Every Friday from 7 to 11 PM, SĀNTAL Colegiales becomes a listening bar and a vinyl bar with Canal22: vinyl DJs, hi-fi sound, tapas to share and 2-for-1 Happy Hour until 8 PM. No cover.
Bookings · Vinyl Nights
Pick the Friday, your arrival —7, 8 or 9 PM— and how many you are. The confirmation arrives by email. The table is yours; the music is Canal22's.
The booking is free: you arrive, sit down and order from the night menu — tapas, wine and drinks. Arrive before 8 PM and the 2-for-1 Happy Hour is still on.
From Tokyo's jazz kissa to Colegiales
Between the fifties and the seventies, small bars started appearing in Tokyo, often tucked into basements, given over almost entirely to listening to records. They were called jazz kissa, and they still exist. You walked in, ordered a coffee or a highball, and sat down to listen. The music was part of the experience.
That culture is where today's listening bar comes from: a format built around listening, with a cared-for sound system, selected vinyl and a volume that lets the music stay present while the conversation continues. In Buenos Aires it takes shape every Friday at SĀNTAL Colegiales, with Canal22.
Vinyl changes the way you listen. Putting on a record means entering a sequence: side A, side B, less obvious cuts, transitions that were thought through, moments that show up when you stay with the side.
The hi-fi follows the same idea. On Friday the bar runs Technics SL-1200 turntables and an Allen & Heath Xone:23 mixer — the rig in the photos. Careful cartridges, proper amplification, and a volume set so the record has body and the talk still fits.
The rule is simple: records chosen with care, sides that can unfold, and listening that respects the format. The point is to build an atmosphere.
Canal22, a cultural producer and platform, handles the music curation, the DJ bookings and the running of the night with SĀNTAL. The palette changes week to week:
What holds it together is one search: music with depth, taste, and room to sound.
The night starts at 7 PM, when the records start and the bar changes pace. Early on there is still some light and the energy is quieter. Later, with the tables full and the music more present, the room takes another shape. The menu follows: tapas, plates to share, wine and drinks, at a table pace that suits an unhurried night. The 2-for-1 Happy Hour on wine and drinks runs every day from 4 to 8 PM, so Friday's first hour is inside it. Closing is at 11 PM.
Colegiales has been settling into a neighborhood of specialty cafés, independent projects and rooms with their own identity. SĀNTAL was already that place through coffee, food and gathering. The hi-fi system and Canal22's curation add a layer: music that helps shape the Friday.
Vinyl Nights are the vinyl bar in Buenos Aires that opens every Friday in Colegiales: vinyl DJs, a night menu of tapas, wine and drinks, and an online table for 1 to 10 people at 7, 8 or 9 PM. The booking is free. You arrive, sit down and order. It is also a record bar: the night is organized around the discs on the shelf.
It is a bar with a DJ and no cover. Canal22 curates the night, and the palette moves through groove, funk, soul, neo-soul, disco, nu-jazz, jazz fusion, rare grooves and world music. If you are looking for where to hear funk, soul, disco or jazz on vinyl, this is the series, from 7 to 11 PM, on the Technics SL-1200s.
For things to do on a Friday night in Buenos Aires, the plan fits one table: arrive at 7 PM and the 2-for-1 Happy Hour on wine and drinks — every day from 4 to 8 PM — is still open. It closes at 11. The address is Conde 1200, corner of Virrey Loreto, a few blocks from Olleros on subway line D, and a few minutes from Palermo, Belgrano, Núñez, Villa Crespo and Chacarita.
A Friday after-office in Colegiales lands in the first hour: from 7 to 8 PM the 2-for-1 is still on and the records are already spinning. A table of up to 10 is free to book. If the team is more than 10 and up to 30, it is arranged as a private event, with a reserved area or a full buyout, and the option of a vinyl DJ curated by Canal22 any day of the week.
It is also a quiet bar to talk, with good music. The hi-fi volume leaves room for conversation. A Friday date is a table for two at 7, 8 or 9 PM, tapas to share and a record that keeps the talk going. The online booking is free and confirmed on the spot, with the details by email.
Anyone looking for a jazz kissa in Buenos Aires will recognize the format: a bar for sitting down with records, in the line of those Tokyo rooms. The rig here is specific — Technics SL-1200 and Allen & Heath Xone:23 — which is why the night is also a hi-fi bar: high fidelity, vinyl, and a conversation that continues.
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Questions
A bar where the music is the point: hi-fi sound, selected vinyl and a volume set so you can actually listen and still talk. On Fridays at SĀNTAL Colegiales the rig is Technics SL-1200 turntables and an Allen & Heath Xone:23 mixer. The format comes from Tokyo's jazz kissa and takes shape every Friday with Canal22.
Every Friday from 7 to 11 PM at SĀNTAL Colegiales (Conde 1200, corner of Virrey Loreto): Vinyl Nights with Canal22, vinyl DJs, hi-fi sound and no cover. Subway line D, Olleros station, a few blocks away. A few minutes from Palermo, Belgrano, Núñez, Villa Crespo and Chacarita.
Yes. Vinyl Nights at SĀNTAL Colegiales are a vinyl bar: every Friday from 7 to 11 PM, vinyl DJs curated by Canal22, a night menu of tapas, wine and drinks, and a free online table booking for 1 to 10 people.
Yes. On Friday there is no entry fee: the DJ plays vinyl and you order from the night menu. The 2-for-1 Happy Hour on wine and drinks runs every day from 4 to 8 PM, so it covers the first hour of the night.
A concrete plan: a table at SĀNTAL Colegiales from 7 to 11 PM, vinyl, tapas, wine and drinks, no cover. Book online for 1 to 10 people, arriving at 7, 8 or 9 PM. The table is confirmed on the spot and the details arrive by email.
Yes. From 7 to 8 PM the 2-for-1 Happy Hour on wine and drinks is still on, and the records play until 11. A table for 1 to 10 is free to book. Above 10 it is arranged as a private event, for 10 to 30 people, with the option of a Canal22 vinyl DJ any day of the week.
The hi-fi volume is set so the music has body and the conversation keeps going. It is a listening bar, with tables, tapas and vinyl. Book for Friday at 7, 8 or 9 PM.
Yes. A table for two, arriving at 7, 8 or 9 PM, tapas to share and a record that leaves room to talk. The booking is free, with no deposit. No cover.
At Vinyl Nights. Canal22's palette changes week to week: groove, funk, soul, neo-soul, disco, nu-jazz, jazz fusion, rare grooves and world music. Every Friday from 7 to 11 PM at Conde 1200.
A jazz kissa is the Japanese listening bar this format comes from. In Buenos Aires, sitting down to hear a record with a drink, vinyl at the center, takes shape every Friday at SĀNTAL Colegiales, with Canal22.
Yes. Vinyl Nights run through Technics SL-1200 turntables and an Allen & Heath Xone:23 mixer, at a volume that lets you hear the record and keep talking. It is a hi-fi bar and a record bar: the night is built around the vinyl.
Yes. On this page you book a table for 1 to 10 people for any Friday, arriving at 7, 8 or 9 PM. It is free, with no deposit: the booking is confirmed on the spot and we email you the details. For more than 10 people it is arranged as a private event.
No, no cover: you arrive, sit down and order from the night menu — tapas, wine and drinks. The 2-for-1 Happy Hour on wine and drinks runs every day from 4 to 8 PM, so it covers the first hour on Friday.
The palette changes week to week with Canal22's curation: groove, funk, soul, neo-soul, disco, nu-jazz, jazz fusion, rare grooves and world music. Records chosen with care, sides that develop, and careful transitions.
Yes. For groups of 10 to 30 people it is set up as a private event, with a reserved area or a full buyout and the option of a vinyl DJ curated by Canal22, any day of the week. Quote it with the online events form.
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