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Uruguay Field Trip: Braving Punta del Este for the Snacks

3/28/2008 at 2:00 PM
Tags: Uruguay Field Trip, Uruguay Travel, Uruguay-Travel-Map, Jaunted Field Trips, Restaurants, Beaches, Coffee Shops, Coffee, Matt Gross (all tags)

Most of our tour through Uruguay was poorly timed: Montevideo was vacant for Holy Week, we missed the full moon party in Punta del Diablo and we were late for the season in Punta del Este.

By the time we showed up, just about everything was shut down. But rather than whine about our bad luck to our stone-faced hotel receptionist, we dug up an old review of what's worth checking out year-round in South America's South Beach.

The illustrious Matt Gross swung through Punta more than a year ago, but we figured the town's "most popular bakery," Medialunas Calentitas, would still be around. His description made it all the more enticing:

I ordered a quartet of their famous sticky-sweet croissants and a cortado (espresso with a little milk) for 95 pesos, and as I munched them outside at the surfer-chic picnic tables, latecomers cautiously approached the bakery, only to be turned away. For a moment, I felt like an insider.

What a perfect write-up. Going for absolute following-in-the-footsteps, we ordered up some medialunas and cortados. Both were terrific, and the sweet half moons couldn't have been more than a few minutes out of the oven, warm as they were.

The whimsical decor--toy trucks hanging from the ceiling, furs on the banquettes--was a little too weird for us, but there's no accounting for taste, right?

Related Stories:
· Medialunas Calentitas [Official Site]
· Feeling at Home Among the Elite in Uruguay's Punta del Este [NYT]
· Uruguay Field Trip coverage [Jaunted]
· Uruguay coverage [Jaunted]

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