Santiago de Chile – coffee with legs

Santiago de Chile is an amazing city! So far I really like it. It feels like Europe in South America. Even when I’m being aware,  I feel a lot safer than I felt in Brazil. Santiago is a very modern city and the city is surrounded by stunning mountains.

Two days ago, I joined the free walking tour in Santiago and learned many new things about this amazing place. Brazil is famous for its coffee. Chile – or Santiago – was known for its horrible coffee. One day a woman came up with a great idea “coffee with legs” (cafe con piernas). Really hot girls in short dresses or mini bikinis serving coffee to distract from its awful taste and offering a nice experience instead.

The concept was a winner and many galleries in the heart of Santiago de Chile have coffee with legs. If you see them from the outside, you would think twice about going inside. The windows are tanned and dark and they all look a little shabby.

But our great tour guide opened the door of one of them and let us take a peak inside. Black light, loud disco music, and girls in tiny bikinis. He told us that women are very welcome there, because most places are owned by women. Many times women even get something for free there! The Dutchies heart was awake 😉 and so me and Kelly, who I met on the tour, agreed to go check it out the next day.

 

Our visit to the coffee con piernas

Our hearts were beating like crazy… Just open the door and in we go!
My eyes needed a moment to adjust to the dark. Then I saw 4 half-naked women in tiny bikinis standing around. We ordered a coffee (very cheap by the way), and a woman, who wore something we could only call a hint of fabric, served us.

What we saw then made us speechless. Men come in and the ladies start shaking their butts. There is touching, and grabbing and…well it sure didn’t look like only waitresses in bikinis.

After a while sitting there and our eyes almost falling out – (and of course trying to observe as good as we could without being noticed), we see a woman and a man go upstairs. “This is not a coffee Kelly”. I hear myself saying. “This looks more like the red light district of Amsterdam”. In the middle of businesses and in a shopping area of Santiago de Chile. Next door you can buy printing paper for your office.

After a while, one of the girls started speaking to us. We told her about the free guide tour and the coffee con piernas. She smiled and explained to us that this is a coffee con … (and makes the move of a cowboy on a horse). Alright…! Even when we both didn’t understand the word in Spanish, we were now sure that we were right! We were sitting amongst whores. Oh my god! My need to use the bathroom instantly disappeared. We quickly finished our coffee – which tasted amazingly good by the way – and out we went!