Casa Antigua Café & Restaurante
Central Valley & Highlands
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in this atmospheric, century-old colonial clapboard house with hardwood floors, painted ceilings, stained-glass…
Casa Antigua Café & Restaurante
Central Valley & Highlands
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in this atmospheric, century-old colonial clapboard house with hardwood floors, painted ceilings, stained-glass…
Central Valley & Highlands
Set in an atmospheric villa with a sophisticated patio lit by fairy lights, Pesqueria da Limonta is the best dining experience in town, serving up fresh…
Central Valley & Highlands
Hugely popular among Tico families who come to enjoy proper country cooking, this casual place is on the road to Atenas, 9km east of Alajuela. The menu is…
Central Valley & Highlands
Offering the best Tex-Mex in the country, this popular, cozy spot will introduce some spice to your diet. The simple and fresh burritos, chimichangas and…
Pizzeria a la leña il Giardino
Central Valley & Highlands
This cute country-style pizzeria has a proper stone pizza oven where the chef makes tasty thin-crust pizzas. The mozzarella, tomato and basil is spot on…
Central Valley & Highlands
The most popular hangout in town has a cute/kitschy French feel about it, decorated with pastel colors, floral wallpaper, blackboards and picture frames,…
Central Valley & Highlands
The best place in town for breakfast is inside this little lime-green house decorated with black-and-white vintage photos. It serves up full Tico,…
Central Valley & Highlands
This homey spot looks as though it was built from oversize Lincoln logs. It's known for heavenly strawberry smoothies (milky ones beat watery ones) and…
Central Valley & Highlands
Pan-Asian cuisine fills the menu at this casual eatery with half a dozen wooden tables near the main square. Enjoy sushi rolls and sashimi, teriyaki or…
Central Valley & Highlands
For excellent grilled meats and a lovely ambiance, come to this open-air restaurant decorated with fairy lights, colored wooden chairs, pop-art portraits…
Central Valley & Highlands
If you want to impress a date, you can’t go wrong at this elegant restaurant with incredible views. The menu is a mix of Costa Rican and international…
Central Valley & Highlands
Tucked away just off Hwy 32 in a quaint little blue house adorned with blue curtains, antiques and hardwood floors, this Spanish–Costa Rican fusion…
Central Valley & Highlands
By a tropical garden and a mountain stream, this bakery-restaurant tempts with spiked coffee drinks (hot mocha with Baileys and chocolate syrup), crepes…
Central Valley & Highlands
With hardwood floors and simple, clean decor, Merak is a gastronomic restaurant with flavors that cross continents. Creations include the likes of…
El Churrasco Hotel Restaurante
Central Valley & Highlands
On the way up to Volcán Poás, this rustic restaurant serves tasty, authentic Costa Rican cuisine. Ingredients are sourced locally and the casados and…
Central Valley & Highlands
It's all about the beautiful setting at this charming restaurant situated in the middle of a coffee plantation, with calming views of the Lago de Cachí…
Central Valley & Highlands
Open-plan gastropub serving top grub and beer. The kitchen rustles up adventurous dishes like seafood cocktails (with poached octopus and shrimp), plus…
Central Valley & Highlands
Forgive appearances: Super Mariscos looks dated and plays melodic pan pipes on the stereo, but it serves very good ceviche (seafood marinated in lemon or…
Central Valley & Highlands
Located downstairs from Los Ángeles Lodge and decorated with vintage photos of Cartago, this cheery no-frills restaurant has been around since 1957 and…
Central Valley & Highlands
Dishes are satisfying at this restaurant opposite the church in the main square, with a large bar at its center. The diverse menu has freshly made pizzas,…
Central Valley & Highlands
This unremarkable-looking eatery has friendly service and excellent, reasonably priced home cooking. Sometimes the kitchen gets a bit backed up, but the…
Restaurant La Trocha del Boyero
Central Valley & Highlands
Tico families and local expats crowd the pleasant deck here for the variety of casados on offer, fresh trout (in season), sirloin and heaped bowls of…
Central Valley & Highlands
Thick, juicy tuna or beef burgers are served up with herby fries in this casual and welcoming place in the north of the city, with red booths and world…
Central Valley & Highlands
With its own trout ponds, this log-cabin restaurant located at Albergue Ecológico Pozo Verde serves up the freshest of catches, along with delicious veal…
Central Valley & Highlands
Just south of town, tucked back slightly from the main road, this simple green shack of a restaurant is flanked by well-stocked trout ponds. Catch your…
Central Valley & Highlands
This healthy eatery specializes in organic food. Vegan treats include Buffalo cauliflower tacos, falafel pitas and portobello-mushroom burgers, plus there…
Central Valley & Highlands
This bright-walled cafe north of Av 10 serves up one of the best coffee treats in the country – a frozen caffeine concoction with gooey maracuyá (passion…
Central Valley & Highlands
At this charming restaurant 6km east of Poasito, the menu is loaded with traditional French items such as onion soup, house-made pâté, beef fillet, rabbit…
Central Valley & Highlands
Established in 1952, this family-run eatery on the north side of the soccer field dishes out good típico food (particularly the whole fried fish) in a…
Central Valley & Highlands
For breakfast, bocas (appetizers), and a variety of típico (traditional Costa Rican dishes), centrally located Café Delicias is a reliably good place to…
Central Valley & Highlands
Delicious handmade ice pops, using fruit from the local area. Choose a flavor from blackberry, guava, passion fruit, coconut, strawberry, green mango and…
Central Valley & Highlands
You can fill up for a couple of thousand colones at the Mercado Municipal, which has sodas to spare and plenty of very fresh groceries.
Central Valley & Highlands
Set in a green-and-cream clapboard house with a glass-walled deck, this cozy restaurant serves a long list of overpriced Tico specialties. But it's worth…
Central Valley & Highlands
Starting at the crack of dawn, ebullient expat Franzisca serves simple breakfasts (bread, butter, jam and coffee) at her main-street bakery, 100m south of…
Central Valley & Highlands
In a somewhat soulless tiled dining room with chunky wooden tables and obligatory splashes of color, this restaurant serves up Peruvian specials like…
Central Valley & Highlands
Cartago's most welcoming cafe is a lovely spot for a recharge with a mini library inside. Patrons can peruse the many (mostly Spanish) books at their…
Central Valley & Highlands
Decorated with artworks, black chairs and blackboards displaying the specials, this pleasant cafe sits right on the southwestern corner of the square and…
Central Valley & Highlands
This carnivores' delight is just south of town on the road to Juan Viñas. It's perched on a hill with open-air views, and you can't beat the good-value…
Central Valley & Highlands
For a more leisurely sit-down meal, join locals here and choose from an extensive menu of international dishes, including six types of ceviche to start,…
Central Valley & Highlands
Just a few hundred meters out of town, on the road heading south, this simple open-air restaurant has lanterns and dark wooden benches. An English and…