Café Gourmand holds a position in Ciudad Vieja — the colonial-era neighbourhood on the peninsula that forms old Montevideo — with the particular unhurriedness of a café that knows its neighbourhood is not changing at the rate it might elsewhere. The menu is French-inflected within the Uruguayan café tradition: cortados and medialunas in the morning, small plates in the afternoon, and the kind of pastry case that reflects someone's decision about what a café should offer rather than what the widest possible market would accept. The view through the windows is of the colonial streets, which have the same quality of preserved accident as the café itself.
Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay