When I started Guru’Guay a decade ago, I wrote “Uruguayans like their food plain, simple and meaty. Give them a well-cooked piece of beef and a mixta salad (lettuce, tomato and onion), and they will be happy.” My, how things have changed, and how happy you, dear reader, will be. The last few years have seen a boom in good eating and a focus on local, hand-crafted ingredients—captured in the second edition of The Guru’Guay Guide to Montevideo. Nowadays (shock horror) it is even relatively easy to be vegan.