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Cafe ZITA

An homage to Anibal Troilo’s partner, Cafe ZITA is a special offering of the 2025 Philadelphia Tango Festival. By eating healthy, delicious food at the cafe, you help support the festival!

We are pleased to offer a VERY SPECIAL TREAT this year. La Luli, who is responsible for the exquisite food at Casa Azul in Tigre (Argentina), will be visiting Philadelphia to run the festival cafe. She’ll be offering a variety of delicious and healthy meals, snacks and drinks to keep you going during ♾️ hours of dancing! La Luli is also a poetry artist and educator and will offer a lecture on the festival theme, “Troilo and his Poets.”

Cafe Zita will offer extended hours this year, so you can truly eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at the festival venue!

CAFE HOURS

Friday, May 23, 2-10 pm
Saturday, May 24, 11:30 am-10 pm
Sunday, May 25, 11:30 am-10 pm
Monday, May 26, 11:30 am-10 pm

Check back soon for the scrumptious Cafe Zita menu!

Philadelphia Tango Festival

La Luli

La Luli is an educator, poet, and performer born on November 10, 1994, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2022, she has participated in tango festivals across France and performed in concerts throughout Europe, collaborating with the tango duo Los Suplentes.

Combining French, Spanish, English, and German, Luli weaves her own poetic creations with those of other authors, crafting performances that fuse poetry and tango in innovative ways. She also self-publishes her poetry books, exploring the concept of the artist’s book as an expressive and multidimensional art form.

In 2023, she released her debut book, Mon Plexus Solaire est un Tournesol, which she presented in Switzerland and France. That same year, she premiered Je Suis un Cabaret, a one-woman show in French that merged poetry and music in collaboration with bandoneonist Hugo Satorre.

In 2024, Luli debuted her first theatrical production, Doña Tango, which she wrote and directed alongside Los Suplentes. She also published two bilingual artist books, Huellas de Fénix and El Oruego, each handmade and collectively selling over 70 copies. Her work has been enriched by residencies in Belgium and at La Maison de la Poésie in Normandy, France.

Currently, Luli continues to deepen her knowledge of tango history and poetry under the mentorship of tango scholar Matías Mauricio, further refining her artistic vision and expanding her creative repertoire.

Many Philadelphians know Luli as the food artist in charge of the spectacular meals at the Casa Azul in Tigre, Argentina, which Luli runs with her partner, bandoneonist Hugo Satorre. We are extraordinarily fortunate that she will travel to the US to provide us with culinary and poetic sustenance for the 2025 festival, as we as offering a lecture on the festival theme, “Troilo and His Poets.”