Don García — Restaurant in Montevideo

Excellent baby beef. The side of Russian salad was pretty bad, but who cares when you have 450 grams of delicious steak? Very good service and they accept MasterCard. Tip for tourists: pay with a foreign credit card and you should automatically get tax (22%!) deducted from your bill (at least in January 2018, but apparently it's been like this for a while and might stay this way). And if you were happy with the service you can ask to add the tip for the waiter to you credit card bill when you hand...

Stuffed pepper good. Waiter nice. Prices charged were a little higher than on the menu. Also, not clear at all that they didn't take Visa (every other place in the Montevideo does), which made us pay exchange rate cash and miss out on the 18% discount. It was clearly a plot to take advantage of tourists, as this info was on every menu except the English version. Go to one of the many other options in the market and be...

Good Ancho, good morcilla, good chorizo and good fries. I was worried about being disappointed with the meat at the mercado, or about paying tourist prices, but neither was true - this was a great experience with very good food at good prices for the "tourist" nature of the location. I had several steaks while in Montevideo and the beef I had at Don García was among the best. The atmosphere was lively and...