During our stay which was November the surrounding area was very quiet hard to find a nice food and drink places but a really nice burger restaurant around the corner called la pataqueta for a delicious pick me up food. But you can see this place will be fully opened in the summer months where we could see thousands of choices that had just closed for the winter. And the city is gorgeous nice location about 30 minutes walk to the main bridge near the park where you can begin you exploring into the city.
Bike paths are amazing too and quickly realised we should have rented bikes on our first day as our second day was so much nicer with the bikes.