Fernet con Coca
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Argentine national mixed drink: Italian bitter Fernet Branca poured generously, topped with Coca-Cola over ice. Bittersweet, herbal, and the default order at almost every porteno bar.

Fernet Branca arrived with Italian immigration in the late 1800s. The mix with Coca-Cola was popularised in Cordoba in the 1980s by students cutting the bitter Italian amaro with the cheaper local cola, and spread nationwide through the 1990s. Argentina is now the world's largest market for Fernet Branca and the drink remains the bar-default of porteño nightlife; Branca operates an Argentine bottling plant.

4 editor picks for Fernet con Coca in Buenos Aires, ranked by editorial score. All Buenos Aires signature dishes · Fernet con Coca across every city.

Tres Monos ★ 4.8

$$$Cocktail barPalermo Soho

Sebastian Atienza, Charly Aguinsky and Gus Vocke's Palermo Soho corner; #10 on World's 50 Best Bars 2025. Own-label spirits with Argentine producers.

Floreria Atlantico ★ 4.7

$$$Cocktail barRetiro

Tato Giovannoni's subterranean cocktail bar behind the cold-room door of a Retiro flower shop. World's 50 Best Bars list; menu themed by immigrant origins.

Frank's ★ 4.4

$$$Cocktail barPalermo Hollywood

The original Buenos Aires speakeasy: phone-booth door, access code, cocktail room behind it. Palermo Hollywood since 2011; many copycats, original remains.

Victoria Brown ★ 4.4

$$$Cocktail barPalermo Soho

Palermo Soho speakeasy hidden behind a coffee bar; walk through Victoria Brown coffee, find the sliding door. Vintage room, Argentine craft spirits.

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