Botswana Café Bar

Botswana Café Bar is the most styled café in Laureles — a creative space on the second floor of the Armoniko building on Circular 75, and a room that has clearly been designed rather than merely furnished.

It runs the full arc of a day. Coffee and brunch in the daytime, and by evening the same room turns into a cocktail bar. You can arrive at eleven for breakfast or at eight for a drink and find the place equally at home in either mood.

The room is built for lingering. Botswana leans on atmosphere as much as on the menu, and it is the kind of café where the setting is a real part of what you are paying for — this is one of the pricier café options in the neighbourhood, and the design is where that money has gone. There is wifi, and the staff speak English as well as Spanish.

One practical thing worth taking seriously: capacity is small. Booking ahead here is genuinely advisable rather than a formality, and the reservation link is the safest way in.