Debe again: the pub that his identity knew how to make his music

The Buenos Aires pub Should It will open its doors again, after remaining closed for five years after the pandemic. With a letter linked to Classic beer gastronomywill resume from this Friday its old identity as part of its offer: Rock and alternative.

Grunge, Britpop, 90s, classics, indie. Those are some of the musical styles that the public is feed on, a rock pub founded in August 2006 that had to close its doors in the quarantine by COVID-19.

Located before in San Telmo, the bar saw its end in 2020 with the measures dictated after the Covid-19 pandemic. Just a few months after the quarantine established by Alberto Fernández’s national management, they said goodbye. Now he will return with new headquarters, in Almagro.

Back: the alternative rock place

With the most varied drinks as author, flavors of burgers and options for “pecking“, the pub He was characterized by making his music part of his offer in gastronomic experience. After being founded in 2006, his first place was on Rivadavia and Cerrito Avenue, neighborhood of Microcentro.

A few years later, he moved to the corner of Defense and Venezuela, San Telmo. When attending, one could see Video projections of the main bands of your repertoire on giant screens.

Your administrator Nicolás Blanco He explained that, after closing, everyone in the team dedicated himself to other projects, since only with the modality of delivery – used in the confinement – were not going to be able to maintain: “Our fort was never that, but the experience of coming to the bar, joining, listening to music, watching the videos.”

Another detail is that the corner of San Telmo did not have space to put tables outside or a terrace, So “it was going to be practically impossible” to continueNicolás adds. Thus, his official goodbye was given at the end of May 2020, for a publication on his Instagram of more than 20,000 followers.

“Not being able to open and not be sure when or how We could return to work as we did makes our situation today -and indefinitely – Simply unsustainable“They expressed there.

In this post they also made clear that was not in his plans to retire. After listing various types of meetings that had it as the protagonist, they detailed: “That’s why Debar did not end (…) It is a part of our lives as it was also for some of you and is far from being a finished stage. We hope we can soon see each other“

After the main vaccination stage, between 2022 and 2024 they did what they called the “reunion parties”: sporadic dance events in a rented commercial premises. That was an option for every follower and nostalgic person to share some pogos and drinks next to them. There were five opportunities, but the desire to return to the traditional format persisted.

In a recent publication, they shared as a “official notice” a spotify playlist with the emoji of a sand watch and a google maps capture that represents the Corner of the new place to reopen, this time in Lavalle 3602, corner Mario Bravo, starting this Friday, July 11.

The letter will have “pre-pandemic” options but this time with small innovations: “We will maintain many of the drinks or the hamburgers we had But we are going to aggiornar the part of the cocktail bar, “said his administrator.

The commitment to public fidelity

“We were three partners. We imagine that at some point we were going backbut life is taking you through different paths and we just wanted to do it now, A lot of desire. We started looking for premises, we found a place and an area that we liked, “Nicolás synthesized about the new stage.

In his case, after these five years, he got bored of his work and together with his partners then decided the return. “The last 5 years We do not find places similar to oursso we seemed good to return and people seem to be excited, “he said.

When deciding to resume only in 2025, Nicolás points out that he does not believe it is “the best moment” but at the same time recognizes that the reason is in the fidelity of its consumers. While reopening under another political management, he mentioned that no current measure of the administration of Javier Milei influenced the decision.

“It is not that we have evaluated the possibility of returning from some change driven by the Government, but that it occurred now and we will try to make this work,” he added. “I think we We can continue attracting our audiencewhich is a very particular niche, and part of the proposal It was always having reasonable prices. We plan to keep it and it is important now“He said confident.

Finally, he concluded hopeful: “While there are a few issues that do not seem favorable, with the public we have and with a proposal that is interesting in every way -Precios, level of music, a nice place- I think it can work. “

Must be open to the public on Tuesdays from 18 to 01; Wednesday and Thursday from 18 to 03; Friday from 18 to 05 and Saturdays from 20 to 05.