Fodor's Expert Review El Trapiche de Nayo
The panoramic valley view is worth a stop at this rustic roadside restaurant that serves the kind of food Ticos eat at turnos (village fund-raising festivals), including gallos, thick tortillas cooked on a wood stove, which you stuff with cooked hearts of palm, root vegetables, or chicken in salsa. Some Saturdays, raw sugarcane is pressed in an antique mill and boiled in huge iron cauldrons. Service is leisurely, to say the least, but the restrooms have been upgraded, so it's a decent pit stop. Come early for dinner: it's open from 7 am to 7 pm daily.
Quick Facts
Pan-American Hwy., 6 km (4 miles) north of San Isidro de El General
San Isidro,
San José
11901,
Costa Rica
2771–7267
- Mondongo (tripe soup)
- Decent restrooms
- Homemade molasses-flavored fudge