Juan Pablo Clerici and Roberto Behrens opened Café Misterio as a pub and restaurant more than two decades ago in Carrasco, an upper-class neighbourhood in Montevideo, and it quickly became one of the hipster places to eat in the city. In time, it turned into a fine-dining restaurant, where chef Clerici surprises with such daily specials as porgy broth with tiny porgy fillets and fresh mushrooms, smoked fish, braised almond-fed pork or slowly grilled lamb.