welcome you to montevideo the capital of europe walk out in a little white. you know my diego gamboa i'm columbia and but moved here six years ago because the city is laid back safe and beautiful now but you see my city that i love to show you around by you know when i said let's go. and play some of those we're starting out on the plaza independencia the city's main square among the noteworthy buildings here this is the pallets. one till nine hundred thirty five it was the tallest building in south america and it's now part of our national heritage but the money on us when i. say there's also the gateway of the citadel which is all that remains of a fortification that protected the city in the colonial era. yes like now it's at the entrance to the old town. throughout the heights of the death stream zone with shops restaurants museums and offices runs right through the old town halls he said your p.c. on the one of the dale has a million and a half residence almost half the population of europe lives with three and a half million inhabitants it's a small cou

are you from montevideo?nce culturally -- argentina and uruguay? >> lucia: here, if you're a little bit courageous, then you made it. you know? >> nacho: it's a sin here. like to be flashy, it's a sin. >> lucia: to be successful, it's not something that -- >> anthony: you gotta do it quietly. >> lucia: there is a saying, "quedate en la chiquita." it means stay in the small things, you know? quedate en la chiquita. it's something that defines uruguay in a way. >> anthony: lucia soria is the chef and owner of jacinto in montevideo's old city. she worked with nacho back in the mallmann years. >> anthony: what was it like for a woman working in the restaurant industry in the early 2000's? >> lucia: i was very lucky because francis, he had this like army of women, no? around him. >> anthony: you were surrounded by women from the beginning? >> lucia: yes. >> anthony: is that an unusual situation in uruguay do you think? >> nacho: i mean -- >> anthony: i'm not asking you, man, you're a man. i'm asking -- >> nacho: i

nacho's sister, rocio, lives in montevideo but comes home often for family meals like this. >> anthony this house? >> nacho: yes, for the most part, yeah. >> anthony: it's beautiful. why would you ever leave this place? it's fantastic. >> gloria: he never like this place. >> anthony: no? >> gloria: no, never. >> rocio: i felt like he had like anger of being on such a small town. he always had been on the front. >> nacho: i couldn't fit in here, so i get out of the house. and i actually called her and say that i wanted to go to culinary school, this is what i want to do. any support and i'll pay you back. and one year goes and i drop it to go work for francis. >> anthony: i love that you went from being a vegan to working with francis mallman, who is like the satan of vegans. what was at the dinner table when you grew up? >> nacho: mom wasn't that skillful. in the kitchen. >> anthony: that's cold, man. >> nacho: i know, but it's the truth. she was the one in charge. >> anthony: so you grew up eating a lot of italian food? >> nacho: yes. >> anthony: nacho's grandmother, ercillia, was bor