Steak in Montevideo

I know that I left your mouth watering from my last post on steak (for those meat-eaters anyway), so I thought I would endulge you further with Phil's steak in Montevideo. First of all and as a side note, it is important to recognize that eating is perhaps our main activity, it consumes are days while we wonder around a town or travel between places. The food we eat is a cultural symbol of where we are, teaching us about the people, the geography and it's history. And if we don't eat we get cranky. So we have become a custom to looking out for eating opportunities everywhere. And on that note, back to Montevideo. We just had a very nice cafe con leche, in the old part of town as we made our way to the water in Montevideo, when we stumbled upon Marchado del Puerto, which from what we saw, was a market of steakhouses, all with wood buring barbecues and grills absolutely packed with different kinds of meat. It was close to lunch and the place was busy. mostly with locals, so we pulled up a stool and ordred right from the grill. I went with pollo (chicken) and Phil with a steak, and it was absolutely huge, it took up the whole plate, and as Phil would say, enough to feed a family (but he managed to eat every last piece). For the rest of the day and night, we walked off our meals and visited a couple museos, the waterfront, banks (we had trouble finding an open one), and finally restaurants for dinner. We eventaully found one and had lovely fresh pasta, which they are also known for here. It was an interesting day, perhaps the most variable weather day we have every experienced (sun, rain, wind, warm, cold, changing every 5 minutes, a reminder of Halifax but even more variable). Here are a few pictures of what we saw (and eat), the ones of the costumes and the paper mache head are from a colourful Carnival Museo.