Café and restaurant in the Xeneize neighborhood, rooted in the area since 1880, occupies the ground floor of a two-story building on the corner of Aristóbulo del Valle and Hernandarias. Before that there was the well-remembered Estrella del Sud inn, which was visited by port workers and workers from Casa Amarilla. It is said that shortly after it was inaugurated, former President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento passed through the premises several times, because he used to visit one of his last girlfriends very close to there.

In 1939, the Spanish immigrant Manuel López and his wife Teresa Vicenta Novaro settled in La Boca and took over the business. It began to work as a warehouse with office debits. It was renamed Don Lorenzo, a place that together with dona Vicenta became part of the daily life of the neighborhood.

During these years I was used to coffee Segundo David Peralta, better known as "Mate Cocido", "the bandit of the poor". The famous "Charro" Moreno was another of his clients. The brothers Prieto and Jorge E. Villarino, "the king of the escape", back in the 50s, also used to frequent their tables until dawn.

In 1976, Daniel Lorenzo López Novaro, "Dany", son of Manuel and Teresa, took the reins of coffee. From then on it was called El Estaño 1880. A magnificent tin of 3.50 meters, perhaps the only one of those dimensions that remains in Buenos Aires, presides over the hall, around which a beautiful original setting revolves.

In his living room scenes of some movies were filmed, among them: Evita. Who wants to hear you hear from Eduardo Mignona, with Flavia Palmiero; Eva Perón by Juan Carlos Desanzo, starring Esther Goris and Víctor Laplace, and El sueño de los héroes by Sergio Renán, as well as numerous advertisements and shots for the television series Pepe Carvalho.