Lucy Willder
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Located at Tomás Diago 758 in the heart of Pocito’s, La Otro is a classic Uruguayan barbecue place. The restaurant was already almost full when we arrived, which generally is a good sign. As soon as you enter you are faced with the massive flaming grill (as pictured above) The extraction was so good as you didn’t leave the place smelling like you had been sat next to a wood burning fire all night.
We were served by a friendly guy who spoke good English.
First up, we started with a Caipirinha. The cocktail was made with cachaça, sugar, and lime. It was very sweet and lacked the bunch you would find with other lime based cocktails, such as Margarita.
We shared a sausage to start and it was juicy and garlicky.
For mains we had:
Top Sirloin, which came as fairly slim slices of steak which was cooked as requested, medium rare. However it was a little on the tough side, which overrode the pleasant flavour.
Chicken – the skin was crisped to perfection and the meat was very tender. I opted for the leg rather than the breast.
Alongside this we had sides of fries and a jacket potato with Roquefort cheese plus a mini green salad.
The potato came wrapped in the tin foil it had been baked in. There was a lot of cheese, some might say too much. The potato itself was massive. I didn’t even manage to eat half of it and early on had to avoid the cheese, which was very overpowering. In hindsight, I should have just ordered the version with butter.
If the green salad was “mini” (as per the waiters words) then I can only image how humungous the normal size one was.
Again, I barely scratched the sides on this.
With all this food, we ordered a bottle of the Uruguayan wine. This is a grape called Tannat. It went well with food but didn’t have depth of a Primitivo.
Overall it was a pretty mediocre meal but at least we hadn’t had to walk far to eat.
