Two Slow Weeks of Wine, Mate & Everyday Montevideo

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Useful context before you go

This is a source-faithful, single-city slow-travel plan: the travelers describe spending two weeks in Uruguay and favoring Montevideo's relaxed routines, neighborhood life, food, and wine over a packed sightseeing schedule. Keep a backup payment method and some cash available; the travelers describe foreign cards being declined, including by a laundry app. Food and drink mentioned, but without identifiable venue names, include a medialuna, a spicy cheesy scone, chivito with chicken, ham, and cheese, lamb, fish with potato, alfajor with dulce de leche, steak, cheese as a side, Uruguayan wine, and yerba mate. Restaurants may open late; one account says many do not open until 8 p.m. They also note that table salt may need to be requested. For mate, the source describes buying yerba, a mate cup and bombilla, and hot water; Sara Blue was recommended by a local. The gourd should be cured before use, and add water gradually. The venues for the food, grocery store, and mate purchases were not identified, so they are not assigned invented map stops.