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  • "Tortoni" - frozen vanilla mousse, almond macaroon, strawberries

    unknown title 2009

  • That evening we went to a restaurant called Tortoni (which is the oldest coffee shop in the country) and saw an outstanding Tango show.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009

  • There, the "Tortoni" has been famous for its cafe specialities for some 150 years.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Drop in at the Museum of Tango above Cafe Tortoni Avenida de Mayo, +54 114 342 4328, cafetortoni.com, and you might catch young tango musicians rehearsing.

    Insider's guide to musical pilgrimages: Country, soul, blues, folk, world music 2011

  • Another plaintiff in the lawsuit, Rebecca O'Laoire, came to Buenos Aires from Ireland for tango, and got a job dancing in the famous, 150-year-old Gran Café Tortoni.

    It Takes Two to Tango, So Long as They're Both Argentines Matt Moffett 2011

  • Nicolas Goldberg for The Wall Street Journal Another plaintiff in the lawsuit, Rebecca O'Laoire, came to Buenos Aires from Ireland for tango and got a job dancing in the famous, 150-year-old Gran Café Tortoni in Buenos Aires.

    Expats, Argentines Tangle Over Tango 2011

  • Now I was putting my name down on a list right after Tony “The Machine” Tortoni, who I believe may have done some time for rolling back odometers at his day job as a used car salesman.

    Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Greg Fitzsimmons 2010

  • These ices had been ordered by Madame du Val – Noble of Tortoni, whose shop is at the corner of the Rue Taitbout and the Boulevard.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Tortoni at Havre, though the call was for six o'clock next morning with quite a chance of death before the week was out.

    The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

  • The Tortoni, opened in the early days of the Empire by Velloni, an Italian lemonade vender, was the most popular of the boulevard cafés, and was generally thronged with fashionables from all parts of Europe.

    All About Coffee 1909

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