Kilkenny

[Flexible Horn]

Before the tragic fire at the Cromagon Club, Kilkennys used to have a live music licence, unfortunately it has now been revoked.

IMHO they had some good bands singing in English.

I have noticed there are a lot more girls working in there now, but you have to remember these girls are 100% freelance so back at your Hotel / Apartment just be a little more cautious.

I had 2 young college girls trying to raise their spending money for a vacation, they could only have been 18/19 max, very cute.

Of course the old dogs are still working there, but they don't even approach me any more, thank f. K!

FH

[Rock Harders]

The Kilkenny is an interesting establishment because its patrons are a heavy mix of portenos and extranjeros, professoinal and non-pro chicas. On any given night, there are always MANY young Americans in this place, as it is a big time expat hangout. In my opinion, this place is one of the best and one of my favorite places in Buenos Aires for meeting hot regular Argentine girls because they often come to this place for the very purpose of meeting and hanging out with extranjeros. I have made some of my top scores of regular portenas out of this joint. One of the issues I do have with this place is the ridiculous crowds that make this place almost impossible to get into after 10pm on a weekend night.

In addition, the utility of the Kilkenny goes beyond the presence of hot available chicas. This place attracts many English speaking Argentines, and thus is a good place to do some networking with the locals. I have picked up some students (I teach english) here by just striking up conversations with random people.

Dirk

[Hunt99]

I was in the Kilkenny on my last trip.

The best way I can think to describe it is as follows:

Remember back to your college days. Now remember what Friday nights were like on campus. Recall the hardest-drinking fraternity on campus. (You know, the one with a keg in every room, and no adult supervision?) It's party time at Delta House. Now stuff Delta house with enough students so as to double its actual capacity. Fire all the wait staff except the people behind the bar. Remove all the tables and chairs not already filled so there is nowhere to sit that's not already occupied, and institute a rule that all those people stuffed in the frat house must both shout at the top of their lungs and fail to wear deodorant. In addition, everybody is drinking whatever beer that is currently on 2-for-1 special (on my visit it was bottled Steinlager). The people in the crowd will push you and bump you as they fight their way up to the bar. (This is not entirely unpleasant when the bumper is a chica in jeans and a tank top - and they're all in jeans and tanktops, even those that probably shouldn't be.) However, keep in mind that on her return trip, she will spill drinks on you (she's carrying four drinks - remember, it's 2-for-1 night, and she got drinks for her friend in addition to herself). Oh, and there may some "music" blaring even louder over the din.

That's the Kilkenny. You may enjoy it. I would have if I was still a pimply-faced 20 year old frat boy.

[Moore]

For what its worth, Kilkenny was THE SHIT when I moved here 5 years ago. I used to go there on weekdays after work still in my suit and tie as did many locals. There were so many hot, young, available nonpros and I probably pulled more wool out of that place than any other in the world. It was crowded, but not trample-crowded.

About 2 years later, KK morphed into what it is today. There are often rough, nasty prostitutes and 100 obnoxious middle aged British guys in there. The "class" of the local patrons really declined, and I don't consider myself a class-conscious person. Possibly this is due to KK's location in a borderline seedy area or because the Irish Pub fad wore off in South America.

I havent been there in more than a year. There were occasionally good nights, but Hunt99s description is mostly accurate.

Shamrock remains a classic though. Lots of great girls, sometimes you shoot the shit with an American comrade at the bar, and excluding a few peak times the crowds arent so bad.

[Flexible Horn]

I doupt I have met 100 obnoxious middle-aged BRITISH guys in my entire life,

Is there 100?

[Thomaso276]

Hunt is 100 percent correct. I cannot stand overcrowded loud places and do not frequent Kilkenny. I think that is the place where the two drunk Brits took the Argentine flag, stomped and pissed on it. They got some jail time and made all the papers.

There are better and more civilized places to visit, but if you must experience the cattle call give it a try.

[Exon123]

I was only in their once.

The place was so fucking noisy I had to leave.

Its one of those places that everyone go's too because everyone's there.

Screw it, Ill take Cafe Excedra over Kilkenny anytime.

Exon

[El Perro]

Dropped in to Kilkennys last night between 10-12pm. Not sardined like it was during my first night there back in September, but maybe too early for that (it was starting to jump when I left) I got involved in a going nowhere conversation with a St. Louis based chick who travels the world escorting clueless gringos to exotic locales. She was heading to Patagonia today. Sociopathic little ***** who pushed me aside when 2 pilots hit on her. Wasted my time, and had way too many guinness. For research purposes, there were clearly a few pros around, and a coupla youngsters at that. I would have ventured but the cervasas had semi crippled me. My impression-not a place to be taken off the list for chicas, particularly if you like the bar atmosphere, and if you're a pilot even better. Damn, those guinness go down easy.

[Rock Harders]

During January and February of 2005 (my first time living in Bs. As. I lived in Buenos Aires as part of a study abroad program. Ironically, I went to the Kilkenny on the first and last nights of my 6 week stay, and no nights in between. Anyway, I am in there with a group of people (there were 32 woman and only one other male on this trip) and I notice a smoking hot Argentine clearly staring me down. I do nothing about it at first, because this is my last night, and I am with a large number of available females I figured would take much less work to get into the sack then some Argentinean girl I just met. After about half an hour, this girl sends over her male friend to ask me if I am some model (clearly a ploy to get my attention) I pull a fast one and tell them that no, I am not a model, but that I play professional American football for the New York Giants, and that is probably why I look familiar. So now the ice is broken, and I start having a conversation with the girl, Marcia, who is if I forgot to mention, a definite 8.5 even on my super picky scale. She speaks decent english and after about an hour long conversation, in which I revealed that I was in fact returning to the USA the next evening, she gives me her phone number and invites me over to her apartment for lunch.

The next day, I wake up with a monumental hangover, around 11:30, and I had to be at my shuttle to the airport at 5:30. I can't remember what this girl looks like from the night before, I am contemplating whether I should bother calling this girl or not. I say fuck it, I have nothing to lose so I call her and start speaking and Spanish, and she replies in sultry English "I've been waiting for your call". At this point I had a good feeling that this would be a very rewarding afternoon. So she gives me directions to her apartment, which is in Congreso not far from Palacio de Las Aguas Argentinas, and I get a cab over there. So I arrive at this apartment not knowing what to expect, and she answers the door, and looks totally beautiful, all tanned, about 5 foot 7, maybe 120 pounds, that lean and lithe look that I always dig. She cooks me a large bife de lomo (I guess the night before I told her that was my favorite, and she went out and bought it) and the meat was pretty good, but nothing spectacular. After lunch, she shows me some memorabilia about her hometown (Puerto Madyrn, Chubut, Patagonia) Then we left and went for a walk to the Plaza in front of the Medical School to catch some Sun, also this is the point where we start to go at it, right in the middle of the plaza. I suggest we go back to her place, and we do, we start going at it. At this point she is BEGGING me to not go back to New York, I tell her I have to, and next thing I know we are in her bed and she is taking her clothes off. What followed was probably the most passionate sex experience I have ever had the pleasure to enjoy. After we get done, she is begging me to stay again, and starting to cry, but there is nothing I can do. I have to go back to the USA and graduate, what I am going to do, blow off a college degree for a fling? Anyway, I told her I would come back, and we kept in touch through email for a few months after I got back. Right before I came back to Bs. As. In August 05 I sent her an email saying I was back in Buenos Aires, and she responded positively.

Of course, when I got back to Buenos Aires things with Marcia (the girls name) did not work out as I would have wanted them to. We hung out four times I think (all including sex) but this girl was impossible to get in touch with and always unavailable. She worked 5 days a week in an office job, and Friday and Saturday nights as the cashier at a restaurant that stayed open until 4am, so basically she had no time to do anything. After about a month and a half, I stopped calling her, and after a two week hiatus, she called me and we had one last good time, but that was it and the whole thing just faded away, and I met a new non-pro.

Anyway, the point of this illustration is to show what can happen in the Kilkenny. This girl was obviously looking to meet somebody, as I have said before there are Argentine non-pros that go to this place for the sole reason of meeting a American guy. Looking back, lying about my profession and my age (I was 22 at the time, she was 28, I said I was 25) doomed the thing from the start, but, I had a good time while it lasted, and that is what scoring Argentine poon tang is all about, isnt it? Argentine non-pros are much more gullible to bullshit than their USA counterparts, and if what you say can make them spread their legs a little easier, then how can it be a bad thing.

[El Perro]

I am recovering from ACL surgery incurred while playing QB for the Cinncinnati Bengals, and thought my convalescence would be mas mejor In BA. What's this girl's number?

[Hunt99]

I can't visit Kilkenny anytime in the next two weeks because I am scheduled to play a big game in Detroit on Feb. 5. Maybe after the Pro Bowl is over I will make another trip, just after I get my Propecia prescription refilled. I hope Mr. Holmgren doesn't mind that I will take a couple weeks off, I think I've been a good boy this year, and have thrown enough touchdown passes to warrant some free time.

[Moore]

I'm constantly being approched all over the city and I quit going to many bars due to the harassment. I look exactly like Brad Pitt (when he was younger and handsomer) - so much that people often stop me and/or take pictures of me in the BA airport. Most girls don't have the guts to approach a model like me so they send male friends over instead. Actually, Brad Pitt is a girly man compared to me. I have a lean 6 foot 6 250 pound linebacker physique that attracts attention everywhere I go. This is especially true in the gay bars I hang out in sometimes. Patrons there are constantly adoring my athletic body and, needless to say, I don't even have to talk in order to score there. I usually tell the locals, who are always admiring me and my body, that I'm a linebacker for the GreenBay Packers, but I need to change that since most Argentines are Steelers fans. I'm always coming up with good bullshit/"chamuyo" on the fly anyway. Despite all this, I still screw a lot of prostitutes.

I'm a young, athletic, bodybuilder stud with lots of "chamuyo", and I want to remind every guy on the forum about that, again.

[Jackpot]

Moore, put your miniscule ego back into your watch pocket, then try to find some one who cares.

Surely you can get all the attrention you need some where else than this board.

Jackpot

[Rock Harders]

Moore-

Don't be bitter.

Don't be a hater.

Suerte,

Dirk Diggler

[El Perro]

Moore-

Don't be bitter.

Don't be a hater.

Suerte,

Dirk DigglerAll in good fun DeeDee! I am new to the board, but it don't take long to see a sense of humor is de rigger (as the frenchies say) I do understand that Moore is a mean sonuvabitch, though mellowed since his days as a noseguard for the Dallas Texans. Grain a' salt friend.

The Dog

[Hunt99]

All in good fun DeeDee! I am new to the board, but it don't take long to see a sense of humor is de rigger (as the frenchies say) I do understand that Moore is a mean sonuvabitch, though mellowed since his days as a noseguard for the Dallas Texans. Grain a' salt friend.

The DogGetting run over by every other franchise in the NFL will do that, even to the meanest noseguards.

[Rock Harders]

Jjgoinslow-

There is no standard cover, traditionally speaking, at the Kilkenny. From time to time, they will install a "prepaid drink ticket" that is really their way of hedging against having Argentines in there taking up space and not buying drinks- Argentines drink much less, quantity wise, than US or UK patrons. This is not a cover, in that you recover everything you pay in drinks, and the prices for drinks are not inflated ala working girl clubs.

Suerte,

Dirk

[Subaculture]

I was in BA for Saint Patricks Week in 2003 (March 14-20th) and I had a fab time in the Kilkenny, six nights straight. Packed, people getting drunk, TV cameras, people buying me drinks and soo easy to pick up a non-pro. Sorry to near you have hard -faced pros there now but I'm Irish and Ive never had a better Saint Patricks day anywhere. I will be back in August for a few days.

SC

[JengisKhan]

I'm constantly being approched all over the city and I quit going to many bars due to the harassment. I look exactly like Brad Pitt (when he was younger and handsomer) - so much that people often stop me and / or take pictures of me in the BA airport. Most girls don't have the guts to approach a model like me so they send male friends over instead. Actually, Brad Pitt is a girly man compared to me. I have a lean 6 foot 6 250 pound linebacker physique that attracts attention everywhere I go. This is especially true in the gay bars I hang out in sometimes. Patrons there are constantly adoring my athletic body and, needless to say, I don't even have to talk in order to score there. I usually tell the locals, who are always admiring me and my body, that I'm a linebacker for the GreenBay Packers, but I need to change that since most Argentines are Steelers fans. I'm always coming up with good bullshit /"chamuyo" on the fly anyway. Despite all this, I still screw a lot of prostitutes.

I'm a young, athletic, bodybuilder stud with lots of "chamuyo", and I want to remind every guy on the forum about that, again.I almost busted a gut reading that. Thanks, man.

[Rockin Bob]

This has to be one of the worse bars in the city.

I really recommend going there for one reason: the music. I sit there and I wonder, where do they find this? I imagine like som CD distributor going out of business. He has a sale and liquidates the stock. Then whatever is left over gets thrown in the trash. The DJ from Kilkenny goes into the trash, retrieves the CDs, and plays them in the bar.

It really amazes me. It's mostly music in English, but stuff I never (thankfully) ever heard before.

The place has really horrible fung shui and it's just depressing to sit in the place. It's dark.

They have some semi-pros on the weekend: I reached down to determine the sex of one the other night, she pushed my hand away.

The only reason why anyone would go there is that they are open late and if you're downtown at 4 in the morning they're open.

On weekends they have live music which partially saves the place but the band they usually have is borderline competent, although I have to say the girl does a better Son of a Preacher Man than Dusty herself.

Go figure.

[Flexible Horn]

I ventured back to Kilkennys and was pleased that live music had returned.

The band playing Wednesday was Blueberryjam, they class themselves as Rock & Roll Blues band. They covered songs from Bowie, The Beatles & The Stones amongst others and with beer half the price of Newport it was a welcome change.

I checked the band on youtube and they are a mix of Yanks and Brits, having played in Spain they have moved to bsas.

I have a feeling its the band Rockin Bob posted in the previous report, I must say nobody sings 'Son of a preacher man' better than the late great Dusty Springfield.

[Daddy Rulz]

Almost two years to the date of their last review I saw them tonight. Still good, one of the singers was really fucking hot, but the ugly one could sing better. Very eclectic mix of music as the Brit who loves fat girls said. For anybody who knows Austin, they aren't any near good enough to play Antones but could certainly hold their own at The Hole in the Wall.