Cheap Restaurants in Costa Rica

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Cheap Restaurants in Costa Rica

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Bar Las Brisas
The perfect beach bar, Las Brisas is a shack with a view, and...
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Mexican
Nicoya Coast
 
Bar y Restaurante Coto
This place has good food and a location right on the plaza. Options...
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Costa Rican
Orosi Valley
 
Bread & Chocolate
The take-away line for brownies forms at the gate before this...
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Costa Rican
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
 
Café de la Posada
The lack of alfresco dining in this tropical city is disappointing...
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Cafe
San José
 
Cafe de la Suerte
Fortunately for food-lovers, the "Good Luck Café" serves...
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Vegetarian
Playa Pavones
 
Café Europa/The German Bakery
The aroma of baking bread is irresistible as you pass this bakery...
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German
Liberia
 
Café Rainforest
Here's a great, trendy place to wrap your hands around a cup...
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Cafe
Monteverde Cloud Forest
 
Cerros
This San Antonio hills favorite combines smoky thin-crust pizza...
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Italian
Escazú
 
Cocolores
Follow the line of multicolored lanterns to this open-air eatery...
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Eclectic
Montezuma
 
Delicias de Mi Tierra
The name translates as "Delights of my Land," and tasty and traditional...
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Costa Rican
Alajuela
 
El Café Liberia
The smell of roasting coffee is the best advertisement for this...
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Cafe
Liberia
 
El Trapiche de Nayo
This rustic open-air restaurant with a panoramic valley view...
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Costa Rican
San Isidro
 
Gecko's
This textbook backpacker hangout is the latest venture of Dutch...
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Costa Rican
Orosi Valley
 
Ginger
This tapas restaurant, in a modernistic glass-and-steel treehouse...
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Eclectic
Nicoya Coast
 
Jungle Surf Cafe
This colorful, open-air eatery serves some of Hermosa's best...
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Seafood
Playa Hermosa
 
La Choza de Laurel
Tantalizing rotisserie chicken, and pretty cloves of garlic and...
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Costa Rican
Arenal Volcano Area
 
La Criollita
Kick off your day with breakfast at this emerald-green restaurant...
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Costa Rican
San José
 
La Garza Bar y Restaurante
Similar to La Feria in scope but slightly more atmospheric and...
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Costa Rican
Turrialba
 
La Princesa Marina
This large open-air eatery (part of a chain) at the intersection...
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Seafood
Alajuela
 
Las Brasitas
Chicken turns over wood on a rotisserie in a brick oven at this...
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Costa Rican
Arenal Volcano Area
 
Manolo's
For any San José dweller, a mention of Manolo's brings...
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Costa Rican
San José
 
Miss Junie
Longtime Tortuguero doyenne Miss Junie has now deservedly retired...
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Costa Rican
Tortuguero
 
Nuestra Tierra
But for the traffic zipping by on one of San José's busiest...
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Costa Rican
San José
 
Rancho la Cascada
You can't miss its tall, palm-thatch roof in the center of town...
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Costa Rican
Arenal Volcano Area
 
Restaurant 1910
Decorated with vintage photos of early-20th-century buildings...
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Costa Rican
Volcán Irazú
 
Restaurante Carolina
This simple alfresco restaurant in the heart of Puerto Jiménez...
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Costa Rican
Puerto Jiménez
 
Restaurante La Feria
This family-style restaurant has the usual midscale Costa Rican...
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Costa Rican
Turrialba
 
Restaurante Nicoya
There are many Chinese restaurants from which to choose in Nicoya...
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Chinese
Nicoya
 
Restaurante Noche Buena
If you've raced up Irazú to catch the clear early-morning...
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Costa Rican
Volcán Irazú
 
Rioasis
This large, colorful place on the town's main drag is one of...
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Pizza
Jacó
 
Shakti
The baskets of fruit and vegetables at the entrance and the wall...
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Vegetarian
San José
 
Soda Colonial
One of the town's last vestiges of local color is this vintage...
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Costa Rican
Nicoya
 
Soda El Chilito Mexicano
A great alternative to the touristy La Casona is this little...
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Costa Rican
Orosi Valley
 
Soda La Parada
Here's a case study in what tourism does to a place: La Fortuna's...
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Costa Rican
Arenal Volcano Area
 
Soda Miss Sam
Longtime restaurateur Miss Sam has retired after years of dishing...
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Caribbean
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
 
Stella's Bakery
This local institution is one of the few spots that open at 6...
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Cafe
Monteverde Cloud Forest
 
The Vine Bakery
Pastas, pizzas, and sandwiches are on the menu, but this small...
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Cafe
Tortuguero
 
Vishnu
Haciendo un nuevo mundo proudly proclaims the sign at the door...
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Vegetarian
San José
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