Cafe con leche and a medialuna beat Starbucks in Terminal A
Café Martínez sits airside in Terminal A at Ezeiza, the Argentine answer to a global coffee chain. Expect local-style cafe con leche, medialunas, and facturas instead of frappes with long names. Prices run $$ for the airport: a coffee and pastry combo typically lands in the mid-hundreds of ARS, more than city branches but normal for EZE. Rating hovers around 3/5, which tracks with “good coffee, slow service” reviews.
Hours generally track with flight banks in Terminal A, opening early for morning departures and staying open into the late evening rush; assume roughly 05:00–22:00 but don’t count on a 24/7 fix. It’s on the main concourse after security, so you’re fine once you clear immigration and passport control. Seating packs in tight during morning and late-night long-haul waves, and reviewers call out a fight for tables around big departures to Europe.
Menu focus is classic Argentine: cafe con leche, cortado, espresso, submarino, plus medialunas and simple sandwiches de miga. Regulars keep it simple and order a straight cafe con leche with one or two medialunas, then walk closer to their gate in A once they’re done. If you try complex custom drinks, expect to wait; multiple travellers mention slow preparation and longer delays on anything off-script.
Common complaints: service can drag, especially when three or four flights at A are boarding in the same 60-minute window. Getting the bill is the slowest part; some reviews mention waiting 10–15 minutes just to pay. Prices sit higher than a Café Martínez in Palermo or Recoleta, but that’s standard airport markup at EZE. If the seating area is full, many people grab takeaway coffee and pastries and camp at gates A3–A10 instead.
Pro tip: order at the counter, stick to a basic coffee plus medialuna, and give yourself at least 25 minutes before boarding time if you want to sit down.