This part of South America is known for delicious beef, and the best steak restaurant in Puerto Montt is a place called Cotelé. Located in what used to be a small house, the restaurant is simple with hardwood floors, mismatched tables, and a giant wood-burning kettle in the middle of the room.
Choosing our cuts of beef for the evening
The menu is simple – there are 4 cuts of steak, a couple of salads for the side, and a large wine list featuring exclusively Chilean wines. The waiter brings a tray of meat to your table, slices off as much or as little as you’d like, and then takes it away for weighing.
Sizzling to perfection over the wood coals in the center of the restaurant
The master griller then takes the steaks for the table, squeezes them in a mesh basket, and lays them over the wood-burning kettle. Once the steaks are cooked (perfectly, of course), they’re returned to the table and then plated along with a potato and a basket of bread that is also grilled over the wood fire.
In Chile you must start the evening with a pisco sour…
Perfectly simple and absolutely delicious. We first visited Cotelé with our Swiss friends Daniel and Rita aboard Maramalda (an absolutely immaculate and beautiful Hallberg-Rassy 43) – it was so good that we returned a couple of nights later. The second visit was even better than the first!
Highly recommended.
¡Buen Provecho!
