlos Pellegrini. One window was not covered. I noticed the whole inside is still completely gutted out without any fixture what so ever. So still can't what it will be when and if it reopens. May be Exon noticed more inside when he passed by there on Monday.