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Puerto Montt


By day, it's one of Puerto Montt's best-value lunch destinations. By night, as one local put it, 'It's a great place to find some sinister personalities!' It draws a tantalizing mix of lawyers, sex workers, artists, writers and poets – local color in spades! – in a room packed with a bohemian potpourri of antiques and discarded memorabilia.

Nightly folk music keeps the soundtrack lively.


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